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On a dating site, 20 years ago, looong before Tinder! At the time, it was not so common to find love online, didn't tell anyone until years later. Only nerds and weirdos did (like us😅😅😅) It was love at first sight! Still happy and married. 20 years anniversary in may.🥰🙏

I talked with her father, we agreed on a date to see her, I saw her for the first time at her dad's house, after 15 minutes talking she said yes....she is my wife since that...5 years now..

She 'preferred' to go skiing together and so we never spoke again.

On the running track

Bought her in a market in downtown Bangkok

Super-like on Tinder

さぁ旅に出ようか

In a backpackers in 1996, made her a cup of Earl Grey tea and that was it.

China’s underground brain-control that has ruled all powers of the world, their current primary purpose is destroying Russia, then Japan and UK. So the people’s thoughts should be changed firstly, only one movie plot can change the world!

Just make something up

I met my first wife (a financier) at a dance and my second wife (a dancer/podiatrist) at the bank. Frank

She was a puta, doing puta things

Economics class Econ 366 Regional Economics, 3rd year, University of Alberta. I turned around to comment on a comment he made. He was sitting behind me. 1974

At a mutual friend’s leaving do. The next morning he messaged ‘me’ for a date. ‘I’ replied; ‘we’ met a few days later - except he’d found someone else’s business card in his pocket, and went on a date with them. A week-ish later, real me emailed him, and it’s two decades in Dec

There should be a trigger warning for those of us who are single

Just thought I’d summarise the first few replies to this: Tits. Tupperware. Scam. Tits. Porn.

Off my tits on a pill in the Venue in New Cross in 1996. Drugs have a lot to answer for.

Couple of months ago I came across a recommendation about Arnoldnike93 wealth how he helped investors to earn lots of money with their investments. and I decided to give a trial with the little I have. Now my little has turned into something great which was not my expectation

Met after I came to Japan, when we were both had other partners. Couple of years later we're both single so I asked her for coffee. She agreed but thought I was still in a relationship! Turns out the day I flew to Japan was my wife's birthday. Today is our 1st anniversary 🥰

Well, I know it’s not a slow news day, so I confess to being stumped.

Couple of months ago I came across a recommendation about Arnoldnike93 wealth how he helped investors to earn lots of money with their investments. and I decided to give a trial with the little I have. Now my little has turned into something great which was not my expectation

Assuming by partner you mean soulmate. Her husband moved from wedding photography to erotic. ,)

In da club. Currently in our 12th year and have a toddler.

I've not yet 😟

Forgot .

He was a rescue puppy

In a phone box

At University. Back in the 90s I installed one of the first cdrom drives in my wife's PC. Our marriage is still going strong since then :-)

Forever alone

Haven't meet her

No

single 🥲

In church

We met at Hillsong

Went to her home and met her pfftt

I met my husband at a funeral .It was his aunts and I had gone along to support my friend who was grieving over the loss of her grandma .The were a dozen people there and we started talking …..

Ps, he’s now been supporting me through my cancer for the last 4 years and he’s incredible

Met on the internet, he in Australia, spent 7 months chatting, he visited for 3, I went over for month then 7 months later He moved over, gave up his life in Adelaide hills living and working on 130 national trust property, been married 12 years next year 😀🥰

Tripadvisor, she posted a question on travelling to Turkey, I replied. The rest was history.

He fell at my feet dancing at a party. I picked him up, we started dancing together and are still together 36 years later.

I meet my partner inside taxi

Drunk

Skipping school! Been married now for 39 yrs!!!

workplace

I was in a festival back couple of years ago. I was sagging a blond chick in her tent when she came in. I was balls deep into that chick when she slowly sneaked up behind me wetted her finger with scotch and pushed up deep into my anus. That moment I knew she's the ONE. ❤️

Black tie dinner

No.

Nightclub dance floor ... Lots of ecstasy taken on my part please don't tell her .

In Las Vegas over 20 years ago.

Our eyes met across the internet...

Met at a writing club in a café 💕

In a Shell garage ⛽️

I kidnap her 🤣🤣

Late night. Both drunk. Sitting next to her, I almost fell over. We share a soup. I wrote a chronicle about that night and called her the next day.

I am single.

College, at work. Didn’t know who he was or that he worked at other locations. He showed up on his motorcycle 🏍 & I thought he was trying to rob me 😂. We became best friends & the rest is the best LoveStory ever ❤️. TrueLove ToBlave

Our eyes locked in that crowded room. It was as if we were the only ones there. I'd sworn that I'd never get involved that way again, but when our eyes met, I knew instantly that made no sense anymore. So after he had his shots, I put him in the cat carrier and brought him home.

