How did you meet your OH?

[Head_in_the_clouds]

Wow, all these stories are so great and I am amazed that you all have such different stories - most of my mates either met at work, uni, or whilst out clubbing! Joolz, your story made me laugh! I also like the fact that alot of you weren't sure about your OH and then something *magic* happened and lovely to see that so many of you have been together for many years, I think we hear so much about the relationships that don't work out that we overlook those that do so thank you for sharing!

 

[joolz1910]

Wow, all these stories are so great and I am amazed that you all have such different stories - most of my mates either met at work, uni, or whilst out clubbing! Joolz, your story made me laugh! I also like the fact that alot of you weren't sure about your OH and then something *magic* happened and lovely to see that so many of you have been together for many years, I think we hear so much about the relationships that don't work out that we overlook those that do so thank you for sharing!

I know the exact moment I realised I'd fallen in love with DH. I had got my A level results and my parents weren't all that interested. I went to DH's house (well, his parents' house) and he was waiting at the door for me with a bottle of champagne. I just knew he loved me.

 

[buzz for boys]

I love this thread everyones stories are just so nice !!!
Funny how everyone knew it was just some how meant to be !!!

 

[Lizzybear]

Myspace! We did have a mutual friend so it wasn't entirely random. We swapped MSN addresses and chatted loads (including most of Christmas day 2004!) before meeting up at the Krazy House in Liverpool (how romantic! ) in January 2005. We'll have been together 5 years on 11th Not the most 'fairytale' of beginnings but it worked for us

 

[orlandothebeagle]

I met DH in a lift at work. We worked for the company upstairs and I enquired who he was with one of his colleagues and then he rang me. That was 24 years ago

oh bless

I know the exact moment I realised I'd fallen in love with DH. I had got my A level results and my parents weren't all that interested. I went to DH's house (well, his parents' house) and he was waiting at the door for me with a bottle of champagne. I just knew he loved me.

JOOLZ, I dont know why but I nearly cried when i read this
him and his family sound lovely

I met Len at my birthday party(some one else brought him) I had never met him.
He said he would call me the next day and unlike lots of others he scored many brownie point by calling the next day before I had even got home from the party.
That was 20 years ago on wednesday.
I love him so much.
Even though I am Mrs Zabek the second I do believe in true love., never give up on love.

 

[torsie24]

Awww, what a lovely thread.

Apparently I met Jack on my first day at Uni (although I can't remember if I did), we lived in the same Halls, him on the floor below me. The first memory I have of him was on the 3rd or 4th night of Uni when all the girls from my floor went our with the boys from the floor below, and he was drunk and singing a killers song very wierdly. To be honest I found him pretty odd!

The first thing he says we ever said to each other (and I don't remember this either - how bad am I?!) is I asked him where he was from and he said 'London', so I asked where in London and he said 'Buckinghamshire', so I drunkly shouted at him "That aint London!" (I grew up in SE London and went to Uni in Wales, where most people thought people that talk like me were made up in Eastenders!)

A few weeks into our first term he started to really fancy me and badgered me ALL THE TIME, and tried to get my friends to get me to like him back. etc. But I had had a boyfriend (also Jack) in 6th form and wanted some fun single time. He still didn't back off though, but we were great friends and always hung out together.

That summer I was away in Chicago and Wisconsin and surprised myself by missing him more than my other friends and was really pleased to see him at the start of the second year. We were going out by about 4 weeks into term, I think he was kind of confused by my change of heart, but I guess that's how it goes!

We had a break over the following summer as he went travelling around Europe and I was away for a few months in Los Angeles, and we both thought we didn't want a full on relationship, but as soon as we got back to Uni in the third year we were inseparable - turns out all our friends had had bets on us getting back together!

When we left Uni we did a London/Bucks long distance relationship for about a year, then he moved in with me and my parents for a year, and then last november we got our own place and he propsed in DLRP last January.

I miss him even if we're apart for an hour (we work together now) and can't imagine a day without him.

We're getting married in..(please see my ticker) and I can't wait to spend at least the next 60 years with him.

