How did you meet your OH/OHs?

[Daisy]

Reading the thread about what age we had children/grandchildren etc, has set me wondering about how you met your OH, or OHs.

I met my OH at a dance (doesn't that sound quaint now in the era of clubbing!) My friend and I had just got back from a great holiday in Cornwall and were feeling the post-holiday blues. We went to a Wednesday night dance to cheer ourselves up and OH and a friend asked us to dance. Then we went for a drink in the bar and got chatting. He said he'd ring me - and he did!!!

[Qwerty]

I met my OH as a blind date fixed up by a colleague who was going out for dinner with her neighbours a couple thing and my OH was staying at his brothers which was one of the couples going out for dinner. Would I like to make up the couple with him, it was Valentines day 😱 I really didn't want to go hate blind dates what if he doesn’t like me, eventually got talked into it by telling me he had a sports car well I can be a bit materialistic never been in a sports car before, and anyway it’s just one night. Turned up in a souped up Cortina very nice but NOT a sports car seems he had changed it that day ggrrr.
We must have got on ok we both found each other easy to talk to, we both had troubled family lives and by November we were married !!!

[Enfys]

Daisy, very similar to us. Went to the local rugby club dance (thinking about the rugby players really,) with my friend and DH and his friend asked us to dance, When they asked our names they didn’t believe us because we were both Ann/Anne! We went out as a foursome for about 6 weeks then his friend and mine split up but we carried on. Engaged six months later, married the following year.

[Glammanana]

Well ours was not quite as straight forward (why doesn't that surprise you) ?? After a disasterous 1st marriage which lasted which lasted just over 2 yrs I was on my own for 18mths before I met my hubby,he was fixing my dads car on the drive when I arrived to visit my family one Saturday morning he asked me to go out for a drink with a group of others that I knew vaugely and meet them that night we kept in touch and went out a few times from then,he was already divorced and lived with his dad not far from my mum & dads,they where pleased that I was getting out after such a bad first marriage what they forgot to tell me was that he used to go out with my sister but by that time I was smitten and have been so ever since these past 44yrs so it was meant to be really as he is such a treasure and a good dad to our children.We have been married 42 yrs this next March.

[Mimi]

Not very exciting really, I met him because I was (still am ) friends with his sister

[Gemini]

Very interesting reading your stories!

I was first married at 21. I met my husband at college. I looked at him and thought I must avoid him, as he looked very similar to my first boyfriend, who had dumped me and broke my heart.
However, his persistence, sense of humour, kindness, and offering to cook for me, soon won me over
We were married for over 30 years, have 3 wonderful daughters, and are very good friends (as are our OH's )

My present OH I met online!
I had had a 3 year long distance relationship with an American lady, which couldn't last for lots of reasons. I wasn't looking for another partner, I just needed more local gay friends, especially ones who like me, had been married and had a family. I had several, but all online, none local. My straight friends were, and are, lovely, but it is always good to have some friends who know how it is for us isn't it, in whatever that is.
I signed up to Pink Sofa. There ladies can meet other ladies, for friendship, romance, or just 'hooking up' - never been tempted to try that one!
I was looking for friendship. My now OH contacted me asking if I wanted to meet for coffee. I wasn't really interested in meeting her. She had no children and was into sport! Being a polite sort of person I agreed to meet as we lived in the same town. We got on well, and the rest you know LOL.
Obviously the qualities we look for in a partner are not necessarily the ones we look for in a friend

[Oma]

Met at school I was 13 he was a older man he was 15
Well actually he was my very best friends boyfriend and I stole him , to this day when we bump into her she will say " he should have been mine "
We had our ups and downs broke up as children at that age do , made up , hated each other , loved each other , hated each other again, but hear we are couldn't quite shake him off he was like a bad smell that lingers hahaha .
Couldn't imagine a life without him in it .

[WeeGranny]

Met him at a disco in Scotland. He was on a familiarisation at the local refinery, I was there with some friends. All our boyfriends were on holiday and I had my BF's car! OH and friend both 'fancied' me, but OH got to me first....thank goodness. I certainly didn't fancy his friend!! We were both in relationships which we broke off and 15 months after meeting, I'd moved South to be with him and we're celebrating 46 years of wedded bliss (!!!) next month.He can still tell you what I was wearing that night!As I recall there wasn't much to the dress.....well it was 1970!

[Plantaholic]

I can remember you telling me that story about boyfriend's car WeeGranny

Well I met my OH at work, he was 19 years older than me so I wasn't keen on it leading anywhere. I had just broken up with a boyfriend who was serving with the forces in Germany and OH was divorced. He was a bit shocked when he found out I was only 19, nearly 20. We married the following year when I was nearly 21. My parents were a bit concerned about the relationship as I was their youngest child of six. We were happily married for over 50 years, he was over 90 when he died.

[Grauntie Mag]

We met at a party. OH and his friend tossed a coin for the chance to chat me up! I found out later it was a 'heads I win, tails you lose' from OH, his pal didn't cotton on. It was always meant to be, love at first sight for me. I knew he was the man I would marry before I ever spoke to him.

[Nanto2girls]

One night me and my friend were looking in shop windows. We were both 15.
Two boys came out of the pub and started talking to us. They were both 18.
We started walking down the street, and the boys followed us. My friend whispered to me, i want the dark haired one.
She told me i could have the fair haired one.
Like us, they have been married 49 years.

[Daisy]

It's fascinating hearing all about your romances.

[Nanto2girls]

It's fascinating hearing all about your romances.

I agree with you Daisy.

[ZIZI]

I married first at 17 to an American who was very sweet. I met him in Amsterdam. We were hippies. Cutting a long story short he left to return to USA because he didn’t much like living in London as a non hippy couple so he just left! Shortly after I found I was pregnant. Second time was also a disaster as he was a drunken bully, I met him when I was working in a pub in Bath in 1980 I was working there to make ends meet while I went back to college to get some qualifications.

My third husband (you have to kiss a lot of frogs don’t you?) I met in the pub next door but one to my cottage in Hampton where I was living with my son and scraping by which was the story of my life in those days. I worked at the pub at the weekends as a waitress in return for money and a lunch for son and myself, (Now) husband came in one evening with his mate when I was in there and was as p#ssed as a parrot. He had just been to court to get his decree nisi and decree absolute on the same day from his first wife. I was not impressed at all especially when he tried to sit on the bar stool next to me to chat me up and fell off ending up on the floor with his pint still in his hand unspilled. I didn’t speak to him the next two or three times I saw him but then, as you do, got into conversation. I was going out with someone else at the time who was very jealous and after a few months he (the boyfriend) got quite annoyed about now-husband and I having close conversations. What he didn’t realise was that we were actually talking about our children who, although we didn’t know until the conversation, all went to the same school and who called for each other to go out and that’s we had spoken to each other on the phone re sleepovers etc. That night the ex said “he is after you” I told him not to be silly but within about two months he and I had split up, his choice, and the first non-date (see other thread) With now-husband had happened (or not depending on your view).

I moved into husbands house not long after, so I moved from two up two down cottage with ice on the windows in the winter, a cat and a child to a four bedrooms three bath house with four other cats, lovely warm underfloor heating, two more children and a partner. Life was a bit hectic I can tell you....... after a couple of years I got fed up with waiting for him to ask me to marry him so I asked him on 29th February 25 years ago.

[Plantaholic]

A lot of frogs indeed Zizi, you got the right one in the end.