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Just bumping this thread up as it seems appropriate on Valentine's day to ask if anyone else has a story to tell of how they met their other half?

Had to peruse these tales of romance -afterall it is Valentines Day I don't work Fridays and as OH has requested I cook(see my blog Valentine fast or feast)
My OH and I moved in together 23 OOPS 24 years ago to the day I was a single mum of 1. We were both set up in the Lonely Hearts column of our weekly freebie paper.....(No online dating back then ) His sister worked for the paper and my friends nagged me to reply to at least one -saying if it led to a date they would send their hubbies for a boys night out to keep an eye on me and make sure I stayed safe and happy OH I had 3 rules to set in motion (1) to take things very sloooooow
(2) to only talk on the phone once a week
(3) not to introduce my daughter to him until we had been seeing each other for a minimum of 3 months (I sent him a photo of us along with my life story And that did'nt put him off We talked on the phone every day
He met my daughter after our 3rd date
And I invited him to move in with me after 6 weeks (valentines day) and He did Our son was born two years later.
He has been/is the best Dad to my daughter and our son. He is my best friend/ my soul mate/my life and still makes me smile and laugh every day.

Good idea cally x
My story..met my gentleman caller in 2009 ..had been ill since 1996 but was starting to feel a lot better,and as a friend was keeping me entertained with hilarious tales of her internet dates,i decided to join an online dating site.just looking for some male companionship not romance.
Got chatting online to six or seven guys,including C,but it didnt go any further than that for months..
eventually i met up with C..basically because it felt like fate was trying to throw us together...
For example, when i saw his photo, i had a niggling feeling i already knew him.Then a friend of a friend had a date with him and said what a nice guy,but she realised dating wasnt right for her- too soon after a major break up from longterm r/ship.Then another friend posted a message saying she was leaving the site,as had met the love of her life,and C sent a lovely congratulatory message to her.Then my daughter thought she saw him in a restaurant ( but no it wasnt him)
..Anyway,seemed the Universe kept giving me a nudge,so four months after first chatting online,we met for a coffee one afternoon. Turned out we had gone to same concerts at students union as teens,and i had walked past his workplace every day for a long long time! so we had been circling each other for years one way and another..
For first time ever,i have a good kind man in my life ..met a lot of frogs along the way
My only regret is my illness means i need quite a lot of space and time alone,so we can't spend as much time together as we wd ideally like,but we do enjoy each other's company as much as we can! x

Candice I loved your story
so glad you met your prince charming in the end!! xxx

Thank you @angie090465 wdnt go quite as far as Prince Charming but yeh he is a real
Sweetypie xxx

I slept so badly last night, so if I have written this before - please forgive a poor sleep deprived Swedish girl;)

Yesterday at dinner The DH said; oh tomorrow is Valentine but I haven't had the time of getting you anything". Well that is all right since you never give me anything at Valentine I replied, so save yourself for the wedding anniversary. Which he most of the times don't remember if not our oldest son text him LOL. So how many years said The Dh - 19. Great then we can save up for next year..... Well, the honest truth is that I nevr in my life imagined being marrie (or even being with someone) for this long cause:

In 1992 at the age of 36 I had completely given up on men due to a heartbreak that was more like a major heart shatter (can still feel that pain) and had gone without anyone in any sense for two years My BGF at work had a boyfriend who used to work with a guy called L. Now they had introduced us in 1991 without any major sparks firing of. But at Valborg (31 april) L and his former girl friend throw a Dragon Rock party and there he was, with a long haired black and in the middle of the night he took me to the dance floor and the rest is history. We became an item at once, moved in together after just a couple of months (better check if it was going to work out), got our first joint apartment in 1993, got engaged in 1994, married in 1995 and went to Vietnam in 1996 to get our first most beloved son.

One can get philosophical about "what if" and there have been periods when I have been on the verge of giving it all up, but we are still here and since we share the same bizarre sense of humor and both goes in deep in creative hand involved hobbies (he does "men" thing like motorcycles and cars), we work in different aspects of IT, we have managed to move past difficult things and go forward.

My sis had a friend who was afraid she was going to end up "on the shelf" and she had me as a role model - if I could meet the man of my life at 36, hope was still up.

Oh forgot to mention - he is my toy boy - 6 yrs my junior and I think that is one of the reasons it have all worked out.

