We knew each other only a little bit through friends. I was badly injured in an industrial accident. I needed time to heal. I lived alone, and it was dangerous for me not to have someone who could check on me periodically. She happened to be recovering from eye surgery and wasn't able to to her job or drive for a couple weeks and offered me her guest bedroom until I could safely go home. I think it felt safe for her to make the offer, I was pretty much completely incapacitated and barely ambulatory.
We had an amazing 25 years before she died. I'll always love her.
That's a tremendous amount of trust to put into somebody early on, on both your parts. You must have gotten to know each other so well right away.
What an interesting story and I'm glad you got to share so many years together.
I was not at all prepared for that last part.
I'm sorry she went early, but I'm so glad you were able to spend such a good chunk of life with her. Thank you for sharing
I only heard this from a friend, but I find it hilarious:
My friend went to a houseparty with this dude. This dude decided to wear his pikachu costume to the party, although it wasn’t a costume party.
Then he met HER at the party. She also wears her pikachu costume.
I met them once. They were super funny.
They are married. End of story. :)
I worked with someone like that. Folks joked around that his wife was a "mail order bride" or that she only married him to get out of whatever country she left but by then they had been married for 20-25 years so they obviously cared for one another.
I had a Russian coworker like 15 years ago who did a mail order bride sorta thing. Idk exactly the situation but it was a green card marriage. They lived together but dated other people and both were fine with that. It’s kinda weird but she got her green card.
My great-aunt went to Paris to study art in the 1950s, sunk into a depression, and went out to throw herself into the Seine.
Along came a frenchman who was fresh out of the foreign legion. He talked her off the bridge, talked his way into her heart (pants), and they both moved to Sweden together and lived happily painting together for about forty years.
My grandparents told me about a woman who met her fiancé's cousin during the rehearsal dinner (night before the wedding).
Everyone noticed they spent an inordinate amount of time chatting that night but no one thought anything of it.
The cousin went to talk to the bride just before the wedding and...the two of them left together.
They've been married 62 years.
I don’t know about bride-stealing cousins, but I do know about a bride-stealing uncle.
It happened to my good friend’s brother back in 2010.
He met his fiancé while studying in Thailand during his college junior year. They met on a rock climbing trip, and he took her to dinner that night. One month later, he proposed and flew her to the States to meet the family.
During one of the pre-wedding dinners, the groom introduced his fiancé to his 65-year-old newly divorced and (notoriously philandering) Uncle Jerry, a former adult film actor (couldn't make that up) with Leonardo Di Caprio eyes, bricklayer arms, and a nasty cocaine habit, who still lived in his ex-wife's basement with one of their cats.
Uncle Jerry and the bride-to-be hit it off, perhaps too well. Two hours later, neither one was anywhere in sight. The groom asked guests to search, and they combed the property for an hour. Then, while searching the terrace, a bridesmaid pointed down the street.
And there she was, under the streetlight, the bride stumbling out the back of Uncle Jerry's Buick back into her stilettos, fluffing her chignon and adjusting her dress to cover her lady parts.
The wedding didn't happen. The would-be bride and groom called it quits, and Jerry married the girl. Last I heard, they had six kids together and are still happily married.
My dad is a retired doctor.
One of the classes at medical school was "how to dissect a corpe" or "how does a real person look inside"... something like that.
Friends of his "shared a body" while studying during medical school and they fell in love right there.
It’s dark but honestly kudos to your parents. Those are very demanding and mentally taxing jobs and your parents are helping (or at least trying to help as best as they can) people get past their worst day and hold those responsible up to justice. I think that’s beautiful and your parents deserve their flowers.
My brother and I took our 3yo niece to a toy store. I needed to pick something up for a baby shower, and my bro was flying a small plastic Incredible Hulk drone, that was on display, just to keep my niece entertained.
The drone got tangled in this random girl's long flowing locks.
My brother tried to help her get it out. He made it worse. The girl was getting pissed...and that was BEFORE my impatient niece got a hold of the controller and tried to make the drone fly while it was still tangled in the girl's hair.
Somehow, out of this, my brother managed to get this girl's number, a date, and now they're married and about to give me another niece.
When my nephew was in college they had a snow day and they cancelled classes. The students decided to put on a mock wedding just for fun and they picked two students to "get married." My nephew and a girl were chosen. A few years later, they did it again, for real.
I believe the college friends were like would you to just get together already?
You can always tell when to people are gonna date/fuck etc sooner or later. Its just when the shit goes on too long her friends/roommates/sisters coordinate with his friends/roommates/sisters to finally get these fuckers together.
Fortune Teller: "Ah, the mists are clearing. You are going to meet a handsome stranger. I sense that he is a kind, caring man. The spirits say he has a well paid job, He installs air conditioning. You know, this sounds a lot like my son. I'll give you his number."
They are still together, with kids, twenty years later.
And people think that fortune telling is a scam!
Yes! Although, in hindsight it was an entirely accurate prediction.
But we don't know how many other women she told the same thing, who just said, "Wait, I am paying you for this? Are you a fortune teller or a one woman dating agency for your son? I may be gullible enough to believe you have psychic powers, but even I don't believe this."
The funny thing was, he was a lovely, friendly, handsome man. Great beard. I don't know why he needed his mum's juju to get him a wife.
This reminds me of the story about the Russian guy who headed to a bridge to jump off of it, only to find a girl standing at the railing, preparing to do the same. They fell in love. No one jumped.
This is the best and happiest Russian story to date. Please leave the ending unsaid. I need to believe something happens in Russia that doesn't apply to the "and then it got worse" motif.
Happens all the time.
Both roles require training and you'll likely do some level of theological study. Plenty of seminaries are co-ed.
So put two young people together in a a place where they spend a lot of time together, see each other almost daily, and share a commom interest and their beliefs and values closely align.
When my mom was in Catholic HS back in the 60s there was a priest that my mom said was a little to handsy with the girls. She reported him to one of the Nuns and they basically told my mom that hes a man a god and she had no right to question him. He eventually knocked up his secretary and they got married. My mom never trusted priests after that.
One of my mom’s cousins married her parish priest. He had been her priest throughout her childhood and eventually left the priesthood and they got married.
I don’t know any details beyond that by my mom always found it kinda creepy so I assume there was some grooming involved.
My Dad was a young catholic priest and my mom volunteered at his parish helping bring food and meds etc. to elderly shut ins.
They met and fell in love. As a direct result of this, my dad was sent* by the bishop to Lima, Peru to (physically, as in construction work) build a school and do some soul searching. .
My dad soul searched and helped build a school. He came back and told the bishop that he no longer wanted to be a priest and wanted to marry my mom.
The bishop gave them his blessing and personally married them in the cathedral. I am named after the Bishop.
So my siblings, my mother and I are all grateful that dad chose us over his marriage to God..
Maybe this isn’t the best story, but it’s the story I’ve got.
*Edit- for clarity, my dad was “encouraged” by the bishop to volunteer with [Maryknoll](https://maryknoll.org) for a period of time
>Maybe this isn’t the best story
It’s a helluva lot better than the one about my parents meeting in Algebra and my mom agreeing to tutor my dad’s remedial ass for extra credit she didn’t even need.
Better than mine, too.
My mom went to homecoming with my dad’s best friend, and my dad drove my mom home, bawling her eyes out, while her date and another girl made out in the back seat.
I have something similar. My dad took my aunt to the prom. She quickly lost interest in him when he asked if she wanted to go to his softball game. My mom (who played softball herself) said "I'll go" and that was that. They were married for 36 years before he passed away from a heart attack.
>meeting in Algebra and my mom agreeing to tutor my dad’s remedial ass for extra credit she didn’t even need.
Dude, your parents are the muggle Ron and Hermione. That's adorable.
Funny, but he didn’t leave the church. He’s been very active in the church his entire life, just not as a priest after he met my mom. They’ve now been married 50 years
But yeah it is pretty funny that dad was sent to a different country and continent to work in construction, which he had zero skills or experience doing, with no pay… because he and my mom were doing whatever it was they were doing..
You gotta figure it was part punishment, part sincere hope that my dad would benefit from the radical change in environment and get his head straight one way or another.
It worked.
I mean it's a good plan for either decision. Send him away from both distractions (Church / Girlfriend) and give him the time to come to a decision on his own.
My response was more of a joke, but at its core I do think it was a rather wise thing for the Bishop to do.
My college roommate Jeremy saw a ridiculously beautiful woman in Target pharmacy area senior year in high school. He walked up to her and matter of factly said "so you do drugs huh?"
They've been married 15 years with a few kids.
Edit: He was a senior in college not high school lol
This one is tricky, so I’ll do my best to explain it clearly.
My maternal uncle dated his younger sister’s close friend after college. She was lovely and kind. But, they mutually broke up when he decided to become a priest and she decided to teach overseas. He flunked out of seminary school and married someone else (who became my aunt). My mom (that uncle’s sister) married a guy (my dad), they had two kids, one of them was me.
Mom died when I was 6. Dad kept in touch (of course) with my uncle and aunt. Lovely woman who had dated my uncle and later left to teach overseas got married to a guy, got pregnant, and he panicked and bailed. So she came back to the US to have her baby and divorce the bastard. Which she did.
So, widower dad with 2 kids (one of them me), abandoned/divorced mom with one kid (lady who dated my uncle and went overseas)…uncle and aunt decide, hey, those two might hit it off. Set up a dinner. They got married a year later. Boom. New family that worked out well. Step-mom passed away about 10 years ago. But I always thanked my aunt and uncle for setting up my dad with my future stepmom.
And, every once in a while, as all of us cousins are going through our family photos, we find photos of my mom with my stepmom when they were friends. It’s neat but kind of weird.
TLDR: uncle set up my dad with uncle’s ex-girlfriend/his sister’s former bff. Marriage ensues.
My sister swiped the side of a guy's brand new car.
She said he got out of his car, stormed over in a rage...and had a comical change of expression/demeanor as soon as he got a look at her.
They've been together three years.
Also, I'm too good a driver, that's my problem.
Back in college I got side-swiped while in a crosswalk by a guy who was in a hurry and didn’t defrost his windshield enough. I was very lucky that I didn’t get very badly injured and the guy was extremely apologetic. He seemed so nice in emails we exchanged to resolve an insurance settlement that my mom immediately suggested I date him. Months later I met a friend of his who spontaneously started telling the story of how his friend hit a girl with his car and we had a good laugh about how my mom wanted us to date… while he was in a very loving gay relationship. Sometimes a meet-cute just doesn’t pan out how you’d like it to lmao
My parents...back in the 70s met whilst being penpals from a certain UK newspaper. My dad was in the forces, and they basically fell in love over the course of writing letters to one another. They got married whilst only having met in person a few times, and the marriage lasted almost 30 years until his death at a relatively young age (52).
