Aw, yours is a very romantic story Karen! 
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cblasz wrote: I don't have an OH, but even at age 43 I haven't given up hope. Reading your stories is fun and provides encouragement!
Stop looking. They have a habit of popping up after that.
Oh, I haven't looked in years.
2018 Goals Goal Weight: 145 Starting Weight: 174.4 (Jan 2) Current Weight: 168.1 (Jul 16)
1) Eating windows - between 12-8, M-F.
2) NO SWEETS - 6-7 days a week. (Sugar <= 50 g)
3) Calories <= 1100 M-F, 1500 S/S
4) Carbs under 100g M-F, 150 S/S
4) 6-7 glasses water/tea per day
5) Exercise - 10,000 steps a day + an hour of "real" exercise 3X per week.
Oh ok @Callyanna and @Silverdarling I'll spill the beans!!!
Boring really...I got posted to the station he was working at. Night duty parade and it was his turn to make the tea. In fact the first thing he ever said to me was "wanna cup of tea?" I said No!!
I kept saying no for the next 6 months until he wore me down and I could take no more so I agreed to go out with him. That was 28 years ago and I still don't drink his tea !
Sorry to disappoint that I wasn't arrested for fighting or flashing my bits on a rowdy Saturday night!!!
Boring really...I got posted to the station he was working at. Night duty parade and it was his turn to make the tea. In fact the first thing he ever said to me was "wanna cup of tea?" I said No!!
I kept saying no for the next 6 months until he wore me down and I could take no more so I agreed to go out with him. That was 28 years ago and I still don't drink his tea !
Sorry to disappoint that I wasn't arrested for fighting or flashing my bits on a rowdy Saturday night!!!
Minsmum wrote: Oh ok @Callyanna and @Silverdarling I'll spill the beans!!!
Boring really...I got posted to the station he was working at. Night duty parade and it was his turn to make the tea. In fact the first thing he ever said to me was "wanna cup of tea?" I said No!!
I kept saying no for the next 6 months until he wore me down and I could take no more so I agreed to go out with him. That was 28 years ago and I still don't drink his tea !
Sorry to disappoint that I wasn't arrested for fighting or flashing my bits on a rowdy Saturday night!!!
Oh I knew all along there'd be some perfectly innocent explanation
..just wanted you to make it clear to all other members that you hadn't been up to no good ! x 
Even after nearly 30 years I think my mum is still hoping it won't last!!!!
Blind date.
We both worked for the same bank, me in Glasgow and him in Edinburgh and my job at the time involved a daily phone call to him. I then got transferred to Jersey and he continued to phone me at work for a blether. I accidentally gave him my home phone number so we chatted more often. I then had a wedding to go to back home and suggested that we could meet up the same weekend. So on 25th May 1990 I was wearing an orange Benetton t-shirt and skinny jeans, he was wearing a white shirt and jeans and we met at the Meeting Place at Waverley Station, Edinburgh. He was not how he described himself at all but we got on like a house on fire. We sat on the grass in Princess St Gardens and two pigeons appeared next to us and started making baby pigeons, very embarrassing. The following day I went back to Jersey, the telephone calls got hotter and the next time I saw him in September he proposed.
We both worked for the same bank, me in Glasgow and him in Edinburgh and my job at the time involved a daily phone call to him. I then got transferred to Jersey and he continued to phone me at work for a blether. I accidentally gave him my home phone number so we chatted more often. I then had a wedding to go to back home and suggested that we could meet up the same weekend. So on 25th May 1990 I was wearing an orange Benetton t-shirt and skinny jeans, he was wearing a white shirt and jeans and we met at the Meeting Place at Waverley Station, Edinburgh. He was not how he described himself at all but we got on like a house on fire. We sat on the grass in Princess St Gardens and two pigeons appeared next to us and started making baby pigeons, very embarrassing. The following day I went back to Jersey, the telephone calls got hotter and the next time I saw him in September he proposed.
I very unexpectedly met her at a college gym where I'd often go between classes to play volleyball.
As I passed through the double doors to see if there was a game going that I could join, I noticed two girls sitting in chairs against the nearby wall; one holding a clipboard, the other counting the number of people playing various games.
They'd laughed after pointing at something that happened out on the floor and I just knew from the character of her laugh that she was someone with a love of life that I had to know.
After asking what they were up to, a few minutes of watching the games, and of occasionally 'adjusting' the eraser-end of her pencil whenever she tried to write something down (getting her to laugh more) I abandoned all thoughts of attending the rest of my classes that evening.
Being too late at that point for dinner, we went to watch the only movie that wasn't already-in-progress - and of all things not me - we saw "Up In Smoke". Oh well...
Together for 35, married for 31.
As I passed through the double doors to see if there was a game going that I could join, I noticed two girls sitting in chairs against the nearby wall; one holding a clipboard, the other counting the number of people playing various games.
They'd laughed after pointing at something that happened out on the floor and I just knew from the character of her laugh that she was someone with a love of life that I had to know.
After asking what they were up to, a few minutes of watching the games, and of occasionally 'adjusting' the eraser-end of her pencil whenever she tried to write something down (getting her to laugh more) I abandoned all thoughts of attending the rest of my classes that evening.
