My mother had just moved in with me and needed hospice care. Some of her meds were very difficult to find locally. The only pharmacy nearby that could accommodate her prescriptions turned out to be one that belonged to the family of her first husband from many years ago. When I went to get her medication the pharmacy tech was very helpful. So helpful that he insisted on escorting me around the store to help me find the supplies I needed. He asked me out in the wound care aisle. Which was as awkward as it sounds. The love of my life began with a hunt for ostomy bags and absorbent gauze. We celebrated our 20th anniversary last month.

We were sparring and she kicked me in the nuts.

My cousin and her cousin were dating. We got set up on a blind date. We moved in together 3 weeks after meeting, been together for 15 years and have 2 kids. When we met for the first time, it felt like seeing an old soul mate from an old life who I had been waiting for. We clicked immediately.

I don’t remember exactly how we met, but here’s how we started dating. I’ll preface this by saying we started dating in high school at age 16 and have been married for 23 years. Anyway, we were doing a play after school and we were all hanging out and I said, “I’m going to marry someone here.” A friend said, “who?” And I pointed at her because I secretly liked her. So we had a whole fake wedding on the set. After that, we started dating for real and it never stopped.

Discord, of all places.

A few weeks away from birthing our newest family adition!

We were the only two people at an arts festival after-party that weren’t part of the local arts community; the only two who didn’t already know everyone else at the party. I walked over to her and said, Hey, I was just over there not talking to anybody, and I saw you were over here not talking to anybody, and that just seemed awfully inefficient.

I was just trying to bum a square, I swear.

We met on OkCupid. We were on opposite sides of the Atlantic, but she had a friend on this side, and they were comparing the “weird” profiles they were each finding. OkCupid has a “if you liked this person, you might like these more” section, and I appeared in there. She wasn’t really looking to date anyone, but she clicked, messaged me, and we clicked. I moved to the US to be with her after a two-year long distance relationship, and we’ll be celebrating our ten year wedding anniversary next year.

Online through a text-based roll playing game, lol. We’ve been married 13 years as of last Monday.

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I was watching him get paddled on stage during a fundraiser. I fell in love at first bruise.

We were both at a concert, she was on a date with another guy, it wasn’t going well, he stormed off, our mutual friend introduced us, turns out we went to the same college and had never met before. The mutual friend ended up marrying the guy she was on a date with that night.

German class in freshman year of high school. We started dating the following year and have been together almost 17 years total. We are coming up on our 7th wedding anniversary.

She kicked me out of a bush when we were kids

We worked for the same company but at different offices. Normally I would avoid dating someone I work with but I hated that job so I didn’t care. She was cute. I was going through a divorce. I started chatting her up because I thought she was cute. I was still kind of surprised when she asked me out. I said yes but told her I wasn’t ready for a serious relationship and why. She was cool with that.

Eventually it turned into something serious. That was almost 7 years, a wedding, and two babies ago. She is an absolute gem of a lady and my best friend. 10/10 would definitely trade that shitty job for my awesome wife again.

We had glanced at each other at parties a 2-3 times, because we have a lot of friends in common. When a mutual friend left town, he motioned us to go on a date, since he “didn’t want any of us to be lonely when he left”. So after some nagging and coercion, we did. After three dates we did the thing, and then more datesish, we realised we really liked each other. And here I am, five years later, and we’ve been living together for three years. Never been happier. Our mutual friend won’t shut up about his amazing matchmaker skills 😃