 

[catherine]

I met DH in San Jose, CA. My sister was over there for a while and I went to see her, with no real intentions of staying for any length of time. Dsis was dating a guy who played drums in one of the local bands, my second night there we went to one of their gigs and I met DH. This was in the Sept, we spent several months hanging out together. In the March he asked me to marry him and I said yes. We were planning our wedding when I had a letter from immigration saying that I would have to leave the country! We knew how much more difficult it would be for us if I had to leave so we decided to go ahead and just get married. we had a week to organise everything, blood tests. marriage license etc. We got married on June 11. Anyway to cut a long story short, here we are 21.5 years later happily married with 2 DDs

 

[choccieaddict]

hub and I were 16 when we met at a disco in a local hall. We were just about the only ones our age there, he and I, his friend and my friend. He asked me to dance (Marillion, Kayleigh!), we swopped phone numbers. Didn't expect it to last, he was my first 'real' boyfriend, but he was very funny and thoughtful and after seeing each other at weekends only (I was studying for my A levels) it just blossomed and blossomed and blossomed. Engaged at 19, bought our home at 21, married at 23, honeymooned in WDW, baby at 24 (honeymoon baby, or thereabouts!) and another one at 27. We're now 41 and 40 (I'm hanging on to saying 40 for only another 16 days!) Love him to bits and he's more attractive to me now than he was at 16, grey hairs and wrinkles, I love the whole package

Great thread by the way, loving hearing all your stories.

 

[CustardTart]

Such lovely stories...

I met my husband for the first time when we were both 15 and a mutual girlfriend set us up on a blind date. Only it wasn't blind for him - he'd fancied me for a while but our friend had assured him I was out of his league and only dated older car-driving studs!!! Sadly superficial but true. However, when I needed an escort to a school play at short notice, he was suggested and I agreed to date him for a minimum of 2 weeks if he turned up...

Amazingly he did and I was totally blown away by how easy it felt just to be with him. We had so much in common (obscure tastes in music, fiction, film and comedy as well as similar family and educational backgrounds) plus he made me laugh more than anyone I'd ever met!!! Oh and he was such a passionate kisser!!! Still is, actually...

Anyway, that all happened 31 years, 2 months, 3 weeks and 2 days ago!!!
We're now into our 28th year of wedded fabulousness, have three incredible children, a lifetime of wonderful memories and love being together more than ever. It's a wonderful life...

 

[Lisash]

I met Dave at Cradley Heath speedway

Up the Heathens!! I used to be Bruce Penhalls biggest fan

I met my husband in a nightclub. My friend thought she recognised this guy who worked with her dad but hadn't the nerve to ask him. I was the only one in our group confident enough to go speak to him. That was in October 1985 he proposed on Xmas Eve the same year. My parents weren't best pleased as we hardly knew each other but after coming up for 25 years and two kids I don't think it was such a bad idea

 

[saratogagirl]

Lovely, lovely stories...

I met Ian when I was fourteen, he was fifteen. Every week I would go rollerskating at the towns leisure centre, he had been dragged there by his mates and couldn't skate for toffee.. His mate fancied my mate and wanted to walk her to the bus stop lol. Ians words to me were "I had better walk you to your bus, you can't walk on your own, he made it sound like a right hardship.

My mate wasn't allowed to go to the cinema the following week with the new boyfriend unless I went along, so Ian was dragged into that too. Two weeks later their great romance was off.. Twenty five years later we are still as happy as pigs in poo, we got engaged when I was seventeen and married when I was twenty two.

I truly believe he is the other half of me, I can't imagine being with anyone else.

 

[Head_in_the_clouds]

Such lovely stories! You've made me all soppy! Also amazed at how young some of you were when you met "the one" - hope I haven't missed the boat!

I know the exact moment I realised I'd fallen in love with DH. I had got my A level results and my parents weren't all that interested. I went to DH's house (well, his parents' house) and he was waiting at the door for me with a bottle of champagne. I just knew he loved me.

Awwww, so sweet!

oh bless


JOOLZ, I dont know why but I nearly cried when i read this
him and his family sound lovely

I met Len at my birthday party(some one else brought him) I had never met him.
He said he would call me the next day and unlike lots of others he scored many brownie point by calling the next day before I had even got home from the party.
That was 20 years ago on wednesday.
I love him so much.
Even though I am Mrs Zabek the second I do believe in true love., never give up on love.

You trying to make me cry ? This thread is restoring my faith in relationships. Despite being a cynical singleton I'm beginning to think maybe there is a soulmate out there for me too!

We're getting married in..(please see my ticker) and I can't wait to spend at least the next 60 years with him.

Congratulations and the best of luck to you .

 

[gemmybear83]

Awww such lovely stories!