India approves AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine,

I wonder if years from now anyone will be able to say they met their partner in 2020, under a lockdown enthusiastically supported by the Guardian. Best place to meet someone who still believes in freedom & humanity these days is at an anti lockdown protest

ebay

Haha, Army truck driving course. Two of us shared best driver, that’d never happened before, a tally of all the test scores came out even. And my temporary wife to be got most improved and me. Oh partner, well she was the last one lol

I created one. Just needed imagination

We met on Tinder 4 years ago and our first date was a Pokehunt. Both in our 30’s and clearly as sad as each other so clung on to each other for dear life 😂

via the Erasmus Programme that the Brexit savages just abolished

In the 80’s I invited her parents out for dinner as a new young export manager for a publishing house. They asked if they could bring their 11 year old daughter, as babysitter hadn’t turned up! 15 years later she applied for a job, and I interviewed her, the rest is history!

2011 I was managing a bar and one night my now husband came in after work with some friends and he was being a bit too loud. I went over and told him to calm down a bit. He had a book with him I asked about, it was A Song of Ice and Fire : Clash of Kings.

she liked this tweet and I slid into her dms

Haven’t got one and even harder to find someone like minded now Guardian Soulmates no longer exists! Wish you hadn’t stopped it. Couldn’t you do an app ?

Skoundrell!

Dogging.

Playing the same sport.

We joined the same company at the same time, and they swapped our jobs at the last minute. His first words to me were, 'You've got my job'.

How much you paying for my time?

clicked my finger and pointed

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. —H. L. Mencken

Which one?

I jumped in his taxi 😂

Just a trip with some friends over two years ago. We started talking and never stopped. Now we are planning our wedding!!

Blind date, set up by friends.... on April fools day. 😂 over 20 years later 🥰🥰🥰

wedding party

In a psychiatric ward

The traditional way - Tinder

My brother and he went to preschool together in 1977 in NY. We would meet 20 years later in CA, and discover this fact after we moved to NJ together. Cupid much?! Childhood homes 3.2 miles apart!

I’m gonna need more characters to tell this story 🤣 StillWithHer

Fell in love on Twitter? Yeah, that's gonna happen.

You cannot meet at work anymore. In this PC paranoid world it's sexual harassment.

at work

I struggled with addiction and homelessness for decades. I was at a AA meeting and a man noticed I was wearing sandals in winter. He offered to buy me shoes and clothes and a few years later I wound up marrying his daughter and we've created this beautiful family together.

Instagram, obviously.

Good to start with the 2 most likely scenarios..

Grad school

Tinder

Looked in the mirror

We first met at school both age five. Married at seventeen and three daughters and seven grand kids later. Life's been very good to us.

Not saying. I don't want to spoil the surprise for her.

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I got her from a coonhound rescue.

At a strip club

At church and I’m an atheist!

Dogging

On a car park as she was leaving work . I was in the back of the van with a chloroform cloth and duct tape at the ready ...

Maths class. Year 7. We sat next to each other 😊

I met the woman I loved most of my life outside of a disco back in ‘81. I’d seen her inside but didn’t speak to her. Outside my friends and I offered her and her friend a lift home in the car. They said they’d only say yes if she could sit on my knee.

good luck

grief after partner's death. Going to park with my dog, (anniversary of day my partner entered hospice). I knew it to be my last outing as was planning my death that night. Suicidal thoughts for 3 years. I bumped into my now husband at park gates.

Stop reminding me that I’m single.

I haven't

Your soulmates site

At work!

Met while on assignment in post-war Kosovo.

Fated meeting. Post divorce rltnship was ending. Her therapist suggested we meet w/ another 'empathetic' therapist. Good thing I was controlling & refused. Have now been married 25yrs to the 'empathetic' therapist. We learned our lives had crossed several other ways b4 we met.

We dated in high school 20+ years ago. Then went our separate ways. I moved back to NY in 2016. We reconnected and he moved in in March. He's completely my soul mate and I'm so glad we got a second shot.

On a picture gallery, 4 years ago. 🤗 Yes, of course it was Tinder.

Used to do the US summer camps. Then joined the Army. Volunteered during my leave in 2001, but on returning Virgin sent a smaller plane & needed passengers to catch a later flight. Offered a free ticket as an incentive. Used the ticket the next year and that's how I met my wife

Pre- social media I was walking home from a nightclub as I had tonsillitis. A car stopped and a young man pretended to know me to speak to me. It turned out he did know me as he was friends with my brother. He took me to the 24 hour garage for lemsip then dropped me home.

