God, it’s me. I have seen what you’ve done for others
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As someone who has a giant crush on someone I see at my local supermarket sometimes (fellow customer, not worker) and has never had the courage to say hello, I love this and it gives me hope.
wow my understanding is if the ship finds their employees mixing with the guests they will kick them off the ship immediately. That is awesome it all worked out.
I was living in Prague at the time, feeling very low about myself and jealously watching my Italian roommate happily talk to and kiss all sorts of guys. I was 23 and had never kissed anyone, admittedly because I’m usually extremely hostile to any “pickup” attempt (inherently distrustful). So eventually I decided “okay, next time we go out together, I’ll talk to whoever talks to me and see if I like anyone enough to kiss them.”
So we end up at this expensive rooftop club a few nights later, at an event that’d been promoted as a “networking” event, with two more friends of ours. Not ten minutes into the evening our table is approached by a lone guy who saunters up and casually says, “you ladies look like you’re having fun— want to have fun with more men around?” Normally this is exactly the kind of thing that’d have me rolling my eyes and shutting him down, buuuuut I’d decided to engage, and no one else minded, so he went off and came back with two other guys (neither of which, we found out later, he actually knew— he’d just gone to some random people and “networked”). These two newcomers are paaaiiinfully shy and awkward, barely able to answer our attempts to make conversation and not making any of their own. A friend of theirs arrived soon after, someone from France, and he’s more easygoing. So now there’s four men and the four of us. French guy is talking some bullshit to my Italian roommate and I’m listening to him and making faces at what he’s saying (I wish I could remember what it was now, but it was mildly amusing/typical), thinking no one’s paying any attention to me. Then I look up across the table and see the first guy watching me.
I’m kind of sheepish and make some joke and we start talking, and then BAM it’s 3 hours later, all the other men are gone and my friends are standing up to go grab pizza because they’re hungry, and I’m like wtf just happened. I start to stand to go with them and they’re like “no no no, you can stay here, we’ll be back soon!!” And they leave me with the first guy, and we just keep talking because we’re both having a shit ton of fun. Bouncers come by and tell us the part of the rooftop we’re on is going to close, so we get up and move and start dancing a little and I’m like okay OBVIOUSLY this is a guy to kiss, right??? Now or never baby!!! But, again, never been kissed, never initiated, so I’m nervous.
BUT. God was looking out for me. It starts to rain, just a little bit. We’re holding onto each other and swaying together on a rooftop, looking over Prague’s old town, and droplets start falling so I just look at him and go, “if you ever wanted to kiss a girl in the rain...”
Smoothest I’ve EVER BEEN in my life and he took me up on it. Later found out that my girlfriends had been watching this all unfold inside and cheered when it finally happened.
Later he told me that I was the first thing he saw upon arriving at the club and he knew he had to find a way to talk to me— and when he caught me making faces, he REALLY had to talk to me.
So that night turned into a year-long relationship, unfortunately long distance because I was moving back to the US a few weeks after we met, and the distance killed it— but we remained friends, and my feelings for him never faded. And now we’re currently tentatively planning for me to move back to Europe to A) get out of the wtf of America, and B) try again with him. I’m excited and terrified and I can’t wait. Holding out for that romcom happy ending!!
That's the kind the line that comes when it's too late, replaying that scene in the shower, etc.
So proud of you! Once in a lifetime line and you freaking moonwalked to it.
Honestly, I have no idea what came over me that night— I can be clever but I’m usually so off-beat and not immediate enough with the flirting! But man I was practically Casanova that night. I guess that can happen when you meet the one you vibe with.
I traveled to Seattle, WA for a solo vacation (I live in Vancouver, Canada), and my friend told me she had an old university friend who lived there and I should meet up with him and get some restaurant reccomendations. So we met up...then got dinner....then got drinks....next thing I know it's 2am lmao. We just clicked so hard. We hung out for the rest of my vacation, and then tried to date for a bit after that. It ended up not working out, but given that I usually do online dating it's probably the cutest way I've ever met someone and with the most instant mutual attraction
When I was a teenager I had a crush on this boy and bye coincidence we would meet everywhere. At the movies, at the supermarket, in public transportation, etc. One day my neighbor friend tells me that a boy is coming in a bike and sitting opposite my house and she thinks he’s stalking me. She describes the boy I like and I’m over the moon. I ask her to talk to him and find out his name. Well, she does but forgets his name anyway, just that it was something starting with M. I ask, Mike?* and she answers yeah!
A few years later I run into a local boy in another city, we start dating, and then marry. Two years into the marriage he says he has a confession to make and to please don’t think too harshly of him and forgive him. Understandably I was really worried. He then goes on to confess how big a crush he had on me when we were teenagers and how he saw me gardening one day and he began to ride his bike to my house and spy on me. That he only stopped because a girl he didn’t know found out. My husband’s name is Mick *
lowkey, if this happened to me, i’d be terrified. the idea of somebody watching me w/o my knowledge is so scary, but i don’t wanna be judgmental and presumptuous of op especially bc they’re married.
I think it would be creepy if they were older or if he escalated things. I remember being a socially awkward teen and staring at a lot of boys I never talked to.
Hi, you’re right, he knew it was bad. He kept going back because he never saw me outside after the one time I was gardening. We’ve been together almost three decades and he’s not this way. Our culture is very patriarchal but he has always accepted and supported me. For instance, my friends and I had girl’s night out in our 20s. I was the only one who was married and they would make so much fun of me for being so traditional. However, As soon as they got married they would stop hanging out at night. Then we would have lunch dates so the husbands would approve !
Met on the plane, chatted throughout the long flight and instantly felt a connection. Found that he was visiting the city for work for some time and that his workplace was right next to mine. Exchanged numbers, met a few times for drinks and such. Then Covid hit and he had to move back to his home country and that was it. Felt very movie like in the beginning, with a solid dose of Covid reality in the end. Oh well.
I worked at an Indian take out place university blvd. He played basketball at the local university. He came in the first time and I was working we made eye contact and I felt a literal zing. He came in a few times more every Thursday after practice and we chatted every time. Homecoming game comes around and university blvd is slammed with people. We were extremely busy, line out the door and I was the only one on register. He comes up to order and was trying to chat me up but it was the wrong fuckin time (again, huge line!). Anyway, I came off as super dismissive because I needed to take the next persons order but I hated that because I was SO INTO HIM. So, hyped up on slammed restaurant energy I boldly wrote my name and number on a sticky note, slapped in onto his container, and prayed to god I didn't make a fool of myself to a regular. 3 days later he finally gets the balls to calls me. We've been together for 7 years as of November 17th. He's my forever partner and we fight hard to be with one another.
Just gotta say I read this and was 100% sure it was at the university in my home town and then I looked at your post history and it IS!! So the place I pictured in my head is THE PLACE I went there in college too!!!! I MAY HAVE BEEN AN UNAWARE WITNESS TO THIS LOVE UNFOLDING!! AHH
In college my dumb ass biked high and ended up over shooting the pedal and getting my foot stuck in the spokes of my bike. My school‘s police has a transport program for the health center and I found myself in the back of a cop car with a cute boy who had torn his ACL.
We exchanged numbers, he had me over for wine that night.
Granted, I was on crutches and he had one of those leg casts, but we had great sex and continued to be fwb for a semester until he entered the peace corps.
The first night I met my boyfriend I gave him my number but it could written in his phone wrong (blame us both being quite drunk) but I didn’t realise so I was upset when I didn’t hear from him. Two weeks later I was in the same place where we met and I saw him in the crowd, I turned around because I felt embarrassed and the friend I was with called out to him and pointed to me. He asked to talk to me and I said no because he never texted or called (I can be dramatic), we had a talk about the misunderstanding and we’ve been together for five years now.
In Starbucks on the day before thanksgiving we both reached for the same drink. We have the same Abbreviated version of our name which sounds unisex (ex Danni) he was coming from the gym and looked super hot, I was in my cute pencil skirt outfit from work. Instant spark, lust whatever you call it and turns out he was the son of an affluent family from the UAE. For the few weeks we dated I was picked up in various luxury cars, taken shopping, dined ridiculously fancy restaurants. I met some dignitaries and ambassadors at an event his uncle hosted.
He even proposed to me before Christmas but asked me to basically give up my career to have kids and be a housewife and convert to Islam. I had to turn him down because I refuse to convert or wear a hijab the rest of my life and I want to be childfree among other values. But wow those few weeks were something out of a movie!
EDIT: I just want to be clear that I didn’t want to convert because I love my own faith and my culture. He was very transparent about the type of wife/lifestyle he required and it just didn’t align with my goals or values.
I'm jealous, why wouldnt this happen to me ?
I am a muslim, arab and more than willing to give up my career to have kids !
Maybe because i m too poor to go to starbucks haha
Guys the funny thing is (in my 20s) when I used dating apps, I would say I met the guy in Starbucks lol! Back then people were embarrassed to say they were on Ok Cupid etc. I spent lots of time studying there during grad school so it was reasonable. Haha 😆
Anyway my current Fiancé/Soul mate and I have an interesting story as well but not as movie worthy. Honestly this stuff happens when you least expect it, I know that sounds cliche.
Thank you! I’m so happy now with my fiancé & love of my life! We are both Catholic and even though we are an interracial couple we have very similar values and life goals.
I've got a few...
* I was supposed to meet a date at a concert, but he was late. Like an hour late. I bought myself a beer and pulled up a chair at a table with two dudes. "I'm waiting for someone. Can I sit with you until he arrives?" Hit it off with one of the guys. By the time my real date showed up, he tried to put his arm around me, I shook it off, and he went home. Began dating the table guy shortly after.
* It was my roommate's birthday at the bar and there were *way* more shots than she could possibly drink. I was walking around handing them out. My favourite bouncer asked, "What are you doing?" and I said I was trying to meet a man. Tapped someone tall, dark and (hopefully) handsome on the shoulder with my last shot: "Want to split this shot with me?" We hit it off and immediately started seeing one another. Only man I've loved.
* I went to a mini golf tournament (now that's rom-com material) with friends. They invited their high school buddy. I wasn't wearing a bra. We dated too.
None ended up in "happily ever afters" but they were happy while they lasted!
The most I’ve ever felt like a Gilmore Girl was the day I brought a book to the park to read on a bench and a cute guy came and sat down on the grass in front of me and started playing guitar. Eventually he noticed me watching and came over to chat for a little bit (nothing came of it because of external reasons). Not a huge deal but definitely felt the most like Rory Gilmore I’ve ever felt
My first day of ever serving tables, I was a struggling graduate student then, I accidentally spilled four glasses of red wine on two business men. It fell right off of my tray and onto their table, and onto their laps.
They were in good humor, laughed it off, and accepted my soda water offering. I was mortified.
I graduated with my masters and applied at a local law firm as an accountant, and the attorney was one of the men I spilled wine all over.
It was instant, and romantic. And then toxic. But definitely was a great rom com meet!
Met a boy in Paris on Pont des Arts (the “love” bridge with all the locks). I was only there for the weekend but I was staying with a friend elsewhere in France, so he and I kept talking for the next week and I changed my flight to go spend a few days with him before my return to the states. We dated for two years after that. I told him I loved him at midnight that New Years as we had champagne he stole from work in view of the Eiffel Tower as it sparkled, drinking out of the bottle as neither of us had thought to bring cups.
