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How did you meet your OH?

Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
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Tomorrow is our eleven year anniversary.. and it got me wondering.. how did you meet your OH? 

I met my husband over the saddle of his mountain bike in the parking lot of the Snowdon Ranger YHA, as I helped him fix a sticky derailleur.  I always had a thing for mud splattered boys in mountain bike kit.. that and the English accent sealed the deal.  (I had originally been traveling around northern Wales looking for a Welsh farmer husband.. but it was getting near the end of my month long holiday, and I was running out of time. ;) )  
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  • Manc_Debi.Manc_Debi. Posts: 82
    My OH was my postie. We met on the doorstep and we've been together 21years this August.(First marriage only lasted 4!)
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    I'd gone out planning to get off with someone whose wife had recently left him.  But he was too quick off the mark; when I got there, the object of my desire introduced me to his new woman.  Another friend offered to put me up overnight (I was about 50miles from home) "but I've got to take Ray home first".  I'd met Ray before and he'd made a very slight impression on me.  In Bob's car we started smooching, and when we got to Ray's place he asked if I'd stay the night.  I've now been staying the night for 35years.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We were at art school together and we'd become friends  ... I was recently single ... a group of us used to meet up at the Ten Bells for a drink on Tuesday evenings ... I was a mature student and most of them were around twenty years younger but no one seemed to notice that.  One Tuesday evening I discovered that it was just him and me ... he confessed later that he'd told the others not to come ... he walked me back to my digs .... that was in 1995 ... 

    Later on I saw his photos of our group's college trip to Paris the previous term  ... I was unknowingly in nearly all of them ... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ThankthecatThankthecat Posts: 421
    I met mine online, on a dating site called Green Singles (basically for ageing hippies!). He didn't have a photo on his profile, and he lived over the arbitrary 200 miles I had initially set as a limit but just a few words in his description had me hooked... Five years later we're married so I guess I'm hooked for good :)
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I was the new guy at work and there was a pub night out.
    She was off work, waiting for back surgery. She came to the do, and asked someone who the scruffy guy was: to be told,  " oh he is the new consultant ".
    She introduced herself, and a few weeks later after meeting at another do, she asked me out.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

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  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    An older friend's daughter was getting married and, as said friend was paying for the wedding, she figured she was entitled to invite some of her own friends along for a bit of a party - so I got an invite.

    I was told a 'lovely guy' - old school friend of the groom - was going on his own as well and he would be 'just right' for me.

    Within 4 months I'd moved 200 miles north - and we were married. Everyone thought I was a little crazy - they probably still do - but we've managed 31 years - not too bad!
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845
    This is an interesting thread!

    One of the “gang at the youth club”talked about his big brother a lot. One weekend when back at his house the said “big brother was home from university. I did not like him one bit.  Many months later we danced at a gig and the rest is history. Sadly we lost my chum, his brother, in the first year of our marriage. That was 44 years ago and that cancer is curable now. 😄
    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489
    Over an operating table and we had fifty one years together.
    SW Scotland
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