I was bored at work and cut on Skype and changed my status to “SkypeMe” to chat with random strangers around the world. He popped up and said hi. Thirteen years and one daughter later we are still going strong.

she stormed past me in a night club and told me where to go when I asked if she was alright, a few days later she came to me in work and it all started from there. (we didn't work together)

If I had a partner, I would have met him on a playground as kids. Oh wait..that's the one I'm waiting for 🤞

More good news please(((

He is my best friends brother!

He was dating my best friend! 😬

What's a partner?

We met in Morrisons. She was confronting a maskless super spreader. He called her a bedwetter so i reported him to security. We did not remove our masks till after our wedding night where we had brief yet wonderful covid secure sex. We read the guardian newspaper everyday.

Gigging with a hoary old blues band around the bars of Germany, and it was my second night in the country when I met the woman I proposed to a year later. We got married in the Black Forest six months after that.

Please share your pic as well.

I'm single and find this offensive 😭😭😭

No, at a seance. On Halloween of course, like everyone does.

We celebrate wedding anniversary on Christmas Day. It’s been awful since then. We have no where to go for some private and delicate venues as all places crowded with people and reservations been hard than usual.

Having new relationship in Christmas is just like buying the Christmas tree, after eve it will be thrown 😂 it is like drunk football players playing the overtime, only bad things could happen, stay single folks, I proved enough 😂Singles

We cant be bothered to do real research or write proper articles , so we were hoping you'd write one for free

I haven't met my partner at all and this coming Christmas chances seem to be even Power since we are not allowed any contacts.

Neither. Next question.

No never

I made a tiktok account and he was my favourite simp

Neither. How's this story even important! Don't just try to hardsell the events.

Neither, my birthday 🎂

On April Fools’ Day! No kidding!

Yeah, fell out of Christmas pud.

Neither, thanks.

We met at work but officially got together in New Year’s Eve.

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Me! Lucky to met my wife Christmas Eve 1988 Tye world was a little bit different back then...

Ask your mom.

Our first kiss it was under a Christmas tree 🎄

Sorry

We matched on Tinder. He surprised me at my work 1 week before lockdown. Now we live together and are beyond happy with eachother 💕

He was friends with my stepmother, I was home on holiday. I went to his house to help set up a fish tank. We moved in together 3 months later. That was 24 years ago (the fish lasted about 7 years, I think).

Oh, you cheeky imperialist media! I met her just before my prison time, while fighting for the communist truth. Wild times!

We met in a bowling alley!😄🎳 Well actually we both worked there, it was AllStarLanesMCR which has sadly closed down😞. I can honestly say it was love at first sight. Engaged after a few months, moved in together, got married Nov 2019. Love him dearly❤️

Met at my first job post education, he was my 'buddy'. 5 years later and married with a cat :)

At a BLM rally, it was love at first sight when I saw her using the same kind of bottle as me for her Molotov cocktails. Best riot ever.

Met at sixth form college, I was underage (17) and she could buy me tobacco. Over time I just kinda thought she was lovely with an awesome sense of humour. Bit embarrassing but hey ho, definitely worth it so far almost 7 years later

In a school publication where I was a news writer and he was applying to be one of the cartoonists.

Worst thing someone can see only afew weeks after break-up. Why is this on my timeline?!?!?😤

Moved into his old room in shared house. Heard about the lovely guy from the other flat mates. Met him at a dinner in the house. Found him attractive. Asked him out. Fell in love. Moved in 11mths later. Married 10mths after. Tues night is our 1st date anniversary 19 years ago.

Passing through the lobby on the way to my office, she was speaking to the receptionist. When she smiled at me it was game over. 25 years and 3 children later now.

At our Wedding Night 🤣☺️🐱

In the days before proper internet dating sites (1999) I placed a personal ad on AOL - who remembers them? And reader - I married him...

He dazzled me with his eyes.. something about him .. I couldn’t resist. Time seems to stop when I’m with him.. he seems to like my neck a lot... *gotta get these two puncture wounds on my neck checked out at my GP next week* 🤔

She was getting her toenails done when I happened to be passing and a spark from the angle grinder flew in my eye. The rest, as they say is history.

Pub

At a rodeo.

At work

I would love to be able to make it sound romantic-but I can’t. My wife was blind drunk -it was the only chance I had before she regained her eyesight.