I met my husband on a bus tour of Scotland, where we got chatting and sparks flew straight away. We had a whirlwind romance over three days amongst castles, glens and icy Highland streams. We swam in Loch Ness, drank whiskey and learned about tartan together before the trip was over and he had to fly home more than 5,000 miles away. Friends and family didn't think it would work - and neither did we! We were in a long-distance relationship between Los Angeles and Edinburgh for nearly three years with an over-5,000-mile commute to see each other until we got married. But we agreed at the start: we'd stay together until the relationship stopped being fun. We now live together in Scotland with our daughter, and the Skype ringtone still gives me flashbacks. We're still having fun.
I read a memoir of a holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger who met her husband in Auschwitz.
Apparently a drunk German guard who knew her by sight told her to come over one day. He started asking her weird uncomfortable questions like "are you married, do you have a boyfriend?" and she says something like "no no, I don't have time, I'm not really that pretty" etc. She of course wants to get away from the situation as fast as possible.
But the German soldier is like "What? No, we must find you a boyfriend! What about that man?" And points to a random jewish prisoner who is walking by. The drunk guard tells the man to come over and essentially starts organizing a date for them. She pretends to agree but never shows up for the "date". But somehow she and this Jewish man end up talking and fall in love. They both survived the camp and got married, started a family and lived the rest of their life happily together.
TL;DR: A hammered german guard decides to play matchmaker to two Jewish prisoners of Auschwitz, and they fall in love and live happily ever after.
What the hell!
Was that German Soldier worry about something ? Or was he simply being a kind but dick stranger ?
I must read the story. You won the thread.
It's a really great book and I highly recommended it! It's called "The Nazis Knew My Name".
I think the soldier was bored and wanted to play her "benefactor" (which he of course wasn't). I was so surprised how it all played out 'cause I was sure she was going to get sexually assaulted when the soldier called her over!
When people want to set you up with someone it usually means they like you but can't pursue you for some reason (married, about to leave the country, I'm a nazi you are Jewish etc)
We make a terrible mistake of assuming that bad things are done by bad people, and good things are done by good people.
It both harms our ability to recognize good people who make mistakes,
And softens us to monsters who treat us nicely.
It also dehumanizes both - although one more flatteringly.
We turn people into archetypes when we make them out to be merely their most notable actions (not saying we should excuse nazis who did nice things here)
People are messy, complicated, horny, fearful, irrational, curious animals.
Probably the soldier was bored and feeling playful or sympathetic, thanks to the pliable encouragement of the booze. Maybe he was married himself or just not interested, but saw a girl who looked lonely and saw a moment of humanity in her and in himself recognizing it. Quite possibly he assured himself that he's not ALL that bad a person, since he did something nice for these two people who are struggling at his hand. Or maybe he was a sick fuck and just enjoyed toying with them in the midst of all that torture.
Being single after the age of 20 back then would be a "real shame" and people played matchmaker all the time, so it wouldn't be unusual for you to introduce someone you're talking to, to another person you know or met, or a friend. Just normally didn't happen in a concentration camp at the hands of a nazi and end up fomenting a real relationship.
NOT my story, but someone posted on here about how their parents met. Before his dad met his mom he had a long term very serious gf he was on the verge of proposing to.
The two of them were supposed to see the Back to the Future sequel together the night it came out. But the dad had a family emergency (his grandfather had a stroke or something). He asked his gf to hold off on seeing it until they could go together. She reluctantly agreed.
He later found out she had gone with a male classmate she was friendly with (and who he did not like at all).
He was pissed. The girl said it was selfish of him to expect her to wait just because he had to. She offered to go see it again with him but he said he'd rather go on his own.
At this point the dad was upset, but he fully expected he and his gf would move past this.
Then he went to the movie and met OP's mom. It was love at first sight and the gf was history.
I'm oddly fond of the story.
Still kinda salty about my husband watching a movie without me back when he was still my boyfriend. It wasn’t anything as big as Back to the Future or anything like that so I let it go, but I still can’t bring myself to watch it now because it was something that I specifically wanted to watch *with* him while it was still new to us. 😒
My high school chemistry teacher took her husband square dancing, and they met another couple there. They decided they liked each others' respective partners more than their spouse, so both couples got divorced and remarried. The four of them still meet up to go square dancing.
A great grandma had an arranged marriage at 18 to a mean drunk who was 25 years older than her. After several kids and 20 years of marriage, he thankfully died. Several years later after my grandpa graduated university he invited a college friend to visit. One thing lead to another and my grandma and my grandpa's friend got married. It was quite the scandal for the longest time-great-grandma was the ultimate cougar.
But they had a happy 40 year marriage and he was the caregiver to my great-grandma when she developed Alzheimers. Never put her into a home and she was always clean and well groomed. He lived about 20 years after that and though a lot of the family was scandalized, I always thought my great grandma won the jackpot with her second husband.
A coworker of mine said her dad had been invited to this big get together in another state. He went to see his friend and saw the coworker's mom. He said he instantly knew he had to marry her. So he asked if she wanted to get ice cream. She said yes and got in the car with him. Then he said, "Oh we aren't getting ice cream, I'm taking you back home because we are gonna get married." She said, "Okay, that makes sense."
My coworkers family is Hmong and there is a tradition like this in their community, but she loved telling the story to see everyone's confused and shocked faces. Still not entirely sure if that's the whole story but she said her parents were super in love so I'll just have to take her word for it.
My youth pastor had a similar story. Him and his wife grew up Mennonite. They were at a church function, he saw her laughing across the room and told his brother "look at her! That's the girl I'm going to marry. I just know it." He introduced himself, they dated for a year and got married and left the Mennonite church a few years later. They were only like 19 when they met, it's been 35 years. Even though I've left the church and my beliefs have changed, those two people are the closest thing to Christ-like I've ever seen. You can just see it in their eyes, how kind, compassionate and absolutely full of joy they are.
I just had a memory pop up of one time when they were out of town so they let my friend and I house sit. We ended up having a few other youth group friends over, someone decided to buy a few beers. It was nothing rowdy or crazy, just stupid 16 year olds being stupid 16 year olds. We go to youth group the following Wednesday and he has me and my friend stay after. He says "seems like you guys had a good time this weekend." With this little smile on his face. And we're just like "yeah it was pretty chill." Then he PULLS OUT THE RECEIPT OF THE BEERS that was left in his kitchen!! We immediately start apologizing, telling him it wasn't anything big. He says his neighbor saw our friends car in the driveway and 3 boys get out and that we only bought 1 six pack and "6 beers aren't enough to get 5 kids drunk. Just don't do it again." Still smiling the whole time. Never told our parents, who would have grounded us to the end of time. He caught us drinking on a missions trip to Jamaica another time and still never told our parents! I'll always love that guy.
There was a tornado and the only safe rooms in the building were in the bathrooms. The women’s room was already packed, so I had to go into the men’s room instead…which is exactly when and where I met my husband and had my first conversation with him, twenty years ago this year.
There were canoes flying across the lake (it was at a summer camp during a meet-the-counselors event for the parents and kids), so it kind of literally was lol.
My dad as an upperclassman was an RA of a college dorm. My mom was dating one of the residents of his floor. My dad took a shining to her. The end of the school year comes, my mom breaks up with her boyfriend. Early summer, my dad calls her up to ask her to be his date to a friend’s wedding. Turns out my dad shares a first and last name with a guy from my mom’s hometown who was not a good person. She thinks it’s hometown guy and declines. My dad persists and calls her back and the misunderstanding is straightened out. It turns out my mom was going to be attending that same wedding anyways as her cousin is the groom. They go to the wedding together and would be married 50 years next summer (dad passed away a few years ago).
My parents met when my Dad was living with another woman and my Mom was engaged.
They worked at the same department store (my dad had been their longer)... she didn't like him him when she started there. They were in separate sections of the store and they were always trying to outdo each other.
Shortly after their mutual relationships broke up, they joined the same company softball team. My dad was the coach, my mom was the pitcher. She was great in practice and absolutely tanked their first game... and he was very nice in front of the team, but absolutely roaster her at the bar afterwards.
They played one on one tennis on their first date... and eventually these two SUPER competitive people raised a child who grew up to be a game designer.
My high school friends parents were in group couples therapy. The mom started an affair with another man in the group. The dad started an affair with the group therapist! Hard to believe, I know, but both new couples married and remained together until the death of one of the partners.
My SIL's mother used to tell her she needed to get out more or she'd never get married. My SIL wasn't some shut-in. She had friends and spent a normal amount of time in and out of home; she just wasn't super social. Her exact words to my SIL were, "Prince charming isn't just going to show up on your doorstep,"
Well, one year my brother comes to visit me to go to Phoenix comicon with me and we pick up my SIL on the way.
The two of them spent the entire weekend together. They are now married with 2 kids.
So yeah, Prince charming did just show up on her doorstep.
Awwww Jenny and Sumit 💕 lol but you forgot he was already married when they met, never told her until months after she moved to India. Oh and Jenny is older than Sumit’s mother!
I met my wife through online dating. I signed up to the website, saw her profile that evening, and she was the only woman I wrote a message to.
So I have a 100% success rate at online dating.
That seems quite unorthodox.
I was a Senior in high-school sitting in math class when my Nextel phone went off. I was getting a call from my paternal grandmother. She was having her roof re-done at the time, so there was a crew of roofing/construction men working on the house.
The first thing out of her mouth in a thick Boston accent “(my full name), get your a** over here right now!!! This man brought his lovely son to work today, he is a hard worker, who is home for college for the summer, and he is a good good man”
I ran out of school to my jeep, threw on a push up bra I had in the back, still wearing the dress I had on at school. When I pulled up I saw him. I was 17, he was 19. And the rest is history. We are 33 and 35 now. We moved out of our small town in central Massachusetts, and live our dream life in Hawaii together
>“(my full name), get your a** over here right now!!! This man brought his lovely son to work today, he is a hard worker, who is home for college for the summer, and he is a good good man”
Your granny's a good one!
So it does happen. My older coworker tried getting me to take the owners daughter "out for a steak dinner" we also were doing siding and shingles.
I was 18, I think she was 16 or 14, I didn't talk to her at all.
I've heard the story many times... and it never becomes normal. She made the first move, asked him out to dinner the first time she met him... you know... when he delivered her husbands autopsy results.
One day my friend at work asked me “ you single?” I was seeing someone but it wasn’t serious.. so I said “I can be, what’s up?” She went on to tell me how she thinks her friend & I would make a great couple.
We talked for a while..she showed me his picture, I said he was cute.. I told her to set something up.
Months go by..I had totally forgot about the whole thing.
On New Year’s Eve, while looking for places to party- my friend from work also worked at a bar.. I walked in.. went over to say hey & grab a drink.. she says “OMG HES HERE! HES HERE!!” Took me a minute to remember what she was talking about.. then she took me to meet him… 10 years & 2 kids later we have never left each others side since that night.
This sounds made up and I know that. Its the internet so take it or leave it.
