How did you meet your partner?

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  1. jim1964

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    My Wife will gladly tell you she found me in the Yellow Pages.She called me looking for a quote.
     
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  2. Phantom

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    I was at the pub in Melbourne where I met a guy. After a few drinks he said he had a great business idea to build motorized floor cleaners for shopping centres with a revolutuonary design that doesn't use any water whatsoever. But he couldn't get enough money to commence the business. So I offered to fund it pending on a proper business plan. He obliged so we became partners. That was 7 years ago. Now we have 3 businesses together and that's how I met my partner.:p
     
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  3. Speede

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    We met at Bada Bing.
     
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  4. Casteller

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    Only met partners while travelling overseas, never lasted though, didn't marry or live more than a few months with anyone. Did have 2 children with one though.
    Most people never find the right person, better to be alone than suffer being stuck with the wrong person.
     
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  5. hobo

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    First time - "dated" at high school.

    Second time - 20 years later, randomly bumped in to each other at a post office; decided to catch up over lunch. Now married.
     
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    MSN Messenger. Mate came over and was like "add this chick and chat to her"...
    She was local so we met up. Kind of lame, but we were 14 :D
     
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  7. Doncossack

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    I met my wife in a nightclub in Moscow 11 years ago. I was in an inebriated state due to the vodka being ridiculously cheap. After chatting for a while I asked her whether I could take her out one night and she replied that she wasn't that type of girl.I was confused...She misheard my intoxicated words and thought I had asked to come home with me tonight...
    After being my "guide" around Moscow for the next few months we went to Italy for a holiday and after that moved in together.. Married now 6 years with a 4 yr old son...
     
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  8. MTR

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    is that in Woodlands Perth?
     
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    Lol.. That's the way!!!
     
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  10. Bayview

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    Met my wife when she and her brother came into the ProShop I was running at that time - he was a regular seller of second hand golf balls to me on weekends, she tagged along one day for something to do.

    He was 15 and she was 14 at the time (nothing happened at that time), I was 25.

    I ran into her 6 years later in a supermarket and we were married 18 months later.

    Been together 23 years, married 21 years, 3 kids 14, 6 and 3.
     
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  11. D.T.

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    So you were 20 and 31 Bayview? Did you find the gap got more/less noticeable as you got older?
     
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    On RSVP. We decided to get married on our 2nd date, and moved in together that very week.

    My advice to guys...Put out on the 1st date, it works.
     
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  13. Bayview

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    There was never a gap; when I was 31, I was still young and stupid - certainly more stupid than my wife. :p

    But seriously; after a while; you don't notice the gap.

    Physically it can become more noticeable - if you let it.
     
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    We met at a common friends birthday party in 2010 in Sydney (where we both live) which in itself is quite boring. But the "missed connections" before that make it much more interesting !
    1. Was doing a uni project in 2005 (lived in Perth). Met up with group members at their house to do project. Group members housemate was my now fiance. Never met him as he wasn't at home when I went there.
    2. Went traveling in the US with a friend in 2006. I went home a couple of weeks before her so we departed ways in Seattle- she then flew down to California to meet her boyfriend and his best friend (my now fiance)
    3. In 2010 (few months before we finally met), we both did a half marathon. We finished 7 seconds apart (which is pretty close in a 2 hour race !)
     
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  15. MTR

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    We have close friends where there is a 20 year gap, physically its hard to hide.

    I think all to their own, age is just a number IMO who cares.
     
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    My wife married a toy boy.

    I'm 13 months younger.
     
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  17. Bayview

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    Yes; I think 20 years is getting too wide a gap physically.

    But can be also in terms of mindsets and interests..you would have to work harder on those things as a couple as you go through time.
     
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  18. MTR

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    We are seeing the age gap making a difference, in the main mindset.
     
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    I don't think guys will have issues with that...most likely its the female that will have the reservations:)
     
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  20. skyfall

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    20 grand? Maybe if you have assets of 30 grand and she takes 60% plus extra for legal fees.

    Yes it's becoming more common these days and there's not so much stigma attached to women using their assets to make a living.
    That's true some guys can't have a LTR with beautiful women and think of them only as dumb sex objects.
    Time to trade in for a younger model if the ass gets too big.
    There's an old rule of thumb that says you can date someone half your age plus 7 years. So a 50yo can date a 32yo but not sure who came up with this.
     
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