On the school bus, 8th grade. That year we shared the bus with another school. My husband got on the bus two stops after me. I’d look but never said a word. One fateful night at a sleepover with a game of truth or dare... 35 years later, I’m still crushing on him.

nice, but the point actually is not how things get started, but how end up. A series on stories ending up well is more necessary than ever

Online, we are together for 18 years since the first message. Married for 17 and a half years. Yes, we got married in 5 months, best choice of my life

I was born with it, my left hand and spank the monkey

I was crossing the road literally laughing after the worst date of my life and he was crossing the road and I stopped, turned and smiled. He did the same. Been together for 14 years. He’s the best man I’ve ever known and he makes me laugh every day. I’m blessed

Blind date. Turns out I was the blind one.

In the pub watching the Ireland v England 6 Nations match. England lost, he scored a try and conversion..... 6 yrs married this year.

The yard. Lot of other boys there too, lookin at her milkshake 🤷🏻‍♂️

I came out of the water in full scuba gear and she was stood in front of me, telling a German guy to fuck off whilst holding a bottle of Becks in a threatening fashion.

I met my partner outside the library. It wasn't love at first sight & she was suprised to see me, but after bundling her into the van & showing her my basement, we've been happily together for 5 years. 🥰

We were sitting opposite one another on the tube and both reading the same Guardian thought piece that so resonated, about whether you could still be working class if you enjoy eating kiwi fruit. We both got up at the same time and left the train to quit our jobs and got talking.

I didn’t.

In a picture gallery, aka Tinder.

She was hiding in the bushes and crying for food. Now, years later, she is purring on my lap.

I met her at a candy store, you get the picture?

Broke my leg at a work soccer fun day. He started coming to my desk to help me carry stuff to meetings... celebrating our 28th wedding anniversary this year ❤️❤️ OldManZack

Single people feeling pretty attacked right now

At the UKIP annual party confrence

Again? Already told you last week. You have a very short term memory!

She was getting her toenails done when I happened to be passing and a spark from the angle grinder flew in my eye. The rest is history.

There were parcels. Yes parcels we bumped into each other, yes we were buying parcels. Oh wait that was Green Card.

She came with a puncture repair kit and lube.. thank you amazon

In the pub.

I met her whilst she was serving drinks in a cocktail bar.

At a vote leave rally our eyes met

Well, he was running a precariously balanced melon stall and I was driving a weakly-fastened crate of chickens, and two men were carrying a large pane of glass across the road. The usual cliché.

EndUAPSecrecy 🚫

Women who read the Guardian be like

Parents are friends

In a brothel

At a conference party

At the pub

I saw her in a school bus.

Dogging

We’re no longer together, but I meet the father of my child four years ago on a company ski trip🎿

Zoosk on Facebook. I almost disregarding him as he was 5 years younger than me... been together over 10 years now, married 5 years next month.

Why is Matt Hancock, the UK Government and the NHS not follow the science? - Proof they are not following the science is shown in this video - the question is: Why Are They Doing This ? - watch the video

At work.

AT THE RECORD STORE I RAN

Grindr

We sat next to each other on a plane from Sydney to London nearly 24 years ago! Poor guy 24 hours with me on a plane! 🛩💘

🙏 💙🤳🕊️Twitter 💕

At the lift In the tower block we lived in, turned out he was living withmy neighbours I was 17 and a single mum he came to mine for a coffee stayed all day asked him to Mary me he said yes, he never went home, we got married 8 wks later lasted 29years until he died soulmates

I gave a note to the waitress to pass to that beauty over there at the cor🌽ner, 'done! - and thanks to the waitress! 'My note was: 'My Earth is made to be round, hope everything is beautiful in that church in the town square, why don't you make your date and I'll be there!!.

I met my partner outside the library. It wasn't love at first sight & she was suprised to me, but after bundling her into the van & showing her my basement, we've been happily together for 5 years.

Playing a tennis tournament 🤗

At the education library in Aber. Sounds boring but first date we got drunk on cider and vomited together into the sea near the half-pier!

Work related

Its how u meet ur own!

Online

Introduced thru friends

“Or how that you haven’t met anyone** Is the editor having personal issue?

I kidnapped her due to obsession and she developed Stockholm syndrome. Since then till death do us apart.

None of your business

i met them in my head.

Will update you, Promise

I didn’t.

mind ur biz

Partner?

mind ur biz

She was staring at me outside a pub and I asked her if she wanted a tongueing. She laughed and told me to fuck off. Then we bumped into eachother again in another club and I started showing her my dancing skills. The rest is history.