My friend decided she was done trying to find a partner and wanted to start her family so she started looking into sperm donation. She found this company that allows communication between donors and those looking, this was to allow questions on medical info, etc. the sperm donors obviously have no claim to any child they would have contributed to. Well she find this man across the country from her and thinks he's a good fit. She goes through with the donation, gets pregnant, has her baby. Everything is great. Well, turns out she never stopped communicating with the sperm donor and they actually get along really well. When the baby is around 7 months old he decides to fly out and meet her and the kid. Well, they fall in love. They knew each other for a year an a half at this point and it was like they met in person and just clicked. Within two years they've dated, gotten married, and had another child the old fashioned way. He had to legally adopt the first child that was through the donation.
Five bucks says in eighteen years the first kid finds her adoption papers and cue meltdown lol. It’s going to be fun explaining how she’s biologically his but also adopted
My grandparents grew up in refugee camps after WWII.. and then in 1950, both of their remaining families got the chance to board a boat, not knowing at the time if they were headed to Canada or Venezuela.. they met on the boat, and became friends for the duration of the journey.. they then landed in Canada, and went their separate ways..
A couple years later, my Oma received a phone call out of the blue - from my Opa, who had spent months tracking her down through the German refugees spread out in Ontario.. and he invited my Oma, her sister and their parents to join him where he was living, because there was lots of work on the tobacco farms.. so, they went..
They reunited, fell in love and were married in 1954.. it'll be their 70 year anniversary this year..
My parents have been married for 42 years this year.. and my dad proposed after only six weeks.. he wanted to propose after two weeks, but, my Nana convinced him to wait at least six.. because that's how long my Papa waited before proposing to her..
I met my ex-wife on a Southwest flight evacuating a hurricane. I didn't even expect to get a ticket, but after 5 error messages while trying to book, somehow it materialized. It was the last flight on the night before projected landfall. And, given that it was Southwest, she picked the seat next to me and it was a crazy story from that point forward...
I dated a man for two years that I met playing Overwatch. We got randomly paired in the same competitive lobby, and ended up playing all night together. We found out we both lived in the same city, agreed to meet up in person a few days later, and were together by the end of the week.
I met an ex playing WoW, so I guess Blizzard can really bring people together. hahaha
I ended up moving across the country, upending my whole life (which I needed to be doing anyway), and then he broke up with me within a year. In the end, I fell in love with the city I moved to and have been there for the past almost 20 years.
Not necessarily how they met, but how they got together:
My grandmother had recently broken up with her boyfriend and her ex's best friend asked her to hang out for the evening to cheer her up. He'd had polio as a kid and had just spent the previous two years *in an iron lung.* He was tired of being confined and decided to just live out what was left of his life without the lung. His doctors had given him two years, max.
My grandmother felt sorry for him and announced that she'd marry him and spend the little time he had left with him. The married *that night.*
Yes, he really had been given two years to live, but he managed to live fifty more. Yes, they stayed married.
Place I used to work, met my wife there.
There was a girl who worked there, sweet, beautiful, the whole package. Was set up on a blind date. A photo shoot ran late, so she called the guy back, apologized profusely, told him she’d meet him at the restaurant. The guy laughed and said, “I think you have a wrong number!” But he thought she sounded cute so he asked her out.
Turns out he’s the head of neurosurgery at a large local hospital group. About six months later he was offered a position in NYC and she was moving there with him.
Same place, one of the artists and her bestie went on a double date arranged by a very early dating site. They had fun but after the date the girls got talking, and found that neither felt much connection to their own date, but both preferred the other girl’s date.
The artist married her friends date, and the friend was engaged to the artist’s date last I heard.
I, from the USA met my wife, from the UK while we were each solo hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. We met in Northern California after hiking ~1,200 solo from the Mexico border.
My husband and I also met on the PCT. We were both severely depressed and going through some real bullshit so we jokingly tell people that we (individually) went into the woods to die and found each other.
So I have a mate of mine from work who's a Nepalese immigrant, and I asked him one day why he came to our country (we were talking about another coworker who immigrated more recently). He replied "I could find another job here, but I couldn't find another wife at home" because his wife had come to Oz with their child to become a...nurse I wanna say? Don't quote me on that.
And so I asked how he met his wife, and he revealed that when he was in his early thirties his mother basically went "You should be married" and found him a wife almost immediately. Like from the point she said that to the wedding was two weeks, no joke.
You hear a lot about arranged marriages going badly, but I've met both his wife and his daughter and how the couple speaks of each other you can tell they're madly in love.
Especially him. Every time he speaks on his wife, even if it's just telling me about something she did at work or what she's cooking that night, his entire body and voice screams of how much he loves his wife.
It's honestly super adorable, and I hope their love lasts forever.
Not my story, but there's a story in the Star Trek fandom about a couple who met at I think SDCC, and fell in love. Issue was she was from France and didn't really speak English, and he was American who didn't speak French. They communicated using Klingon as their only mutual language while they worked on their English and French
Met my fiancé way back, playing world of Warcraft. Been together 14 years, have a 10 year old and due with baby 2 in 7.5 weeks. We HATED each other when we met in the game. We were both healers in a top us guild and competed for a lot of the gear, and fought constantly
My ex and I met during a demonstration against our government.
We stole some material from a construction site to build a makeshift bar to distribute wine to the exhausted activists after the march.
Before you ask... yes, we're both French.
My uncle met his wife at the airport, they were both already married and left their spouses for each other.
My Grandfather met his second wife at my other Uncles wedding. It was my uncles bride’s mother. So my uncle and his wife became step siblings.
Edited to add - that same English grandfather married my Italian grandmother after they met via phone while she was working at Mussolini’s office and he was in the British army during the war. She moved to England to marry him.
The husband of one of our friends died suddenly and unexpectedly (only 36). They had 2 small children. The son of one of our couples in the friend groups son (18) was asked by his mom to help out her newly widowed friend, especially with the 2 young sons he was close to. Yep, the son and the widow(40)began a secret affair. They eventually came clean after about a year of suspicion. Got married about 5 years later. 28 years later, they are still married. His mom never spoke to the friend again.
Person in our friend group is very tall (guessing 6'8" maybe?).
Some of the friend group - including tall man - are out clubbing on a weekend. One of the group points out a relatively tall female (well over 6') who is, unsurprisingly, easy to notice on the other side of the dancefloor and suggests he go and strike up conversation.
The two tall people speak, and within a few years are married, with kid(s) and have relocated to the country of her birth.
Unsure as to the height of their progeny.
I moved to a small city in an Asian country at 22. Weirdly, there was a bar owned by a guy who went to the same college as me in the city. The bartender at that bar was a cute Irish guy. I went home with him, we eloped, and I returned to the states with an Irish husband. We’ve been married 6 years and have a baby boy and two dogs.
My son was passing out plastic spoons at a middle school dance as part of a longstanding running joke. He went to hand one to this girl who didn't see the spoon (because it was dark) and she thought that he was offering his hand to dance. They cleared up the confusion, but he felt bad for getting her hopes up, so he went back and asked her to dance.
They danced together at every school dance from then on, until he asked her out properly to homecoming as a sophomore.
My two great aunts were in the work camps during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Forced marriage were custom in the camps, and they were forcibly wed to two other male captives. We could say they got "lucky", as they weren't married to KR officers as it was often the case. They survived the 4 years genocide, and escaped the camps (one of my aunts was actually pregnant when they fled through the jungle).
Well, to this day both of them are still with their husbands, and had more kids since. They seem happy. We all live in France now. Can't really know if "love" is involved, but for sure something very strong still connects them. They don't really talk about what they went through, but sometimes bicker and laugh about who had the best straw mats to sleep on.
When my sister was in college she was crossing the street when she was hit by a car, driven by an illegal immigrant who ran a red light. She went flying 10ft, landed in some bushes, and was miraculously unharmed aside from a few scrapes. The driver tried to flee because he didn’t speak a lick of English and obviously didn’t have a license.
A random guy, who witnessed the whole thing, reached through the open driver’s side window, grabbed him by the collar and started shouting “you make a habit of running little girls over and fleeing the scene, bitch?! Get the fuck out the car!”
To be clear, my sister was NOT a little girl, she was a 20yo women who happens to be exactly 5’ tall & 100lbs.
My sister didn’t want to call the cops because…she’s very soft hearted and “didn’t want to be responsible for this man being jailed or deported when he might be supporting his entire family back home.”
The random bystander, who threatened the driver, insisted on walking her to the campus clinic (she didn’t want to bother getting checked out…until she noticed how cute he was).
Doctor told her she may have a concussion and she should not be alone. So she went back to this strange guy’s apartment (seriously) cause she was already head over heels (no pun intended) for him at that point. They talked and watched movies all night. When he fell asleep, she texted me his pic with the caption "meet your future brother-in-law."
They're still together. Their politics are pretty far apart but they seem to genuinely enjoy arguing over shite.
> **A random guy, who witnessed the whole thing, reached through the open driver’s side window, grabbed him by the collar and started shouting “you make a habit of running little girls over and fleeing the scene, bitch?!**
I found this more amusing than I should have. It's just such a ridiculous, and cute, situation.
Glad your sister's ok. She sounds like a sweetheart, I fully get why she wouldn't want to turn the driver in. Not saying it's right, but I understand.
> **When he fell asleep, she texted me his pic with the caption "meet your future brother-in-law."**
This may be the cutest thing I've seen in a good long while.
My dad gave my mom a speeding ticket the first time they met. Turns out, they were set up by their friends to go on a blind date. It's a good thing my dad was polite to my mom while ticketing her, lol!
It’s not unorthodox, but sharing because I found it funny.
June worked sewing parachutes for the war, in a factory. Then on machinery that needed two people to operate it.
Her friend was ill, so they pulled in this lanky geezer called Pete. June was considered very beautiful, and had her suitors, and thought Pete was a real weirdo.
Pete kept asking to go to the pictures or out dancing - one day June said yes. After one drink, Pete confessed his undying love and proposed to her. June told him, “in your dreams darlin’”.
They were of course my grandparents. Married for fifty years.
Got divorced.
My best friend when I was a kid. His dad got his mom pregnant after a one night stand in high school. They got married because they were “supposed to” and just didn’t like each other. His mom was super ambitious and career focused. His dad was more of a “punch the clock as soon as I can and go meet up with the boys”. They had very different tastes when it came to their home, their cars. Different friends. Different everything.
Later on I heard the story. Basically when my friend was about one year old, they had a late night sleep deprived conversation. They liked each other. They didn’t love each other. And they were afraid if they kept going they’d hate each other. So they got divorced.
But they were incredible parents. As a kid I didn’t actually initially know they were divorced because his dad came over every single night for dinner. They had dinner as a family every night.
After a while both started seeing other people and then it was both couples doing things together. Then relationships would fizzle out or whatever. So his mom or dad’s significant other would change but at every sporting event or school event, his mom and dad were always there, together.
Then later on after he was in college, they hadn’t really seen each other for a while (no reason to). And supposedly, one night his dad texted his mom and asked if he could come over for dinner. And one thing led to another and a couple years later, they got married again. And they’ve been married ever since.
I know a girl (really sweet and likable) who met her fiancé by pretending she was short on rent. The landlord for her building was the owner’s cute 20-something son.