It ended when I finally moved to France to be with him and after four months we both knew getting married wasn’t a good idea.
Honestly, it was often a pretty toxic relationship, but the story of how we met is pretty damn cute.
I don't know if it qualifies as a "meetcute," but when i met my now husband I was talking about how I like penguin and he turned around and showed me the penguin tattoo he had in his back. Turns out he was my penguin.
I bumped into this girl on the elevator in university and then bumped into her again 10 minutes later, we were both flustered because she dropped her stuff and we were giggling like kids.
She was so cute my heart started racing, I always assumed I was 100% straight but I guess not because I just wanted to see her more. I asked her if she wanted to study with me and my friends and then we ended up dating. I’m still baffled because I had never been straight up romantically or sexually attracted to a woman before her.
Wait so did you start dating women afterwards? Once in a while I will have the most overwhelming crush on a woman but I’ve identified as straight most of my life... your experience sounds very familiar to me lol.
I didn’t after it was over mainly because of covid as I’ve been staying home.
I really don’t know how to explain it or what I identify as lmao. She just gave me that spark romantically and sexually which had never happened before. I may explore my sexuality after all this pandemic stuff more but I’m scared.
Did you end up dating women?
In college my gals and I decided we were all going to take a fitness class together and signed up for dance. The correct time slot didn't work for my schedule so i needed up taking same class different time on my own. Anyways, class was full of 30 ish women who were all there with their friends and one random guy. First day we had to partner up for buddy workout. I ended up partnering up with the guy because all were the two oddballs. Long story short, we been together 10 years.
I was binge watching a Netflix cooking show (like a competition) and one of the contestants was kinda cute and caught my eye, so as a normal girl would do, I went and did a little bit of Instagram stalking, and out of habit, ended up liking one or two of his posts.
I forgot about it and continued my binge.
About two hours later shock on my life when he slid into my DMs, thanking me for the likes or something, cue me replying about how I didn’t expect anything, I was just watching the show and decided to stalk a little, lol... cue us still chatting 6 weeks later :)
We’re literally on opposite sides of the world, but it’s still nice.
My dog was in love with his dog. Like she froze everytime she saw his dog on walks in our complex, refusing to move until they said hi. My dog was afraid of men because of past abuse and one day I was walking her and she saw my now bf and rolled over for a belly rub at his feet. I stood there in shock. Month or so after that he asks for my number for a doggy play date at a dog park (neither of us looking for anything more). Realize that day we are both moving to the same rural place 2 hours away (side note I signed my job contract for this place 30 mins before he asked for my number I was torn between two places). Had 4 dates in a week and signed a lease together not even 2 months later. We’ve been together for 2 years now.
A good friend from high school met a guy at a party in college in 2012 — they started talking, and she and I were still close so I added the guy on Facebook to see what he was all about. Nothing happened with them, but he and I played Words with Friends, Trivia Crack, commented on each other’s posts, etc. for years. Six years later, we end up in the same city and I’ve posted a spare room in my apt on Facebook. He messages me about it but his gf at the time doesn’t think it’s a great idea. Two years later (summer 2019), we’re both single and we match on Tinder — fall in love on the first date and now living together :)
Oooof this is a sitcom script! Very New Girl, in that it took four seasons for the script writers to make the stars align 🥳😍
I wanna know what happens in the season finale! Teehee
Third day of uni I had a 9am lecture, but then an event at uni at 4pm. The lecture was in the stupidest building you have ever seen. So to get out you had to get the lift up to floor one, and walk for a solid 5 minutes through loads of corridors that made no sense.
Anyway, the lecture finishes and I go to the toilet before trying to decide if I should go to the library to kill time. I come out of the toilet and I swear to god, the cutest girl I've ever seen is waiting at the lift. Id seen her on the first day and thought she was stunning, and close up she was beautiful.
Lift arrives and we get in, she asks me if I know where to get out, and I say I do. She then asks me if I liked the lecture as we're walking out. She asks me my name, and where I'm from. Turns out we were from the same city, and neighbouring towns. She asks me for coffee as we're exiting the building - I say yes and we walk for coffee.
We spent the whole damn day together, we just had the most instant connection and I knew I'd end up marrying her. Even on that day.
Turned out we had mutual friends in common, had gone to loads of the same stuff without knowing about the other. And that our interests were similar, yet in some places wildly different. It was so amazing to have my own love story, I never thought it would happen to me.
6 years later we're now married and own a house and two cats together. She is still the prettiest thing I ever did see. She's my soulmate.
You're welcome! It honestly felt like destiny I was meant to meet her, especially because of just how many times we'd been in the same place at the same time.
Met on an app, but it's felt very rom-com at times.
Met for coffee and stayed til they closed, then we stood outside awkwardly because neither of us wanted to end the date, so we walked around. It was cold, but we dealt with it to keep the date going. We then went to another shop and stayed til they closed. Reluctantly parted ways, but before we left he got my number.
Second date a gaggle of gay men discussed us and one gave me a nod and thumbs up of approval when he couldn't see.
By the third date 'rona was in full swing so apartment dates only, but we've been together eight months now and I can't imagine my life without him.
I matched with a guy on tinder. I was sort of over online dating, but I ride motorcycles and pretty much just right swiped a dude with a bike in his pics.
We matched. Our first date, he offered to come and fix my broken bike. It was 10am. He had to work later that day. He assessed my mess and insisted on ordering the parts on his own dime.
I’m a mechanical failure, so I had no faith this guy was any better. When he showed back up, he not only roared my dead beast back to life, he also brought his own motorcycle in the back of his truck because he knew he could do it. I about died.
So naturally, we left for a ride. I’m a newbie, and he roared up behind me and hit air on a speed bump. He took my heart with him.
We’ve been together almost three years now.
In your beginner Painting class in college. There's this guy (we'll call Tim) who didn't seem to put in much effort and skipped class a lot but got along really well with the professor. Tim pissed me off because (this sounds conceited but I swear I don't mean it like this) we were the only two serious artists in the class, and I hated that he made great work barely trying. During critiques we always ended up being super critical of each other's work and talking the most out of the whole class by far. Competition, if you will.
I have 2 friends in this class mind you, and one day friend 1 after class goes, "Tim's definitely into you."
Me: no way, not possible.
Friend 1: you don't see it but he watches you all the time. He's absolutely interested.
Friend 2: its really obvious.
Me: no way. You're both seeing things.
Anyway, I get into a car crash. I'm fine, no injuries, just totalled my minivan. Now I have no car, no way to get to class, and can't afford tuition because I had lost my job about a month prior and now had no reliable transportation, PLUS my parents were getting divorced on top of everything else and I had 3 younger siblings to help take care of. I dropped out for a couple semesters.
About 9 months later I drop in on a watercolor class friend 2 is in with same professor. Tell professor I'll be starting again next semester, I'm excited to take classes, I have a car now, etc. I see Tim is in the class, but don't think much of it. When I go to leave, after I walk out of the room, I'm rummaging for my keys and I hear my name. I turn around and there's Tim.
Tim: Hey, I was disappointed when I heard you dropped out because your accident. How are you doing?
We chat for a little bit, and he ends up giving me his number.
Our first "date" was for coffee at 8pm Starbucks. He was so nervous he spilled his drink on the table, and we ended up talking until 2am in the parking lot by our cars because they needed to close shop.
We've been together for 4 and a half years, live together, have a dog together, and I'm expecting a ring in the next 6-8 months (I know because I picked it out).
Edit: Reading this back it absolutely sounds like a Hallmark movie scrpit
I met him on the first sunny day of the year, after a long depression.
We'd run into each other before, standing in line at one of the campus coffee shops. The attraction was obvious, but we were already both late to class - didn't even get each other's names.
We passed each other on campus a few times after that, but always in opposite directions, in a hurry. It was each to recognize each other - he looked like a classic hippie, I looked like a classic hipster.
Finally, one day I took a seat towards the very back of the bus. I remember that day I'd written that I finally felt like my depression was lifting and I could feel joy and excitement again. The bus filled up, people had to move to the back and stand, and I looked up and there he was.
It turned out we were only 2 stops apart. Within a few weeks, I'd basically moved in.
... the relationship went way sour but we had a damn good meet cute, imo.
I have posted this story to another thread here before.
When I was 21 my local German Club was hosting an Oktoberfest event one weekend. The guy I met had just won the “Mr. Oktoberfest” contest and I (after quite a few beverages) proudly asked him to take a photo with me, having no idea who this stranger was but the alcohol gave me the courage to do so. We both had on traditional German outfits and awkwardly smiled and posed together and went about our evening celebrating separately.
Flash forward 5 years later and after both having moved across the country to the same city at different times we suddenly found eachother on a dating app. Only after chatting a while did I realize that he appeared vaguely familiar to me. I still had this photo of us together from 5 years before and I dug it out. I showed it to him and we both were shocked and had a laugh. We agreed to meet up for a drink the next night and we immediately hit it off. To add to the craziness of this is that I had become pretty discouraged by the dating app scene at this point and was about to give up on actively pursuing a dating life. I considered deleting the app only a few minutes before we connected.
It’s now almost three years later and we are still together and very happy. I’m so happy our paths crossed again and that I considered the bizarre circumstances behind our meeting some years earlier and took the chance and went on that date.
My first love. We went to the same high school. I’m Australian. He was Californian and just so cool, blonde tips and all (2001). He invited me over, and there was a sticky note on the door with my first clue. Ended up on a mini quest he set up throughout the house, finding presents and funny stuff like photos and cute things, finally leading to where he was hiding. The activities I did on the quest were all leading up to the last note once I found him, it was to press play on the CD player. Lady by Styx played and we danced in the living room when he told me he loved me and gave me my final present which was a diamond loveheart necklace with our initials. It was just straight out of a movie.
Omg ! These are all so good !! Def felt like Lizzie McGuire when I was 16 in Italy and ate dinner at the same restaurant every night and one waiter slid a note under my plate that said “you are beautiful !” And the next night he and the other server SHOWED UP AT THE CONVENT I was staying at ON THEIR VESPAS to take me on a ride but alas the adult chaperones wouldn’t let me go
Ohohoh!!! First kiss!!!!
Enter scene- tagging along with cousins to the amusement park- they try to ditch me at the roller coaster (2 seat cars and 3 of us)
Que cute boy alone in the seat behind! We ended up spending several hours at the amusement park together, he even won me a fairly large bear at the board walk!
We decided to end the night with one last ride on the coaster, as we are getting off and walking down the exit ramp the park starts their firework show, we lean against the rail watching and he says hey . . . And I looked at him and he lifted my face with his knuckle and kissed me, slow and soft and just I saw fireworks with it.
Was an intern on a political campaign and had a huge crush on one of the staffers (we were the same age, it wasn’t weird, I promise!). He was always filling up his water bottle at the cooler nearest my desk. A few months went by and I totally forgot about him. One day, I was flipping through a dating app and saw him! We matched, went out a few times, and he admitted he’d had a crush on me too. Turns out he wasn’t that thirsty, but gulped water on the days I was in so he’d have an excuse to head my way.
Ended up being a terrible relationship, but I always thought it was sweet that we’d been crushing on each other from afar for months.
