How we met: ‘I tripped and completely humiliated myself. Then I tried to style it out’

CJ and Lyndsey’s first date led to a journey to A&E. But they bonded over glassblowing, online zines and ADHD, and ended up proposing to each other

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When Lyndsey joined a dating app in 2021, she didn’t have high hopes. “I was a bit useless at these things,” she says. “I’d moved to Nottingham to work as a sociology and geography research fellow at Nottingham Trent University. After the lockdowns, I was keen to meet new people.” She soon matched with CJ, a journalist with “bright green hair and tattoos”.

The pair started chatting online that autumn. “We talked about pronouns very early on as we both identify as non-binary,” says CJ. “We went for a drink and she was really easy to talk to. It was nice as I’d experienced a string of disastrous dates before that.”

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