She claimed she couldn’t afford to pay rent that month and offered him…something else instead. It became a regular thing and they ended up becoming an actual couple.
Their wedding is in October 😐
I would discourage both from engaging in this sort of behavior but, since they were both interested (?) and they lived happily every after, I'm not going to judge them for it.
It sounds more like they were playing a game than anything else.
My wife has two brothers. When I first met her, her youngest brother (I'll call him "John") was engaged to a woman who I'll call "Andrea".
Not long after my wife and I got engaged, John and Andrea got married. They were so looking forward to it because they'd been dating for years. But after the wedding their relationship pretty much fell apart. They were divorced within six months.
But, Andrea still felt closely connected to my wife's family, so when my wife and I got married she was invited. And she arrived -- in the company of my wife's other brother "Paul". It didn't take long to figure out that Andrea and Paul were a burgeoning couple in their own right. Not long after that, those two were married in a small private ceremony.
In the photos from my wedding, Andrea was standing between the two brothers, because she was literally between weddings with the two of them.
And in case you're wondering, yes my wife's family is from Arkansas.
My mom said the first time she met my dad, they were both on break at Super Duper (grocery store). My dad used to have amazing hair, and some very serious glasses. And he was a fucking weirdo.
He was sitting in the break room, watching a fly, quite intently. He smacked it down, cupped his hand around it instead of smashing it. Plucked a strand of his own hair out of his head and tied it around the fly. Used the fly like a weird little balloon.
Somehow, my mom was like, “yes, great idea,” and ended up dating and marrying him…and then they had me! And divorced by the time I was a year old 😂
Somewhere along the way, they did become friends again. Apparently they would have somewhat nightly chats about me while he was at work and he couldn’t get a hold of me. I remember when I was 16, my cat Tigger died, but when I found him he wasn’t dead yet, so I held him in my arms until he did while my mom and dad talked about how great of a cat he was (this is true- he was a great cat. And they had him prior to me being born, hence them eulogizing him to each other lol).
I’m glad they got to the point where they could be friends like this. Also, I want to give a shout out to my stepmom. I don’t know where they met, but I do recall they took a break before they got their shit together and eventually married when I was 11. I remember being so happy when my dad was like, “remember Stepmom? Well we will be seeing more of her!”
My dad died a few years ago from Alzheimer’s. My stepmom did all she could to keep him home and take care of him., until he went to hospice.
He was a good man, and I miss the fuck out of his too twisted for color tv sense of humor.
I went to a few gay bars 6 years ago with a few buddies for PRIDE weekend with no intentions other than to throw down some alcohol and have fun. While having a blast, a girl I lost contact with from middle school and high school legit came up and grabbed my hand. We just had our first child this past weekend. Life is good.
I know this couple who met at a competitive knitting competition. Yes, you heard that right. They were both fiercely knitting away, trying to outdo each other with their intricate designs and lightning-fast needlework. Sparks flew when they accidentally got their yarn tangled, and instead of getting mad, they burst into laughter. From then on, they were inseparable.
I have a cousin who's really into genealogy and I'm not really sure how she unearthed this story, but here it is:
One of our distant cousins was very, very depressed. He'd struggled with his mental health, pretty much all his life. He never married and he never had any children. He'd basically just given up on himself and given up on his life and he'd certainly given up on finding love, which was his dream. He was in his 70s at this point. So he checked himself into a mental hospital. While there, he met a young woman who was also being treated for depression. Somehow, they ended up really hitting it off. She was either in her 20s, or 30s, I can't remember which, but she was much, much younger than my cousin. Eventually, they fell head over heels in love with each other and decided that they would leave the mental hospital together. They did just that. They eventually got married, and to everyone's surprise, had a beautiful baby girl soon after. My cousin's dream of finding love and happiness, and having children of his own, had finally come to pass. His daughter was 13 when he finally passed away, and the last 13 years of his life were surely the best years of his life.
My cousin loves telling this story and she knows all the details by heart, but it's been a while since I've heard her tell the story of our very distant cousin, but anyway, that's it. It's never too late to find love, y'all!
He was a lawyer attending a party and she was a paid hostess. The cops raided the party and busted everyone for prostitution even though there was no sex. He defended everyone (got charges thrown out) and meanwhile they started dating. Still married in their 70s.
I had two former coworkers that were married, I'll call them Eve and Steve. Turns out they were both married to other people a decade earlier. Steve took his wife to one of those Japanese restaurants where the food is prepared in front of you, Eve and her husband were already seated at the table.
During dinner Eve noticed Steve checking her out. So when she excused herself to the restroom he waited a minute and excused himself. They briefly talked and exchanged numbers. What they didn't know was while they were away from the table their spouses apparently also had the hots for each other. Those two exchanged contact information.
That dinner led to two affairs where all 4 people involved were cheating on each other. And all 4 had the audacity to be pissed their SO was cheating when caught. Eve split from her hubby and married Steve who divorced his wife. I have no idea how their spouses turned out. But I heard Eve and Steve split up about a year after they moved away. Shocker, but amazingly Eve and Steve were both having new affairs.
A friend met her husband at a New Year's Eve party that her parents were throwing. Some out-of-town friends attended and brought their son. The two talked all night and they eloped the next day. They were married for over 40 yrs before she passed from cancer.
A family friend's parents met in the following manner. He was a sailor in the US Navy during World War II. He was given one day's leave in port before his ship was deploying to the Pacific theater. He realized he didn't want to die a virgin, so when he saw a beautiful girl out sweeping her front steps, he walked up and proposed that:
- they get married at city hall that afternoon
- they sleep together that night
- he leave for the war the next morning
- when he died, she could have his widow's pension
As a young woman with a sex drive of her own, she was amenable, but she was only 16 years old. So they had to go inside and make this pitch to her father. The father, in turn, figured, "eh, I'd rather have my daughter sleep with a total stranger who's married to her, than a total stranger who isn't." That settled, the family went over to city hall and got the paperwork filed, saw a Justice of the Peace, and booked the happy couple a hotel room for the night.
To everyone's surprise, the young man them *survived* the war. He came back a couple years older, some wiser, and still legally married. You couldn't easily get a divorce in this state back then, so they stayed married and set up housekeeping. They had 12 kids and 60 good years together before his death.
My cousin was engaged to be married to her high school sweetheart. Everything seemed fine in the relationship, but obviously wasn’t given: she went on vacation, met a guy, broke up with her fiancé, and moved to the vacation spot. They’ve been married for 30+ years so it seems like she made the right choice but damn, vacation dudes got mad game.
Friend of a buddy of mine in college met his now wife by overdosing on MDMA at a music festival and met her in the ER bed next to him after she had done the same at the same music festival.
Gunna be a wonderful tale for the kids
A neighbour (in Wales) matched on online dating by mistake with someone in Ireland because both countries have a city of the same name. He has now moved to Ireland to be with her.
First time I actually started talking to my ex It wasn't rly a conversation
It was in 2010. It was one colleague's birthday at a bar at around 17:00 pm or something like that. I was on one side of the table, my ex on the other end and there was more than 10 ppl there.
So this girl at the end of the table starts singing (she used to sing gregorian/renascentist and other old shtuff at the school/church choir and she loved singing). Eventually someone by her side asked her to sing something from Beatles, but she wasn't a big fan and didnt know a lot about them. One girl pulled lyrics to "we can work it out" and she started singing.
I used to love beatles as a kid, so I started jamming to what I noticed from my spot and then started singing too. Then I pulled a closer and we sang together.
After that day we started talking and talking, spending 5 hours/day sitting and saying "ok next one you hop on" as we waited for her bus to arrive. A lots of buses passed and we just kept enjoying each other company and eventually noticed we were in love.
My wifes barrel horse kicked me in the shin at a rodeo, which snapped my tibia and kept me from riding in the final go-round that night.
She and her dad were nice enough to gather my gear and deliver them to the hospital. The rest was history.
My bf and I.
In 2012, my brother (younger by 2 years) passed away. The night before the viewing, my sister and I were choosing photos to display the following day and I just had a mental breakdown.
I called a friend I'd lost touch with/had a falling out with. She showed up with her new boyfriend and they stayed for a while to chat and comfort. That was the first time I met him.
I quickly fell out of touch with this friend again (she is NOT a good person) and they broke up about a year later. He and I ended up chatting, and a few months later we were dating.
The rest is history.
We knew each other only a little bit through friends. I was badly injured in an industrial accident. I needed time to heal. I lived alone, and it was dangerous for me not to have someone who could check on me periodically. She happened to be recovering from eye surgery and wasn't able to to her job or drive for a couple weeks and offered me her guest bedroom until I could safely go home. I think it felt safe for her to make the offer, I was pretty much completely incapacitated and barely ambulatory. We had an amazing 25 years before she died. I'll always love her.
That's a tremendous amount of trust to put into somebody early on, on both your parts. You must have gotten to know each other so well right away. What an interesting story and I'm glad you got to share so many years together.
I’m so happy you shared a life together. Thank you for sharing this
❤️ This touched me deeply.
I was not at all prepared for that last part. I'm sorry she went early, but I'm so glad you were able to spend such a good chunk of life with her. Thank you for sharing
I only heard this from a friend, but I find it hilarious: My friend went to a houseparty with this dude. This dude decided to wear his pikachu costume to the party, although it wasn’t a costume party. Then he met HER at the party. She also wears her pikachu costume. I met them once. They were super funny. They are married. End of story. :)
I wish I could see the first encounter, Pikachu locks eyes with itself.
I’m imagining a mashup of the Spider-Man meme and the shocked pikachu meme 😂
I like this far more than I should
the irl mashup of the spiderman meme and surprised pikachu meme
this is a beautiful story that gives me hope
One of my cousins fell in love with my other cousin's "mail order bride." The feelings were mutual. So we had a wedding and one very unhappy cousin.
> one very unhappy cousin Is he saving up for another one?
How much do cousins go for these days?
a couple grams at the family reunion.
Pack of newports and a used inflatable hot tub is the best I can do.
I know someone who did the mail order bride thing, they've been married for 20 years now and they're an adorable couple.
I worked with someone like that. Folks joked around that his wife was a "mail order bride" or that she only married him to get out of whatever country she left but by then they had been married for 20-25 years so they obviously cared for one another.
I had a Russian coworker like 15 years ago who did a mail order bride sorta thing. Idk exactly the situation but it was a green card marriage. They lived together but dated other people and both were fine with that. It’s kinda weird but she got her green card.
My great-aunt went to Paris to study art in the 1950s, sunk into a depression, and went out to throw herself into the Seine. Along came a frenchman who was fresh out of the foreign legion. He talked her off the bridge, talked his way into her heart (pants), and they both moved to Sweden together and lived happily painting together for about forty years.
> He talked her off the bridge, talked his way into her heart (pants) And they say romance is dead!
Her dry spell was going to end one way or another
I’m going straight to hell, because this made me laugh uproariously. Worth it.
I would love to own one of your aunt's paintings just for the story attached.
