Where/how did you meet your SO/OH/partner

anmhi02 · 09-01-2013 03:54AM

Lionel richie concert in Belfast

:)

JonathanAnon · 09-01-2013 04:01AM

Nobody admitting to Coppers yet then?

I met my girlfriend on the Internet 25 years ago..... :pac:

Witchie · 09-01-2013 04:01AM

My brother and him were friends as teenagers and I just kinda knew him. He asked me out at a Carter USM gig in the Tivoli in Oct 1993 but I had started going out with the guy I would marry and have 2 kids with so I turned him down.

Fast forward 16 years or so and I am working at my local football club and he comes to watch a match having just moved home from abroad. We got chatting, became friends and almost 2 years ago a drunken snog at a party in my house was all I needed to fall hopelessly in love with him and the rest as they say is the future!

GLaDOS · 09-01-2013 10:19AM

Met her at her friends 21st, who was apparently aiming to set us up anyway

Lollipops23 · 09-01-2013 10:26AM

Mutual friend's house party in 2010- we were friends after that for about a year.

Shenshen · 09-01-2013 10:36AM

I met him online, near enough 6 years ago.

09-01-2013 10:56AM

Grayson wrote: »

Just wondering, where did everyone meet their significant other / other half / partner / whatever designation you happen to use?

I met the girls through organising meet ups before gigs I liked. I used to go on to forums for bands and singers and arrange a meet up point (almost invariably in a bar) and some obvious way of recognising it (such as me wearing the band tshirt or in one particular case arriving with a life size cardboard version of the singer).

I met the girls before one gig and then a couple of others and it progressed from there to meet ups with nothing to do with gigs and then we all just sort of moved in together. 8 or so years later - house - canine - 1 of a planned 4 kids.

Macca07 · 09-01-2013 11:01AM

Both worked in the same bar for about 2 years, that's back 6 years ago. Stayed friends and got together last year.

Duggy747 · 09-01-2013 11:03AM

Met her through a friend I knew from college 10 years ago. She dated my best friend for a small while, too, so nothing happened between us then.

After that course I moved around the country and never really saw or spoke to her again for about 5 or 6 years.

Moved back to her city and she saw I became friends with someone she knew on Facebook so she sent me a message through it.

Had a quick chat online, we said we'd meet up for a drink for the craìc......................3 years later, we're stuck with each other sharing a house :pac:

Penny Dreadful · 09-01-2013 11:06AM

Through work.

candy-gal1 · 09-01-2013 11:12AM

Through the internets last May, introduced by 2 of our mutual friends/aquaintances on a certain site

09-01-2013 12:03PM

anmhi02 wrote: »

Lionel richie concert in Belfast :)

Hopefully it was just as Lionel warbled 'Hello, is it me you're looking for?'.

ruthloss · 09-01-2013 12:32PM

Work

blackwhite · 09-01-2013 12:38PM

IM0 wrote: »

use to post here until she died

yes, seriously for once..

I just remember the RIP thread

If memory serves, she died on holiday from food poisoning in india or something

then again it could have been a piss take who knows,
but Im sure whoever answers that bit will get over 200 thanks the same way the original thread did.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/popular-blogger-dies-during-dream-holiday-to-bali-2671057.html

No piss-take I'm afraid

muppetkiller · 09-01-2013 12:44PM

Plentyoffish.com

maximoose · 09-01-2013 12:47PM

Oxegen.ie Forum

Flippin hell that seems like forever ago

Grayson · 09-01-2013 12:50PM

It's surprising how many met through the internet in general, and specifically this site.

eviltwin · 09-01-2013 12:52PM

We've known each other since early childhood, our mothers are friends.

MurdyWurdy · 09-01-2013 12:58PM

Through friends, his friend from college was going out with my friend from college. He came to Ireland while he was travelling because his friend was here. I was not interested at all, for quite some time but he charmed me in the end.

