How did you meet your partner?

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  1. The Silver Bear

    The Silver Bear Well-Known Member

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    Yep, 9 years married and 2 kids.

    She got a lift home from a party with a friend of mine and his wife. His wife fell asleep and while they were talking he asked "I've got a friend who likes tall blondes, would you go on a date with him?".

    She was everything I'd been looking for: intelligent, naughty, fun and opinionated. After the first date I told him I was going to make her Mrs Silver Bear and the rest is history.
     
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  2. D.T.

    D.T. Specialist Property Manager Business Member

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    How did the surgery go? :p
     
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  3. Mombius Hibachi

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    How on earth did you come to that conclusion from what I posted?
     
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  4. The Silver Bear

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    I told my mate, not her - would probably have scared her off!
     
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  5. Jeah_

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    We were both 14 when we met. I told her mum I was going to marry her. I saw her once a year for the next 5 or so and I was still convinced. I asked her to marry me once (as a joke with a plastic ring from a gumball machine) and she slapped me.

    Fast forward to when we were 24 and I asked her on a date and she said yes. A week later, she rang me for another. 12 months later as I gave my speech, I looked at her mum and said "Told ya". 18 years this Sunday.
     
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  6. inertia

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    Very Novocastrian story for us. I met my wife at the Brewery - she was there with a school friend of mine - she had been awake since some ungodly hour as they had to go to court to write a report on something, so its possible her guard was down :)

    We've been together 20 years, married for 9. We each turn 40 next year, and together its our 21st, so I'm thinking there's going to be a significant party.

    Cheers,
    Inertia
     
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  7. Chilliblue

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    We have friends where she is now 49 and he is 25. Still together after 3 years.
     
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  10. b7277

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    Met my partner through Yahoo chat in 2002 while she was just studying for her final exams and in 2003 we got married and its been 12 years. She was the first girl (i know, i know).
    When we first started, we never added each other on yahoo chat. Simply bumped into each other the second time. When someone is right for you, i think universe just aligns itself. Worked for me but not sure it was the best for her ;)
     
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  11. wylie

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    I also met hubby at a city bar. Night before Christmas Eve. I was with a boyfriend and a bunch of workmates, but there was no magic really for me. Three of us were holding mistletoe trying to catch kisses. I may have had a few drinks ;) and I'm not much of a drinker generally, so I was fairly giggly.

    Met hubby's eyes, thought "that's the one". Had to leave with our group, but went back in on the pretence to find my missing (very drunk) friend and told hubby my surname, suburb and said "call me". The rest, as they say, is history.
     
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  12. skyfall

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    Did you tell your boyfriend you went back inside to meet another guy and give him your phone number? I guess you split up with him soon after when the new guy called you. Or was the "boyfriend" just a friend?
     
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  13. Rumplestiltskin

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    That's great for him, it means that he is going to get to have 2 chances at life.
     
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  14. wylie

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    Boyfriend probably was the wrong word. In don't think either of us was "the one" for each other. He had just come back from Sydney so we were more going out in groups. But he had asked me out that night. He was a workmate and he'd asked me out a few times. Nothing more than that. Not an exclusive boyfriend in any way, but as I was out with him and other friends, it felt quite wrong going back in. He is married now to a friend of a friend (another workmate) so I see him occasionally. Nice man.

    He was best man and I was a bridesmaid for one of my friends from that night. Her husband had just come back from Sydney too, and I arranged a blind date for them both. We all worked in the same bank, but they hadn't met, so I got them together. They took ten years to tie the knot, but lived together for much of that time. So, the man I was out with when I met hubby was there in the wedding party with me. I was 8.5 months pregnant with youngest child. His wife and two children were there too.
     
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  15. MTR

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    Seems many knew it "this was the one"......from the moment they met, "love a first sight", I thought I was the only one, surprise, surprise

    MTR:)
     
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  16. spludgey

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    I met her at a birthday party that neither of us was all that keen on being at.
    The funny thing is that I now actually think that I might have only been invited because she liked me.

    Happily married for 10 days now.

    Largish age difference of 6.5 years.
     
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    At 16 I heard him over the loud speaker at my casual job, he had such a sexy voice and I said to a co worker "who is that?"

    Not working the same hours it was 5 months until we actually met. Me in my school uniform waiting for (my then) boyfriend at the staff entrance. There was an instant attraction & we madly flirted.

    Over a year later, we finally hooked up at a party & 6 weeks later on a boozy NYE he asked me to marry him. I said "are you crazy, I'm only 18!!"

    We celebrate 21 years of jam packed happy times together next month. Not married & no kids (by choice)
     
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  18. 2FAST4U

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    At a night club I was shitfaced. Ended up going back to her house that night and in the morning when we were talking we discovered that she was a relation to a couple of my friends. 3 years later and still together...
     
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  19. geoffw

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    Not at first sight. I met her on the first day of a Contiki tour, in the morning. Somebody took a photo of us later in the afternoon, and I was thinking that this was a photo we would look back on as the day we met.

    It took her a lot longer to come around to that way of thinking, though we got on extremely well as friends. But two weeks on a bus tour has a way of compressing things into a much shorter time than would be usual in a relationship.
     
    geoffw, 27th Oct, 2015
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  20. Bran

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    My wife didn't. It took a little while for her. She thought I was a stalker when I decided I wasn't playing cool and waiting the three days.

    And I miscounted. We've been together 14 years. Time to trade in (her words, tonight :) )
     
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