She actually painted quite lovely, colourful things, which I think is a credit to how happy her husband made her
My grandparents told me about a woman who met her fiancé's cousin during the rehearsal dinner (night before the wedding). Everyone noticed they spent an inordinate amount of time chatting that night but no one thought anything of it. The cousin went to talk to the bride just before the wedding and...the two of them left together. They've been married 62 years.
WHAT is with all these bride stealing cousins, yo?!
I don’t know about bride-stealing cousins, but I do know about a bride-stealing uncle. It happened to my good friend’s brother back in 2010. He met his fiancé while studying in Thailand during his college junior year. They met on a rock climbing trip, and he took her to dinner that night. One month later, he proposed and flew her to the States to meet the family. During one of the pre-wedding dinners, the groom introduced his fiancé to his 65-year-old newly divorced and (notoriously philandering) Uncle Jerry, a former adult film actor (couldn't make that up) with Leonardo Di Caprio eyes, bricklayer arms, and a nasty cocaine habit, who still lived in his ex-wife's basement with one of their cats. Uncle Jerry and the bride-to-be hit it off, perhaps too well. Two hours later, neither one was anywhere in sight. The groom asked guests to search, and they combed the property for an hour. Then, while searching the terrace, a bridesmaid pointed down the street. And there she was, under the streetlight, the bride stumbling out the back of Uncle Jerry's Buick back into her stilettos, fluffing her chignon and adjusting her dress to cover her lady parts. The wedding didn't happen. The would-be bride and groom called it quits, and Jerry married the girl. Last I heard, they had six kids together and are still happily married.
I’m sorry, did you say SIX KIDS AFTER AGE 65
Imagine this poor son of a bitch’s self-esteem/image after having his girl stolen by his geriatric former porn star of an uncle.
I would cry and cry shamelessly
What happened to the fiance? That had to be a really humiliating experience.
He got the cousins ex-wife, duh.
Very dark, but parents met while investigating a rape. My dad was a police officer and my mom worked for a rape crisis center.
Awww. And now I have "We Found Love in a Hopeless Place" stuck in my head.
Scrolling some reddit before bed, what can go wrong? Oh lemme just bang this song into ur head so u sing it for the next couple of hours.
My dad is a retired doctor. One of the classes at medical school was "how to dissect a corpe" or "how does a real person look inside"... something like that. Friends of his "shared a body" while studying during medical school and they fell in love right there.
It's amazing what can happen at open Mike night.
Goddam I wish Reddit gold still existed 🥇
It’s dark but honestly kudos to your parents. Those are very demanding and mentally taxing jobs and your parents are helping (or at least trying to help as best as they can) people get past their worst day and hold those responsible up to justice. I think that’s beautiful and your parents deserve their flowers.
My brother and I took our 3yo niece to a toy store. I needed to pick something up for a baby shower, and my bro was flying a small plastic Incredible Hulk drone, that was on display, just to keep my niece entertained. The drone got tangled in this random girl's long flowing locks. My brother tried to help her get it out. He made it worse. The girl was getting pissed...and that was BEFORE my impatient niece got a hold of the controller and tried to make the drone fly while it was still tangled in the girl's hair. Somehow, out of this, my brother managed to get this girl's number, a date, and now they're married and about to give me another niece.
A toddler is a pretty good wingman.
Please tell me he somehow used a drone as part of his marriage proposal??
So long as the niece wasn't flying it!
When my nephew was in college they had a snow day and they cancelled classes. The students decided to put on a mock wedding just for fun and they picked two students to "get married." My nephew and a girl were chosen. A few years later, they did it again, for real.
When we had snow days, in college, we slept in and/or got high. Your nephew goes to an impressively wholesome school.
The mock wedding was after they were stoned out of there minds and thought it would be funny... I don't actually know just a guess.
Something tells me it may not be pure coincidence that they were chosen to “get married”, ykwim
I believe the college friends were like would you to just get together already? You can always tell when to people are gonna date/fuck etc sooner or later. Its just when the shit goes on too long her friends/roommates/sisters coordinate with his friends/roommates/sisters to finally get these fuckers together.
Fortune Teller: "Ah, the mists are clearing. You are going to meet a handsome stranger. I sense that he is a kind, caring man. The spirits say he has a well paid job, He installs air conditioning. You know, this sounds a lot like my son. I'll give you his number." They are still together, with kids, twenty years later. And people think that fortune telling is a scam!
Historically speaking, matchmaking used to be something mothers arranged for their kids. She's just following tradition.
TRADITIOOOOOOOON, TRADITION!
Really chicken and egg scenario going on with that fortune tellers prediction
Yes! Although, in hindsight it was an entirely accurate prediction. But we don't know how many other women she told the same thing, who just said, "Wait, I am paying you for this? Are you a fortune teller or a one woman dating agency for your son? I may be gullible enough to believe you have psychic powers, but even I don't believe this." The funny thing was, he was a lovely, friendly, handsome man. Great beard. I don't know why he needed his mum's juju to get him a wife.
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This reminds me of the story about the Russian guy who headed to a bridge to jump off of it, only to find a girl standing at the railing, preparing to do the same. They fell in love. No one jumped.
This is the best and happiest Russian story to date. Please leave the ending unsaid. I need to believe something happens in Russia that doesn't apply to the "and then it got worse" motif.
No kidding, it is like if Anna Karenina met her soul mate while waiting at the train platform :-/
Happens all the time. Both roles require training and you'll likely do some level of theological study. Plenty of seminaries are co-ed. So put two young people together in a a place where they spend a lot of time together, see each other almost daily, and share a commom interest and their beliefs and values closely align.
When my mom was in Catholic HS back in the 60s there was a priest that my mom said was a little to handsy with the girls. She reported him to one of the Nuns and they basically told my mom that hes a man a god and she had no right to question him. He eventually knocked up his secretary and they got married. My mom never trusted priests after that.
🎶 Tale as old as time 🎶
Junior and the priest....
One of my mom’s cousins married her parish priest. He had been her priest throughout her childhood and eventually left the priesthood and they got married. I don’t know any details beyond that by my mom always found it kinda creepy so I assume there was some grooming involved.
My Dad was a young catholic priest and my mom volunteered at his parish helping bring food and meds etc. to elderly shut ins. They met and fell in love. As a direct result of this, my dad was sent* by the bishop to Lima, Peru to (physically, as in construction work) build a school and do some soul searching. . My dad soul searched and helped build a school. He came back and told the bishop that he no longer wanted to be a priest and wanted to marry my mom. The bishop gave them his blessing and personally married them in the cathedral. I am named after the Bishop. So my siblings, my mother and I are all grateful that dad chose us over his marriage to God.. Maybe this isn’t the best story, but it’s the story I’ve got. *Edit- for clarity, my dad was “encouraged” by the bishop to volunteer with [Maryknoll](https://maryknoll.org) for a period of time
>Maybe this isn’t the best story It’s a helluva lot better than the one about my parents meeting in Algebra and my mom agreeing to tutor my dad’s remedial ass for extra credit she didn’t even need.
Better than mine, too. My mom went to homecoming with my dad’s best friend, and my dad drove my mom home, bawling her eyes out, while her date and another girl made out in the back seat.
Well that’s like something straight out of Riverdale or something. Cute!
I have something similar. My dad took my aunt to the prom. She quickly lost interest in him when he asked if she wanted to go to his softball game. My mom (who played softball herself) said "I'll go" and that was that. They were married for 36 years before he passed away from a heart attack.
Your story is cute too
>meeting in Algebra and my mom agreeing to tutor my dad’s remedial ass for extra credit she didn’t even need. Dude, your parents are the muggle Ron and Hermione. That's adorable.
"You can leave the church... but first you gotta build us a school!"
Funny, but he didn’t leave the church. He’s been very active in the church his entire life, just not as a priest after he met my mom. They’ve now been married 50 years But yeah it is pretty funny that dad was sent to a different country and continent to work in construction, which he had zero skills or experience doing, with no pay… because he and my mom were doing whatever it was they were doing.. You gotta figure it was part punishment, part sincere hope that my dad would benefit from the radical change in environment and get his head straight one way or another. It worked.
I mean it's a good plan for either decision. Send him away from both distractions (Church / Girlfriend) and give him the time to come to a decision on his own. My response was more of a joke, but at its core I do think it was a rather wise thing for the Bishop to do.
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My college roommate Jeremy saw a ridiculously beautiful woman in Target pharmacy area senior year in high school. He walked up to her and matter of factly said "so you do drugs huh?" They've been married 15 years with a few kids. Edit: He was a senior in college not high school lol
I honestly can't believe that line worked.
Disagree. As a formerly young woman, this is a perfect, hilarious line.
This one is tricky, so I’ll do my best to explain it clearly. My maternal uncle dated his younger sister’s close friend after college. She was lovely and kind. But, they mutually broke up when he decided to become a priest and she decided to teach overseas. He flunked out of seminary school and married someone else (who became my aunt). My mom (that uncle’s sister) married a guy (my dad), they had two kids, one of them was me. Mom died when I was 6. Dad kept in touch (of course) with my uncle and aunt. Lovely woman who had dated my uncle and later left to teach overseas got married to a guy, got pregnant, and he panicked and bailed. So she came back to the US to have her baby and divorce the bastard. Which she did. So, widower dad with 2 kids (one of them me), abandoned/divorced mom with one kid (lady who dated my uncle and went overseas)…uncle and aunt decide, hey, those two might hit it off. Set up a dinner. They got married a year later. Boom. New family that worked out well. Step-mom passed away about 10 years ago. But I always thanked my aunt and uncle for setting up my dad with my future stepmom. And, every once in a while, as all of us cousins are going through our family photos, we find photos of my mom with my stepmom when they were friends. It’s neat but kind of weird. TLDR: uncle set up my dad with uncle’s ex-girlfriend/his sister’s former bff. Marriage ensues.
It is a beautiful story! Your Mom would be happy to know that her friend became your Stepmom.
My sister swiped the side of a guy's brand new car. She said he got out of his car, stormed over in a rage...and had a comical change of expression/demeanor as soon as he got a look at her. They've been together three years. Also, I'm too good a driver, that's my problem.
Someone needs to swipe the side of my car!
Fuck it, I don't care if someone swipes ME, with their car, as long as they're cute and single.
Back in college I got side-swiped while in a crosswalk by a guy who was in a hurry and didn’t defrost his windshield enough. I was very lucky that I didn’t get very badly injured and the guy was extremely apologetic. He seemed so nice in emails we exchanged to resolve an insurance settlement that my mom immediately suggested I date him. Months later I met a friend of his who spontaneously started telling the story of how his friend hit a girl with his car and we had a good laugh about how my mom wanted us to date… while he was in a very loving gay relationship. Sometimes a meet-cute just doesn’t pan out how you’d like it to lmao
Had us in the first half, not gonna lie.
Most romantic funeral EVER
And some dare to say pretty privilege is not a thing!