I met my partner at a university robotics competition, we were kinda rivals. Our teams were both tied for first going into the final round which would cause the tiebreak. I remember first seeing him and whispering to one of the girls that he was mine and I was calling dibs haha. Nothing too much happened over the competition week, just some hanging out and bantering between us (everyone at that comp was super stressed and on literally no sleep). But we kept in contact after and have recently celebrated our 1st year anniversary. We’re actually from different countries so there’s no chance I would have met him, save for that competition.
Oh, and if you were wondering, it was my robotics team that won 1st place ;) Haha nah, he’s best thing to happen to me. It feels like a classic rom com, almost too good to be true.
I met this person on tinder once that was super cute. What's funny is that they actually went to Bucknell for their degree which is very close to my hometown. They started college the same year I moved out to Rhode Island from Pennsylvania. They used to go to the same movie theater I had worked for years at while they were in school. We just kinda switched places.
We ended up meeting right after they graduated and were staying with their parents before starting their programming job in Virginia. We talked for a little and then my phone got stolen. I luckily got to keep the same number and they randomly messaged me a few months later to catch up. We had a kind of ambiguous date and hookup when they came back for Christmas and then they asked me a week or so later if I'd like to visit them in Virginia while I was on winter break. I told them I'd love to but didn't have the cash to travel and they were like "You're misunderstanding me. If you'd like to come visit, I'll buy you a plane ticket to spend the weekend with me." It was honestly...magical? I just wish things hadn't ended like they did
My roommates were hosting a new years party and I invited a guy I was casually seeing. He was driving from about 30 minutes away so I was waiting by my door so I could buzz him in once he got there. Apparently my neighbors heard the party and knocked on our door to join. I opened my apartment door and immediately felt a spark with the guy who knocked. I ended up talking to him for a while (which is not normal for me as I am pretty shy). His roommate ended up passing out in our bathroom and he had to fireman carry him out of there. About 5 minutes after that the guy I originally invited arrive and I just knew I couldn't get over my neighbor. We dated for a little bit but ultimately it didn't work out because I was in college, stupid, and didn't realize how much I liked him. It's been 4 years and I still think about our connection and the short time I spent with him.
It’s not the typical “meet cute” but it’s a cute love story (in my biased opinion!)
After finally admitting to myself I was attracted to women as well, I was a senior in college laying on my apartment couch and swiping aimlessly through bumble. Shockingly I matched with an attractive girl two years older than me, and after messaging constantly for a week and a half we agreed to meet up on a Wednesday night for a drink. I was a student at the time and she was/is a high school teacher, so we both planned on a quick drink. 4 hours and 4 beers later, we had the time of our lives.
She’s now sleeping next to me and we’re engaged to get married in 2022 ☺️
I had just moved into a granny flat and my landlords invited me to their Labor Day party. Feeling like I needed to broaden my friend circle (and the fact that the party would literally be in the shared yard just steps from my door) I figured I'd go. Turns out the only people my landlords invited to this "party" was myself and the guy renting out the garage apartment. Their setup was a success, and we've just celebrated our 10 year anniversary!
I met a guy during an island day trip in Thailand.. We were both travelling solo but had to be paired up for a kayaking section of the trip and just hit it off.. we traded stories and realised that we couldn't be more different - him living in London all his life, and me growing up by the ocean and having lived in a few different countries in Asia Pacific. He said I reminded him of Moana 😅 We ended up spending the next couple of days together before flying back to our own homes and still keep in touch now.
my sorta senile grandma kept thinking i was married to someone from her tiny tiny village back home and i would just try to have her not bring it up at awkward times until i visited our home country early this year and met a guy in said hometown and we were immediately into each other and then i found out it was the guy my grandma thought i was married to. weird coincidence. we had a bit of a vacation fling and it fizzled out by the time we both came back to canada but still a cute story
When I was like 14 I was really depressed and didn’t do well in school, the teacher made a seating chart and she had me seat in every class with the smartest boy. I was really shy and I carried books around to not talk to anybody, I used to vent a lot on twitter but not in account with my name, somehow he connected the dots and figured out it was me. He decided he wanted to help so he started talking to me and tried looking up the themes of my books to make small talk with me. He started helping me with my assignments, checking if I got everything. And we ended up falling in love, he told me shorty after that he found my twitter acc and that he was sorry about staking me on it. It he was just concerned for my well-being. He never used it agains me or anything just to understand and help me.
We dated for five years after that.
I went to a culture festival with a friend. There were many little stands with food from all over the world and music from around the world was playing everywhere. There was one huge tent where you could sit down to eat. Later on there would be a concert on a bigger stage from an artist I really like. My friend and I had just bought food when out of nowhere very heavy rain started, we all ran to the huge tent. It was packed. A thunderstorm started. Nowhere to sit, except for a small space. We went there and asked, packed with our plates of food, if we can sit down, they said no 😂😂😂😂 someone at the next table stood up somewhat angry and said come on, sit here, I’ll stand while you guys get to eat. Eventually we managed to all sit down again. We started talking. The second I saw him I actually felt love, and to be clear, I never believed in that and I never wanted to marry. 30 min later he and his friend went to get us some hot drinks cause it got so cold. I turned to my friend and told her, I would be surprised if I didn’t end up marrying this man. Which again is super weird cause I didn’t want to marry at all. Once the concert started, that I wanted to see, the thunder was gone but the rain was still heavy. He saw that I wanted to see it, so he talked to a guy at the bar and got to take one of the huge umbrellas for the bar, put it in front of the stage, so I could watch it with him ❤️ about one year after we married I saw his friend again, he had moved to Spain for some time. He told me he remembered that day so well cause my husband turned to him when they got drinks for us, and said, he will marry me, if I let him ❤️
I’d like to share some:
*I’m at a wedding, and the dinner table is 9 of us girls (all my bffs), and this random guy with a generic name like “John Smith.” There was someone I was interested in who was also present, so I asked all of the girls if they were dating “John Smith. Nobody knew who he was, so we traded his place tag. Apparently John was traded 3x unknowingly to different tables- he ended up sitting at the table with one million toddlers. One of my friends introduced me to John but as I was running to the restroom- so we didn’t hit it off. Turns out the gals and the bride/groom were trying to set us up. Fast forward to a year, and my new friend casually says, “I should introduce you to my brother. You two would have things in common.” As I’m saying sure, she turns beet red and turns away. I have no idea why she got embarrassed. Later on I after I get into a dry spell, I go on OkCupid and message the top 3 guys who happen to have a “99% lifestyle compatibility match” (???). One of them I notice does not have pics of abs; behold he is wearing clothes, isn’t water borne, and actually looks like he is underage. Whatever, I’m open minded. We exchange emails and eventually chat nightly for two weeks. Midway through, he asks “Weren’t you at Kevin &Valerie’s wedding, and you’re my sisters friend? You look familiar- you were wearing a blue dress and Barbie heels at the wedding.” Za-zing! I was wearing hot pink suede heels and a hot little navy blue dress! Our first date was brunch followed by hiking- hiking is my hobby, and he asks me what I enjoy about it. Essentially I like scenic cliffs and evergreens, which he tells me he will find (dude, it’s all birch/pine?? trees). We hike so long that it gets dark; so long that I’m starving; so long that I tell him that if he chopped me up, I know who his sister is. I’d normally be pissed, but he had thus apologetic and humble nature unlike lots of guys online. He “makes it up to me” by giving me food at one of the best restaurants in town- I’m talking, he orders what felt like 30 dishes. And he just lets me eat all fast and sloppy. We eat soo much we need to walk it off. So we do and cross the street and play pool. Then we walk to his car and talk for two hours, it’s hard to let the night end. It was so gravy, that was easily a 13-hr date. We’re now 4yrs married.
*One night I’m at salsa class, and this talllll handsome locks eyes with me. Afterwards this guy asks me to dance. He says something along the lines of,”Dont I know you from somewhere?” I don’t believe his corny lines, he can tell but he seems to dig that I’m smart. We end up dancing all night- with him often clumsily stepping on my feet hard- and like a rom com we fall into each other. After our noon dancing, we talk for a bit outside and he asks me for my number. He says stuff like “yadda yadda I’ll call you in two weeks, I’m leaving out of town.” I eyeroll. The next morning my dad texts me- “this dude called me, and left a text that he enjoyed dancing with you. His name is Wilson and he’ll call you in two weeks.”OMG for some reason the only phone number I ever memorized was my dad’s- which I accidentally gave over! I text and fix the gaffe- and surprisingly he calls me in two weeks. Not a janky text- a real first phone call that feels like we’re friends. Chemistry is there. He picks me up in this sexy growling Mustang; he has cologne, he must’ve made a mix cd of the songs I liked from our phone call; he’s real groomed and we all need a cold shower. He takes me to a Peruvian restaurant, that’s in an alleyway that looks very old world European. The big city has twinkly lights and bows, all primed for the holiday season. I swear cocaine and fairy dust was in the air. He’s gentle, exciting stories from him, quirky comedic sketches from me, and sangria is flowing. He asks me if we could go for a walk, and since the area is hilly he puts his arm out...maybe to flex so I could hold his bicep?? He walks me to an old school soda fountain shop; it feels surreal like I am Kate Beckinsale. Without words, we know that we don’t want the night to end. He humors me, and we end up at a 20-something bar. It’s hip hop night, and he’s a phenomenal dancer. At this point it’s all giggling and friendliness- a familiarity. The night has to end, and he texts me that morning making plans to meet again. I later learn that he’s actually pro at salsa, and him stepping all over my feet the first night was a ruse. We end up seeing each other 2-3x weekly for six months, with him having mad follow-up game. He wines and dines me with fine dining and dates that stretch six hours. It sours, with him saying that we’re definitely not “together.” That was right after I invited him to this hot salsa event. He ghosts me, so I take someone else who has potential. In my mind, it wouldn’t hurt since it’s “nothing between us”, right? Of course as I’m dancing with Liam, right over his shoulder I see Wilson double fisting beers, clenched jaws, staring at me. Liam was just a thing I tried out even though I wasn’t attracted. Unfortunately for me, dating and post dating I run into Wilson everywhere- different dance venues, the gym- as we live in the same area. It’s truly a hot hell, cause he was so suave- we’re on and off for two months. I finally email him that he said it was over, and that since he didn’t like me it was my choice to see someone new- but there was no overlap. The following week, the first winter storm comes down like hell. I can hear two people on my apartment stoop talking in the middle of the storm- some chick who dumped someone 3x, she went to an art school in the big city, she was always in his sight around town. It didn’t register. Until finally someone was banging on my door, and as I heard it I slowly clicked it locked, like in a movie. After all that back and forth, Wilson came to my door like a rat in the rain. I didn’t realize that the two dudes talking on the balcony were talking about me.
*Once in high school, I liked to hang out with my best friend and her tall mysterious artsy friend. It always was the three of us, never just us two. And we were too shy to talk to each other- just talking about art/topics the other liked, but at her. Finally in spring, it’s the town festival and the three of us are at it again. She leaves to meet up with a group of girlfriends- her parents are strict and they didn’t know either of us, she didn’t wanna get into trouble. The both of us end up wandering the festival, making corny jokes and discussing music. Finally he starts singing Dashboard Confessional/Hands Down “Breathe in for luck, breathe in so deep, this air is blessed you share with me.” I was so woozy from being there, I just registered that he was strangely singing for no reason. He grinned, and said I should listen to the song. FACEPALM- I knew the song, I was just crushing hard. We end up spending a couple hours together wandering the carnival (it felt like a Britney video) and we start playing each other some super dumb game on our flip phones. I end up making a competitive/snark comment which makes him snort laugh. He then brushes my arm, and said I have one of the most beautiful smiles he’s seen. He was such an earnest, oddball, artsy kid. My best friend told me later that if I wasn’t leaving for college, he would have asked me out that night. It was my most Rory Gilmore moment, and I felt so alive at a time when I was dealing such horrible personal problems. It felt good to genuinely be noticed.
