Our best beloved

Met when 18 in a Club in 1966 married 3 years later. He’s got more grumpy but we’re still holding on.

In a bus station. He thought I was getting off a bus to join in a fight. We knew each other to look at but were at different schools.

I was living in a caravan in Cornwall and he camped in the same field. We wrote to each other for a couple of years and when he finished his degree he wrote to me saying he was coming to Cornwall to see me. Thankfully the letter was forwarded to me because I was back in Birmingham. I phoned him and said if you want to see me in Cornwall you’ll have to take me there. Next morning he picked me up in his car and we were literally together for thirty years from that day. Then had a heartbreaking divorce but we’re still good friends and still love each other very much .

My DH was working with homeless men and I volunteered there when I was at uni, back in 1979. We got married in 1981 and still going strong!

Meant to add we were married three years later on our return to the UK in 1972, and remained so until he died in 2018. Miss him so much

In Singapore, 1969. Both working for British government, lived in the same residential compound, and met in the communal bar/restaurant. He asked me to the cinema one evening and that was it!

I worked in the offices at BT, in the 70s (it was all owned by G.P.O. in those days. He worked in the post room so used to come into the offices to collect the outgoing mail. He winked at me one day. I winked back, and he was so embarrassed, he dropped all the letters. That was my cue to chat him up. That was in 1978, we got married in 1980 and are still married.

60 years ago on my trike in a car park.

Both late OH and current SO were introduced by a mutual friend - a different mutual friend each time.

What a really lovely thread 1987H2001M2002Inanny thank you for doing this. I met my soon to be husband at my Work's sports and social club, he was volunteering behind the Bar and vaguely knew my friend who introduced us. Although we worked for the same company, it was huge and he worked in IT and I in Accounts so our paths otherwise would never have crossed. That would be 45 years ago this September.

I walked into a little village pub with my best friend and saw him stood at the bar ordering a drink. Fell for him there & then, married him 2 years later and we were happily married for 42 years, he died 18 months ago, miss him like mad.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

1987H2001M2002Inanny

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.

Which one.

Classical guitar class 1979. Married 1982.

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

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.

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 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!

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.

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.