That was 7 years ago, married now with a baby on the way.

PrettyPolly155 · 09-01-2013 01:04PM

A nightclub. He spotted me early on in the night but it wasn't until the lights came on and the music ended that he came over to say hi

Inseparable ever since

Jaxxy · 09-01-2013 01:37PM

A friend invited me back to her brother's house after a club for a session. Hit it off with said brother, but what with neither of us being available it took three years for us to get together. Never underestimate chemistry!

Come to think of it though, I've met all of my boyfriends through friends or work.

heroics · 09-01-2013 01:40PM

outside nightclub at 3am

Still together 8 years later

Ghost Buster · 09-01-2013 01:40PM

I was on stage in a sequinned frock, long red hair, fish nets, a feather boa and padded bra. She liked what she saw.

Davyhal · 09-01-2013 03:52PM

I must say I am shocked that the number of people who met the OH online is so high. I have tried that in the past and whilst I got dates out of it, I never got a relationship.

Currently single, but I met my 4 exs:
- #1. Sat beside her in Supermacs at 3am cos there were no other seats and discovered that we were neighbours in student accomodation
- #2. I was confronted by a drunken reveler at Electric Picnic saying that I had randomly appeared at a party of theirs in Galway the previous Rag Week and trashed the place! We clearly made up for that!
- #3. Got talking at a house party that I had randomly wandered into that I didn't know anyone at (wow, so far it's all been drunken stories!)
- #4. At my mate's house. My mate had invited over the one he had been scoring previously to clear the air and to head out as mates. I saw the appeal immediately, and got my friends blessing and went for it! (downside, a few months later I was dumped and my OH and my mate got back together, grrr!)

Seeing as all these ended in disaster, and seeing the stats here, I think it is time to give online another try!

09-01-2013 04:00PM

Davyhal wrote: »

Seeing as all these ended in disaster, and seeing the stats here, I think it is time to give online another try!

Perhaps - but a quick read over the thread also shows something else. The vast majority of the people saying they met online are not saying there were _trying_ to meet someone online.

Quite often if you go somewhere - night club, bars, supermarket, online or whatever - with the express intent to "meet" someone this comes across quickly.

Perhaps many (most? all? none? Some?) of the people who "met online" in this thread did so incidently and they were not actively trying at the time?

maximoose · 09-01-2013 04:09PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Perhaps many (most? all? none? Some?) of the people who "met online" in this thread did so incidently and they were not actively trying at the time?

True for me anyway, granted I was only 17

Know quite a few people in relationships that met online and all have been incidental, never on dating sites or the like

Flaker · 09-01-2013 04:10PM

Canis Lupus wrote: »

I was moving house and was trying to load my van with some furniture. I had recently hurt my arm and it was in a cast. I was doing alright till I got to the couch. Luckily a beautiful woman happened to be walking down the street who was kind enough to help me out. I guess you could say we've never parted since.

That sounds like the bit from Silence of the Lambs where Buffalo Bill lures his next victim......

Davyhal · 09-01-2013 05:00PM

Flaker wrote: »

That sounds like the bit from Silence of the Lambs where Buffalo Bill lures his next victim......

I don't know if the original poster was referring to this or not, but this is one of the ways Ted Bundy used to lure his victims into his car!

Laika1986 · 09-01-2013 05:08PM

Christmas eve 2011 in a pub at home, I knew most of her friends but never met her! Christmas eve this year was awesome

Flaker · 09-01-2013 05:26PM

Davyhal wrote: »

I don't know if the original poster was referring to this or not, but this is one of the ways Ted Bundy used to lure his victims into his car!

Ted Bundy, that's creepy. The writer must have used him as inspiration.

The serial killer has a sling on his arm and asks the girl for help. When she does, he spins the sofa around and pushes into the back of the van.

That's not the way to pick up a woman - we don't like to be kidnapped (not usually anyway).

Where/how did you meet your SO/OH/partner

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