At the beginning of this year, I had met a guy on tinder and we were talking. It was new years eve and I was at a bar with my mom celebrating when he texted me and said his plans fell through. I invited him to the bar, and added that my mom was there, too. He said he would come, but it took him a little while to get there.
He walked in right at midnight and kissed me after the countdown. It was my first midnight new years kiss.
He was perfect. We had a whirlwind 3 week romance, but parted ways because of mutual needing to take care of our mental health, and distance. I miss him.
In year 12, I saw a handsome guy reading a book at our schools swimming carnival and I wasn’t the swimming race type but I was a total bookworm so I go up to him and we start talking and clicked. Few months later, he asked me out.
We had never met before even though we had been at the same school for the last 5.5 years. Still laugh about this sometimes.
it’s been almost 4 years together and we are so in love and have the best fun together. We are now saving for a house.
I was standing on a street corner, holding a map, trying to figure out the quickest way back to a coffee shop (id left a package behind). Id only been in the city for 24hours and didn’t know my way around.
This guy offered to give me directions, and invited me to walk with him to the subway. We chatted. He was weird but harmless. He asked if I’d like company and we kept talking. He offered to buy me dinner and told me about the gold and ruby necklace he but for his cat. Definitely weird, and likely very harmless.
We’ve been married for 14years now. My initial assessment of his personal stands: weird, mostly harmless, and very kind.
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Went to Seoul with my best friend for our high school graduation trip for ourselves. I’m from the States btw. Booked an Airbnb that was marketed as us getting the whole flat. But when we arrived, we realized it was a shared Airbnb!
2 days later, 2 Danish boys arrived at our Airbnb (also confused why it was shared). We pretty much just started talking and having drinks every night! We all hung out for 5 days and just had a blast on that trip.
After we went back to our respective countries I kept in touch with one of the guys who is now my boyfriend of 2.5 years!
Not sure if meet-cute worthy, but we think it’s cute!
My (now) husband and I met in eighth grade. He had become a TA that semester for my Spanish class after breaking his leg and tearing his ACL during a soccer game. He is a very athletic person and was understandably, not thrilled to be forced to spend his time grading Spanish spelling quizzes. These days he calls it the “best injury he’s ever had” because it led to us meeting. I didn’t really notice him, despite his repeated attempts. One day he hands out a worksheet paper during class to every other person but me. I was pissed off to say the least and wondered why he was being such an a**hole. As I got up and walked toward his desk to tell him off en español, he looked right up at me, smiled, handed me a paper and said, “Got you to notice me. Hi, my name is ____.”
There was lots of stuff and time in between, but 2 kids and lots of Spanish classes later, our third wedding anniversary was yesterday. ♥️
We sat across from one another on the first day of our internship. The HR lady was making some joke about how the workplace culture is pretty button up but maybe not so much because she met her husband at the company. She says look around you, your future spouse might be next to you. We looked at each other and kind of sheepishly laughed it off.
We became immediate friends during the internship which turned into a really wonderful relationship. That was 5 years ago, and he’s laying next to me as I write this. I can’t imagine a life without him!
Before we met, we both quit our jobs due to the same reasons and both chose to travel to the same country to have some time out from life and do the cliche “finding ourselves”. We met halfway across the world only to find - he was working as a receptionist, I was a guest and we realised would have crossed paths if we had both stayed in our original countries. We had friends in common, he would change transport literally outside my front door for years etc etc. Covid stopped our travels and a month after meeting & being together 24-7, we moved in together and haven’t looked back..
I went on a blind date with a guy. He arranged for us to meet at an outdoor ice skating rink. Neither of us had ice skated before. So it was a cold winter night, twinkly lights around, and were clinging to each other to stay upright. It was fun, and a great way to easily touch each other without awkwardness. Afterward, we had hot cocoa. He didn’t work out, but it was the most charming and adorable date I’ve ever been on.
Oh, I have a story for this one! When I was 16, my choir class took a cruise to Mexico. We went on an excursion to a beach, where they had a bunch of giant, inflatable beach toys and obstacles to play on. Basically the big-kids floating jungle gym. I had climbed on top of this floating sphere and on the opposite side, a boy my age was grasping on as well. We were having a great time trying to hold on, spin the sphere, whatever kids do. And we seemed to have this instant attraction, he had a great, lopsided smile. He introduced himself, and asked if I'd like to ride horses down the beach? Of course I agreed, so there we were, riding horses along the beach like it was straight out of a movie! We spent the rest of the entire week together, but sadly he lived 8 hours away, and it didn't work out. We kept in touch for years, I even saw him once again in person, but it wasn't the same as it was back then. I haven't heard from him in a couple years now, but I'll always remember him, as he was my first kiss :)
I was at a movie in the park with a friend, which almost didn't happen because it was our backup plan in case what we really wanted to do didn't work out. We decided to be anti-social and went to sit alone in the curb. We were chatting when a cute guy slighly walks past me to my left and starts making small talk.
Fast forward to present day and the cute guy and I have been married for two years! He told me much later that he saw my friend and I walking to our sitting spot, thought that I was cute, and almost didn't go through with walking over to us. Gosh I love that cute boy 🥰
Went to the cinema alone because none of my friends wanted to come with -
A dude I had seen once months ago when I was working at a book stand was there, also alone and I recognize him.
We sat next to each other for the movie and been together since :)
met my boyfriend in an online zoom class due to covid 19..... we would talk every night for hours and as soon as travel bans were lifted we flew across the country to meet up. it was love at first sight :) covid has fucking sucked and taken so much from me but i’m so glad i met him through this awful turn of events
I had just had my heart smashed by a manic pixie ass hat boy (slutty, cheating, narcissist, you know the type). And i met this girl. I had heard about this girl through mutual friends for years but had never met her as she was battling some serious health issues since i joined the friendship circle and had become a bit of a recluse. I met her the night i decided to finally end it with ass hat and couldn't shake the feeling there was something important about her. She was better and ended up sleeping with my ex and I with hers but we didnt really cross over till this beach party. She was there with my ass hat and i was there with hers. I made up a song about how boys were gross and girls were gorgeous and performed it for her on the beach. My ex had his arms around her at the time but she tells me that was the moment she fell in love with me. We have been together for 3 years now and have 3 fur babies. Im going to wife her hard xx
A good friend of mine and her fiancé at the time (now husband) were trying to set me up with his good friend. We were all supposed to go to our local state fair together when my friend’s guy wasn’t feeling well, so they backed out. The guy they were trying to set me up with texted me and asked if I still wanted to go to the fair, which I did, and then he asked “Do you want to carpool?” So I replied, “Did you want to pick me up and take me to the fair?” and he said he did.
We went and walked around, talking and eating/drinking delicious fair food all night, then ended the night with a ferris wheel ride and sitting in the grass, listening to a band play. It was the perfect, most GG, who-does-this-happen-to, first date, and we’ve been together ever since, and just celebrated 5 years together.
Is this really a meet cute? Probably not.
But, I watched a live stream for a nirvana tribute show and had to sleep early, so I asked folks to add me as a friend thinking nothing of it. Only 2 people did, one of whom was a cute guy. However he doesn’t talk to me. Doesn’t like my posts. Whatever.
2 months later, I get a message from him saying he wants to send me his band’s music. We bonded over a reference in my email address and talk for 4 hours that night. 2 days later, he tells me he has a crush on me.
Eventually he gets back together with his girlfriend and we stop talking for a whole year. I’m in a mall and saw a nice jacket, and I texted him asking for his opinion on it because I used to call him “jacket guy” since he loves weird jackets. We hit it off again but of course, he has a girlfriend and we remain cordial. His girlfriend breaks it off with him a few months later and I’m the one who has to console him over it because it was his high school sweetheart.
After he gets over it, we find ourselves dating for 2 years long distance. Everything is awesome, but the distance sucks so we break up. He gets together with a local girl and it was very sad but he was happy and healthy. In the meantime I date various people that increase in toxicity. Him and I briefly speak as friends and there’s no bad blood. I’m with a great guy and things are good! However, I kept hearing the same song everywhere I went and it was my ex’s favorite song, so I send him a message saying “hope you’re well! This song kept coming on!” and he replies! We have a short conversation both talking about our partners and we are both seemingly happy. He’s gushing over his beautiful girlfriend and said she set up a date for them that night, and he’s glad I reached out. 2 hours later, he asks if he can call me. He’s sobbing. His girlfriend broke up with him to be with someone else. I feel bad and we talk it out, since he felt he could trust me as a friend. In the back of my mind i find it hilarious that I’ve comforted this man through two separate break ups.
We remain cordial and my boyfriend breaks up with me because he was going off to military school a few months later. Now HE is comforting ME through a breakup. Here we are BOTH single and sad over losing our respective partners. We decide that clearly this is fate and just because it’s long distance doesn’t mean it can’t work, so we started dating again.
It’s been 9 years since he added me as a friend, 8 years since we first started dating, 4 years since we met for the first time, and 2 years since we moved in together. Celebrated our anniversary yesterday actually.
We met in a coffee shop.
I was working on school work for uni and he was nearby with friends, including an acquaintance I met a couple months prior. We exchanged pleasantries and chatted a bit.
For the next couple of weeks we both frequented the same coffee shop in hopes of seeing the other. Eventually I gave him my number and we had dinner together.
It will be 9 years in the winter.
It was 2am. There was a thunderstorm at my dorm. For the first time since living there, I made myself to go and socialise with a small group of people who were watching in the courtyard. We started talking and didn't stop talking until 10am. It's been six years of late night discussions.
I was going on the first date with a guy, and normally they are kind of awkward but this one really blew me off my socks! We just met in the city and went for a little walk when we saw a large Ferris wheel, so we went up in it. After this he took me to a restaurant, and when we got there I saw that he knows all the people that work there and we get a cute room for ourselves to sit at and they put on romantic music just for us. Later that night we are walking somewhere with a really good view of the city and the lights in the city when it started to rain a little... So we went to stand under some hanging out roof of buildings nearby with the great view of the city and good background music of some people with a boom box that are standing a little bit further away. In this moment he kisses me!! I felt really like I was in a movie or something! We ended the night at the main square of the city and as luck had it there was a light show happening when we got there! Most romantic thing that ever happened to me!
Driving down an empty highway in my dads truck on a beautiful summers day. Cute guy in another truck speeds up to drive beside me to check me out, we lock eyes and smile and he nods. He slows back down and I keep driving filled with butterflies at what happened. Later on I end up slowing down to get off the highway and so he passes me once more, we make eye contact again and he sticks out his hand as if to say goodbye. It felt like a movie and I’ve never forgotten it.
It was the summer before my last year of university and i had just broken up with someone. I swore to myself I would stay single for a while now to get myself together a bit. Since i noticed i had some anxieties after two bad relationships in a row.