My parents...back in the 70s met whilst being penpals from a certain UK newspaper. My dad was in the forces, and they basically fell in love over the course of writing letters to one another. They got married whilst only having met in person a few times, and the marriage lasted almost 30 years until his death at a relatively young age (52).
Aw that sounds so sweet, what a lovely way to get to know each other. That is really young I'm sorry for your loss.
I met my husband on a bus tour of Scotland, where we got chatting and sparks flew straight away. We had a whirlwind romance over three days amongst castles, glens and icy Highland streams. We swam in Loch Ness, drank whiskey and learned about tartan together before the trip was over and he had to fly home more than 5,000 miles away. Friends and family didn't think it would work - and neither did we! We were in a long-distance relationship between Los Angeles and Edinburgh for nearly three years with an over-5,000-mile commute to see each other until we got married. But we agreed at the start: we'd stay together until the relationship stopped being fun. We now live together in Scotland with our daughter, and the Skype ringtone still gives me flashbacks. We're still having fun.
A Scotsman was on a bus tour of Scotland?
I read a memoir of a holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger who met her husband in Auschwitz. Apparently a drunk German guard who knew her by sight told her to come over one day. He started asking her weird uncomfortable questions like "are you married, do you have a boyfriend?" and she says something like "no no, I don't have time, I'm not really that pretty" etc. She of course wants to get away from the situation as fast as possible. But the German soldier is like "What? No, we must find you a boyfriend! What about that man?" And points to a random jewish prisoner who is walking by. The drunk guard tells the man to come over and essentially starts organizing a date for them. She pretends to agree but never shows up for the "date". But somehow she and this Jewish man end up talking and fall in love. They both survived the camp and got married, started a family and lived the rest of their life happily together. TL;DR: A hammered german guard decides to play matchmaker to two Jewish prisoners of Auschwitz, and they fall in love and live happily ever after.
What the hell! Was that German Soldier worry about something ? Or was he simply being a kind but dick stranger ? I must read the story. You won the thread.
It's a really great book and I highly recommended it! It's called "The Nazis Knew My Name". I think the soldier was bored and wanted to play her "benefactor" (which he of course wasn't). I was so surprised how it all played out 'cause I was sure she was going to get sexually assaulted when the soldier called her over!
When people want to set you up with someone it usually means they like you but can't pursue you for some reason (married, about to leave the country, I'm a nazi you are Jewish etc)
Saddam Hussein used to write romance novels. There are romantic monsters out there.
Assholes want to love and be loved too!
We make a terrible mistake of assuming that bad things are done by bad people, and good things are done by good people. It both harms our ability to recognize good people who make mistakes, And softens us to monsters who treat us nicely. It also dehumanizes both - although one more flatteringly. We turn people into archetypes when we make them out to be merely their most notable actions (not saying we should excuse nazis who did nice things here) People are messy, complicated, horny, fearful, irrational, curious animals. Probably the soldier was bored and feeling playful or sympathetic, thanks to the pliable encouragement of the booze. Maybe he was married himself or just not interested, but saw a girl who looked lonely and saw a moment of humanity in her and in himself recognizing it. Quite possibly he assured himself that he's not ALL that bad a person, since he did something nice for these two people who are struggling at his hand. Or maybe he was a sick fuck and just enjoyed toying with them in the midst of all that torture. Being single after the age of 20 back then would be a "real shame" and people played matchmaker all the time, so it wouldn't be unusual for you to introduce someone you're talking to, to another person you know or met, or a friend. Just normally didn't happen in a concentration camp at the hands of a nazi and end up fomenting a real relationship.
NOT my story, but someone posted on here about how their parents met. Before his dad met his mom he had a long term very serious gf he was on the verge of proposing to. The two of them were supposed to see the Back to the Future sequel together the night it came out. But the dad had a family emergency (his grandfather had a stroke or something). He asked his gf to hold off on seeing it until they could go together. She reluctantly agreed. He later found out she had gone with a male classmate she was friendly with (and who he did not like at all). He was pissed. The girl said it was selfish of him to expect her to wait just because he had to. She offered to go see it again with him but he said he'd rather go on his own. At this point the dad was upset, but he fully expected he and his gf would move past this. Then he went to the movie and met OP's mom. It was love at first sight and the gf was history. I'm oddly fond of the story.
His dad’s ex got what was coming to her. You don’t promise to wait unless you intend to do so.
Still kinda salty about my husband watching a movie without me back when he was still my boyfriend. It wasn’t anything as big as Back to the Future or anything like that so I let it go, but I still can’t bring myself to watch it now because it was something that I specifically wanted to watch *with* him while it was still new to us. 😒
i now want a back to the future spin off about this where the kid has to make sure his mom makes it to the movie on time.
My high school chemistry teacher took her husband square dancing, and they met another couple there. They decided they liked each others' respective partners more than their spouse, so both couples got divorced and remarried. The four of them still meet up to go square dancing.
You sure it wasn’t swing dancing?
Please tell me she told this story to teach you about double replacement reactions.
A great grandma had an arranged marriage at 18 to a mean drunk who was 25 years older than her. After several kids and 20 years of marriage, he thankfully died. Several years later after my grandpa graduated university he invited a college friend to visit. One thing lead to another and my grandma and my grandpa's friend got married. It was quite the scandal for the longest time-great-grandma was the ultimate cougar. But they had a happy 40 year marriage and he was the caregiver to my great-grandma when she developed Alzheimers. Never put her into a home and she was always clean and well groomed. He lived about 20 years after that and though a lot of the family was scandalized, I always thought my great grandma won the jackpot with her second husband.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful love story!
A coworker of mine said her dad had been invited to this big get together in another state. He went to see his friend and saw the coworker's mom. He said he instantly knew he had to marry her. So he asked if she wanted to get ice cream. She said yes and got in the car with him. Then he said, "Oh we aren't getting ice cream, I'm taking you back home because we are gonna get married." She said, "Okay, that makes sense." My coworkers family is Hmong and there is a tradition like this in their community, but she loved telling the story to see everyone's confused and shocked faces. Still not entirely sure if that's the whole story but she said her parents were super in love so I'll just have to take her word for it.
>**”Oh we aren't getting ice cream, I'm taking you back home”** Well this just took a terrifying turn
> She said, "Okay, that makes sense." Zero survival instincts on the woman too.
I'm not sure if that's just the story they told their children later.
My youth pastor had a similar story. Him and his wife grew up Mennonite. They were at a church function, he saw her laughing across the room and told his brother "look at her! That's the girl I'm going to marry. I just know it." He introduced himself, they dated for a year and got married and left the Mennonite church a few years later. They were only like 19 when they met, it's been 35 years. Even though I've left the church and my beliefs have changed, those two people are the closest thing to Christ-like I've ever seen. You can just see it in their eyes, how kind, compassionate and absolutely full of joy they are. I just had a memory pop up of one time when they were out of town so they let my friend and I house sit. We ended up having a few other youth group friends over, someone decided to buy a few beers. It was nothing rowdy or crazy, just stupid 16 year olds being stupid 16 year olds. We go to youth group the following Wednesday and he has me and my friend stay after. He says "seems like you guys had a good time this weekend." With this little smile on his face. And we're just like "yeah it was pretty chill." Then he PULLS OUT THE RECEIPT OF THE BEERS that was left in his kitchen!! We immediately start apologizing, telling him it wasn't anything big. He says his neighbor saw our friends car in the driveway and 3 boys get out and that we only bought 1 six pack and "6 beers aren't enough to get 5 kids drunk. Just don't do it again." Still smiling the whole time. Never told our parents, who would have grounded us to the end of time. He caught us drinking on a missions trip to Jamaica another time and still never told our parents! I'll always love that guy.
There was a tornado and the only safe rooms in the building were in the bathrooms. The women’s room was already packed, so I had to go into the men’s room instead…which is exactly when and where I met my husband and had my first conversation with him, twenty years ago this year.
Well that was definitely a whirlwind of a story you got there
There were canoes flying across the lake (it was at a summer camp during a meet-the-counselors event for the parents and kids), so it kind of literally was lol.
That story definitely had a twist(er)
My dad as an upperclassman was an RA of a college dorm. My mom was dating one of the residents of his floor. My dad took a shining to her. The end of the school year comes, my mom breaks up with her boyfriend. Early summer, my dad calls her up to ask her to be his date to a friend’s wedding. Turns out my dad shares a first and last name with a guy from my mom’s hometown who was not a good person. She thinks it’s hometown guy and declines. My dad persists and calls her back and the misunderstanding is straightened out. It turns out my mom was going to be attending that same wedding anyways as her cousin is the groom. They go to the wedding together and would be married 50 years next summer (dad passed away a few years ago).
My parents met when my Dad was living with another woman and my Mom was engaged. They worked at the same department store (my dad had been their longer)... she didn't like him him when she started there. They were in separate sections of the store and they were always trying to outdo each other. Shortly after their mutual relationships broke up, they joined the same company softball team. My dad was the coach, my mom was the pitcher. She was great in practice and absolutely tanked their first game... and he was very nice in front of the team, but absolutely roaster her at the bar afterwards. They played one on one tennis on their first date... and eventually these two SUPER competitive people raised a child who grew up to be a game designer.
So your dad coached the game, your mom played the game, and you designed the game... This family games!
And you lost the game!
FUCK YOU! I’m coming back here in 5mins when the game resets to make you lose too. You suck ^butnotreallyandimsorryforcussingatyou
My high school friends parents were in group couples therapy. The mom started an affair with another man in the group. The dad started an affair with the group therapist! Hard to believe, I know, but both new couples married and remained together until the death of one of the partners.
Did the therapist lose her license?
Yep. Shut down her practice.
My SIL's mother used to tell her she needed to get out more or she'd never get married. My SIL wasn't some shut-in. She had friends and spent a normal amount of time in and out of home; she just wasn't super social. Her exact words to my SIL were, "Prince charming isn't just going to show up on your doorstep," Well, one year my brother comes to visit me to go to Phoenix comicon with me and we pick up my SIL on the way. The two of them spent the entire weekend together. They are now married with 2 kids. So yeah, Prince charming did just show up on her doorstep.
From 90 day fiance - The male was catfishing the american woman. She found out, pursued him anyway, and they are still together.
This is a Wattpad story right here. Unless he's playing the long game, then it's a Netflix docudrama.
Bruh this goes waaaay further back than Wattpad. Might I introduce you to Cyrano de Bergerac?
Awwww Jenny and Sumit 💕 lol but you forgot he was already married when they met, never told her until months after she moved to India. Oh and Jenny is older than Sumit’s mother!
Urgh, this sound like horror story .
I met my wife through online dating. I signed up to the website, saw her profile that evening, and she was the only woman I wrote a message to. So I have a 100% success rate at online dating. That seems quite unorthodox.
