How exactly did you meet your partner?

[Anonymous]

35 and 50. Sat down next to him at a bar and started yapping at him until he yapped back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Medical school, early 20s, paired together in pathophysiology and ran into each other a lot at the gym and local running paths.

Almost every woman physician I know is married to another physician. The few who aren’t usually met their spouse before med school.

Interesting. A lot of male doctors in the hospital I worked at were married to nurses but now that you mention it the reverse was not true.

The trend for at least four decades has been for doctors and lawyers to marry other professionals, whether they be doctors/optometrists/dentists or lawyers/mbas/cpas. It is a social expectation.

[Anonymous]

Met DH in a upper division writing class but didn't get together until a party at our college apartment. He was friends with my roommate. We're the same age and been married 30 years.

[Anonymous]

At work. Me, 32. He was 34.

[Anonymous]

Mutual friend introduced us. We were 26 at the time.

[Anonymous]

Met at a dance toward the end of our freshman year of college. I ran into a woman I sort of knew from one of my classes and DH sort of knew her to and came over to say hi. So she introduced us, but it’s not like she set us up. We were 17 and 19 and now we’re in our mid-40s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Medical school, early 20s, paired together in pathophysiology and ran into each other a lot at the gym and local running paths.

Almost every woman physician I know is married to another physician. The few who aren’t usually met their spouse before med school.

Interesting. A lot of male doctors in the hospital I worked at were married to nurses but now that you mention it the reverse was not true.

How old are you? The older generation used to marry female nurses, but the current generation is more likely to marry someone of their same income/education level.

Nurses rock though.

[Anonymous]

Amazing that only one response was online dating. These responses are “old school.” I was probably one of the first in my circle to meet my DH online - this was in 2000. I was 29 and he was 28. It was pretty new then (JDate) and I think a bit easier than it is now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Medical school, early 20s, paired together in pathophysiology and ran into each other a lot at the gym and local running paths.

Almost every woman physician I know is married to another physician. The few who aren’t usually met their spouse before med school.

Interesting. A lot of male doctors in the hospital I worked at were married to nurses but now that you mention it the reverse was not true.

How old are you? The older generation used to marry female nurses, but the current generation is more likely to marry someone of their same income/education level.

I’m 40, and a lot of my male coworkers are also married to docs, or lawyers/other professionals. I work in a large academic center (not DC).

My son’s private school class has six kids who have dual physician parents and a few with docs married to dentists or lawyers. Going to back to school night feels like going to any other professional gathering.

Gosh, I’m glad you didn’t have the brush elbows with the likes of us accountants and consultants at my son’s private school!

[Anonymous]

He hired me to teach his kids to swim. Wife was traveling a lot for work. You can imagine where it went from there. Him 47. Me 24. That was two years ago.

[Anonymous]

Match.com

We're 46

Like many in the DC area, we lived parallel lives in two different suburbs and wouldn't have met otherwise

[Anonymous]

Match.com also.
We were both 35. That was 23 years ago.

[Anonymous]

We were introduced at a party the summer before we started at the same law school. I was 25 and he was 28. We were friends and study group partners during law school, but we both were in other relationships. After graduating, we moved to different cities and realized we missed each other much more than in a typical friendship. We got married one year later.

[Anonymous]

Through a mutual friend at a party senior year in college. We’re now 47.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He hired me to teach his kids to swim. Wife was traveling a lot for work. You can imagine where it went from there. Him 47. Me 24. That was two years ago.

Are you married now?