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How did you meet your loved one?

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On the Dancefloor. I was naturally and quite effortlessly pulling the sort of moves that would have sent Travolta begging for Mummas special milk, when through the smoke haze strode the future Mrs Dick with my best mate. I triple pirouetted over, magnificently produced a fifty and sent him packing to the bar for two Martini's, and whatever he wanted to console himself with. The rest, as they, is history. (My best mate never really recovered from this and in good time married a monstrous being of epic proportions).
 
Met the other half through his brothers. Met in the Spread after a Southend game back in October 2007 and been together ever since.
 
Currently single, so up for offers from the SZ Dating Club...

However my previous partner I met when I called up a school mate 2004 as I was going to Cardiff, where he was a student. Got to know one of his housemates rather intimately (I needed cheering up) and had a bit if a thing doing a few weekends up there, her in Cambridge. Too much to ask for proper relationship until a few years later she moved to London.

Think living in Colchester was the curse on the relationship. 3.5 decent years though.
 
How about at a youth group?

My wife is a old girlfriend of one of my closest friends. We all met when we were about 15. She went to a London "chapter" of the same youth group myself and my friends went to in Southend. When they split up, at the age of about 17 I asked her out. She refused. We all then went off to different universities. My friends and I all ended up at various places in London, but she left London and went to study in Cambridge.

We all lost touch with her over that time, but a few years on (now about 25-26) my friend and her got back together for a very brief time. When they split up again she dropped off the radar. (To cut a long story short, she dumped him. Being a bloke my friend didn't like that and told her that he had ordered us all not to talk to her. This was very clever because he didn't say a word to us, but she believed him and didn't try to stay in contact with us.)

About 8-9 years after that her sister happened to mention to my wife that the national youth group we were all part of had their own section on Friends Reunited, and she sent me an email via the web site. After a couple of emails I found out she only lived about 10 minutes from me back in NW London and felt obliged to call her. (I really did. She was an old friend from my teenage years that now lived 10 minutes away. It would have been rude not to.)

We met at a pub, but my car broke down on the way there. I nursed it to the car park and used her AA membership to take it to a garage. (She pretended to be my passenger, but still followed in her car to give me a lift home!). Because of that I offered to take her out as a thank you. About 18 months after that we were married, and now have two young boys, one aged three and the other 18 months.

We often joke about what would have happened if she would have said yes to going out with me when we were 17. She reckons we would never have got married. I reckon we wouldn't have had to wait another 15 odd years!
 
Someone must have scared the women off :thumbdown:

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