Right time and place?

I met my H2B through my mum he worked with her and I went along to one of their works do's and he was there. The rest as they say is history @-)

P.S will add that he is not my mum's age but 3 months yonger than me, lol x

We met at a party. Bit of backstory... I went to the same primary school as my friend E, but we went to different secondary schools. Her school was next to a boys' school and so some of the boys were friends with her group of girls. One of the boys hosted a house party for her, for her 18th birthday. I went to it (I got on well with her friends) and met my H2B there. He doesn't usually go to parties but it was lucky that he went that night

He didn't want to go out with me at first... said he wasn't looking for a relationship... but I won him over ? in the end!

We're both still friends with E, in fact, she's our Maid of Honour ?

I sometimes wonder if I would have met my OH another way. I remember that I was feeling a bit crappy and one of my male friends- J was trying to covnince me to go out with him and some of his friends for the evening. I kept saying no over and over but J kept bugging me and eventually I gave in, got myself dolled up and went out. My OH was one of the friends that he had brought along with him, and now here we are 3 years later getting married.

I think we would have probably met eventually- but then me and OH had been friends with J for a long time before and never met eachother before.

Im so glad I cheered myself up and went out as I wouldn't know what to do without him now. ?

xx

Funny me and my OH always talk about this!! We met on an online dating website lol!! I had been on it for a while when my OH joined. My OH had went to party and a friend had told him about the site at the party. He said he had contemplated not going to the party and if he hadnt he might never of found the site!!! Also my picture on the dating site was of me when I was on the set of Neighbours holding a Ramsey Street sign!!! He siad he only messaged me cause I had that sign in my hands and he was a big Neighbours fan so he had an idea of what to talk to me about. So if he hadnt of went to the party or if i had choose a differnt picture for my profile we might never of meet!!!!!!! xxx

We met through match.com. Her sister had found someone through the site (they got married last year) so she thought she'd give it a try.

I'd been on Match for a couple of months, no contacts at all apart from a few obvious passport seekers and one message from an 80 year old woman asking if I was looking for some "discrete no strings fun with a mature experienced lady". Strangely, I wasn't.

I was about to give up as it seemed to be a waste of time and money, but my friend Carla (from Canada), who had recommended match to me, persuaded me to try another month, so I did.

There was one particular person I'd seen come up in searches a few times, we seemed compatible but I thought she was way out of my league, but I thought "well might as well message, the worst that can happen is I get ignored again". To my surprise she responded, we got chatting over the next couple of days and arranged to meet the following friday - first date ended up lasting 12 hours - and the rest as they say, is history.

Carla, however, is still looking for "Mr Right"...

I wonder this all the time. OH was contemplating going back to NZ after a really messy breakup and i was in the throws of being bought out of my house by the ex so were both in a bad place. She was staying with her aunt in London at the time to get away from Birmingham and we just happened to be online at the same time and got chatting ? She didnt have internet up here so if she wasnt in London we would never have gotten to speak and would have never met. I beleive in fate 100%.

Mmm well I met my OH through my ex as they were friends I don't think we would have met if it hadn't been for my ex.....

I don't believe in fate or "meant to be" or "right time and place" at all, but it's an interesting thought when you really think about it.

OH and I were friends for around 6 months before we got together. We eventually got together when I started going to the pub quiz in my parents' local pub during my last holidays from uni, before moving away to start work. I had been umming and ahhing about moving earlier, but for whatever reason, decided to leave it a few weeks. If I'd made the decision to move earlier, we'd probably still just be friends today!

Haha yep, defo ! i thougth OH was someone else on faceyB so 'poked' him...he has the same name as the guy i went to school with and looks like him too!!!!

so after chatting i realised it wasnt him ( ? ) but the groundwork had already been laid!

i think when he askled me out he said 'i know im not XYZ but will i do?!' haha what a charmer

I am enjoying reading all your stories so romantic, I am a softy. AJ your mature lady on the net made me chuckle. So many people have met their partners that way my sister included I think it's a great way to meet people. The mistaken identity Flowmojo is brill!

We met nearly 20 years ago when we both lived in the same village as kids. We were mates but nothing else then I moved out of the village at 17 and over the years we lost touch. Fast forward many many years and we were friends on facebook, few chats here and there then when I moved to the same city as he lived in he asked me out for a drink.... and the rest is history.

Thank you facebook and thank you both sets of parents for moving to that tiny village!

There's still a bit of a stigma about "internet dating" being the domain of saddo's and wierdos, but more and more there are success stories of people making it this way.

For me, who doesn't have a huge circle of friends, doesn't have much opportunity for socialising and isn't the sort of person who's going to go to a pub or club to try and meet people (and I hate coffee so that's out too) it helps because I think you can get a lot of the groundwork done as to whether this person is suitable for you or not simply by looking at their profile (assuming of course it's actually honest).

I'm sure many of us have started dating people only to find out that you have very opposite and irreconcilable views on certain issues that are very important to you, and you've wasted time and money.