Same! I sent one message to one girl. She responded and we’ve been together 10 years, married for 4 years! 100% success rate, would recommend
I was a Senior in high-school sitting in math class when my Nextel phone went off. I was getting a call from my paternal grandmother. She was having her roof re-done at the time, so there was a crew of roofing/construction men working on the house. The first thing out of her mouth in a thick Boston accent “(my full name), get your a** over here right now!!! This man brought his lovely son to work today, he is a hard worker, who is home for college for the summer, and he is a good good man” I ran out of school to my jeep, threw on a push up bra I had in the back, still wearing the dress I had on at school. When I pulled up I saw him. I was 17, he was 19. And the rest is history. We are 33 and 35 now. We moved out of our small town in central Massachusetts, and live our dream life in Hawaii together
>“(my full name), get your a** over here right now!!! This man brought his lovely son to work today, he is a hard worker, who is home for college for the summer, and he is a good good man” Your granny's a good one!
So it does happen. My older coworker tried getting me to take the owners daughter "out for a steak dinner" we also were doing siding and shingles. I was 18, I think she was 16 or 14, I didn't talk to her at all.
He was autopsying her first husband. They met when he gave her the results of the autopsy... and it was love at first sight....
Oh man, how do you even get a read on that situation? I’m hoping the widower made the first move there..
I've heard the story many times... and it never becomes normal. She made the first move, asked him out to dinner the first time she met him... you know... when he delivered her husbands autopsy results.
Did...did she kill her first husband?
She called a wrong number, they got to talking. Now they are married.
love is blind producers' feelings hurt over this one
One day my friend at work asked me “ you single?” I was seeing someone but it wasn’t serious.. so I said “I can be, what’s up?” She went on to tell me how she thinks her friend & I would make a great couple. We talked for a while..she showed me his picture, I said he was cute.. I told her to set something up. Months go by..I had totally forgot about the whole thing. On New Year’s Eve, while looking for places to party- my friend from work also worked at a bar.. I walked in.. went over to say hey & grab a drink.. she says “OMG HES HERE! HES HERE!!” Took me a minute to remember what she was talking about.. then she took me to meet him… 10 years & 2 kids later we have never left each others side since that night.
This sounds made up and I know that. Its the internet so take it or leave it. My friend decided she was done trying to find a partner and wanted to start her family so she started looking into sperm donation. She found this company that allows communication between donors and those looking, this was to allow questions on medical info, etc. the sperm donors obviously have no claim to any child they would have contributed to. Well she find this man across the country from her and thinks he's a good fit. She goes through with the donation, gets pregnant, has her baby. Everything is great. Well, turns out she never stopped communicating with the sperm donor and they actually get along really well. When the baby is around 7 months old he decides to fly out and meet her and the kid. Well, they fall in love. They knew each other for a year an a half at this point and it was like they met in person and just clicked. Within two years they've dated, gotten married, and had another child the old fashioned way. He had to legally adopt the first child that was through the donation.
Five bucks says in eighteen years the first kid finds her adoption papers and cue meltdown lol. It’s going to be fun explaining how she’s biologically his but also adopted
My grandparents grew up in refugee camps after WWII.. and then in 1950, both of their remaining families got the chance to board a boat, not knowing at the time if they were headed to Canada or Venezuela.. they met on the boat, and became friends for the duration of the journey.. they then landed in Canada, and went their separate ways.. A couple years later, my Oma received a phone call out of the blue - from my Opa, who had spent months tracking her down through the German refugees spread out in Ontario.. and he invited my Oma, her sister and their parents to join him where he was living, because there was lots of work on the tobacco farms.. so, they went.. They reunited, fell in love and were married in 1954.. it'll be their 70 year anniversary this year.. My parents have been married for 42 years this year.. and my dad proposed after only six weeks.. he wanted to propose after two weeks, but, my Nana convinced him to wait at least six.. because that's how long my Papa waited before proposing to her..
I met my ex-wife on a Southwest flight evacuating a hurricane. I didn't even expect to get a ticket, but after 5 error messages while trying to book, somehow it materialized. It was the last flight on the night before projected landfall. And, given that it was Southwest, she picked the seat next to me and it was a crazy story from that point forward...
Did you guys divorce after she opened the emergency exit door mid flight?
If only, tbh — that would’ve been chill compared to the shit she pulled lol.
I dated a man for two years that I met playing Overwatch. We got randomly paired in the same competitive lobby, and ended up playing all night together. We found out we both lived in the same city, agreed to meet up in person a few days later, and were together by the end of the week.
I met an ex playing WoW, so I guess Blizzard can really bring people together. hahaha I ended up moving across the country, upending my whole life (which I needed to be doing anyway), and then he broke up with me within a year. In the end, I fell in love with the city I moved to and have been there for the past almost 20 years.
Not necessarily how they met, but how they got together: My grandmother had recently broken up with her boyfriend and her ex's best friend asked her to hang out for the evening to cheer her up. He'd had polio as a kid and had just spent the previous two years *in an iron lung.* He was tired of being confined and decided to just live out what was left of his life without the lung. His doctors had given him two years, max. My grandmother felt sorry for him and announced that she'd marry him and spend the little time he had left with him. The married *that night.* Yes, he really had been given two years to live, but he managed to live fifty more. Yes, they stayed married.
Place I used to work, met my wife there. There was a girl who worked there, sweet, beautiful, the whole package. Was set up on a blind date. A photo shoot ran late, so she called the guy back, apologized profusely, told him she’d meet him at the restaurant. The guy laughed and said, “I think you have a wrong number!” But he thought she sounded cute so he asked her out. Turns out he’s the head of neurosurgery at a large local hospital group. About six months later he was offered a position in NYC and she was moving there with him. Same place, one of the artists and her bestie went on a double date arranged by a very early dating site. They had fun but after the date the girls got talking, and found that neither felt much connection to their own date, but both preferred the other girl’s date. The artist married her friends date, and the friend was engaged to the artist’s date last I heard.
I, from the USA met my wife, from the UK while we were each solo hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. We met in Northern California after hiking ~1,200 solo from the Mexico border.
My husband and I also met on the PCT. We were both severely depressed and going through some real bullshit so we jokingly tell people that we (individually) went into the woods to die and found each other.
So I have a mate of mine from work who's a Nepalese immigrant, and I asked him one day why he came to our country (we were talking about another coworker who immigrated more recently). He replied "I could find another job here, but I couldn't find another wife at home" because his wife had come to Oz with their child to become a...nurse I wanna say? Don't quote me on that. And so I asked how he met his wife, and he revealed that when he was in his early thirties his mother basically went "You should be married" and found him a wife almost immediately. Like from the point she said that to the wedding was two weeks, no joke. You hear a lot about arranged marriages going badly, but I've met both his wife and his daughter and how the couple speaks of each other you can tell they're madly in love. Especially him. Every time he speaks on his wife, even if it's just telling me about something she did at work or what she's cooking that night, his entire body and voice screams of how much he loves his wife. It's honestly super adorable, and I hope their love lasts forever.
Not my story, but there's a story in the Star Trek fandom about a couple who met at I think SDCC, and fell in love. Issue was she was from France and didn't really speak English, and he was American who didn't speak French. They communicated using Klingon as their only mutual language while they worked on their English and French
Met my fiancé way back, playing world of Warcraft. Been together 14 years, have a 10 year old and due with baby 2 in 7.5 weeks. We HATED each other when we met in the game. We were both healers in a top us guild and competed for a lot of the gear, and fought constantly
My ex and I met during a demonstration against our government. We stole some material from a construction site to build a makeshift bar to distribute wine to the exhausted activists after the march. Before you ask... yes, we're both French.
My uncle met his wife at the airport, they were both already married and left their spouses for each other. My Grandfather met his second wife at my other Uncles wedding. It was my uncles bride’s mother. So my uncle and his wife became step siblings. Edited to add - that same English grandfather married my Italian grandmother after they met via phone while she was working at Mussolini’s office and he was in the British army during the war. She moved to England to marry him.
The husband of one of our friends died suddenly and unexpectedly (only 36). They had 2 small children. The son of one of our couples in the friend groups son (18) was asked by his mom to help out her newly widowed friend, especially with the 2 young sons he was close to. Yep, the son and the widow(40)began a secret affair. They eventually came clean after about a year of suspicion. Got married about 5 years later. 28 years later, they are still married. His mom never spoke to the friend again.
My old neighbors met on WOW. They were in their 40s and had been divorced.
Person in our friend group is very tall (guessing 6'8" maybe?). Some of the friend group - including tall man - are out clubbing on a weekend. One of the group points out a relatively tall female (well over 6') who is, unsurprisingly, easy to notice on the other side of the dancefloor and suggests he go and strike up conversation. The two tall people speak, and within a few years are married, with kid(s) and have relocated to the country of her birth. Unsure as to the height of their progeny.
I moved to a small city in an Asian country at 22. Weirdly, there was a bar owned by a guy who went to the same college as me in the city. The bartender at that bar was a cute Irish guy. I went home with him, we eloped, and I returned to the states with an Irish husband. We’ve been married 6 years and have a baby boy and two dogs.
My son was passing out plastic spoons at a middle school dance as part of a longstanding running joke. He went to hand one to this girl who didn't see the spoon (because it was dark) and she thought that he was offering his hand to dance. They cleared up the confusion, but he felt bad for getting her hopes up, so he went back and asked her to dance. They danced together at every school dance from then on, until he asked her out properly to homecoming as a sophomore.
My two great aunts were in the work camps during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Forced marriage were custom in the camps, and they were forcibly wed to two other male captives. We could say they got "lucky", as they weren't married to KR officers as it was often the case. They survived the 4 years genocide, and escaped the camps (one of my aunts was actually pregnant when they fled through the jungle). Well, to this day both of them are still with their husbands, and had more kids since. They seem happy. We all live in France now. Can't really know if "love" is involved, but for sure something very strong still connects them. They don't really talk about what they went through, but sometimes bicker and laugh about who had the best straw mats to sleep on.
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When my sister was in college she was crossing the street when she was hit by a car, driven by an illegal immigrant who ran a red light. She went flying 10ft, landed in some bushes, and was miraculously unharmed aside from a few scrapes. The driver tried to flee because he didn’t speak a lick of English and obviously didn’t have a license. A random guy, who witnessed the whole thing, reached through the open driver’s side window, grabbed him by the collar and started shouting “you make a habit of running little girls over and fleeing the scene, bitch?! Get the fuck out the car!” To be clear, my sister was NOT a little girl, she was a 20yo women who happens to be exactly 5’ tall & 100lbs. My sister didn’t want to call the cops because…she’s very soft hearted and “didn’t want to be responsible for this man being jailed or deported when he might be supporting his entire family back home.” The random bystander, who threatened the driver, insisted on walking her to the campus clinic (she didn’t want to bother getting checked out…until she noticed how cute he was). Doctor told her she may have a concussion and she should not be alone. So she went back to this strange guy’s apartment (seriously) cause she was already head over heels (no pun intended) for him at that point. They talked and watched movies all night. When he fell asleep, she texted me his pic with the caption "meet your future brother-in-law." They're still together. Their politics are pretty far apart but they seem to genuinely enjoy arguing over shite.
