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Post by Lexica on Jun 12, 2019 13:53:54 GMT
I just read this story on BoredPanda. I agree with others, it would make a cute movie. I’ve heard of all kinds of ways people meet their spouse, but this one was unexpected. But really sweet and worth the short read. BoredPanda link
And for fun, how did you meet your spouse? Mine wasn’t all that interesting, but I can’t ask others to post if I won’t even put my own. We met in the 7th grade. My parents had purchased a new house in a new city which meant changing schools. This was my first year of Jr. High at a new school the first time I had access to a locker. I had the top locker, the middle was broken, and this boy had the bottom locker, which meant he had to basically kneel down to access it and I had to start on tiptoe to access mine. He never talked to me or offered help reaching the hooks for my jacket in my locker. About 3 months in, he finally introduced himself and my friends knew his friends and we melded the two groups together for lunches and weekend events. I was only 12 years old and not allowed to date, so we did a lot of group things with all of our friends hanging out together until I turned 16 and my parents let me go on a date with him. It wasn’t until after we married that he told me he didn’t talk to me or offer help at our lockers because he was too “affected” by the close proximity to my legs. This was in the 70s and all the girls wore mini skirts. He said he had to stay seated on the ground until things returned to normal after I had finished at my locker and walked away. Poor guy had been mortified. I was his first crush. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2019 14:03:04 GMT
College. He was my roommate ‘s boyfriend.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2019 14:12:14 GMT
High School...My neighbor babysat his brother...❤ And I was always over helping her...
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Post by malibou on Jun 12, 2019 14:52:01 GMT
On a beach in Tahoe.
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Post by Basket1lady on Jun 12, 2019 14:56:53 GMT
7th grade history class. Only one A+ was given per semester and he got it one semester, I got it the other. Fast forward a few years and I was dating his best friend. We all did a lot of stuff together as DH was the only one with a driver’s license. The other guy and I broke up, but DH and I stayed friends. Then started dating about a year later—11th grade. We’ve been together ever since.
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Post by Sparki on Jun 12, 2019 15:01:24 GMT
I saw mine on the side of the road in a tiny mountain village working on the gate to his horse pasture. He was sweaty and wearing a tool belt and cowboy hat. I thought he was sexy and handsome. We met soon after at a friends house. It was instant attraction.
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Post by mellowyellow on Jun 12, 2019 15:04:27 GMT
I met him in 2nd grade but we didn't start dating until I was about to graduate from college.
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Post by ToniW on Jun 12, 2019 15:05:47 GMT
On a bet! He and another guy. I won 
Next year will be our 50th anniversary.
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Post by Lexica on Jun 12, 2019 15:12:53 GMT
Congratulations! 50 years! Are you doing something special for that one? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2019 15:52:51 GMT
At work. My office mates shared a house with him and had a crush on him. They knew he liked me, but I was just coming off a divorce with two little boys and not interested in dating. They would tell him that I was going places (that I wasn't) just to get him to go. Fast forward two years, I finally said yes, and boy were his roommates (my office mates) surprised when that back fired  . Thirty two years today married. |
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Post by julieb on Jun 12, 2019 16:18:24 GMT
Great (and shocking at the same time) story!!
Working at McDonald's 40 years ago. I was almost 16 and he was 18. We went to different high schools, went to each other's proms, stayed together when he went away for college and will be married 35 years this year.
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Post by ntsf on Jun 12, 2019 16:21:54 GMT
we spent 50 days a year (weekends) at the same ski area for years.. he and his dad worked the lifts, my dad had a ski school.. when I saw him 10 yrs later, i picked him up at the ski area bar. I was a full time ski instructor that year and he lived in SF working in IT (1981). so we wrote to each other for months.. there were no cell phones and I was living out of a backpack--stayed three different places each week. 37 yrs married.
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Post by cakediva on Jun 12, 2019 16:25:26 GMT
Blind date!
His sister's husband and a good friend of mine worked at a restaurant together. They set us up. We got engaged six months later, married a year and a half after that, and just this month celebrated our 25th anniversary!
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Post by peppermintpatty on Jun 12, 2019 16:37:01 GMT
We met while going to a Pink Floyd Concert (Momentary Lapse of Reason). I convinced my mom that my younger sister shouldn't be able to go to the concert bc she was too young and I took the tickets and went with a good friend. My friend and dh used to work together at the local library when they were 14-15 yo. She had a huge crush on him. He didn't feel the same. We were taking the metro and were at the station and we bumped into him. Nothing came of that meeting but my friend and I were living together in college and she ended up in a class with dh. She had to push and prod him to ask me out. We dated for 7 years and now married for 24.
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Post by lisae on Jun 12, 2019 16:44:23 GMT
He had the cubicle next to mine in our office building.
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Post by dald222 on Jun 12, 2019 16:47:51 GMT
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Post by its me mg on Jun 12, 2019 16:55:14 GMT
Great (and shocking at the same time) story!! Working at McDonald's 40 years ago. I was almost 16 and he was 18. We went to different high schools, went to each other's proms, stayed together when he went away for college and will be married 35 years this year. ba-da-ba-ba-baaaaaah ... I'm lovin' it  Oh come on ... I'm not the only one?! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2019 17:08:41 GMT
Nothing special. We had mutual friends in high school. Ran into him shortly after he graduated (I graduated a couple of years before him) and caught up. We had dinner, then another, then another. We got married a year later. It will be 20 years pretty soon.