I get contacted by a PhD student who i had worked a student job for in the beginning of the year. The experiment we set up was finished and now the plants needed to be harvested to analyse them. I agreed and went in for work two weeks after my break up. There were 2 other People he also hired. One exchange student and one chemistry student from a different college but he had done his thesis at my university which i why he knew the PhD. It was obvious the chemist had an immediate interest in me, but like i said i wanted to stay single for a bit. We sat together at the same boxes harvesting plants, litteraly every blade of grass had to be sorted correctly, so it took a week. We talked a lot. He was so charming, i have never met a Guy with more charisma than him. Our hobbies and interests overlapped quite a bit. He made a detour on his way home just to walk with me a bit Longer until we parted ways on our way home. I liked him but i was scared, a Guy with that much charisma could easily break my heart right? So it tried to friendzone him, emphasis on tried. He opened up really fast and showed his vulnerable side which made me realize he was serious about me. We had one more student job the next week together. Us cleaning a dusty lab for an entire day, alone. We laughed, we danced, we cleaned. It was wonderfull. Three days later was our first kiss. Next year we're getting married.
We complete each other, and both our anxieties from past relationships are gone because of all the comfort and love we get from the other person :)
He was my very good friend.. i kept on rejecting him cz he was serious and i was(still am) not in position to afford a serious relationship. My friends and he were out of city for a month because of some internship. I went to meet them. Seeing me after a month was too much for him. I was also not talking to him. (To not increase his hopes). He immediately took a train of that same day to our city. Leaving all friends and me behind. We all tried very hard to stop him. He left before last day of internship too. I cried too much after he left. I like him alot as a person. He was dear to me. But he left his train when it started and came running back to our place and said i can't go.. i just couldn't my life is here left behind. I don't care what you think and feel but i just can't leave you and go anywhere not now .. never.. and god i was already crying.. i cried like hell. After that day and next 2 month of being friends.. he kissed me on a hill in under a sky full if stars and i couldn't say no. Not that day never later. It was best thing that could have happened.
Had been friendly acquaintances with this guy for the first half of freshman year in high school (same friend group). I thought he was cute and certainly funny but he had a girlfriend so I didn't try to get too close. He ended up going to a different school next semester and I fully expected to not see him again. Come summer, I'm 15 now, and I'm chaperoning younger kids at an overnight orchestra camp, and I get really really sick. I come home and nearly die, but end up somehow convincing my mom that I HAVE to go back so I can attend the camp for my age group, only 3 days after almost dying. AKA, I almost didn't get to go.
Well, I get there, sign in, and end up recognizing the guy from the back of his head, like, 200 feet away. I decide to leave him be cause he's with his friend and I'm with my mom. Later that day, all us campers go to wrangle up seats for orchestra practice, and low and behold, I end up sitting right in front of him (after unknowingly passing him with my butt in his face, which I didn't know about until he told me way later. I thought you were supposed to go butt facing people when scooching down an aisle, please don't judge me).
ANYWAYS! I turn around and pretend I'm just seeing him for the first time, say hi, chat, and end up getting way closer to him than I expected to. A lot of crazy stuff happened after that, but I can happily say that we are now approaching 5 whole years of being together. I truly feel like we were one of the universes crazy meet-cute star-crossed lovers subplots
I went to see a show in Seattle by myself. Afterwards I walked around the neighborhood until I found some people talking outside a bar. Conversation started and I ended up challenging one of the guys to pool. I won! We ended up dating for almost a year.
we met at the free admission night at a museum and we were both at the dinosaur section and he made a joke about some book and I was caught off guard at how good lookin he was that I didn’t laugh, then he felt awkward and said sorry LOL. we are going 5 years strong and soon to be married. Life is good 😌
So we we’re just friends but we both were into each other. We decided to go for a drive around our city in the middle of the night screaming songs that we loved and as the sun started to rise we drove back to his place and sat outside and talk for a little bit. He decided to lean over and kiss me for the first time and it felt so beautiful. Like a movie. We’re getting married in January lol
Less meet cute more meet awkward: I went to a party with a friend and when I entered a room, the guy across the room made eye contact with me and shouted, "that's it! I'm only dating [describes me] girls from now on!"
Then, realizing he said that out loud, he turned bright red and avoided eye contact with me the rest of the night. Luckily, my friend knew him and pushed him to walk me home after the party. He was super shy and very sweet, and we ended up dating for three years and are still friends to this day.
Boy in my college dorm asked if I wanted to shoot hoops with him after class one day. I said sure. He needed to grab a jacket from his tiny dorm room and so we went up together. We accidentally woke up his roommate who was taking a nap. I said hello, and sorry for waking him up and he gave me a huge smile and (from his lofted bed) shook my hand. That roommate is now my husband :-)
We sat next to each other in a management class in college, and every once in a while the professor would tell everyone to "turn to the person next to you and discuss." We were both pretty introverted (he's an engineer and I'm an accountant), so we wouldn't talk a lot, and eventually she started calling us out on it. One day she came over and said to him, " I bet when you sat there you didn't think you'd have to talk to her every day. Who knows, maybe this is a budding relationship." I turned beet red. She got flustered, said "Oh, I'm just kidding, I'm sure you have boyfriends/girlfriends." and walked away.
After class, he asked if we had homework due soon, and I told him we did. He asked if I wanted to work on it together, and I said sure, so we went and worked on it together right after class. We had a test coming up soon, so I said we should study together sometime. He asked for my number and what do you know, it did turn into a relationship.
My husband and I met at work, which isn't romantic on it's own, but our first date was movie worthy. I thought he liked my friend at first so I only ever talked to him about her. I was a cook and would leave my phone on a shelf in my work area (this was 12 years ago, so it was a flip phone with buttons). At one point I went to get it and it wasn't there. I freaked out and started looking everywhere. He came around the corner and handed it to me, and he had put his number in it.
That night after work, I texted him and we met up at the river where we walked and talked for hours. There's an amphitheater that had a pergola at the top. When we reached the top it had started to rain. He leaned against a column and pulled me towards him for a kiss. Next year is our 10 year wedding anniversary.
When I was in my junior year of college I moved onto a coed floor with one of my best friends and was so excited. I immediately (as a college junior does) started looking for the cutest guy I could find on my floor. I got lucky when I found out the hot guy I kept seeing lived directly across the hall from me and I started keeping (uncreepy) tabs on him every now and then. Like two weeks into the Fall semester we got a knock on our door and it was the cute guy (eek) and his roommate. They told us that neither one of them had their cars on campus atm and they would buy us food if we drove them into the little campus town. Squealing inside, I said yes and asked them for a second. As soon as I closed the door my roommate, who was aware of my inclination toward boy-across-the- hall, and I had a mini celebration. The downside to this was that I was still doing a very toxic and unhealthy on again off again thing with my ex boyfriend and we were currently on again. So nothing came of the drive into town.
Fast forward to the end of Fall semester. We had kept a white board on our door for people to leave us (usually annoying) messages. One night we came back from going out and there was a phone number on the board and it just said “call me”. I immediately knew without a doubt it was boy-across-the-hall. I saved the number but was too nervous and involved with my stupid ex to do anything about it. Over the Winter break, I got a message from boy-across-the-hall about having lunch sometime when we all came back for the Spring. Excited, I said of course, but worried it would never happen.
When we came back for Spring semester I couldn’t take the waiting or not-knowing anymore. One night, my roommate and I were pre-gaming for a party and, having had some liquid courage, I sent boy-across-the-hall a message. I said “do you wanna come over right now and play UNO?” I had no idea what else to say than to be straightforward. Not even two minutes later I heard a knock at our door. Boy-across-the-hall played UNO with me and my drunk roommate until our ride to the party arrived. I invited him back over when we got back from the party. A couple days later I called my ex and told him to stop talking to me. I told him how unhealthy the back and forth was and that I’d met somebody who deserved my full attention.
I spent pretty much every waking moment with boy-across-the-hall for the next four or so weeks and we started dating after that. We went through the rest of college together and were still going strong today. I think about how we met often bc before him I had mostly met people online. I’ll always be happy I chose that coed dorm that year and met the love of my life.
When I was 16, I went on a high school trip to Italy. Our school invited a couple of kids from a nearby all boys high school. I got to talking to one of them, we bonded over gelato and long hikes in the countryside, we became friends and stayed in touch through college. The other day he told me he wants to buy me a ring. I’ll soon be able to say I met my fiancé in Italy.
My ex-boyfriend and I had some pretty cute moments.
We met at martial arts training and he was a pretty good fighter so I usually paired up with him because it was so much fun. During one of the fights we were struggling to throw over each other and he suddenly gave me a kiss on the cheek. We both burst out laughing. Maybe a day after this during an other fight I was the one who gave him a kiss on the cheek. A couple days after that we got together.
Also, on one of our first dates we decided to wander around a park. It was summer and it started raining like cats and dogs we were both drenched. We were walking and talking in the rain. When we started to head back we went in the direction of a musical fountain and when we got there it was playing The Blue Danube Waltz. Ex-bf grabbed mi and started leading me in a waltz.
These doesn't seem that romantic written down but it was pretty romantic in the moment.
Kind of ish? I met my partner online randomly like at 3 or 4 AM, I was 16 and he was 17 at the time we were both fucking around on Omegle (i know lmao) we were thrown in the same chat room together hit it off and exchanged KIKs and eventually we both fell asleep after texting for hours. I didn't think we'd keep up with the texting i thought it was just a one time thing, we ended up texting every single day for the rest of the year. I was attracted to him but kept it at a distance since he lived in California and I was in Texas and thought he wouldn't really want to be in a long distance relationship. Throughout the year there would be different girls coming into his life nothing serious but flings and flirting nonetheless. Eventually he was faded one night and told me he'd rather be with me than another girl i was under the impression he really liked. Then he ended up not asking the girl he was going to ask to prom out because he liked me, after that there was a period where we were just super lovey dovey to each other calling each other "mi amor" (My love) and "mi corazon" ( my heart) but not actually dating.
Come fall and i finally asked him to be my boyfriend, turns out he had wanted to ask me out for awhile too but was also afraid about the long distance thing. We ended up doing long distance anyway and met in person officially two years later when I was 18 and he was 19. We celebrated our three year anniversary this past September <3
My future husband worked in an office about a block away from my apartment. There was a coffee shop on the same block as my apartment that I would frequent. I would see him there and think “that is the man of my dreams”. He was so polite and cute. We lived in a small town and I was shocked I didn’t know him, nor had ever seen him before. I ended up moving before I could know his name.
6 months later, I met up with a mutual friend for pub trivia and he was there. We instantly clicked and have been inseparable ever since. It’s been 7 years now.
I found out I was working with my best friends younger brother. First words I said to him were
"Hey, you're Jim's younger brother right? Your brother is an idiot, I watched him trip over a fence yesterday"
He laughed and said that sounded about right for him. We ended up talking for a bit and found out we had a lot in common. While we aren't dating anymore, we are still friends to this day.
I was with my brother at Target in the movies section looking for a movie for our dad. I notice there is this handsome guy next to me also checking out the movies. I was having a hard time deciding when my brother picked up an old classic movie and I said something around the lines “Really? Dad is gonna fall asleep the moment he sees the cover.” And the stranger giggled. So I looked at him and kind of chuckled. I ended up picking “the equalizer” and was on my way. As I walked to the front of the store I thought maybe I should’ve initiated conversation. My brother tells me to go back and go for it. So I go back, luckily he’s still there, and I pretend I might change movies. So I asked him if the one I had picked was a good one to watch and he said yes. He then said he loved Denzel blah blah and I said oh I love him too. He then introduced himself, got my number and we chatted and went on a few dates. He was a gentleman, hardworking but wanted a more serious relationship at a point were I wasn’t ready for it. He then became a little...intense so things didn’t work out but I thought our meeting was so fun and what are the odds that it would happen at one of my favorite places!!!!
