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Keeping it clean (ish!!!) how did you all meet your partner?

Me! Just finished with a girl I was engaged to, sold house, bit messy. Went to a night club and saw this lovely blonde. We started going out together. People said I was only going with her on the rebound. 34 years, four children and one grandson later, I guess I must still be on the rebound!

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Zebedee
"Raised to a state of heavenly lunacy where I just can't be touched!"

I met Mr OWG on a sort-of blind date!

We were the only ones of our respective friend groups who were single, so got pushed together on a night out, as everyone else was all coupled up.

2 weeks later we were engaged, 3 months later we moved in together, but it took us 4 years to get married!

We've been together 9 years now (married for 5 of those), and all the other couples who were together when we met have long since split up!

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"Its not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you" - Bruce Wayne

Fiance took me to a new pub with some new friends in Jan 1990. Met a really interesting bloke. Split with the fiance, went out with Madmax, by the August we were married. January 1991 had our first son..... My mum said on our wedding day that she would give it six months - WRONG mum!

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Walked into a school for my first day of teaching after leaving College. Child said "Are you the new teacher's boy friend?"
"No!" says I "I am the other new teacher."
Walked into the staff room and met a tall, dark haired gorgeous female. Worked very hard to get her to go out with me (She was almost engaged to a far better catch than me). So, met in Sept. Engaged in Jan and married in April. Hair is a bit less dark now, but she is still gorgeous and I am still not a good catch, 30bloobah years on.

In 1984 went to a BBQ in a friends house where she was lodging. Some nice bloke asked if he could refill my glass. We chatted and found we has a lot in common. 1986 We married. 2 children and 21 years this sept later we are still together.

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Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful..William Morris

Went along to a charity help doo, and met Mr D on May Day 2000, I was with a group of friends laughing and joking, and he came back with such a whitty remark (that neither of us can now remember) that the thought just came to me 'He'll do for me!' Not that I meant it in a getting married way, just I thought him a very cool guy, but he wasnt my type as he's 6" shorter than me and I've always had a complex about my height, always said I'd never date a guy shorter than myself! But found ourselves working together for the charity on a voluntary basis, and getting closer, even tho we were both dating other folks!

We actually started going out on 29th August, I moved in with him 3 days later, he proposed 6 weeks later and we were married 10 das after that on Halloween! Everyone said it wouldnt last, and that he was only after me for my money (which I didnt have, as I'd just had my first house repossessed, and Lee took me on with quite large debts at the time), but we've had the last laugh, together for 7yrs and still not even so much as an argument!

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Blessings
Suzanne (aka Mrs Dobby)

'Garden naked - get some colour in your cheeks'!

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Well theres a thing to ask

I met Mrs G on a blind date. I used to go out with her mate (carolyn) and when we split she (carolyn) went out with my mate. It was xmas eve 1984 and carolyn said she and Dale would be down the pub later but she was going to see here friend 1st. I said bring her along as well and she did.

we chatted, I took her home ( to sutton Coldfield 25 miles away !) and phoned her the next day to wish her merry xmas and asked her if she wanted to stay the night and we could go to Belle Vue to the stock car racing (see I know how to show a woman a good time).

we got back from Manchester boxing day evening went for a bite to eat and I asked her if she fancied getting married ....... which we duly did July 6th 1985 !!!!

No point in buggering about is there, I mean, where would she find another like me

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ntg

Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
A large group of professionals built the Titanic

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Bubblewrap and I used to be members of the local Labour Club, so I'd known him some time before he married Lynda, a friend of mine. My son and I went to their wedding and wished them every happiness.
Unfortunately, some years later, my marriage broke up and a few years after that Lynda became ill and died.
He rang me to let me know and I went to her funeral.
Then next week I went to see him, and knew that I just couldn't leave him on his own, so visited on regular basis to help him grieve.

Three months later, after he came back from taking her ashes out to Crete, he rang me at 7am after getting off the plane and invited me to dinner.
I went and we became an item.
12 months later we were married. I wouldn't be without him.

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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? The creative adult is the child who has survived.
Ursula LeGuin
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A Works Christmas party....not my companys I just turned up....end up flat on floor.
I blame a wet floor (she says I was the drunkest thing she had ever seen and her dad had a pub so she must know).
As no one knew who I was even me! She gave her details as next of kin to the ambulance....aar.

They gave it to me the next day in the hospital and I had to phone her to see if she knew where I lived.

20 years later one son, two cats later we are still togather.