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Post by ToniW on Jun 12, 2019 17:24:16 GMT
Congratulations! 50 years! Are you doing something special for that one?
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Post by myboysnme on Jun 12, 2019 17:30:24 GMT
I was into Living History and Reenacting. I met an older guy who had photos from an event we had both gone to. There was one photo I loved that captured the event, so I asked to borrow the negative to make a copy. I had it enlarge and framed in my house.
A few months later I was at a party and the older guy with the photos pointed across the room toward a guy he said was the one in the photo I liked so well. He did not look like he did in the photo, but we met and socialized at the party.
Then he sent me a Christmas card and we corresponded, and decided to meet up at Valley Forge for an event there. It was about the coldest day of the year and I froze my ass off, but when we got ready to leave he asked for a hug, and I gave him a hug and a kiss.
That's how we met. But we actually had seen each other at the event where the older guy originally had the photos that he showed me, so we may have been introduced but I don't recall. I do know he is in some of the photos I took that day.
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Post by summer on Jun 12, 2019 17:43:00 GMT
I met him through a mutual friend in high school. She was interested in him, but he was instantly drawn to me. We dated in high school, went to the prom together but went our separate ways about a year into college (long distance relationship). Twenty four years went by and we reconnected through Facebook and just celebrated our first year anniversary of getting back together! I'm definitely not letting him get away this time. I know that I will marry him one day. He's my soul mate!
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Post by ellen on Jun 12, 2019 17:54:39 GMT
My husband started subbing at my school right after he finished college. He was a local guy and had just moved back to the area. He was married at the time. I paid zero attention to him. Once in a while we'd have a common lunch time. I was into the Star Tribune crossword puzzle at that time and would work on it while I ate. Less than a year later he was divorced and we ended up sitting at the same table at a bar with some mutual friends. The movie version of this would last about 10 minutes at the most.
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Post by Butterfly Momma on Jun 12, 2019 17:58:43 GMT
I worked with his mother and had just gotten out of a bad marriage. She kept talking about her son, how wonderful he was, how well he was doing in his career, yada, yada, yada. She kept asking me if I would be interested in exchanging numbers with him. No. Finally, our mutual work contract was up and I gave in and gave her permission to share my number, with the agreement that I get his in return. A time for when he was to call me was set. The night before, I was done with the stress of an unknown phone call hanging over my head, so I called him. Talked long distance (I was in Canada, he was in the USA) for a half hour. Got off the phone and immediately called my girlfriend. Told her that he was either a raging alcoholic or extremely nervous and therefore shared every drinking story from all of his adult life. I was intriqued enough to find out the answer to that question and chatted with him again (for the record, he was extremely nervous that first phone call!). Fast forward three months of calling and emailing and we decided we should meet in person. That night was 16 years ago this month. Many years later, we realized that we were actually on the same flight from our mutual home town to another Canadian city, about 3 years prior to our intial meeting, when I lived in the USA and he lived in western Canada. And he remembered passing me on the airplane!! Small world |
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Post by 950nancy on Jun 12, 2019 18:06:45 GMT
I met mine as a freshman in college. He was going door to door on my dorm floor inviting girls to a party off campus. Each guy going to the party took a different floor and my roommate was interested in him. I was not. We start chatting three days a week on the bus to East Campus for an early morning class. That was in '83.
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Post by Nink on Jun 12, 2019 18:17:16 GMT
In a bar.
Married 25 years next month.
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Post by peabay on Jun 12, 2019 18:25:24 GMT
Funnily enough, today's our 31st anniversary.
We met at a quarters bounce at his fraternity in college. Not a beginning one would think leads to marriage and four children...
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Post by Anne-Marie on Jun 12, 2019 18:27:42 GMT
The concise version . . . mutual friend set us up, it was a semi-blind date b/c I knew who he was but he didn't know who I was. Neither of us were interested in meeting at first, we were both single parents raising daughters, but our friend was pushy and we finally both agreed to one dinner - if she would leave us alone from there on out. He called to set up the date and when I told him where I lived he immediately said "oh I've been in your house before". Kinda creepy, dude! Lol. First date he talked non-stop which is apparently a nervous thing b/c our mutual friend was SHOCKED when I told her. Agreed to a second date when he asked and it was THE BEST DATE EVER - he wasn't nearly as nervous and was able to have amazing conversation. Together ever since. Turns out, our paths had been crossing for a few years, besides him having been in our house before, my DD and I were in a photo with his DD taken at their elementary school, 2-3 years before we met. Then, after we were married, I was showing him a video of my DD in a school talent show, and he and his DD were very obviously in the video, sitting right in front of my friend that was filming. Grateful to our friend that set us up, who is now officially known as "our pushy friend" and was mentioned as such in our wedding vows.
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Post by cmpeter on Jun 12, 2019 18:40:59 GMT
We were debate partners in college.
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Post by bklyngal62 on Jun 12, 2019 18:58:21 GMT
Online in a basketball chatroom (when AOL had chatrooms) 18 years ago. Been married 13 years.
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Post by deekaye on Jun 12, 2019 18:58:47 GMT
Met freshman year of college. My roommate wanted to date his roommate but wanted me to go along so now-DH came along too. Our respective roommates didn't make it past date #2, but we started hanging out and then eventually dating. We were married after graduation and will celebrate our 32nd anniversary this fall. Oh and it wasn't love at first sight... I thought he was a bit arrogant and he thought I was a bit snobby... arrogance soon turned in to charming for me though. |
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. Thirty two years today married.
