Love stories!

We're a "Match" success story ? He "winked" at me repeatedly over a month but I wasn't really interested in dating - more "window shopping" if you like! I eventually replied to him and got talking about tv shows - we both love all the foodie ones. I joked about a date and he then suggested he did a "Come Dine With Me" style date, only without the cash and funny narrator! I went with a bottle of posh lemonade so I could drive home. The food he cooked was AMAZING - the sort you'd pay £50+ per head for in a restaurant. We watched a dodgy horror film and then he looked at me and said "I really want to kiss you" ? Driving home went out the window and we've been pretty much inseparable ever since. That was last September. We moved in together in April and we're getting married next August ❤️

Lommel, I love the idea of the Come Dine with Me date! Haha how awesome. And a plus side he can cook great food! ;-)

We're 'Match' too! I was pretty new, hadn't met anyone else on there, he sent a message saying 'our profiles are similar, I think we'd get along well, let me know if you'd like to meet for a drink sometime'. We did. On our second date he asked permission to kiss me and we've been pretty much inseparable ever since.

He saw me in a towel when he visited his mate who was in my Uni halls in 2001

Then we saw each other a few times over the next few months at various pubs/clubs

He started texting me over the Easter holidays of the first year of uni and then we went on our first date to the pub then the cinema to see Ocean's 11

Moved in together in 2005, bought our house in 2007, got our dog in 2008, got engaged in 2010 and married in 2012

Haha we are Match too..

I had been single a couple of years, but quite enjoying the dating scene (well a girls gotta eat ! lol). He looked at my profile on Match, i messaged him because i liked look of his profile, he didn't reply to me for 3 days !! i thought sod you then... turns out he hadn't fully joined so couldn't read his messages and was waiting to get paid lol ! once he did reply we messaged back and forth for a few weeks, then plucked up courage to chat on the phone.. for hours ever night for another few weeks.... eventually met up 26th Sept 2011 and bought our own house August 2012, engaged 31st March and our wedding is set for 8th Feb 2014.

He has seen me through the death of my mum and has been a major rock, he has taken on my stroppy 14 year old daughter and is just the best thing that could ever have happened to me.

I just can't wait to become his wife

hehehe... maybe we should contact Match with all our success stories !!

I drunkenly and unceremoniously pulled my OH in a nightclub.

He moved in two weeks later. Not because it was a whirlwind love affair, but because I could have done with some help with the bills. And neither of us liked living on our own.

It could have all gone horribly wrong, but 18years, one daughter, two cats, a ten year long engagement, one mortgage and two seven-year-itches later, we got married and life continues as normal.

H2B and I kind of "knew" each other for about 2 years before we even met. We had the same group of friends who went out on a regular basis. He then met his ex (a friend of mine) just as I fell pregnant with my eldest son. He got lost in his relationship and I had two babies in quick succession and although we continued to see the same group of friends we never actually appeared at the same social gatherings at the same time. He split from his ex around the same time I split from mine. I used to meet regularly with her for coffee and listen to the tales of her dramatic love life. When she sat telling me about her recent split and how she'd treated him etc I found myself getting incredibly angry with her and despite how she was running him down he seemed like a really lovely person.

We eventually did meet in January 2008. We instantly disliked each other. He was grumpy and I was too bubbly and it wound him up. It was my first proper night out in 2.5 years... of course I was bubbly!!!! There seemed to be a lot of nights out and parties over the next few months that we attended at the same time and being the singletons we always ended up chatting to each other. We always shared a taxi because we lived only a few streets apart. One night in May, at which time I was having an ill-advised affair with a younger man from work I found myself drunkenly crying in the ladies. A mutual friend told me she couldn't understand why I was doing this while there was quite obviously a man out there who was crazy about me. There was another male friend who had been showing a little too much interest that I kept brushing off so I assumed she meant him. She didn't. I ignored her and carried on with my pity party for one for the rest of the evening.

Next morning I still remembered what had been said the night before and I started looking through text and facebook conversations he and I had shared. They'd all seemed innocent enough at the time and he actually seemed to be trying to talk me into giving the other friend a chance. The following Saturday I didn't ring him to arrange to share a cab for our night out, deciding to walk instead. About ten minutes into the walk I realised there was someone walking behind me. It was him. We didn't even say hello, we walked to town smiling stupidly at each other. We drank, we smiled, we drank, we flirted, we drank, we danced.... we kissed, we got a taxi home... we got an abusive phone call from the other friend threatening to smack him one if he slept with me. We've been together ever since. He took me on with my two boys (who were only 2 and 1 at the time), I fell pregnant 6 months later and we all lived happily ever after.

He was in the year above me at school and we went to the same primary and secondary school but I have no recollection of him at all, even though he was head boy (the goob) at high school and apparently gave a speech to our year group. We lived streets apart as children and my 'school best friend' was his sisters 'home best friend'. We probably played out together but if we did I don't remember.

