How have you met your last boyfriends/girlfriends?

I would like to do a compilation of pickup-lines, situations and stories how people have successfully met someone in the past (apart from Flirtbox! ).

Some people write books or try to give advise based on theories.....
i would like to setup a guide based on experience and real stories.

If there is enough input, this might also lead to a list of the most successful "techniques"/ideas.

What do you think ?

So how have you met your last boyfriend(s) or girlfriend(s) ?

My last fella is a (minor) author and I wrote to him to say I enjoyed reading his book, and it just went from there really!

I had known my ex-hubby since I was 14, and no interest either way, til I was 20 and he acted as my legal representative at an ACAS tribunal, afterwards he asked me if I had any Cornish in me, and when I said No, he asked Would you like some? I laughed so much it was so cute haha I ended up marrying him.

Another guy I was with 5 yrs, we were just friends for about a year and then he came round and we had jam on toast and he said You've got jam on your mouth, can I lick it off?

You could say then that I fall for the cheesy corny techniques!!!

I met a really nice girl once in a supermarket. I saw her and wanted to get to know her....just I was contemplating about what to say....I thought I just say something....can't remember what - but it was something boring/stupid/useless.

So I went to her and said something stupid like that....and already thought "the next time I really need something more intelligent to say"...while talking.

But then I had a second chance, as she was listening to some music - she had long hair and I had not noticed her headphones.

Then I said the same....unfortunately...on my second chance to say something.

But I had a third chance as she did not speak English very well...it was an au-pair girl from France. She probably understood a better pick-up line then it really was - so it didn't matter what i have said. So I have tried to talk in French with her...which worked quite well...at least I had a bonus now.

Then she suddenly asked my whether I wanted to go for a drink - which was cool...so we went to a pub next to the supermarket....in Redhill.

....that was one...the others follow (I have to go now!)

Oh wow, you approached her but she asked you to go for a drink - you didnt have to do all the running, excellent or what?

Ask the resident expert. I'm sure he'll be along shortly with his 'techniques'. (Techniques? Jesus. Whatever happened to good old-fashioned spontaneity?)

I met my current 'girlfriend' (it's complicated) at work. We got on fine as friends for months then one day we just kind of leapt on one another.

No screwing around with all that 'getting to know you' nonsense. We'd spent enough time in one another's company to forego all of that. One day we both decided to step it up a gear. In retrospect we both knew what we wanted quite early on, but neither of us would make a move because of the circumstances.

So no 'techniques', sorry. It was just a question of building on something that was already there, rather than a 'I'd really like to fuck you but there are formalities to go through' kind of thing.

Awwww chikhai, I didnt think god actually meant "techniques" as such.....??
In my own experiences I too think it was a case of "already knowing the way we both want this to go" but the guys made the first move and let me know in a rather corny way, which I was happy to accept.
Its the timing isnt it? and the 'fear' of rejection - after all, if you get rejected by a virtual stranger, it doesnt really matter, but if you get rejected by a work colleague or friend it can be quite awkward eh? You gotta both know where its going for it to work, dont you think?
Not "techniques" as such, I imagine god just meant "what did you do/say that worked?".

Well I met my current (but soon to be divorced) wife in a psyciatric hospital acute ward. Both of us were there for severe depression and we clicked to start with as good friends. I think turning point was when I said to her in Russian bye bye (das devanya Sorry can't remember spelling!) - not a good thing to say to a Polish person!!! But then she took it as a joke. Things moved on from then when both of us were discharged. Have had good times since but she now wants to move on and has a lover in Kenya. That's life I suppose?

My last boyfriend was "seeing" a friend of mine, i told him i wanted him to be mine, kissed him and it pretty much went from there. Lucklly for me i have understanding friends.

I met my previous girlfriend believe it or not on another popular dating website (the one that promises to make it happen!). In fact I had enough of no replies to good emails so out of dissilousionment I had just withdrawn my membership and had only two weeks to go. Just found her profile one day and thought what the hell so we got talking and hit it off. It would have worked but I didnt want to play daddy at 21 to two kids under 3!
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..."all the things i really like to do are immoral,illegal or fattening"...

I have never ever had a girlfriend. Though I came close to getting one once when I met a young woman in my local launderette back in June 2001. She agreed to meet me again but I couldn't think where and when at the time. Then I ended up giving her my email address but should have taken her phone number or arranged a date there and then. I don't think she knew how to use email as she never contacted me.

A similar thing happened about two years later when I was at Crisis At Christmas I met a woman about my age who was really interested in me and she agreed to take my email address but again she never contacted me. I should have taken hers instead.

Maybe thats gods way of telling you to get a proper job and stop living on the street?

She was on the same course as me, I'd recently finished with someone and was adamant I wasn't going to have another relationship for a while, but she basically kept coming round my house and sleeping in my bed. A boy can get used to that kind of thing after a while....