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My partner is Mexican and she's 38 and she works in finance.

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My wife is called Molly and she has kind of long brown hair, big blue eyes and she's obviously

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very beautiful.

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She's very funny, very kind of charismatic.

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He's really tall and he's got a nice lovely long nose which I love.

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I love interesting noses.

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We first met because we were studying the same course at university.

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On a dating site, so we met at OkCupid.

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We met in a bar.

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First date was actually to a wine bar and we had a bottle of wine and shared a cheeseboard.

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So our proper first date, I was obviously very nervous, you know, and tried to dress

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up smart and look good and everything and it was great actually.

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We went for a walk along the River Thames.

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So I have a dating spot, makes me feel in control so I just invite everyone to one cafe

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which is near my old university so it's an area I'm really familiar with.

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I guess he's somebody that I share a lot of values with so I realized very early on that

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he has a group of friends and it's very important for him, family is very important for him

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And although we are so different, you know, these things really kind of tie us together.

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Honestly, we are very different.

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We have completely different hobbies.

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We have completely different food cultures.

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We enjoy completely different things.

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She's very friendly, kind, generous, intelligent, funny.

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She's a fantastic cook as well.

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That's always important.

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And she's beautiful.

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I think we're happy together because we've got similar personalities.

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and we kind of complement each other very well and she's very patient which

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is important I think yeah and we just get on we like some of the things um I

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don't know I think we do have similar interests so we both like similar films

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so you can watch lots of films together um we're so you both really like

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traveling so that was something that we used to you know would be really

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excited about and I guess we have kind of similar goals and that we both want

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to have a big family and go and live in the countryside and that kind of thing so I think

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a lot of that it just helps. I've been with Molly for I think sort of 14 or 15 years and I think a

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lot has changed about how people meet people in that time and from what I kind of know of the

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modern dating world with you know dating apps and that kind of thing I'm sort of quite glad that I

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don't have to go through that because it sounds like a really difficult thing to do. I think that

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depends very much on your personality but it might be something like going to

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a club or joining like a book club or athletics club or something where you've

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got an interest in that and finding people with similar interests. I don't think

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work's a good place really because often if you work together having a

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relationship can also be quite precarious. Well I think putting myself, like not

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giving up I guess that was a great thing like I guess I always kept looking so

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So I was married and then it didn't work out and then I had another partner and that didn't work out but as soon as I would break up, I know a lot of people take some time but I just went, you know, went out.

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I think it's perfectly acceptable and I think it's become more and more acceptable over the last decade or so.

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It's great to kind of get you out of your comfort zone, so if you kind of feel a bit stuck in your dating life, you're not meeting anyone that you're connecting with, it's a good way to sort of get out there and meet a lot of different people.

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Right, well my best friend is a lovely girl. In terms of appearance, she's quite small and slim, she's got long dark black hair.

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My best friend is the same age as me and she is very funny, very friendly.

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We met at university. She shared a house with an old girlfriend of mine and we've been friends ever since.

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I met her at school actually. We've been friends since we were at secondary school together, so we met in music class.

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I like her because as I said she's very caring but we also have a lot of we have the same kind

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of viewpoints in life but in particular we care about the same social issues we have the same

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sort of political viewpoints as well as of course we've been friends now for a very long time so we

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have the same background in common we went to the same school we know an awful lot about each

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other's lives and we've been there for each other I think particularly when

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we've had sort of traumas in our lives I like the fact that she's very

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passionate about the things she likes so she's a big big film fan and she loves

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food and cooking as well and she's really into exercise and running as well

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as am I and yeah she's a great company and a very good organiser