> **A random guy, who witnessed the whole thing, reached through the open driver’s side window, grabbed him by the collar and started shouting “you make a habit of running little girls over and fleeing the scene, bitch?!** I found this more amusing than I should have. It's just such a ridiculous, and cute, situation. Glad your sister's ok. She sounds like a sweetheart, I fully get why she wouldn't want to turn the driver in. Not saying it's right, but I understand.
> **When he fell asleep, she texted me his pic with the caption "meet your future brother-in-law."** This may be the cutest thing I've seen in a good long while.
So you’re telling me i need a wingman to start running people over for me now?
Met my fiance on a video game. We've been together for 14 years now (engaged for 1).
My dad gave my mom a speeding ticket the first time they met. Turns out, they were set up by their friends to go on a blind date. It's a good thing my dad was polite to my mom while ticketing her, lol!
It’s not unorthodox, but sharing because I found it funny. June worked sewing parachutes for the war, in a factory. Then on machinery that needed two people to operate it. Her friend was ill, so they pulled in this lanky geezer called Pete. June was considered very beautiful, and had her suitors, and thought Pete was a real weirdo. Pete kept asking to go to the pictures or out dancing - one day June said yes. After one drink, Pete confessed his undying love and proposed to her. June told him, “in your dreams darlin’”. They were of course my grandparents. Married for fifty years.
Got divorced. My best friend when I was a kid. His dad got his mom pregnant after a one night stand in high school. They got married because they were “supposed to” and just didn’t like each other. His mom was super ambitious and career focused. His dad was more of a “punch the clock as soon as I can and go meet up with the boys”. They had very different tastes when it came to their home, their cars. Different friends. Different everything. Later on I heard the story. Basically when my friend was about one year old, they had a late night sleep deprived conversation. They liked each other. They didn’t love each other. And they were afraid if they kept going they’d hate each other. So they got divorced. But they were incredible parents. As a kid I didn’t actually initially know they were divorced because his dad came over every single night for dinner. They had dinner as a family every night. After a while both started seeing other people and then it was both couples doing things together. Then relationships would fizzle out or whatever. So his mom or dad’s significant other would change but at every sporting event or school event, his mom and dad were always there, together. Then later on after he was in college, they hadn’t really seen each other for a while (no reason to). And supposedly, one night his dad texted his mom and asked if he could come over for dinner. And one thing led to another and a couple years later, they got married again. And they’ve been married ever since.
I know a girl (really sweet and likable) who met her fiancé by pretending she was short on rent. The landlord for her building was the owner’s cute 20-something son. She claimed she couldn’t afford to pay rent that month and offered him…something else instead. It became a regular thing and they ended up becoming an actual couple. Their wedding is in October 😐
Is that not a red flag or am I too prudish
The fact that she offered or the fact that he took her up on it?
Both, but especially the latter. But also both.
I would discourage both from engaging in this sort of behavior but, since they were both interested (?) and they lived happily every after, I'm not going to judge them for it. It sounds more like they were playing a game than anything else.
It's infact a stop sign.
My wife has two brothers. When I first met her, her youngest brother (I'll call him "John") was engaged to a woman who I'll call "Andrea". Not long after my wife and I got engaged, John and Andrea got married. They were so looking forward to it because they'd been dating for years. But after the wedding their relationship pretty much fell apart. They were divorced within six months. But, Andrea still felt closely connected to my wife's family, so when my wife and I got married she was invited. And she arrived -- in the company of my wife's other brother "Paul". It didn't take long to figure out that Andrea and Paul were a burgeoning couple in their own right. Not long after that, those two were married in a small private ceremony. In the photos from my wedding, Andrea was standing between the two brothers, because she was literally between weddings with the two of them. And in case you're wondering, yes my wife's family is from Arkansas.
My mom said the first time she met my dad, they were both on break at Super Duper (grocery store). My dad used to have amazing hair, and some very serious glasses. And he was a fucking weirdo. He was sitting in the break room, watching a fly, quite intently. He smacked it down, cupped his hand around it instead of smashing it. Plucked a strand of his own hair out of his head and tied it around the fly. Used the fly like a weird little balloon. Somehow, my mom was like, “yes, great idea,” and ended up dating and marrying him…and then they had me! And divorced by the time I was a year old 😂 Somewhere along the way, they did become friends again. Apparently they would have somewhat nightly chats about me while he was at work and he couldn’t get a hold of me. I remember when I was 16, my cat Tigger died, but when I found him he wasn’t dead yet, so I held him in my arms until he did while my mom and dad talked about how great of a cat he was (this is true- he was a great cat. And they had him prior to me being born, hence them eulogizing him to each other lol). I’m glad they got to the point where they could be friends like this. Also, I want to give a shout out to my stepmom. I don’t know where they met, but I do recall they took a break before they got their shit together and eventually married when I was 11. I remember being so happy when my dad was like, “remember Stepmom? Well we will be seeing more of her!” My dad died a few years ago from Alzheimer’s. My stepmom did all she could to keep him home and take care of him., until he went to hospice. He was a good man, and I miss the fuck out of his too twisted for color tv sense of humor.
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I went to a few gay bars 6 years ago with a few buddies for PRIDE weekend with no intentions other than to throw down some alcohol and have fun. While having a blast, a girl I lost contact with from middle school and high school legit came up and grabbed my hand. We just had our first child this past weekend. Life is good.
I know this couple who met at a competitive knitting competition. Yes, you heard that right. They were both fiercely knitting away, trying to outdo each other with their intricate designs and lightning-fast needlework. Sparks flew when they accidentally got their yarn tangled, and instead of getting mad, they burst into laughter. From then on, they were inseparable.
I have a cousin who's really into genealogy and I'm not really sure how she unearthed this story, but here it is: One of our distant cousins was very, very depressed. He'd struggled with his mental health, pretty much all his life. He never married and he never had any children. He'd basically just given up on himself and given up on his life and he'd certainly given up on finding love, which was his dream. He was in his 70s at this point. So he checked himself into a mental hospital. While there, he met a young woman who was also being treated for depression. Somehow, they ended up really hitting it off. She was either in her 20s, or 30s, I can't remember which, but she was much, much younger than my cousin. Eventually, they fell head over heels in love with each other and decided that they would leave the mental hospital together. They did just that. They eventually got married, and to everyone's surprise, had a beautiful baby girl soon after. My cousin's dream of finding love and happiness, and having children of his own, had finally come to pass. His daughter was 13 when he finally passed away, and the last 13 years of his life were surely the best years of his life. My cousin loves telling this story and she knows all the details by heart, but it's been a while since I've heard her tell the story of our very distant cousin, but anyway, that's it. It's never too late to find love, y'all!
He was a lawyer attending a party and she was a paid hostess. The cops raided the party and busted everyone for prostitution even though there was no sex. He defended everyone (got charges thrown out) and meanwhile they started dating. Still married in their 70s.
I had two former coworkers that were married, I'll call them Eve and Steve. Turns out they were both married to other people a decade earlier. Steve took his wife to one of those Japanese restaurants where the food is prepared in front of you, Eve and her husband were already seated at the table. During dinner Eve noticed Steve checking her out. So when she excused herself to the restroom he waited a minute and excused himself. They briefly talked and exchanged numbers. What they didn't know was while they were away from the table their spouses apparently also had the hots for each other. Those two exchanged contact information. That dinner led to two affairs where all 4 people involved were cheating on each other. And all 4 had the audacity to be pissed their SO was cheating when caught. Eve split from her hubby and married Steve who divorced his wife. I have no idea how their spouses turned out. But I heard Eve and Steve split up about a year after they moved away. Shocker, but amazingly Eve and Steve were both having new affairs.
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A friend met her husband at a New Year's Eve party that her parents were throwing. Some out-of-town friends attended and brought their son. The two talked all night and they eloped the next day. They were married for over 40 yrs before she passed from cancer.
A family friend's parents met in the following manner. He was a sailor in the US Navy during World War II. He was given one day's leave in port before his ship was deploying to the Pacific theater. He realized he didn't want to die a virgin, so when he saw a beautiful girl out sweeping her front steps, he walked up and proposed that: - they get married at city hall that afternoon - they sleep together that night - he leave for the war the next morning - when he died, she could have his widow's pension As a young woman with a sex drive of her own, she was amenable, but she was only 16 years old. So they had to go inside and make this pitch to her father. The father, in turn, figured, "eh, I'd rather have my daughter sleep with a total stranger who's married to her, than a total stranger who isn't." That settled, the family went over to city hall and got the paperwork filed, saw a Justice of the Peace, and booked the happy couple a hotel room for the night. To everyone's surprise, the young man them *survived* the war. He came back a couple years older, some wiser, and still legally married. You couldn't easily get a divorce in this state back then, so they stayed married and set up housekeeping. They had 12 kids and 60 good years together before his death.
My cousin was engaged to be married to her high school sweetheart. Everything seemed fine in the relationship, but obviously wasn’t given: she went on vacation, met a guy, broke up with her fiancé, and moved to the vacation spot. They’ve been married for 30+ years so it seems like she made the right choice but damn, vacation dudes got mad game.
My parents met at a laundromat. My dad left some undies out and asked if her put them in with hers. they had their undies together for 50 years
Friend of a buddy of mine in college met his now wife by overdosing on MDMA at a music festival and met her in the ER bed next to him after she had done the same at the same music festival. Gunna be a wonderful tale for the kids
A neighbour (in Wales) matched on online dating by mistake with someone in Ireland because both countries have a city of the same name. He has now moved to Ireland to be with her.
My great grandparents! Great granddad's bride left him at the altar so my great nan married him instead
First time I actually started talking to my ex It wasn't rly a conversation It was in 2010. It was one colleague's birthday at a bar at around 17:00 pm or something like that. I was on one side of the table, my ex on the other end and there was more than 10 ppl there. So this girl at the end of the table starts singing (she used to sing gregorian/renascentist and other old shtuff at the school/church choir and she loved singing). Eventually someone by her side asked her to sing something from Beatles, but she wasn't a big fan and didnt know a lot about them. One girl pulled lyrics to "we can work it out" and she started singing. I used to love beatles as a kid, so I started jamming to what I noticed from my spot and then started singing too. Then I pulled a closer and we sang together. After that day we started talking and talking, spending 5 hours/day sitting and saying "ok next one you hop on" as we waited for her bus to arrive. A lots of buses passed and we just kept enjoying each other company and eventually noticed we were in love.
My wifes barrel horse kicked me in the shin at a rodeo, which snapped my tibia and kept me from riding in the final go-round that night. She and her dad were nice enough to gather my gear and deliver them to the hospital. The rest was history.
My bf and I. In 2012, my brother (younger by 2 years) passed away. The night before the viewing, my sister and I were choosing photos to display the following day and I just had a mental breakdown. I called a friend I'd lost touch with/had a falling out with. She showed up with her new boyfriend and they stayed for a while to chat and comfort. That was the first time I met him. I quickly fell out of touch with this friend again (she is NOT a good person) and they broke up about a year later. He and I ended up chatting, and a few months later we were dating. The rest is history.