Being too late at that point for dinner, we went to watch the only movie that wasn't already-in-progress - and of all things not me - we saw "Up In Smoke". Oh well...
Together for 35, married for 31.
Oh I love that 'accidentally giving him your home phone number' @wildmissus! 
@cblaszI was single for 2 years when I met OH and even then, nothing happened for 3 months because he was "too old" for me and we were so different and he had grown up kids and it could go on an on like that but I was just a fool and completely blind
The most time between 2 relationships was, and I swear it's true, 12 years between 20 and 32 so, you see, there's always hope.....
The most time between 2 relationships was, and I swear it's true, 12 years
between 20 and 32 so, you see, there's always hope.....
@loulou51, you have the same wedding anniversary as me! After knowing eachother for 20 years my parents decided we had no future!!!!!
My DH and I met because his best mate and my sister had a tempestuous relationship. So bad were their fights whenever I saw DH I avoided him due to embarrassment. The warring couple broke up but still had a flight booked together O/S and work together in a Swiss ski resort. There we were just us two farewelling the estranged couple at Sydney airport and DH said we ought to catch up as my mate won't write but your sister will so you can update me on where and when they travel.
Chatted to DH a couple of times on the phone and began to warm to him and he was always saying we must have a drink but never got around to ask me out. So I got fed up and he became the first man I asked out, in a note in the front of a book I told hi was a great read. He took my advice and we went out for dinner and have been inseparable ever since. Saved the book 'The Magus' actually gave it to DH again on our 30th wedding anniversary last year.
Love him to bits, he is such a beautiful man and one of the best dads in the world to our boy.
Chatted to DH a couple of times on the phone and began to warm to him and he was always saying we must have a drink but never got around to ask me out. So I got fed up and he became the first man I asked out, in a note in the front of a book I told hi was a great read. He took my advice and we went out for dinner and have been inseparable ever since. Saved the book 'The Magus' actually gave it to DH again on our 30th wedding anniversary last year.
Love him to bits, he is such a beautiful man and one of the best dads in the world to our boy.
Great story @gillymary and 'The magus' is one of the few books I've read more than once!
I was at uni and my flat was throwing a party for one of the girls’ birthdays. As we all got more tipsy, my friend went upstairs to the flat above to invite some of the lads that we knew, but accidentally went to the wrong flat and invited a bunch of guys that we didn’t know, who came to the party anyway. As lads do, one of them texted a mate saying something along the lines of “you’ve gotta come to this party, it’s a flat FULL of girls” and along came my other half who happened to live next door.
They ended up coming out with us, and OH danced around me a lot and I kind of shrugged him off and laughed. Later on everyone came to ours and we ended up staying just chatting until around 6am. A few days later there was a very awkward fire drill where we all had to go out in our pjs early in the morning and I bumped into him again, and him and his friends came back to ours for a brew, which ended up with them staying for hours and helping us clean the kitchen, and from there I never really got rid of him! We left uni for xmas about a week after the party where we met, messaged a lot over Christmas and NY and made many a drunken phone call over the festive period. He turned up with a dvd and lemsip when I got back to uni with tonsillitis and stayed up with me all night when I looked utterly disgusting and could barely speak. About a month later, having spent every day together in the library when not having lectures, and then every evening together, we made it official. 3 years on and here we are.
We’ve been through a lot together with my parent’s split, being unemployed then employed, then unemployed and employed again, then having to move between my parents and then finally moving to where I am now. We’re finally where we want to be- I’m living in the city with a job that I can live comfortably with, and he’s following in his dad's footsteps with the army. We’re managing with the distance and things are more special when we do see each other. Hopefully after he’s finished his training I can get him to propose
Excuse the massive story, I’m getting all sentimental now!
They ended up coming out with us, and OH danced around me a lot and I kind of shrugged him off and laughed. Later on everyone came to ours and we ended up staying just chatting until around 6am. A few days later there was a very awkward fire drill where we all had to go out in our pjs early in the morning and I bumped into him again, and him and his friends came back to ours for a brew, which ended up with them staying for hours and helping us clean the kitchen, and from there I never really got rid of him! We left uni for xmas about a week after the party where we met, messaged a lot over Christmas and NY and made many a drunken phone call over the festive period. He turned up with a dvd and lemsip when I got back to uni with tonsillitis and stayed up with me all night when I looked utterly disgusting and could barely speak. About a month later, having spent every day together in the library when not having lectures, and then every evening together, we made it official. 3 years on and here we are.
We’ve been through a lot together with my parent’s split, being unemployed then employed, then unemployed and employed again, then having to move between my parents and then finally moving to where I am now. We’re finally where we want to be- I’m living in the city with a job that I can live comfortably with, and he’s following in his dad's footsteps with the army. We’re managing with the distance and things are more special when we do see each other. Hopefully after he’s finished his training I can get him to propose
Excuse the massive story, I’m getting all sentimental now!
I met my other half at a mutual friends birthday weekend bash. We really hit it off and decided to meet up a couple of weeks later. Unfortunately we lived 195 miles apart but he drove down South more or less every weekend. After doing this for about a year he moved in and found a job locally. A couple of years later we got married.
I've never been happier
I've never been happier
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