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Wife and I both worked for a district council, she on the ground floor in Housing benefits, me on the second floor in IT.
I had to keep asking her to move so I could get to a particular bit of networking kit and one day down in her office we got chatting.
The next morning I asked her out, that was August 1989, next October we were married, three years later our son arrived and two years later our daughter.

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How glad to see we are quite normal! Both families knew each other, had crush on OH for ages, cartwheels etc in front of him but he didn't notice me. Had a sports car, leather jacket, so I expected there was a string of girls. So ....... I asked him out and two months later we were engaged and married 10 months later. And no there were no other girls, just a sailing boat.

Yes like you all, everyone said it was all too quick but 31 years later we are still very happy. And we still have a boat! She is known as the "other woman".

Met OH in local pub. Parents not happy because he had a "motor" bike! Went away to Uni coz parents said so.....got married 6 months after I left uni. Still happily married 24 years in September - all our other mates got divorced! Bernie Blimey! Silver wedding anniversary next year! We dont have those - parents and other more responsible people do! PS OK Im getting soppy now, but I love him more today than I did yesterday.........

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Appreciate the little things in life because one day you will realise they are the big things

Do you keep a list of the birhtdays so you can turn up to clean the "fnugal filters" just when they are putting out the cakes....or is this just pecular to the Offices I have worked in.

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I met my t'other half on Friends Reunited dating in October 06. He had a pic of him skiing and his profile said he liked petite girls with a pretty smile blah blah blah.. but he lived over 150 miles away so I sent him a message saying he had just described me perfectly and if he fancied he could ski down Roseberry Topping (a local hill of sorts) to see me. We got chatting from there and now were living together.... Life is peachy

No NOG, you just work in perculiar offices!

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With you its a boat - in our house the "other woman" is the lorry.
When I first meet Mrs Beefy she was going with someone else and I was single .She split with her boyfriend and decided to go on holiday to America. While she was away I started to go out with someone else.Then when she came back from America and I found out that she was single I dumped the girl I was going with .To late another boyfriend had been found and I was "out the window". It took another 6 months before we got together and my parents didn't approve. We ended up going to Gretna Green and got married there and 10 years later one 6 year old son and a 3 year old daughter we couldn't be happier.

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Et tū, quis es?

When I returned from uni one day I found a girl asleep on the sofa ( about 2pm mind you) and asked her,

"Who the fk are you and by the the way you snore!"

been together 10 years and married 5 yrs

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I stole Granny Dragon from my flatmate they invited me on a blind date with her friend but by end of evening Granny and I decided we preferred each other
Now after 43 years, 3 kids, and 11 grand children, I love and lust after her as much as ever. altogether now Oooooooh

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It's not the growing old I mind but the growing stupid with it!

I blame my brother! I was home from uni after a disasterious engagement to someone best forgotten and he got told to take me out and cheer me up.

He took me to the local role playing club (I was in a similar club at uni) and introduced me to various people including Richard.

A couple of weeks after that a friend of mine invited me as 'number three', to go out for a curry - not being tremenously interested in playing gooseberry I said only if I could invite someone for me to talk to!

Looking over the 'list' Richard looked the best prospect for a good chat, so I rang him. He gave up going to his best friends birthday party to come.

It took 15 months for me to get to the point where 'once bitten, twice shy' no longer applied and we were engaged for a further 15 months as Dad insisted that ALL the family had to come!

At least it gave me time to learn how to drive!

We married in September '93, and the kids turned up in '97 and 2003 - we are still going strong, much to the delight of my family who reckon anything is better that 'He who shall not be named'!

Terry

Back in 1998 I was on a secondment in Dublin, but went to an OU summer school in Bath. Got put in a group with 1 other bloke and 6 girls, and despite spending the week either in some degree of drunkeness or sleep one of the girls took a shine to me.

Drove her back to Redhill where my flat was, and which I'd not seen for three months so she had a shorter train journey home. Several long letters and expensive phone calls from Dublin followed.

Moved in with her in '99 and got married March 2000 and now have 2 lovely daughters.

Derek

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I met my OH at work. Friend kept trying to get us together, but I wasn't keen cos he was a baldy! Eventually went on a date, great time, both have a barmy SOH........next morning (I know..I know - I'm a naughty girl) he gave me his doorkey and said 'move in?'. I did. 15 years later, we're still together, both still barmy and v. happy. p.s. I now really like the follically challenged look on a guy. (funny eh?)

I met OH in our second week of university. We got together as a couple 2 months later, and this November we'll have been together for 8years and married for 2years.