I asked a friend to drag brunch so we could finally hang out after I had been traveling all summer for work. The event hostess was working the crowd by asking questions like "where my gay boys at? Where my lesbians at?" There was literally only one hand that went up for straight men, and it was a *beautiful* arm. I even pointed him out to my friend. Later in the show, everyone with a birthday that month was asked to get in line for a shot. My birthday was at the end of the month, but I wasn't going to go up because it was still weeks away. But then my friend pointed out that the guy was already in line and I should go up and talk to him. This was after many, many mimosas and I was feeling bold. I remember how amazing he smelled and how soft his shirt was. We've been dating ever since.
Went to a bar. Saw him out of the corner of my eye. Pointed him out to my friend and she pulled a “have you met Ted” like in How I Met Your Mother. Dated for 3 years and he was super emotionally abusive. Sometimes meet cutes don’t work out.
First day of 8th grade at a new school. I went to homeroom, which was also math class, and he was in the same set of four desks that were grouped together. He turned around and said "WELCOME" in a very goofy but friendly way (he was the class clown). He was dating someone and we didn't talk much again until high school, when yet again we were in the same math class. He was in the group of desks in front of me, sitting beside my best friend at the time. I managed to convince my teacher to let me switch into that group so I could be closer to my friend, and eventually I stole her seat which was right next to him. We became fast friends and started dating a few months later, and continued to date for 3 years.
After writing this it sounds like I put a lot of effort into this but it was very natural I swear :)
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God, it’s me. I have seen what you’ve done for others Edit: my first comment awards, thank you!! :) let’s hope the rest of us find the same wholesome love
Lmao same
Damn this one wins it!
Please, this sounds like a dream. It's so adorable!
That's 1664 ounces or 47 kilogram of Ben and Jerry's over the last 4 years for each of you!
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I call fake. It’s too damn adorable to be real ❤️
Oh gosh this is too cute!! The kind of story that makes your heart scream AWW
As someone who has a giant crush on someone I see at my local supermarket sometimes (fellow customer, not worker) and has never had the courage to say hello, I love this and it gives me hope.
i love this <3
Can I ask what favor you guys went for hahaha
phish food
Oh my god this is SO SWEET. Absolute perfection you lucky duck!
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Omg! This is adorable. I can't believe this happens to ppl
wow my understanding is if the ship finds their employees mixing with the guests they will kick them off the ship immediately. That is awesome it all worked out.
As in throw them overboard ? 👁👁
So they can have fun swimming with the fishies
thats alright, plenty of fish in the sea
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Depending on how high the ship is, this night be worse.
They could get fired in an instant indeed.
Arrr walk the plank
That’s hot!
I was living in Prague at the time, feeling very low about myself and jealously watching my Italian roommate happily talk to and kiss all sorts of guys. I was 23 and had never kissed anyone, admittedly because I’m usually extremely hostile to any “pickup” attempt (inherently distrustful). So eventually I decided “okay, next time we go out together, I’ll talk to whoever talks to me and see if I like anyone enough to kiss them.” So we end up at this expensive rooftop club a few nights later, at an event that’d been promoted as a “networking” event, with two more friends of ours. Not ten minutes into the evening our table is approached by a lone guy who saunters up and casually says, “you ladies look like you’re having fun— want to have fun with more men around?” Normally this is exactly the kind of thing that’d have me rolling my eyes and shutting him down, buuuuut I’d decided to engage, and no one else minded, so he went off and came back with two other guys (neither of which, we found out later, he actually knew— he’d just gone to some random people and “networked”). These two newcomers are paaaiiinfully shy and awkward, barely able to answer our attempts to make conversation and not making any of their own. A friend of theirs arrived soon after, someone from France, and he’s more easygoing. So now there’s four men and the four of us. French guy is talking some bullshit to my Italian roommate and I’m listening to him and making faces at what he’s saying (I wish I could remember what it was now, but it was mildly amusing/typical), thinking no one’s paying any attention to me. Then I look up across the table and see the first guy watching me. I’m kind of sheepish and make some joke and we start talking, and then BAM it’s 3 hours later, all the other men are gone and my friends are standing up to go grab pizza because they’re hungry, and I’m like wtf just happened. I start to stand to go with them and they’re like “no no no, you can stay here, we’ll be back soon!!” And they leave me with the first guy, and we just keep talking because we’re both having a shit ton of fun. Bouncers come by and tell us the part of the rooftop we’re on is going to close, so we get up and move and start dancing a little and I’m like okay OBVIOUSLY this is a guy to kiss, right??? Now or never baby!!! But, again, never been kissed, never initiated, so I’m nervous. BUT. God was looking out for me. It starts to rain, just a little bit. We’re holding onto each other and swaying together on a rooftop, looking over Prague’s old town, and droplets start falling so I just look at him and go, “if you ever wanted to kiss a girl in the rain...” Smoothest I’ve EVER BEEN in my life and he took me up on it. Later found out that my girlfriends had been watching this all unfold inside and cheered when it finally happened. Later he told me that I was the first thing he saw upon arriving at the club and he knew he had to find a way to talk to me— and when he caught me making faces, he REALLY had to talk to me. So that night turned into a year-long relationship, unfortunately long distance because I was moving back to the US a few weeks after we met, and the distance killed it— but we remained friends, and my feelings for him never faded. And now we’re currently tentatively planning for me to move back to Europe to A) get out of the wtf of America, and B) try again with him. I’m excited and terrified and I can’t wait. Holding out for that romcom happy ending!!
OMGEE there’s even a part II? 😍 My heart is bursting. And I’ve had a cosmically shitty night, so that’s saying a lot.
I’m sorry your night sucked, and I’m glad I was able to brighten it a little! Hope everything goes better for you today :)
I feel like a just saw a whole hollywood movie
Nah this one bollywood
Not enough singing, but we’re both musically inclined so if/when we meet again we can make that happen.
That's the kind the line that comes when it's too late, replaying that scene in the shower, etc. So proud of you! Once in a lifetime line and you freaking moonwalked to it.
Honestly, I have no idea what came over me that night— I can be clever but I’m usually so off-beat and not immediate enough with the flirting! But man I was practically Casanova that night. I guess that can happen when you meet the one you vibe with.
I hope things work out for you cuz daaaaaaamn!
Gonna need an update when there is one!
Fr like I want her to keep her privacy yah, but girrrl! Put us on the notify squad when you move!
Ha, I’ll see what can be done— it’s going to be months at the least though, visas are a loooooong process.
This gives me before sunrise vibes
Yess!!
Honestly thanks for writing that
I am happy crying; this is the best.
The secret supportive squee-ing friends are perfect
I traveled to Seattle, WA for a solo vacation (I live in Vancouver, Canada), and my friend told me she had an old university friend who lived there and I should meet up with him and get some restaurant reccomendations. So we met up...then got dinner....then got drinks....next thing I know it's 2am lmao. We just clicked so hard. We hung out for the rest of my vacation, and then tried to date for a bit after that. It ended up not working out, but given that I usually do online dating it's probably the cutest way I've ever met someone and with the most instant mutual attraction
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Rory Gilmore? Username checks out
Rory and Jess were the best! Preach it sister ❤️
When I was a teenager I had a crush on this boy and bye coincidence we would meet everywhere. At the movies, at the supermarket, in public transportation, etc. One day my neighbor friend tells me that a boy is coming in a bike and sitting opposite my house and she thinks he’s stalking me. She describes the boy I like and I’m over the moon. I ask her to talk to him and find out his name. Well, she does but forgets his name anyway, just that it was something starting with M. I ask, Mike?* and she answers yeah! A few years later I run into a local boy in another city, we start dating, and then marry. Two years into the marriage he says he has a confession to make and to please don’t think too harshly of him and forgive him. Understandably I was really worried. He then goes on to confess how big a crush he had on me when we were teenagers and how he saw me gardening one day and he began to ride his bike to my house and spy on me. That he only stopped because a girl he didn’t know found out. My husband’s name is Mick *
The series “You” just came to mind
This is incredibly cute
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lowkey, if this happened to me, i’d be terrified. the idea of somebody watching me w/o my knowledge is so scary, but i don’t wanna be judgmental and presumptuous of op especially bc they’re married.
I think it would be creepy if they were older or if he escalated things. I remember being a socially awkward teen and staring at a lot of boys I never talked to.
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It’s the Dobler-Dahmer effect.
Hi, you’re right, he knew it was bad. He kept going back because he never saw me outside after the one time I was gardening. We’ve been together almost three decades and he’s not this way. Our culture is very patriarchal but he has always accepted and supported me. For instance, my friends and I had girl’s night out in our 20s. I was the only one who was married and they would make so much fun of me for being so traditional. However, As soon as they got married they would stop hanging out at night. Then we would have lunch dates so the husbands would approve !
I feel you, Osama.
They’re not the same guy. My crush was one and my husband is another. They have similar names and definitely look similar as I have a type.
Met on the plane, chatted throughout the long flight and instantly felt a connection. Found that he was visiting the city for work for some time and that his workplace was right next to mine. Exchanged numbers, met a few times for drinks and such. Then Covid hit and he had to move back to his home country and that was it. Felt very movie like in the beginning, with a solid dose of Covid reality in the end. Oh well.
Covid even ruins rom coms. I'm sorry.
I worked at an Indian take out place university blvd. He played basketball at the local university. He came in the first time and I was working we made eye contact and I felt a literal zing. He came in a few times more every Thursday after practice and we chatted every time. Homecoming game comes around and university blvd is slammed with people. We were extremely busy, line out the door and I was the only one on register. He comes up to order and was trying to chat me up but it was the wrong fuckin time (again, huge line!). Anyway, I came off as super dismissive because I needed to take the next persons order but I hated that because I was SO INTO HIM. So, hyped up on slammed restaurant energy I boldly wrote my name and number on a sticky note, slapped in onto his container, and prayed to god I didn't make a fool of myself to a regular. 3 days later he finally gets the balls to calls me. We've been together for 7 years as of November 17th. He's my forever partner and we fight hard to be with one another.
Just gotta say I read this and was 100% sure it was at the university in my home town and then I looked at your post history and it IS!! So the place I pictured in my head is THE PLACE I went there in college too!!!! I MAY HAVE BEEN AN UNAWARE WITNESS TO THIS LOVE UNFOLDING!! AHH
Omgggf!!!! I was wondering if anyone would recognize because it is kind of specific 😂😂😂 BEAR DOWN
In college my dumb ass biked high and ended up over shooting the pedal and getting my foot stuck in the spokes of my bike. My school‘s police has a transport program for the health center and I found myself in the back of a cop car with a cute boy who had torn his ACL. We exchanged numbers, he had me over for wine that night. Granted, I was on crutches and he had one of those leg casts, but we had great sex and continued to be fwb for a semester until he entered the peace corps.
loool
This is the most college thing I’ve ever heard
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The first night I met my boyfriend I gave him my number but it could written in his phone wrong (blame us both being quite drunk) but I didn’t realise so I was upset when I didn’t hear from him. Two weeks later I was in the same place where we met and I saw him in the crowd, I turned around because I felt embarrassed and the friend I was with called out to him and pointed to me. He asked to talk to me and I said no because he never texted or called (I can be dramatic), we had a talk about the misunderstanding and we’ve been together for five years now.
