What made you fall in love with your OH?

How wonderful to read of so many happy relationships- very heartening ❤️

His confidence. I was very shy and I loved how he could talk to anyone. He got on well with my parents from day one. Together since 1972.

We had been deserted by our respective spouses after years of marriage and were both very sad. It was just nice to be able to share our feelings with someone who really understood and we grew closer. I think love came gradually but grew stronger and after 42 years I always think that my first husband did me a great favour.

We met at our local Grammar school and became friends .
He left for university and I went to college to train as a teacher .
We met up during the holidays back at our home town .
I began teaching in the East End of London . He worked away at various places as a computer engineer .
I met someone - fell in love - married - had 3 lovely children . He married and had one daughter.
My husband had an affair and left us for another woman . So I moved back home with the children .
His wife left him so he went back home with his daughter.
We met up again and renewed our friendship.
When the children left home we lived together then got married .
Now in our mid 80s and married for just over 54 years .

I used to go to work on a moped, which was always breaking down.
A workmate always offered to fix it, and the bike worked well after he had sorted it.
When he asked me out, I knew he was a keeper.
We married, and have been together for 55 years.
He is still fixing things.

I had a father who was very ‘distant’ very little interest in his children (though my mother more than made up for it) then I had a child with a similar man ( that didn’t last long) then I met my DH. He was a single parent to 3 children. He absolutely adored and doted on them.

I found this unbelievable…a man with so much care and interest in his own children. That did it for me.. we have had 33 happy years together so far.

Fantasy OH.

Very smart, handsome and loads of money.

He was the only boyfriend I’d ever had that was genuinely interested in me as a person. 56 years on and we still haven’t run out of things to talk about.

I was at my first high school disco and saw a boy that was so mesmerising to me that my stomach flipped every time he smiled and laughed. Fast forward to when I was 15 I was out with a friend at a bar and he was there with a friend, my friend knew his friend so whilst they were talking I asked my crush if he wanted to dance. He was about 6’3 to my 5’1 and at the end of the dance whilst I was looking dreamily into his eyes he began the long journey down to kiss me, I had butterflies in the anticipation of that kiss and that reinforced what I had felt at the disco. There was never anyone else, we married when I was 21 and celebrate 40 years of marriage in October this year.

His lovely hands!

Samsara1

I took his clothes off and thought Oh Yes. (he was a patient and unconcious).

Did you ask for a date on the day he was discharged from hospital?

You obviously couldn't do so while he was a patient.

I visited a bank on business for company I worked for. I used to prey the tall, dark teller with the gorgeous brown eyes would deal with the business. Unknown to me, the bank manager who was rather nice himself, mentioned to my heart-throb he thought I was rather nice. Don't know how long he waited but we bumped into one another in the town and he asked me out. We both changed jobs two years later but manager always kept in touch.Would have been 60 years marriage this year but sadly only made 56 years.

My husband exudes kindness. One of his work colleagues told me “Everybody loves Mr Artcraftbiddy”, and that sealed the deal for me.

I wasn't originally attracted to my OH and the first time I saw he had a hairy back, I was positively turned off. I spent a lot of time looking at his dodgy eye and gappy teeth wondering why he hadn't got something done about them. However, we talked lots and I find him really kind. He was balanced and calm which I wasn't used to at all. His ex-wife was so horrible to him which I found really unfair on his behalf yet he was still thoughtful about her. I watched how he was around his children too. I gradually grew to really like him. When he walked in and found his wife in the passionate embrace with his best friend, I decided he was fair game so we started a relationship. It is something I have never regretted and we have stayed very happy. There is a certain amount of karma in that his ex-wife, although she stays with him, is not happy with the best friend!

Rebound! 😄

(It worked out fine)!

Our first date was on valentines day, we got engaged on 1st April, and married on 3rd June. All in the same year, and no I wasn't pregnant. Have been married for 48 years now.

his money , lol

I was on a chance night out with a girlfriend. We were both Police Officers and at the last minute decided to go to the Police bar as it was cheaper ( we were both skint at the time!) I had just come out of a disastrous marriage and then a 1 year long relationship with a colleague, so wasn’t really on the lookout.
In walked the 2 x 10 shift with my future other half among them . He was a 3 month probationer so i didn’t know him.
The friend I was with fancied him like mad but it seemed it was me he was drawn to ( she was furious!).
We talked all that night and the following week he came to my house whilst on duty to ask me out. We’ve been inseparable since then . It’ll be 30 years next year. We’re just very alike but also very different. He has a great sense of humour and not bad looking either!!

I took his clothes off and thought Oh Yes. (he was a patient and unconcious).

My reason was how very caring he was towards me and had/has a great SOH. His physique wasn’t bad either 🤭

greyfur

Hair and teeth.

Werewolf?😄

My mother fell in love with him before I did.😂- no, nothing sordid

We were both in the Army, serving in London, and he was blind date I was set up with after I’d just escaped from another potentially disastrous relationship. He turned up in a Harris Tweed jacket and cavalry twill trousers that seemed to be the only civilian clothing he possessed. I learned to love them - and him! We coasted along until suddenly he was being posted to one end of the world and I was being posted to the other, and rather than never see each other again, we got married. We hadn’t known each other that long and thought we’d have more time to get to know each other before we even thought about that. He was steady, kind and as utterly devoted to me as I was to him, for 56 years, when he died. I was one lucky lady to have known him.

Not romantic at all, I was a staff nurse on a busy children’s ward and had just got one of my favourite babies (ssh) ready in best ward clothes as mum was visiting.
Lab technician turned up to take blood and splattered blood all over baby’s clothes. I was livid! Met by chance in pub we both fell about laughing the rest is history. 55 brilliant funny years I miss him so much.