When I left school and started college I spent an ill advised two weeks working at McDonalds. I HATED it and soon left for another part time job soon after. He worked at the same branch at the same time...again, no memory of him at all!

I then went to Uni and then backpacking for a year. I had a five year relationship but ended it when my ex started talking about marriage and children...I just knew it wasn't right with him. Less than a month after leaving my ex I went on a girly night with my friends. I wasn't intending to 'pull', felt it was far too soon, but my friends were very happy I was single (not fans of the ex!) and were encouraging me to, ahem, mingle.

One of my friends was trying to set me up with any Tom, Dick or Harry but I wasn't for having it. I hate flirting, it does NOT come naturally to me. Anyway, I'd seen H2B in the first bar we'd been in. I thought he was gorgeous and he stood out because he's 6"5 and was wearing a red shirt. He was in every pub we went in and it wasn't long before my friend (who will be a BM and has insisted on having a mention in the wedding speech) clocked me looking at him. In the last pub we went in she approached him (unbeknownst to me!)while I was in the loo and when I came back out he was waiting to talk to me. He has since told me that he had also clocked me in every pub but was out for a friends birthday and was torn about whether or not to come over. We chatted for ages and I took his number. We parted ways and I bumped into him again ten minutes later in the takeaway (classy, I know!).

We parted ways again and the next day I was torn over whether or not to ring him. I was soooo not looking for a relationship and was really relishing the idea of some time as a single woman after being in a relationship since the age of twenty. But at the same time I really liked him and something told me I'd be missing out on something big if I didn't give him a call. Turns out I was right!

Three and a bit years later we have a house, a dog and ate happily engaged. I know it sounds like clap trap but I now like to think that fate was trying to throw us together for ages before it finally happened. I'm more than ready for marriage and kids with him. I can't wait and I think he'll be an amazing dad. Pass the sick bucket!

Well mines is a weird "serendipity" story. We have had the same group of friends for a long time, me since I was 12 (1996) and him since he was two (1984) haha I know a LONG time we have only ever stayed 2 streets away from each other actually we have stayed on the same street as each other twice before we ever met. We had been to the same parties, were 2 years apart in the same school, his best friend is my best friends big brother, we were in our 'best friends' house at the same time but never actually met. About 2 months before we met he remembers me coming over to help my best friend pack her suitcase for holiday, I don't even remember him or the group of friends being thre at all. Haha.

However, we were in our best friends house and they had some people over as their mum was away. There was a running joke that her big brother liked me, and I said at the party that no way would I go out with him and drunkenly said I'd rather go out with his friend. He went bright red and I thought that was so cute! Later on in the evening we ended up alone in my best friends mums bedroom, we sat up talking all night, we fell asleep at 6am and then he made me breakfast at 7am. When leaving the room all our friends were in the living room, there were a few loose jaws that morning lol. We shared a taxi home at that point he stayed 2 doors down! I text him 2 hours later asking him out!! Started going out right away! And the rest is history...

Met oct 2006

Moved in sep 2007

Had our little princess dec 2011

Engaged on Monday!!!!!! (June 2013)

I was in the same uni halls as my boyfriend, we had tons of mutual friends, we saw each other all the time at house parties etc. I remember noticing him in first year but because he didn't look like he was chasing girls around and was quite quiet (like most of the guys were) I assumed he had a girlfriend (he didn't). He says he saw me walking down the road 3 years later and we exchanged smiles and he thought I was cute. We didn't ever say a word to each other until about 4-5 years after the first year of uni, we were both dancing in the same circle of friends on a night out and he was looking a bit bored/sullen so I tried to bully him into dancing and we chatted a bit but nothing else happened.

Then the next day we bumped into each other at work, we both worked in the same hospital and had been for the last 6 months, but had never ever bumped into each other until the day after we first spoke (weird right?) and I mentioned I was going to this fancy dress party, he said he was as well. Actually, I found out later his friends were going but he told them he didn't want to go... until he found out I was going. So along he came, I was dressed as a banana and he was dressed as Luigi and he asked for my number that night!

3 days later, I still hadn't heard anything from him, I thought that's weird, our mutual friends all said he was a nice honest guy, wouldn't have just asked for my number for no reason, but anyway I had no way of texting him as I didn't have his.

Day 4: he calls me to ask me out to dinner, apparently I was so drunk I put my number into his phone under CHUAAA and he'd assumed I'd put it under Marianne (as most people would) and he thought I wasn't interested and "faked" giving him my number type thing, then came across it in his phonebook when texted a friend whose name began with C.

Soooo that's the story of how very many times we almost nearly never got together! (New Taylor Swift song there!)

We went to the same primary and secondary school. Knew each other vaguely, had mutual friends. We sat next to each other in Geography around GCSE time and he used to make me laugh but we still didn't really know each other. I then left for college and we didn't meet again until a drunken group holiday that we both got invited to a couple of years later. That was in 2005 when we were 18. We got together on that holiday and have been together together ever since. We bought our own home a couple of years ago and got our lovely doggy. We got engaged last September and get married next May. Can't wait!

