How you 'won' your other half - AKA, Futile Attraction?

[carlseawolf]

My other half was a friend of my now ex-wife and she was a single mum with two kids .

When my ex walked out on me and my 3 kids my oh helped me pick up the pieces and gave me advice on divorce ( which she had done 8 years earlier herself )and been a single parent and basically been a friend when needed.

The crunch came when her brother got married and i helped get the reception room ready with her and her brother said i could come to the reception in the evening as i helped set it up.
They had been hinting for some time that me and my oh should make a good item and said i wasn't going as i didn't feel like a wedding after just getting single.

So i stuck to my plan and got a bottle of wine and a movie and settled down for a good night in , but the wine was gone before the adverts was through and they came a knocking at my front door and said i should come over and join the party.

As i was a little drunk by then i agreed and joined the party but wasn't there very long as when i got through the door my other half was there and some kids where putting peanut down the front of her dress so i offered to take them out for her and the rest was history.

alittle while after wards we found out they had a pot of money on how long before we got together and the bride won it.

[squashysu]

18 years ago, i met a bloke on a motorbike, he was quiet but funny, in fact i quite fancied him!!!! we became friends as i was the barmaid in the pub where he came into.

One day he asked me out and we went, that was it, we were together, 3 weeks later he popped the question, whilst drunk in the pub garden!!!!

3 kids later and the rest is history..............

By the way Mrs Dobby, 3rd Sept is a great day, its my birthday!!

[dexterdoglancashire]

I admitted to LadyWayne that the reason I walked with a limp was not because I'd hurt my leg...

As usual Wayne you've made me laugh!
PS What was LadyWaynes answer? Did she agree?! Bernie

[seasprout]

I had to run quite fast after my OH, but he eventually tripped up, i bound and gagged him and took him home.

[T.Austin]

It was easy really my OH was my ex's best mate!

[kirsty b]

My OH chased me for months before I finally agreed to go out with him, well what can I say?!!!

Similar with me and himself, only I went after him and the lazy beggar let me. Must be love cos his 3 boys haven't yet scared me off and we have had a daughter together. That was almost 9 years ago. Tying knot next year to celebrate 10 years together.

[sez]

I realised I loved my OH when he cried next to a dual carriageway over a squirrel we'd saw being run over (repeatedly ).

[Arachne]

I met mine through a mutual friend, in a pub at a goth festival in Whitby. We had a mutual love of real ale, and got talking about fruit beer - I mentioned I'd never met a fruit beer I'd liked. He reckoned he'd change my mind on that, so a date was set. Took all of a very long weekend for me to actually twig that what I was feeling was fairly mutual, and a few months (with hundreds of e-mails passing between us) for us to finally get together in an exclusive way.

[NOG]

I looked thru the book wrote a chq for £1000 and they posted her form the Philliphines.

[Starchild]

I dated this bloke, R, for 3 years, got fed up with his geeky computer obsession and we split. I then went to South Africa on holiday and brought back his brother, M, who was living out there at the time. M & I got married 2 months later and that was nearly12 yrs and 4 kids ago.

[ugly gourd]

My OH chased me for months before I finally agreed to go out with him, well what can I say?!!!

Same here he asked me out 5 times I said yes on the 5th time and it had nothing to do with the fact he was carring 2 sledge hammers !!! in October weve been married 20 years and have 2 great sons of 19 and 16

[Gazza]

Like a few others, we met on a dating website. After e-mailing and chatting for a few months we decided to meet, even though we were 101 miles apart. He asked me what my favorite colour was, which is yellow, and turned up on our first date of many with a bunch of yellow roses and a bunch of bananas!!This made me laugh, which he has done every day since. We closed the very exspensive 101 mile gap a year ago.

[yoanbob]

how lovley to hear everyones stories, especially as our 1 year wedding anniversary is in 2 weeks!

I met bob in a bar, I was home visiting the folks ( I lived and worked on a ship) and a guitarist on board had recomended a bar for great live jazz not far from where my parents are, so I went, tuesday night, and met the son of the lead man in the band, we got on really well and excahanged phone numbers, I had absolutley no intention of getting together with him, he seemed very young and far too cute for me, but I thought it might be nice to have a friendship with him when I was visiting home he would be fun to hang out with.
that was before he got very drunk! by the end of the evening I couldnt understand a word he said, and by then I had given my number to another guy too, when I got home I put both numbers in the bin, the next day bob rang and we chatted for 4 hours, I tried really hard not to fall for him but we spent two weeks out of every 4 together (my shoreside time) camping and hanging out, but I knew he was going for his year out to oz (3 months after we met but he was planned to go the following month) and I had done my travelling I wanted him to go and be free and enjoy his time away, but even though I fought it we ended up together a few weeks before he went away and he sent me a text when I was at sea saying will you marry me, I still fought it and told him to be free when he went away but we ended up texting and emailing every day and for my birthday he paid for me to go out there for a month and we never looked back, it took bob about 10 months to ask my dad for my hand, (hes shy!) and we were married 23rd june last year, we have had lots of bad luck and set backs (mostley with our house) since and have both been quite depressed at times, but even when things are really bad, he is the reason i get out of bed and the reason to keep going, without him, I wouldnt be me. he makes me do my best everyday and I know he feels the same, I really do think he saved my life. my hero Bob.

[Marthaclematis]

How poingiant is this thread, its our 19th wedding anniversary today... and we've been without electricity for nearly all of it (9am - 9.15pm). There's been a big fire at an electricity sub station, adjoining the allotments actually, we don't have one but I hope no one here was affected. Anyway, nineteen years of bliss is all I can say as I haven't got time to tell the story of how we met - we've got a pizza in the oven (finally the oven is back in operation) after eating bacon sarnies for every meal. And very romantic it was too... nearly even more; we were just about to light candles when the lekkie came back on. Doh.

[Arachne]

Happy anniversary Martha