A blind man introduced me to the love of my life. Some meet over tea and samosas. Other happy couples have met in far less conventional ways. The internet seems to open up vast new vistas for people to meet in unusual ways. Thewaywemet is an Instagram page that tells us some interesting stories about people and their happily ever afters.
He saw her in a Buzzfeed video and messaged her and this proceeded to 4 months of face-time dates before finally meeting. The two have been living together for a couple of years now.
They met via a dating site at age 32. They were going out for a month before they discovered they were together in preschool and that he had had a crush on her then.
He was on a blind date with someone else but kept staring at her. He walked his date home and then came back to check if she was still there. She was and he is now the reason she wakes up with the ‘biggest smile on her face’.
Their mums were best friends, pregnant at the same time. The two kids grew up in different cities but with strangely parallel lives. They became best friends and are now in a relationship. They are convinced their moms planned it all along.
They met in 1978 on Jeopardy; the only two people to have answered a question correctly. They are still together. “Through the years, we’ve kept each other interesting and interested,” she says.
He was 63 when and she was 50 when they met 20 years ago at dance class. They are still together. He is now 83 and she is still 50, she says!
Literally. They were in a car accident when they met. He opened her car door and said are you OK? I'm a fire fighter. This could be film!
When she fell in love with Jake, she was kicked out of her home. The have been married for 65 years and they are giving people some serious couples goals now!
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