We were mates for a couple of years before we got together. We socialised in the same group, went partying together etc, although I wouldn't say we were friends (we wouldn't have gone out on our own for drinks). Time passed, partners came and went and I realised that he had grown on me somewhat. So I got drunk and told him. Cue a few months of love/hate, pretending not to dress up when we knew eachother would be there etc, getting rid of current squeezes. Then we just laid it out - is this going somewhere and do we seriously make an effort here? I'm glad we did.

But I guess there wasn't a single point where I can look back and say "If xyz hadn't have happened, we wouldn't have met/be together now". If there is an event horizon, it was long before I met him or knew of his existence.

One way or another we could have met even if we hadn't the day we did iyswim.. Withouth sounding like a stalker, I'd known who he was for about 10 years anyway (Although he didn't know me) - He was in the same year as my Sister at School and his Dad was Head of English at my School too.

Awww, I love all these stories!

I believe it was 'right time, right place!'

We were both at the same college - my course choices clashed, so I was put into the part time Art class, which my OH was part of. We got talking, and said we should meet up in town sometime. However, at the weekend, me n my cousin both finished work early and decided to go out, last minute. My OH's mate dragged him out to try and cheer him up (he'd recently split up with his ex and didn't fancy going out). We bumped into each other, got talking and the rest is history!

That was in 2002!!! ❤️

haha i then only went on a date with him cos i felt so awful that id thought it was this other guy!!

I came across my OH on a forum not dissimilar to this one (not a wedding forum though! lol). We met up on a night out 6 years ago and just stayed in touch. I was in another relationship at the time so we were just friends but chatted with him a lot over the following 4 years. Eventually after I split with my ex, we met up for a few drinks and the rest is history! We were engaged very soon after and after 2 years together, we are getting married.

It' so weird sometimes. I occasionally still think of him as his screen name from the forum and think OMG, how did we get this far. It's truly amazing and OH completely believes in fate. In the 4 years before we got together he never met anyone or had any major relationships and in that 4 years, my ex never proposed (despite being together a very long time!) so he sees it as a sign we were meant for each other.

I met OH on a night out - it was meant to be a girls only night post exams but 3 of the guys from work decided to tag along, including a guy I had a "thing" with.

This meant me and my 2 best friends (L and T) went off to avoid him to dance alone. We lost one friend (T) and so me and L carried on dancing. I remember seeing OH through the crowd and went over and chatted when he called me over - he wanted a Ciggie so I went outside with him and when we got there I found T was snogging my OHs best mate outside in the smoking area - she had gone to chat up my OH who said no when his mate tried it on. How very weird.

We were set up by my friend (Sarah) and her then boyfriend (Matt)- my h2b was one of Matt's close friends (despite my protestations that I could find my own boyfriend thanks very much). Our first date lasted 12 hours (was meant to be lunch date ended up as an all-nighter!) and we have never looked back.

I do wonder about fate though, Sarah first met Matt at a club and my h2b would have been at that same club with Matt and their circle of friends- we didn't speak or even notice eachother though... I do wonder how many other times we brushed past eachother before we properly met- Sarah was always going out with Matt and his friends but we (my friends) would ignore her Matt and his mates cos we didn't like Matt!

Another online dating story here! I met my OH through a dating site, but almost didn't - I almost dismissed him as a hopeless case as he was 35 and still lived with his mum! But I decided it was worth a trip out for dinner, if I didn't like him I could ignore his messages. We clicked immediately, chatted all night, and were surprised when the last order bell rang. It took us 6 months to really make the decision to give it a real go - both of us had just come out of a long relationship and wanted to be a bit cautious, he was a bit nervous about the fact I was still legally married, but we got there in the end!

My OH used to drive up from Brum to go to the Place and Valentino's and I have wondered if we ever crossed paths when we were younger!

Ok, I first read that as "7 minutes" and thought that can't be right?! Knowing when G's birthday is and all that jazz!

H and I met because his old IT teacher became mine at a different school 5 years later and she phoned him to offer him a job at my school. As far as I'm aware he'd never expressed any interest in becoming a teacher so there was no reason she would specifically phone him and he had a job at the time anyway so there was no real reason he accepted it! His first day was also a day I did an enrichment class in IT (I was in sixth form) and we were put together to help the younger kids. The day I met him I told my Mum I'd met the man I was going to marry but for obvious reasons I didn't actually think anything would happen. He left the school a little over a year later, we both had other partners but kept in touch sporadically until we were both single and decided to give it a go!

The Place was where Sarah and Matt went and where h2b and I didn't!

Well I'm English, he's Italian so we met in the most obvious place... that's right Dublin!

I moved to Ireland to do my Msc, had driven from Liverpool to Dublin and then lugged all my stuff up to the top floor of the postgrad flat I was renting when I met Yasmin, my crazy German flatmate. She said she'd met a Portuguese guy who said some people were going to the student bar later and we should go. I was exhausted but figured I should be sociable... there I met lots of people, including my now fiance. He's from near Venice and so our first conversation was all about how much I didn't like Venice and how weird Italian men were when I was in Italy. He was President of the International student society and persuaded us all to join. Of course it took 6 months before we actually went out on our first date.. which I didn't really realise was a date. Oh and that was as the result of a bet! I'm rubbish when it comes to men.