I'll take this tweet as proof that Lockdown2 is steadily approaching.

We were both math teachers at the same high school.

I will when I meet mine

At the stage door of the Palladium theatre.

17 yrs ago I was studying tapeworms on an exchange program in Czech Republic and the lab manager said he would introduce me to his school friends. One of them spoke good English so chatted to me. Now married 10 years with 2 kids.

School.... 30 years ago.... she is such a lucky lady

Hehe Still for looking.......

I haven’t yet.

I went to the hospital with a sore throat due to the weather change, my doctor examined me. then we started dating🙈😊🥰😂😂

oh.... facebook, 9 years ago.🤭

In a Covid 19 testing centre. She rammed a stick up my nose and I fell in love instantly.

I was born with my partner. Me and my right hand have been together for years.

You mean your mom? Tinder.

I was smashing her mom and she walked in and I was like, gtfo mom, this is my woman now.

Day 1 of rehearsals, I was sitting there thinking these guys are full of themselves & in he strolled a gorgeous ginger, high cheek bones, radiant smile, the first one to shake my hand & say hello. We've been together for 35 yrs.

My parents met at a roller skating rink: Married 50 years. My sister met her husband in college: Married 31 years. Me, I wasn't lucky the first time around. 2nd time around I met my husband in an online chat room. We were friends for a very long time before we met/got married.

People, you should realize that your boring and vulgar stories are of no interest for anyone, The Guardian included. They just want you to comment. You should really take a look at what sort of lives you are living...

He handed me a flyer for a beach party, been together for 10 yrs.

I’m not a clairvoyant.

I have no partners 🤨🤨🤨

Well, I was waiting at bus stop, for a no.36 and I heard this female voice say 'can I nick a ciggy' and from then on, it was love like.

At the wedding. We were married off by our parents.

Boris asks .... 'which ones?'

School when I was 14 and she was 13..... 29 years later and she is still an incredibly lucky lady....

Not yet. 😅

On Guardian er, Soulmates

Met him in an online chatroom twenty years ago. Still feel awkward telling people we met online 😬

No

In my dreams. Still only there alas.

No.

Highschool married 23 years

Asked me on a date on Bebo 😂❤️.....neilmurray587 ❤️. Exx

Never did. That's why we get on.

She's still in Decathlon waiting to be collected. I believe this one will last. 🚲

What for?

At Church. Married 54 years.

Met on a BBS.

This month 58 years ago, at Buttermere Youth Hostel.

Digging in Epping forest

I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar.

Blind date.36 years married or there about lol.

the old fashioned way. in a dark bar listening to a friend's band

I’ll let you know when it happens. ☺️

Playing naked Twister in a crack den.

What partner?

Wiping my bottom with a guardian paper while in a public toilet.

I was living and working as a travel photographer for a company on the US east coast. I asked them if they could transfer me to Seattle and a week after I arrived I meet my wife on a parking lot of a grocery store.

In a pub.

I made them from spare parts I had collected over the years.

These Tell Us requests are becoming more frequent than the Guardian reporting on the news 😂

I ordered a glass of dog milk at a five star restaurant and they were impressed by my taste.

ok

In a pub. The pub was very interesting.

Not I. But a gay couple of my acquaintance in the 1980s answered to this question: « The Piccadilly Line »

No

Met mine in school.... gave her some of the good stuff behind the bike sheds..... 28years later.... still going strong 👍

She was on the Eurostar from London to Rotterdam and I was on the Eurostar from Rotterdam to London. We were half way between Folkestone and Calais

We met at a Pegida March in Rotherham, I was bareing my shiny white English arse at the assorted leftarded paedophile enablers cordoned off down the road and she rushed over to take a selfy. We've been inseparable ever since.

Met mine at the ‘Enchantment Under the Sea Dance’.

We met when a wormhole through time and space found me in 19th century france; there were a number of hilarious misunderstandings and some classic fish out of water hi jinx and it seemed all was lost as our differences seemed insurmountable but in the end, love won the day

Fix up. I was a single mom in a small town. No time for dating. My SIL suggested a date w/ my brother’s boss. I reluctantly agreed. Famous last words “It’s not like I have to marry the guy.” Our 24th anniversary is in October. 😉

Never met. The end.

I met him on campus and used to be very rude to him but he never backed off😂😂😂😂

Looking forward to reading! ☺️

Bad breath, bad manners, tiny bone, the list goes on.

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