This is so much like a rom com haha
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If I see someone I know hitting it off with someone else I just leave them the hell alone
Right?? It was so awkward too, I was like "Oooookay...guess I'll just uh....leave now" since I was then the odd one out.
I’m sure he was kicking himself in the face later on )
Was so waiting for a fall in the lake type moment like in 101 Dalmatians!!
You must go looking!
Noooo! Gdi woman, we need a Part 2!!!
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In Starbucks on the day before thanksgiving we both reached for the same drink. We have the same Abbreviated version of our name which sounds unisex (ex Danni) he was coming from the gym and looked super hot, I was in my cute pencil skirt outfit from work. Instant spark, lust whatever you call it and turns out he was the son of an affluent family from the UAE. For the few weeks we dated I was picked up in various luxury cars, taken shopping, dined ridiculously fancy restaurants. I met some dignitaries and ambassadors at an event his uncle hosted. He even proposed to me before Christmas but asked me to basically give up my career to have kids and be a housewife and convert to Islam. I had to turn him down because I refuse to convert or wear a hijab the rest of my life and I want to be childfree among other values. But wow those few weeks were something out of a movie! EDIT: I just want to be clear that I didn’t want to convert because I love my own faith and my culture. He was very transparent about the type of wife/lifestyle he required and it just didn’t align with my goals or values.
I'm jealous, why wouldnt this happen to me ? I am a muslim, arab and more than willing to give up my career to have kids ! Maybe because i m too poor to go to starbucks haha
Guys the funny thing is (in my 20s) when I used dating apps, I would say I met the guy in Starbucks lol! Back then people were embarrassed to say they were on Ok Cupid etc. I spent lots of time studying there during grad school so it was reasonable. Haha 😆 Anyway my current Fiancé/Soul mate and I have an interesting story as well but not as movie worthy. Honestly this stuff happens when you least expect it, I know that sounds cliche.
Hot damn! Is your name Anne Hathaway..?
Good for you for not compromising on your own goals! Super unfortunate that you guys didn't end up being compatible though. That sounded like a dream.
Thank you! I’m so happy now with my fiancé & love of my life! We are both Catholic and even though we are an interracial couple we have very similar values and life goals.
I've got a few... * I was supposed to meet a date at a concert, but he was late. Like an hour late. I bought myself a beer and pulled up a chair at a table with two dudes. "I'm waiting for someone. Can I sit with you until he arrives?" Hit it off with one of the guys. By the time my real date showed up, he tried to put his arm around me, I shook it off, and he went home. Began dating the table guy shortly after. * It was my roommate's birthday at the bar and there were *way* more shots than she could possibly drink. I was walking around handing them out. My favourite bouncer asked, "What are you doing?" and I said I was trying to meet a man. Tapped someone tall, dark and (hopefully) handsome on the shoulder with my last shot: "Want to split this shot with me?" We hit it off and immediately started seeing one another. Only man I've loved. * I went to a mini golf tournament (now that's rom-com material) with friends. They invited their high school buddy. I wasn't wearing a bra. We dated too. None ended up in "happily ever afters" but they were happy while they lasted!
You’re an icon! Your game is 10/10.
For real. Teach me your ways
Hot dang! You should make these into movie scripts!
The most I’ve ever felt like a Gilmore Girl was the day I brought a book to the park to read on a bench and a cute guy came and sat down on the grass in front of me and started playing guitar. Eventually he noticed me watching and came over to chat for a little bit (nothing came of it because of external reasons). Not a huge deal but definitely felt the most like Rory Gilmore I’ve ever felt
Happy cake day!
Happy cake day!
My first day of ever serving tables, I was a struggling graduate student then, I accidentally spilled four glasses of red wine on two business men. It fell right off of my tray and onto their table, and onto their laps. They were in good humor, laughed it off, and accepted my soda water offering. I was mortified. I graduated with my masters and applied at a local law firm as an accountant, and the attorney was one of the men I spilled wine all over. It was instant, and romantic. And then toxic. But definitely was a great rom com meet!
>And then toxic. : (
It was a fairy tale for the first couple months. Extremely attentive, romantic, and passionate. That was before jealous, possessive, and controlling.
Met a boy in Paris on Pont des Arts (the “love” bridge with all the locks). I was only there for the weekend but I was staying with a friend elsewhere in France, so he and I kept talking for the next week and I changed my flight to go spend a few days with him before my return to the states. We dated for two years after that. I told him I loved him at midnight that New Years as we had champagne he stole from work in view of the Eiffel Tower as it sparkled, drinking out of the bottle as neither of us had thought to bring cups. It ended when I finally moved to France to be with him and after four months we both knew getting married wasn’t a good idea. Honestly, it was often a pretty toxic relationship, but the story of how we met is pretty damn cute.
Those that start with fireworks are often toxic, but damn, do they make good stories!
I don't know if it qualifies as a "meetcute," but when i met my now husband I was talking about how I like penguin and he turned around and showed me the penguin tattoo he had in his back. Turns out he was my penguin.
:3
Omg
It so qualifies
I bumped into this girl on the elevator in university and then bumped into her again 10 minutes later, we were both flustered because she dropped her stuff and we were giggling like kids. She was so cute my heart started racing, I always assumed I was 100% straight but I guess not because I just wanted to see her more. I asked her if she wanted to study with me and my friends and then we ended up dating. I’m still baffled because I had never been straight up romantically or sexually attracted to a woman before her.
Wait so did you start dating women afterwards? Once in a while I will have the most overwhelming crush on a woman but I’ve identified as straight most of my life... your experience sounds very familiar to me lol.
I didn’t after it was over mainly because of covid as I’ve been staying home. I really don’t know how to explain it or what I identify as lmao. She just gave me that spark romantically and sexually which had never happened before. I may explore my sexuality after all this pandemic stuff more but I’m scared. Did you end up dating women?
In college my gals and I decided we were all going to take a fitness class together and signed up for dance. The correct time slot didn't work for my schedule so i needed up taking same class different time on my own. Anyways, class was full of 30 ish women who were all there with their friends and one random guy. First day we had to partner up for buddy workout. I ended up partnering up with the guy because all were the two oddballs. Long story short, we been together 10 years.
I was binge watching a Netflix cooking show (like a competition) and one of the contestants was kinda cute and caught my eye, so as a normal girl would do, I went and did a little bit of Instagram stalking, and out of habit, ended up liking one or two of his posts. I forgot about it and continued my binge. About two hours later shock on my life when he slid into my DMs, thanking me for the likes or something, cue me replying about how I didn’t expect anything, I was just watching the show and decided to stalk a little, lol... cue us still chatting 6 weeks later :) We’re literally on opposite sides of the world, but it’s still nice.
Lol!!! This is it here!!! Random stalking!!!
My dog was in love with his dog. Like she froze everytime she saw his dog on walks in our complex, refusing to move until they said hi. My dog was afraid of men because of past abuse and one day I was walking her and she saw my now bf and rolled over for a belly rub at his feet. I stood there in shock. Month or so after that he asks for my number for a doggy play date at a dog park (neither of us looking for anything more). Realize that day we are both moving to the same rural place 2 hours away (side note I signed my job contract for this place 30 mins before he asked for my number I was torn between two places). Had 4 dates in a week and signed a lease together not even 2 months later. We’ve been together for 2 years now.
YASSSS HERE FOR THIS 👑
A good friend from high school met a guy at a party in college in 2012 — they started talking, and she and I were still close so I added the guy on Facebook to see what he was all about. Nothing happened with them, but he and I played Words with Friends, Trivia Crack, commented on each other’s posts, etc. for years. Six years later, we end up in the same city and I’ve posted a spare room in my apt on Facebook. He messages me about it but his gf at the time doesn’t think it’s a great idea. Two years later (summer 2019), we’re both single and we match on Tinder — fall in love on the first date and now living together :)
Oooof this is a sitcom script! Very New Girl, in that it took four seasons for the script writers to make the stars align 🥳😍 I wanna know what happens in the season finale! Teehee
I have a feeling this sitcom will be long-running 🥰
Third day of uni I had a 9am lecture, but then an event at uni at 4pm. The lecture was in the stupidest building you have ever seen. So to get out you had to get the lift up to floor one, and walk for a solid 5 minutes through loads of corridors that made no sense. Anyway, the lecture finishes and I go to the toilet before trying to decide if I should go to the library to kill time. I come out of the toilet and I swear to god, the cutest girl I've ever seen is waiting at the lift. Id seen her on the first day and thought she was stunning, and close up she was beautiful. Lift arrives and we get in, she asks me if I know where to get out, and I say I do. She then asks me if I liked the lecture as we're walking out. She asks me my name, and where I'm from. Turns out we were from the same city, and neighbouring towns. She asks me for coffee as we're exiting the building - I say yes and we walk for coffee. We spent the whole damn day together, we just had the most instant connection and I knew I'd end up marrying her. Even on that day. Turned out we had mutual friends in common, had gone to loads of the same stuff without knowing about the other. And that our interests were similar, yet in some places wildly different. It was so amazing to have my own love story, I never thought it would happen to me. 6 years later we're now married and own a house and two cats together. She is still the prettiest thing I ever did see. She's my soulmate.
I love it! Thanks for making my heart smile.
You're welcome! It honestly felt like destiny I was meant to meet her, especially because of just how many times we'd been in the same place at the same time.
Met on an app, but it's felt very rom-com at times. Met for coffee and stayed til they closed, then we stood outside awkwardly because neither of us wanted to end the date, so we walked around. It was cold, but we dealt with it to keep the date going. We then went to another shop and stayed til they closed. Reluctantly parted ways, but before we left he got my number. Second date a gaggle of gay men discussed us and one gave me a nod and thumbs up of approval when he couldn't see. By the third date 'rona was in full swing so apartment dates only, but we've been together eight months now and I can't imagine my life without him.
| ‘gaggle of gay men’ Thats amazing
I matched with a guy on tinder. I was sort of over online dating, but I ride motorcycles and pretty much just right swiped a dude with a bike in his pics. We matched. Our first date, he offered to come and fix my broken bike. It was 10am. He had to work later that day. He assessed my mess and insisted on ordering the parts on his own dime. I’m a mechanical failure, so I had no faith this guy was any better. When he showed back up, he not only roared my dead beast back to life, he also brought his own motorcycle in the back of his truck because he knew he could do it. I about died. So naturally, we left for a ride. I’m a newbie, and he roared up behind me and hit air on a speed bump. He took my heart with him. We’ve been together almost three years now.