We are a match success story too!

Saw his picture on Match and noticd that he had viewed me and thought he looked cute, started chatting via match and msn and emails, met up a few weeks later our 1st date lasted 11 hours!

In the 1st 2 months of our relationship he supported me through a court case with my ex partner, was and still is my rock, he has fixed me and make me smile again, he is the best step daddy my little girl could ever have wished for and life is so much better with him in it.

I love him more than I could ever put into words and on the 5 April 2014 @ 2pm I will walk down the aisle and become his wife, he's my happy ever after and my true love.

Uniform dating, he is and I am and that's that ? Met April 2011 and I've never been happier.

End of April 2008, I move into the house share in Liverpool that he already lived in. We quickly became close friends, then flirted after a night out till 9am and a day getting sunstroke in the park. It carried on like that for a few weeks then after a night out he crashed in my room and snogged my face off. I thought it was just a drunken thing but he was cuddling up to me the next day, asking if I'd like to watch a DVD and get a takeaway. We took it slow for a few months as he was a bit of a commitment phobe and I had been going through a bit of a *** time.

In the september we were supposed to be going to Chester with our friend Stu, he didn't end up going so it was just me and OH. We had a lovely time at Chester Zoo and went out in the evening. We got back and I was really drunk and ended up crying over something stupid like he didn't dance with me all night or something and I was shocked out of it when I saw him start to cry and he told me that he was falling for me. I was like REALLY?! And he said he must be, as he was so upset that I was upset (even if it was something stupid!), that's the only time I've ever seen him cry. The next day was amazing with this magical atmosphere.

After that though we STILL weren't official, until a month later and on a night out a friend of a friend was flirting with him, he was a good boy and didn't take the bait but I was still really jealous. I ended up leaving and he followed me out, we had an argument and I told him I wanted us to be official. We went home and settled down and the next day he bought me flowers and asked if I would be his girlfriend.

When I went on a month long trip to Oz, Singapore, NZ and san fran in Feb 2009 with my friends he said he was lost without me and when I came back he told me he loved me (he had a complex about saying it about, he felt when he is in love that's the person he will marry, I was the first girl he said the 3 words to)

We continue to grow stronger and closer all the time, even when we fell into hard times and we had to share my tiny room and throughout other hard times. We moved to London to our own flat in 2010 and he proposed at Christmas 2012. He is sweetest man on earth and I couldn't imagine life without him.

Sorry it's long but that's us!

You can vom now haha!!

This was such a good idea MrsG2013! I'm loving reading these.

Im loving the modern internet successes aswell as high school sweetheart types

I have a similar to some story...Saw his picture on my friends myspace and bebo, said to her OMG hes fit, who IS he...turns out he was the drummer in her band, went to see them at a gig, he had a gf, they werent happy, there relationship ended and ours started, all this was 4 years ago, we have a 2.5yr old a 7month old and I proposed on leap day as i know id never get a romantic proposal out of him lol

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I'm sat all teary eyed over these lovely stories! Thanks for sharing!!

xxx

We met in Sydney in May 2009 - I'd gone to Australia to do the typical back packing thing with friends, I'd never felt the 'urge' to travel, but after a break up with my ex I decided I needed to get away. Met OH on my first night out in a tourist bar in Sydney - he 'saved' me from a group of french men who surrounded me after my friends went to get a drink. We sat and chatted for ages that night in the bar, and he gave me his number and asked me out a couple of days later. I decided against going to the date as I something 'clicked' with us and I didn't want to go on the date and really like him, and then have to leave the next day (my friends and I were booked on a trip up the East Coast for the next couple of months) After I cancelled on him he apparently deleted my number and decided that was that, but I constantly texted him whilst I was travelling and then when I lived up in Cairns for a month we were constantly on the phone - we now consider it that we were 'dating' even when we weren't!

Things didn't go well with the girls I was travelling/living with in Cairns, and when one of my other friends from the UK told me she was heading to Sydney, I moved down with her in the August, and OH and I had our first date in the day after I arrived. He took me out for a 'proper' bottle of wine (travellers in Aus just tend to drink 'goon' - boxed wine which is cheap and nasty, but great ;-))

We were together for the 9 months I had left in Aus, during which time he'd stood by me when I found out my mum had been diagnosed with cancer (but my parents didn't want me to come home) When we realised that I wasn't going to be able to stay in the country (he had made it clear many months before that he wasn't marrying me to stay!) we decided that he would come over to the UK after paying his debts off and getting some savings together etc.

We were apart for a year - never saw each other in that year except via skype, was the hardest thing to be apart and we had a lot of bumpy patches. He moved over in April 2011, moved straight in together, been through the 'fun' of sorting out his visa to stay here (for now!) and we got engaged September 2012, getting married October 2013!!

Sorry for such a very long post!!!!!