Loved reading your story Wolfie! X
Its never too late for Mr Right to come along!
Empathise with your heartbreak,happened to me a few times too..you never quite forget it, but all's well that ends well x x x

Loved reading your story Wolfie! X
Its never too late for Mr Right to come along!
Empathise with your heartbreak,happened to me a few times too..you never quite forget it, but all's well that ends well x x x

I had been through several, but the last was the absolute worse, the kind that made me give up and never to trust a man ever. Good thing The DH is very persistent LOL.

@callyanna - You were looking for a holiday romance that worked out. Here's my story...

I met my OH when on holiday near my sister's in southern France. She dragged a very unenthusiastic me to a wine festival but I soon joined the merriment (hey-ho!).

It was really a case of our eyes meeting over a crowded bar. We were both ordering drinks, spotted each other and I must have grinned quite goofishly. Next thing he was standing right next to me. Despite the festive - and sometimes downright drunken - atmosphere, we bizarrely started talking about French nineteenth century politics. We didn't stop talking until way into the early hours when we parted without giving each other's contact détails (no pens around at that early hour). I returned to my home town the next day (I lived about 5 hours away).

Luckily OH had remembered my name and looked me up on the internet. We then started a long email correspondence and finally met up a couple of months later "for real". We then spent the next year or so meeting up every couple of weeks until I decided to move to his area.

We've been living together for two and a half years now. He's definitely my "best OH" (yes, there have been others) and he's so refreshingly loving, interesting and imaginative. He's also eight years younger than me which keeps me on my toes. I'll be eternally grateful to my sister for bullying me into going to that wine festival.

Wowzer! even more amazing stories! ain't love grand?

It makes the world go round,honey!

I first encountered my OH walking home from College. I was 17 and every now and then a car drove past as I was crossing the road and I noticed a handsome man smiling back at me. Now I don't make a habit of looking at men in their cars but this man caught my attention. I didn't think anymore about it until a few months later when I was out one Saturday night with my sister. We were in the pub when she said 'there's a really good looking bloke over there looking at us'. Well, I looked over and this guy smiled at us and then came over. I didn't recognised him until he said he sees me walking on my way to college and also said one time he parked up and came looking for me but couldn't find me. I was gobsmacked as I didn't recognized him in casual clothes (he wore a suit in the car as he as working (allegedly lol)
Anyway, checking he wasn't married, dating etc we arranged a date and we are now celebrating 29 married years this year and I love him more every day.
Just goes to show Mr right could be just around the corner....never give up...it can appear when you least expect it.
Spending Valentines night in with M & S dine in for two..
Katie x

Hi all, I was 18 and living in a flat in Melbourne with a friend. She and I were both vego and had lots of vego friends. We were hippies and had lots of people staying, lots of guitar playing and singing. We had heard that another friend had met a guy who was vego and getting her to eat more healthily and give up coke and other processed junk. Eventually they hitch-hiked down from Brisbane to Melbourne and we had offered them our spare room. They had been together about 6 weeks. Well, they knocked on the door, I opened it and the sparks just flew! I fell in love as soon as I saw him, he felt the same too! What I didn't know was that he was trying to figure out a way to break up with her without hurting her. The first night I was crying on my flat mates shoulder as I felt so deeply for him. Anyway, we ended up together and here we are about to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary in May! Suffice to say, my friend never forgave me, but my OH and i have had an amazing life together with four wonderful kids and now grandkids. We are still vegan and love doing gym workouts, kayaking etc together. I never really had much of a weight problem until our beautiful daughter got sick in 2007 and then we lost her in 2008, then I was diagnosed with coeliac disease. My metabolism went very weird, with the upheaval and grief. Feeling more on track these days. I am so glad that I met Brian, as we are best friends and he has been very supportive through everything. We take care of each other!
Regards,
Elayne

Thanks so much for sharing your story @Mullumgirl. It sounds like you and your OH have come through some really tough times together.

well, here I am checking in late as usual. I have really enjoyed reading everyone's stories.

I met my hubby on a blind date. I was a senior in nursing school, and a friend decided I needed a date for the Christmas party. we met on Dec. 10th, got married Jun. 8th. 39 yrs ago. He went home from our first day and told his Mom, "I'm going to marry that girl". took me a couple of weeks longer. I think he's a keeper.