“No one expected it to last… today is our nine-year anniversary.”
Love isn’t always at first sight; sometimes, it happens with someonetotallyunexpected.
Here are some of their best stories:
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Jokes on me I guess, because we got married seven years later."
“I met the girl of my dreams on New Years Eve this year.
“During our hospital stay and the healing process, we became extremely close.
We call it ‘20 years in 20 days.’
Anonymous
3.
“He was my high school best friend’s boyfriend.
I found him obnoxious and couldn’t stand him.”
“My friend and I had a falling out and she broke up with him.
We hung out as friends.
23 years later we have been married for 17 years with two beautiful kids.
I love him more every day!”
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5.
“I began dating my now-wife after dropping off my then 7-year-old son at his mom’s house.
His teenage half-sister had her 19-year-old best friend over and we started talking.
We started dating and got married six months later.”
“We met as kids and grew up in the same community choir program.
[We were] always friends, but nothing more.”
“20 years later, I moved back home and started going to the same church.
We had drinks one night [and] he spent the whole night telling me he wasnevergetting married.
Eight months later, he asked me to marry him .
“I [have been] an established emergency room physician for the past 15 years.
“I met my husband when we were in high school, but thats not when we started dating.
I was two grades younger, a theater dork, and head over heels crushing on him.”
I have been married twice, and I never intended to marry either of them.”
I never wanted to leave.
Four years later I went to graduate school in North Carolina.”
“I married my best friend, but it’s not who you’d think.”
“I married young (not-legal-to-drink young) the first time, to a military cop.
“I had this guy I’d ‘dated’ for about two weeks in high school.
He left me a voicemail telling me to check my Facebook messages, where he dumped me.”
“I met this guy online and thought it would be a short fling.
My best friend met him and then told me, ‘You’re gonna marry this guy.’
I laughed and replied there was no way.”
18.And finally: “We were in a biology class together and worked as lab partners.
We had a lot of fun together and had a really compatible sense of humor.
We stayed lab partners in another class we took together the next semester.
I was so career-focused that I wasnt interested in a serious relationship at the time.”
Some verrrry cute stories here let me know all your thoughts down below!
Note: Some submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