Me and Henry met at uni (we both did the same course) we met on the first day and my first memory of him is putting his hand up during the introduction to then course and saying he was going to be sick and where was the toilets (it was freshers week!) we were friends for three years, and got together during our postgraduate year and he asked me out on a date after we spent a lot of time during a group project together, we have been together for over 5 years, living together for over three, and getting married in December!

 

[Minniespal]

Such a lovely thread.

He ran his car into the back of mine

It took him almost an hour to exchange insurance details etc and pluck up the courage to ask me out.

 

[tiggerlady]

I met my hubby in Paignton at the end of the hot summer of 1976,
He was 17 and I was 15 our first date was to a Radio one Roadshow, with Dave Lee Travis The songs played were Elton Jon and Kiki Dee, Dont go breaking my heart, Dancing Queen by Abba and Cokney rebel Cme up and see me, wow a blast from the past

We w boxent to see Jaws in the cinema and promised to phone and write to each other as we lived a long way from each other.
When I got home I went to the phone box to call him as we did not have a phone in the house. (How things have changed)
He had a car so came to visit 3 weeks later he decided that if I lived more than 100 miles away he would finish it, it was 98 miles door to door.

We got married in 1979 and I moved yo Yorkshire been married 30 years and have 2 grown kids aged 27 and 24 time does fly

 

[Danauk]

It turned out that Pete and I met for the 1st time a few years before uni. We both played in our counties youth orchestra (my self for the City of Leeds, Pete for Northamptonshire) and were both in the final of the national youth orchestra competition at the Royal Festival Hall in London, his orchestra played before mine. To this day he hasn't let me forget that he won and we came 2nd. Therefore he got to play on Blue Peter and at the last night of the school proms at the Royal Albert Hall! I obviously can't remember him, but I remember being there and I remember his orchestra playing!!

 

[wayneg]

CB radio
Paul

Same here.
Used to talk all night to each other. Just had our 20th Anniversary, maybe 4 or 5 arguments in 23 years. Hope its another 20 years just the same.

 

[pixiepower04]

DH was 21 and I was 24.

My entire family were all part of Guildford Sea Cadet Corps, I used to travel from London to visit every few weeks. I walked into the ward room one day and stopped dead in my tracks, walked straight back out again having hot flushes, I think I screamed at my sister 'oh my god who's that'.

Next thing you know he's chasing my brother round, my brother slips and breaks his ankle. That night I had a dream I asked Alex out so the next day my sister phoned him to tell him about my brother and then she shoves the phone in my hand and I had no choice but to ask him out.

Our first date was that night and we were engaged 4 months later.

Almost 4 years later we got married, 2 months after that my DD was born, 22 months later my DS was born.

So, we've been together 15 years and married for 11.

 

[Tinks1984]

Such a lovely thread.

He ran his car into the back of mine

It took him almost an hour to exchange insurance details etc and pluck up the courage to ask me out.

Brilliant Glad you both were okay though!

I'd known DBF for a while, but only through friends. And really, I'll probably be the first one who's story is a little bit naughty!

At the time, DBF was in a different long term relationship and I was single. I'd fancied him for ages before anything happened and thought there'd be no way he'd fancy me at all. So we'd see each other at rugby games at weekends and always have a chat, that was all.

I got a message one evening, on my way from keep fit, asking if one of my friends could pass on my number to him. So I just said yes, not reading too much into it. I didn't think he'd actually text me - he did.

The texts went on for a while before we actually met up (secretly! ) for a drink. This went on for quite a while, but each time it got harder to have to say goodbye on the evening. I'd sit in my car and watch him walk off to this other relationship (which he'd not been happy in for a long time, may I add) and I'd just be so down and upset.

I ended it. I couldn't take it any more as I was falling for him. I told him straight my feelings and left it at that. I didn't expect to hear from him again really, but I continued to get texts. I'd not reply. One day a text came through telling me he couldn't go on any more as he knew I was the one he wanted and he'd finished his relationship and wanted to see how things went between us.

We took it slowly to see how things went. That was nearly 4 years ago now, still going strong. I adore him. He's my world. And the even better bonus? He'll come to WDW with me, whereas my previous boyfriends have always said there's not a chance they'd ever go. DBF loves the place as much as I do

 

[Ware Bears]

What a lovely thread, so many romantic stories.

DH and I met at a mutual friend's house. I had just escaped from a very bad marriage and had no intention of ever making the same mistake again but he was very patient and very persistant, despite many problems with my ex, and within six months we were married.

We'll have been married 22 years this coming May and he is my soul mate. We have three daughters and I truly hope that they all meet someone as loving and caring as their Dad.