We lived in the same building so I was scared I'd see him all the time and it'd be too much, but actually we both felt the same and it worked out fine. Four years later and we've both moved countries to be with each other (a couple of times), and seem happy enough in the southwest of England. If I hadn't decided to move to Ireland we'd never have met! I also think we met at the right time, we both have said we probably wouldn't have liked each other if we were younger. Crazy isn't it?

I'm another match.com success story ? I had just got rid of my ex and my boss decided it'd be fun for me to dabble in online dating - she was going to try it herself but ended up meeting her now husband - she thought I'd be able to amuse her with stories of disaster dates etc. Very caring of her!

I had signed up for free and 'winked' at a couple of blokes - not allowed anything else til you pay up! Was hugely skint as I was just finishing my Masters and had only just gone back to work. As soon as I got paid I paid my Barclaycard bill so I could pay to join match and it was the best £30 I've ever spent lol spotted the photo of OH (taken about 5 years previously, and about 5 stone lighter hee hee) and his 'About Me' thing seemed fun, we started chatting on MSN messenger and agreed to meet up a week later. When he arrived to meet me, I was sat on a bench outside the bus station as I'd just got off a coach, and an old tramp had sat next to me and started chatting to me. OH came over and said 'oh, sorry, am I too late?' Best ice breaker ever lol

We had a wonderful first date, played big chess outside the town hall, wandered through a rose garden, gawked at coppers chasing some drunkards through the streets, so romantic.

Funny thing is, everything about us is completely opposite so there's not a chance we'd have ever met if we hadn't met online. We went to rival schools, live in 'rival' towns, support different teams etc etc but we just work somehow

We met at work and has known each other for a couple of years before we got together. We had dated other people but we eventually got together after a few dates set up by out work colleagues and friends! x

I met my OH in a club in Manchester and I believe it was fate, as it turned out we must have been in the same clubs at the same time loads of times.

The night we met he was supposed to be going to see Jarvis Cocker but him and his friend couldn't get in, so OH reluctantly agreed to go to a different club that he was a bit fed up of going to. I was on the dancefloor donig my best drunken dancing with my best friend and he was being wingman for his friend when we caught each others eye across the dance floor haha ?

Four and a half years on we are getting married and the friend he was with is bestman and my friend is bridesmaid.

I truely believe that me and OH were meant to be, back in The day I used to go on a chat website yahoo anyone remember this? u would chat to your mates I suppose a bit like messenger, I would often get pop ups from random men always asking asl, age, sex, location, I never ever responded and would carry on just chatting to my mates, this one day I got this pop up and it was OH it said are you fit (he was 20 at the time time and very immature)? It got my attention straight away, so I replied back piss off cheeky git or something like that anyway it went from there, we had a few months chatting on the net which evolved into phone calls, 9 months later I plucked up the courage to meet him and I fell head over heels in love. Funny thing was it was his brothers account he had used to message me his bro had gone to the loo and OH thought it would be funny to send messages from his account and I am so glad he did almost 9 years later and we are getting married.

Tesco staff canteen.. God did i just say that lol but yes good old Tesco!! (student days)

That sounds just like me & OH - except we actually starting of disliking each other - didnt get each others sense of humour, got drunk, became friends and followed the above! lol

I think you are right about this AJ. I have no shame about how I met my OH, but there are certain people who I avoid giving the full story to, because of the inevitable questioning!!

I had (still have!) a livejournal where I'd been writing since starting university. On your profile, it displays links to who you are 'friends' with on there (similar to facebook I guess) and clicking on a friends name, takes you to their profile which in turn contains links to all their friends.

I was having a slow saturday morning and was trawling through friends of friends of friends just using these links. No method, just whichever names I was drawn to. That's how I came across OH's journal. His profile listed an interest which was an obscure-ish reference to a web-comic I also read, so I left him a comment about that. He took nearly 2 months to reply (men!!) but when he did, we began to leave each other messages on our blog posts. This turned into emailling, then MSN, then facebook etc.

One night I saw his mobile phone number was on his FB profile, so I rang him to show him the dangers of leaving such information public!! I.E strange women like me will call you We were on the phone all evening

The rest followed on from there!

I really was in the right place at the right time,

I met my OH in a club in Manchester I wasn't going to go out that night was feeling grumpy

So i went with 2 of my friends and one of them brought their OH so they were down each others

throat all night ? and my other friend was outside smoking for most of the night so i was

sat on my own when now OH came over to ask if i was ok i sent him away then i went outside

for a cig, (the night i started smoking again after 14weeks of giving up) we got chatting

and he told me he was supposed to be at the Arctic Monkeys concert but he got the date

wrong and the concert was the following night, he booked the tickets whilst he was in Oz travelling

At that time he lived in Cardiff...then 4 years later i'm marrying him and i really can't wait

I just know he's ment for me we'd even attending the same concert in Manchester 2 years

before meeting him we were so ment to be

Oh i feel soppy now ?