Attraction.

We met at a party where he kept asking people to move seats so he could sit next to me, lovely eyes, found out later he was very shortsighted! He has been very kind and supportive over the years especially in the early years when we didn't know if we would have a family.

Absolutely nothing initially! We both belonged to the same Young Farmers'club & I thought he was rude & generally unpleasant & to be avoided at all costs. For some reason I couldn't fathom, he asked me out one night so I went out of curiosity . In no time; I fell completely in love with him - a gentle, caring man with a great sense of fun who has been trying to find the courage to ask me out for ages but was scared of me! We've been married 35 years...and he's still scared of me!

Saw him across the swimming pool while living in Malaysia, love at first sight on both sides, I was 17, he 20, married 18 months later, now married nearly 46 years!

We went to the same dance hall and discovered we lived in the same area. He used to give,me a lift home and it was all very platonic - until he started taking another girl out. I realised how jealous I was.. I did all I could to make him see how I felt. It worked and it will be fifty three years tomorrow, also our daughter's 46th birthday.

Both divorced many years, in our 60s, we met at a walking group run by our local council. We were immediately comfortable together as if we'd known each other for years; we didn't stop talking and laughing for the whole of the walk and basically we are still talking and laughing all the time. Been together 10 years and married for 7 - I always say I had to wait a long time to meet the love of my life, but he was worth the wait!

No1 was at college with me and we instantly just gelled, but there was a ginormous age gap and I met him when he was already permanently attached. The love and friendship lasted over 25 years till after his death. No 2 was rebound, a charmer, but overall a waste of space - a typical Peter Pan type who never grew up. No 3 was my OU summer school tutor, talked all night and became best mates and we're still together 30+ years later - he's still gorgeous! I would say similar interests, similar sense of humour and being best friends first, but without fancying one another, something is missing!!!

We were 18 and he drove me home from a dance in an ancient Ford Popular. His hair was curly and strawberry blond and in the streetlight coming into the car it appeared gold. The hairs on the back of his hands were gold, his long eyelashes were gold, he wore a gold ring and a gold coloured watch. My golden boyfriend! We were married at 20, 50 years ago. His hair has long gone, he now wears glasses over his bright blue eyes, and statins have crippled him, but he is still my golden darling.

My husband was my final placement social work practice teacher before I qualified - it was his combination of firmness and tenderness toward difficult clients that did for me! Before I could qualify, all my work in his team had to be re-evaluated by the "higher-ups" before they'd pass me, just in case he'd only done it cos we'd become an item. We've been together over 25 years now, he's my 3rd husband and definitely counts as "third time's the charm"!

I went for a job, which I really needed, as I was bringing up 2 children on my own, anyway when I went in I knew I was going to get a second interview. He later told me why I didn't get the job as he wanted to see me again. Things progressed and we ended up getting marrieup and lived together for 33 years until he died of cancer in June this year, sadly missed very much

His humour and his own self belief and dedication to his family. Laughed non stop on the first day I met him. 36 years later I'm not so amused but I equally amuse him, so we've laughed a lot over those years. ...We've had a fun, happy life together.

Rather embarrassingly, I liked his wife first! I went to a school event where I met them and she seemed really nice whilst he seemed to be a bit of a joker who didn't take anything seriously. Later it turned out she was seeing his childhood friend and couldn't say anything nice about her husband treating him like dirt. Meanwhile, I'd come to realise just how lovely and kind he was to her, the kids and me so when he came home unexpectedly to find her in a compromising position, we became closer. 23 years later I love him to bits and she is unhappily married to his friend.

Met my gorgeous hubby at a dance class I still can't dance he was a teacher and we've been together over 38 years I have health probs and he really looks after me he is a star through and through xx

I walked into this room and saw the most handsome, kindest, loving man imaginable and fell in love straight away. I knew he was the only one for me - unfortunately he already had a girlfriend so I married his friend instead!....................

I believe I have mentioned, that my late husband used to sit next to me in the bus, when I was attending the six form and he to college, until I wore fish net tights! When he first asked me out, I brought my cousin along with me!
We went our separate ways until I was 19 yrs of age, when I met him while waiting for the train when working in London. I didn't see him again until six months later, when I was waiting for our country bus back to my parent's house. I swung him around saying that I have been looking for him everywhere and he said the same, so it really started from there.

Caretaker am I reading it correctly? Your friend's brother and his girlfriend came in. You told her, and him indirectly, that you would marry her. And you did. Did he not object? Not even a little bit?

50 years ago, we worked in a large department store, he was so handsome, tanned, and fit, in a lovely Italian style suit, we went for a drink after work, he held my hand and has,nt let go since!!
We didn't have a car then so it was the bus everywhere, I loved the way he got off the bus first , then gave me his helping hand , I loved his manners, he knew how to treat a lady, and he knew his way round the wine list, , very important, I was 18years old he was 31 , the age gap has never bothered us , he is now 82 but looks 70' got all his hair but he,s now my silver fox,and I love him still.

He made me laugh...Oh and I wanted to get away from my mother. It lasted 25 years... I would so love to fall in love with someone....maybe one day...

Just the whole look - it was defo love at first sight as if I knew he was important. Married for 42 years with 2 sons and three grandchildren.

His eyes and his lovely smile. He was tall with lovely brown wavy hair and I was smitten. So was he fortunately although all his friends said he was a cradle snatcher.

These are all (well, nearly all) such lovely stores and many from people who don't often post. My story isn't so heartwarming, so won't share it - but I am happily single after a largely unhappy marriage, so no need for any sympathy

Strange, isn't it, the ways that Nature uses to get us together. Many years ago, as a virginal young thing who had never even kissed a boy (it was MANY years ago!), I met the son of one of Granny's friends. He was 25 years older than me, a farmer, in muddy trousers and boots. But oh! The power of his scent! I would have dropped my knickers in a second...it was totally mesmerising. (This is despite my Catholic upbringing). I have never, before or since, been so totally overwhelmed by a man. Of course, it came to nothing, and after a false start in my first marriage, I am happily married to a man whose kind grey eyes and rollicking sense of humour are the mainstay of my life.

Dark and fabulously handsome - I was totally influenced by novels like Jane Eyre, Gone with The Wind, Pride & Prejudice, The Far Pavilions etc etc !! He's still better looking at 70 than any other man I see!

He was drop dead gorgeous , 6` 3 " Black curly hair , green eyes . Unfortunately he liked a drink a bit too much but I thought in my innocence that I could `change him`, 20 years later I realised I couldn`t ! Single and very happy now .

Lizzy. My friend had told me his brother had a new girlfriend and he was complaining about her because he had been going out with her for six weeks and he throught that as she was a student nurse she would agree to having sex. On two or three occasions he had taken her to the pictures and tried to grope her and she had pushed him away. I had never met her until that night in the pub. We walked out the pub hand in hand.
Wild horses would not have been able to stop us. He shouted out to us as we was leaving. " you are welcome to her you won't get her knickers off".

My 1st marriage was on it's last legs after 20 years (not unhappy years I might add but after he had a couple of affairs the trust and love went). My present DH was a family aquaintance and our kids were at school together. He was divorced and a caller in a dance band and one night he got me up to dance a slow one. I just knew he would be my new man but I hadn't left my husband yet. Once I had left my husband I asked this lovely man out for a drink then we went back to his...... :-O. We had a lot of common interests, music, dancing, both nurses. We've been together for 20 years singing together and he taught me to play guitar. He is the love of my life.