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After decades of failed romances on dating apps, a 49-year-old woman hired a flirting coach and hypnotherapist - and met 'Mr. Right' just three months later.

Elizabeth Laing, from Greenwich, south-east London, had become used to what she describes as 'chaotic relationships', often finding herself dating men she knew were wrong for her or becoming stuck in unhappy situationships.

She said: 'I had awful dates, terrible boyfriends and horrible situationships.'

But after turning to a flirting coach and hypnotherapist, Elizabeth set herself an ambitious goal: find a husband within three months.

Incredibly, just weeks later, she met 50-year-old Owen, the man who would soon become her husband.

While running her café in Greenwich, she would watch couples 'come and go', sometimes seeing the same people get married, divorced and even remarried while she remained single.

Eventually, she began to question whether the problem was not the dating world, but rather her approach to it.

Elizabeth shared: 'I could never speak to anyone attractive. My heart would just go and I wouldn't know what to say. I was also addicted to chaotic relationships.'

Elizabeth Laing, from Greenwich, south-east London, had become used to what she describes as 'chaotic relationships' - that is until she ditched the dating apps and enlisted help from a flirting coach

Determined to break the cycle, she attended a workshop with a flirting coach, where she was given an unusual first challenge.

Elizabeth was instructed to walk around the National Gallery in the capital and strike up conversations with three complete strangers - a task the café owner described as 'terrifying'.

She recalled. 'I wanted to die. I was terrified. [The flirting coach] said you have to walk around and make eye contact with people and then ask them a question.

'She taught us how to smile with your mouth open. It made me look like I was snarling. I was getting really funny looks.'

Elizabeth's one-to-one sessions would only get more daunting as weeks went on.

Her one-to-one sessions were no less daunting. On one occasion, she was sent into Tesco and told to pick three men from three different aisles and ask them about the products they were looking at.

She shared: 'I went to the carrot aisle, and I asked a man, "What are you making with your carrots?" He answered and then wandered off.

'But it got easier every time.'

Over a period of three months, Elizabeth was forced out of her comfort zone and instructed to strike up conversations with strangers each day, later meeting Owen (pictured) in the process

Elizabeth found 'The One' in just three months after changing her apprach to dating, eventually marrying the 50-year-old two years later

Soon, talking to strangers stopped feeling like a terrifying task and started becoming second nature.

Elizabeth soon noticed a dramatic change in how people responded to her.

She began smiling at strangers and chatting to people on trains, and even had several men follow her off the train to ask for her number.

She added: 'It was fun and flirty. And I was cleaning up because every other woman was at home on a dating app.'

Alongside the flirting lessons, Elizabeth turned to hypnotherapy to understand why she repeatedly found herself attracted to unhealthy relationships.

She says light hypnotherapy helped her trace the pattern back to her childhood and recognise that she had become comfortable with chaos because it was familiar.

Elizabeth added: 'There was a lot of chaos in my life so I just felt safe within it because it was familiar. I was so used to chasing someone just to like me, I was just repeating patterns from my childhood.'

Once Elizabeth understood her own behaviour and began to recognise her self-worth, she decided to treat finding a partner like any other project.

Her goal was simple - speak to and flirt with a new man every day for three months.

Visiting pubs and bars alone, Elizabeth deliberately put herself in situations where she could meet people face-to-face.

She said: 'It was like my husband was at the bottom of a big pile and I just had to pick through all the other men to find him.'

It wasn't long before she found him.

The couple are now happily settled in Tunbridge Wells, Kent and have now been married for two years and have been together for six

One day, Elizabeth realised she had forgotten to speak to anyone new, so she popped into a pub for her daily flirt.

She was making eye contact and keeping herself open to conversation when a man approached her.

Recalling the moment she met Owen, she gushed: 'A man walked up to me and said "Today you've met a cheeky Australian." Instantly, I was like, "That's the one."'

They agreed to see each other again, and sparks flew. Two years later, they were engaged.

Elizabeth couldn't believe how well the hypnotherapy and flirting lessons had worked.

Inspired to help other women, she sold her café and trained with Marisa Peer - a well known hypnotherapist - to learn rapid transformational therapy.

This form of therapy combines different methods to get to the root cause of a problem and help people make long-lasting changes.

Elizabeth had already been trained as hypnotherapist, so she set up her own coaching business, Your Power Within Therapy, while also sharing advice regularly on her Instagram page, @lizzielianglovemindset.

She said: 'I've lived this, I know what they're going through, the crumbs and the ghosting and the pain, it's something I can fully understand.

'It brought me joy to help other people. I'm combining hypnotherapy with flirting coaching.'

Elizabeth's approach combines hypnotherapy with flirting coaching, with one of her biggest pieces of advice being to step away from dating apps and start meeting people in the real world.

She said: 'People are so desperate for real life connection. I feel like people who have grown up on the apps don't even realise you can put their heads up and see people in front of their face.

'And it's so much easier! Dating apps are a process - swiping, messaging, getting ready for a date, wasting your evening. Talking to someone you bump into in a shop is easy.'

And Elizabeth says the approach is already helping people around her, adding: 'Even just friends of mine have changed after I speak with them about this.'

Elizabeth and Owen have now been married for two years and have been together for six.

The couple are happily settled in Tunbridge Wells, Kent - enjoying an organic connection that is worlds away from the chaotic relationships Elizabeth once believed she was destined to repeat.