Our best beloved

We were both tutors in university halls of residence. My best female friend looked the male tutors over and said “Isn’t it awful to think we’ll probably marry one of them?” We both did!

At a dance, we went out for a few months, got married, and it lasted until he died, just over 53 years after our wedding.

In a nightclub, he was a friend of a friend and we were celebrating his birthday.

We met at a school science club meeting - annual event with people from all over the country. We lived more than 200 miles apart then.
We'll have been married nearly 40 years this year.
Best thing I ever did.

Met him at a swimming pool in Malaysia in 1968. Married in 1970 in Singapore.

In a working men's club, where I was the barmaid, trying to pay my way through university. His dad was a committee member, who with his fellow committee members would wait with me, until I locked up and was safely on my way home.

Engaged in three months, married in a year and still together 48 years later. He was very shy and it took him six months to pluck up courage to ask me out.
He is my rock.

I had such affection for my FIL, who treated me like his own daughter, despite having eight children of his own.

As children. Married when I was just over 16 and finished with school, he'd been out and working/saving for 2 years so we could marry.

I met my DH years ago he went to school with my BIL. I was invited to the attached social club met him there but we were both courting. We socialised quiz nights etc but I married and lost touch.
Years later whilst getting divorced I was asked to help out on his family business. We started dating with my children’s approval we planned on marrying when I finished studying in three years time. We got married just three months later.

Thanks for sharing your memories ladies.Some so very happy and others sad. I wish life dealt us all a good hand.

A friend of a friend

Met him when I was 16. His next door neighbour said she was borrowing an LP that she knew I would like and did I want to go up and hear it. He came round with it and we have been together ever since.

In a pub. I was going out with someone else at. the time. In fact I was engaged. I'd not wanted to get engaged, but hard to say no in a busy night club where the music had stopped playing and the DJ was yelling my name for the proposal. Anyway, we were engaged for a couple of months and then I met Mr Jory. So I bade goodbye to poor Mr Engaged and gave him the ring back.

I met DH in 1974. I was 26 and had been in England for two years. My boss knew I was unattached and suggested this chap he played rugby with. He told me to go to the rugby club to meet him. Boss was surprised when I refused absolutely. He arranged a sort of blind date, and we married three years later!
DH died last year a few months short of 45 years marriage.

I was working with my father in 1969 and he started inviting one of the delivery drivers up to the office for coffee. He'd picked this one out because he didn't go to the pub or talk about football. It was a good choice because we lasted for 50 years!

FannyC ❤️
We met on a night out with others and met up a few days later. He’s made me laugh and he still does 🥰

I met DH at secondary school. I was 12 and he 14.
It was mutual dislike at first sight. He was a prefect and I a badly behaved 2nd year.
We married 10 years later in 1973. Sadly, he died last March.

Classical guitar class 1979. Married 1982.

Just out of interest why am I seeing an advert with breastfeeding on Gransnet?

Which one.

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Thanks for sharing your memories ladies.Some so very happy and others sad. I wish life dealt us all a good hand.

Just want to say that not every person on the site is female.

It’s showing a different advert now but I’m sure it will be back.I didn’t take much notice tbh as I’ve become adept at ignoring them. The online edition of the Times is full of adverts.

It’s showing a different advert now but I’m sure it will be back.I didn’t take much notice tbh as I’ve become adept at ignoring them. The online edition of the Times is full of adverts. Oh it has just come back. Here’s a screen shot.

1967, he was helping a friend with his ice cream round, and I was just getting back home from my friend's wedding. We put up with each other for 52 years but he sadly passed away in 2015.

On a sailing holiday in Greece, we were both on our own and were engaged before we got home. That was 40 years ago this October, we got married the following August. Still very happy together.

We met at a disco (how old fashioned does that sound now!) when we were 15. Split up after about 3 months, then got back together when we were 17. Got marred aged 20 (so young!) and have been together for 47 years 🙂

On a crowded beach in Torquay on an August bank holiday.