Anonymous
Post 09/04/2025 15:10     Subject: How exactly did you meet your partner?
Online. He was in his 20s, I was in my 30s. In our 40s now.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2025 15:02     Subject: How exactly did you meet your partner?
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.

What did you do, wear a thong to the interview?
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2025 14:46     Subject: How exactly did you meet your partner?
Anonymous wrote:Perrys in Adams Morgan on a packed Saturday night. I was 26 she was 27. She was a colleague of my ex gf from HS. Ex gf texted me and said "Come to Perrys. I'm with your wife."

Twenty two years last June.


That’s a crazy story!
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2025 14:41     Subject: Re:How exactly did you meet your partner?
I had broken off my engagement and I was in a pretty depressed state when a good friend of my mother's said I needed to meet a friend of hers son. I was Oh great....not.....but to be nice I said OK. I owe that woman almost thirty years of happiness.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2025 10:21     Subject: How exactly did you meet your partner?
Perrys in Adams Morgan on a packed Saturday night. I was 26 she was 27. She was a colleague of my ex gf from HS. Ex gf texted me and said "Come to Perrys. I'm with your wife."

Twenty two years last June.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2025 10:20     Subject: How exactly did you meet your partner?
I was 32 and he was 30, we were at a bar for two different birthday parties. Now mid/late 40s.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2025 10:08     Subject: Re:How exactly did you meet your partner?
Xmas party in DC. Drinking at the bar.

I was 26, he was 24.

Been married for 20+ years.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2025 10:07     Subject: How exactly did you meet your partner?
Met in college in 1994 and now our 3 kids are college aged
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2025 10:00     Subject: How exactly did you meet your partner?
^ * someone finishing freshman
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2025 09:58     Subject: How exactly did you meet your partner?
Anonymous wrote: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.

You were quite young for someone finishing college
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2025 09:56     Subject: How exactly did you meet your partner?
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.


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.


Nurses are professionals.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2025 09:34     Subject: How exactly did you meet your partner?
My best friend was dating his college roommate, and we met when I was visiting her. This was in 1991, at the end of his senior year. I’m a year older.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2025 09:31     Subject: How exactly did you meet your partner?
Anonymous wrote: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.


My guess is that its a reflection of the average age of the posters here.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2025 09:01     Subject: Re:How exactly did you meet your partner?
Anonymous wrote: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


This, exactly. We lived one neighborhood apart in DC. Met via Match.com.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2025 08:56     Subject: How exactly did you meet your partner?
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.


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.


It's called sociological assortive mating, and it's a byproduct of increased gender equality and the rise of the meritocracy.