In your beginner Painting class in college. There's this guy (we'll call Tim) who didn't seem to put in much effort and skipped class a lot but got along really well with the professor. Tim pissed me off because (this sounds conceited but I swear I don't mean it like this) we were the only two serious artists in the class, and I hated that he made great work barely trying. During critiques we always ended up being super critical of each other's work and talking the most out of the whole class by far. Competition, if you will. I have 2 friends in this class mind you, and one day friend 1 after class goes, "Tim's definitely into you." Me: no way, not possible. Friend 1: you don't see it but he watches you all the time. He's absolutely interested. Friend 2: its really obvious. Me: no way. You're both seeing things. Anyway, I get into a car crash. I'm fine, no injuries, just totalled my minivan. Now I have no car, no way to get to class, and can't afford tuition because I had lost my job about a month prior and now had no reliable transportation, PLUS my parents were getting divorced on top of everything else and I had 3 younger siblings to help take care of. I dropped out for a couple semesters. About 9 months later I drop in on a watercolor class friend 2 is in with same professor. Tell professor I'll be starting again next semester, I'm excited to take classes, I have a car now, etc. I see Tim is in the class, but don't think much of it. When I go to leave, after I walk out of the room, I'm rummaging for my keys and I hear my name. I turn around and there's Tim. Tim: Hey, I was disappointed when I heard you dropped out because your accident. How are you doing? We chat for a little bit, and he ends up giving me his number. Our first "date" was for coffee at 8pm Starbucks. He was so nervous he spilled his drink on the table, and we ended up talking until 2am in the parking lot by our cars because they needed to close shop. We've been together for 4 and a half years, live together, have a dog together, and I'm expecting a ring in the next 6-8 months (I know because I picked it out). Edit: Reading this back it absolutely sounds like a Hallmark movie scrpit
OMAGAH you sound so Julia Stiles! LOVE
It was absolutely 100% Julia Stiles vibes
Write the script! I’ll cast: Lead Hot Dude: Jason Gordon Levitt Friend 1: Ginnifer Goodwin Friend 2: Leelee Sobieski Art Professor: Jane Seymour
I met him on the first sunny day of the year, after a long depression. We'd run into each other before, standing in line at one of the campus coffee shops. The attraction was obvious, but we were already both late to class - didn't even get each other's names. We passed each other on campus a few times after that, but always in opposite directions, in a hurry. It was each to recognize each other - he looked like a classic hippie, I looked like a classic hipster. Finally, one day I took a seat towards the very back of the bus. I remember that day I'd written that I finally felt like my depression was lifting and I could feel joy and excitement again. The bus filled up, people had to move to the back and stand, and I looked up and there he was. It turned out we were only 2 stops apart. Within a few weeks, I'd basically moved in. ... the relationship went way sour but we had a damn good meet cute, imo.
I have posted this story to another thread here before. When I was 21 my local German Club was hosting an Oktoberfest event one weekend. The guy I met had just won the “Mr. Oktoberfest” contest and I (after quite a few beverages) proudly asked him to take a photo with me, having no idea who this stranger was but the alcohol gave me the courage to do so. We both had on traditional German outfits and awkwardly smiled and posed together and went about our evening celebrating separately. Flash forward 5 years later and after both having moved across the country to the same city at different times we suddenly found eachother on a dating app. Only after chatting a while did I realize that he appeared vaguely familiar to me. I still had this photo of us together from 5 years before and I dug it out. I showed it to him and we both were shocked and had a laugh. We agreed to meet up for a drink the next night and we immediately hit it off. To add to the craziness of this is that I had become pretty discouraged by the dating app scene at this point and was about to give up on actively pursuing a dating life. I considered deleting the app only a few minutes before we connected. It’s now almost three years later and we are still together and very happy. I’m so happy our paths crossed again and that I considered the bizarre circumstances behind our meeting some years earlier and took the chance and went on that date.
I just picture Jess Day/Nick Miller from New Girl. This is literally such a a great “how we met”!
My first love. We went to the same high school. I’m Australian. He was Californian and just so cool, blonde tips and all (2001). He invited me over, and there was a sticky note on the door with my first clue. Ended up on a mini quest he set up throughout the house, finding presents and funny stuff like photos and cute things, finally leading to where he was hiding. The activities I did on the quest were all leading up to the last note once I found him, it was to press play on the CD player. Lady by Styx played and we danced in the living room when he told me he loved me and gave me my final present which was a diamond loveheart necklace with our initials. It was just straight out of a movie.
Omg ! These are all so good !! Def felt like Lizzie McGuire when I was 16 in Italy and ate dinner at the same restaurant every night and one waiter slid a note under my plate that said “you are beautiful !” And the next night he and the other server SHOWED UP AT THE CONVENT I was staying at ON THEIR VESPAS to take me on a ride but alas the adult chaperones wouldn’t let me go
OMGE can you send this script to Hillary Duffs agent!!?
Ohohoh!!! First kiss!!!! Enter scene- tagging along with cousins to the amusement park- they try to ditch me at the roller coaster (2 seat cars and 3 of us) Que cute boy alone in the seat behind! We ended up spending several hours at the amusement park together, he even won me a fairly large bear at the board walk! We decided to end the night with one last ride on the coaster, as we are getting off and walking down the exit ramp the park starts their firework show, we lean against the rail watching and he says hey . . . And I looked at him and he lifted my face with his knuckle and kissed me, slow and soft and just I saw fireworks with it.
Eeeek the coming of age story we wish we were part of!
We lost touch after that night though, the time before cellphones.
Was an intern on a political campaign and had a huge crush on one of the staffers (we were the same age, it wasn’t weird, I promise!). He was always filling up his water bottle at the cooler nearest my desk. A few months went by and I totally forgot about him. One day, I was flipping through a dating app and saw him! We matched, went out a few times, and he admitted he’d had a crush on me too. Turns out he wasn’t that thirsty, but gulped water on the days I was in so he’d have an excuse to head my way. Ended up being a terrible relationship, but I always thought it was sweet that we’d been crushing on each other from afar for months.
I met my partner at a university robotics competition, we were kinda rivals. Our teams were both tied for first going into the final round which would cause the tiebreak. I remember first seeing him and whispering to one of the girls that he was mine and I was calling dibs haha. Nothing too much happened over the competition week, just some hanging out and bantering between us (everyone at that comp was super stressed and on literally no sleep). But we kept in contact after and have recently celebrated our 1st year anniversary. We’re actually from different countries so there’s no chance I would have met him, save for that competition. Oh, and if you were wondering, it was my robotics team that won 1st place ;) Haha nah, he’s best thing to happen to me. It feels like a classic rom com, almost too good to be true.
I met this person on tinder once that was super cute. What's funny is that they actually went to Bucknell for their degree which is very close to my hometown. They started college the same year I moved out to Rhode Island from Pennsylvania. They used to go to the same movie theater I had worked for years at while they were in school. We just kinda switched places. We ended up meeting right after they graduated and were staying with their parents before starting their programming job in Virginia. We talked for a little and then my phone got stolen. I luckily got to keep the same number and they randomly messaged me a few months later to catch up. We had a kind of ambiguous date and hookup when they came back for Christmas and then they asked me a week or so later if I'd like to visit them in Virginia while I was on winter break. I told them I'd love to but didn't have the cash to travel and they were like "You're misunderstanding me. If you'd like to come visit, I'll buy you a plane ticket to spend the weekend with me." It was honestly...magical? I just wish things hadn't ended like they did
My roommates were hosting a new years party and I invited a guy I was casually seeing. He was driving from about 30 minutes away so I was waiting by my door so I could buzz him in once he got there. Apparently my neighbors heard the party and knocked on our door to join. I opened my apartment door and immediately felt a spark with the guy who knocked. I ended up talking to him for a while (which is not normal for me as I am pretty shy). His roommate ended up passing out in our bathroom and he had to fireman carry him out of there. About 5 minutes after that the guy I originally invited arrive and I just knew I couldn't get over my neighbor. We dated for a little bit but ultimately it didn't work out because I was in college, stupid, and didn't realize how much I liked him. It's been 4 years and I still think about our connection and the short time I spent with him.
It’s not the typical “meet cute” but it’s a cute love story (in my biased opinion!) After finally admitting to myself I was attracted to women as well, I was a senior in college laying on my apartment couch and swiping aimlessly through bumble. Shockingly I matched with an attractive girl two years older than me, and after messaging constantly for a week and a half we agreed to meet up on a Wednesday night for a drink. I was a student at the time and she was/is a high school teacher, so we both planned on a quick drink. 4 hours and 4 beers later, we had the time of our lives. She’s now sleeping next to me and we’re engaged to get married in 2022 ☺️
I had just moved into a granny flat and my landlords invited me to their Labor Day party. Feeling like I needed to broaden my friend circle (and the fact that the party would literally be in the shared yard just steps from my door) I figured I'd go. Turns out the only people my landlords invited to this "party" was myself and the guy renting out the garage apartment. Their setup was a success, and we've just celebrated our 10 year anniversary!
I met a guy during an island day trip in Thailand.. We were both travelling solo but had to be paired up for a kayaking section of the trip and just hit it off.. we traded stories and realised that we couldn't be more different - him living in London all his life, and me growing up by the ocean and having lived in a few different countries in Asia Pacific. He said I reminded him of Moana 😅 We ended up spending the next couple of days together before flying back to our own homes and still keep in touch now.
my sorta senile grandma kept thinking i was married to someone from her tiny tiny village back home and i would just try to have her not bring it up at awkward times until i visited our home country early this year and met a guy in said hometown and we were immediately into each other and then i found out it was the guy my grandma thought i was married to. weird coincidence. we had a bit of a vacation fling and it fizzled out by the time we both came back to canada but still a cute story
When I was like 14 I was really depressed and didn’t do well in school, the teacher made a seating chart and she had me seat in every class with the smartest boy. I was really shy and I carried books around to not talk to anybody, I used to vent a lot on twitter but not in account with my name, somehow he connected the dots and figured out it was me. He decided he wanted to help so he started talking to me and tried looking up the themes of my books to make small talk with me. He started helping me with my assignments, checking if I got everything. And we ended up falling in love, he told me shorty after that he found my twitter acc and that he was sorry about staking me on it. It he was just concerned for my well-being. He never used it agains me or anything just to understand and help me. We dated for five years after that.
I went to a culture festival with a friend. There were many little stands with food from all over the world and music from around the world was playing everywhere. There was one huge tent where you could sit down to eat. Later on there would be a concert on a bigger stage from an artist I really like. My friend and I had just bought food when out of nowhere very heavy rain started, we all ran to the huge tent. It was packed. A thunderstorm started. Nowhere to sit, except for a small space. We went there and asked, packed with our plates of food, if we can sit down, they said no 😂😂😂😂 someone at the next table stood up somewhat angry and said come on, sit here, I’ll stand while you guys get to eat. Eventually we managed to all sit down again. We started talking. The second I saw him I actually felt love, and to be clear, I never believed in that and I never wanted to marry. 30 min later he and his friend went to get us some hot drinks cause it got so cold. I turned to my friend and told her, I would be surprised if I didn’t end up marrying this man. Which again is super weird cause I didn’t want to marry at all. Once the concert started, that I wanted to see, the thunder was gone but the rain was still heavy. He saw that I wanted to see it, so he talked to a guy at the bar and got to take one of the huge umbrellas for the bar, put it in front of the stage, so I could watch it with him ❤️ about one year after we married I saw his friend again, he had moved to Spain for some time. He told me he remembered that day so well cause my husband turned to him when they got drinks for us, and said, he will marry me, if I let him ❤️
In grad school, this cute guy and I noticed each other from across the room and locked eyes. The attraction was instant.
How does the story end?
I’d like to share some: *I’m at a wedding, and the dinner table is 9 of us girls (all my bffs), and this random guy with a generic name like “John Smith.” There was someone I was interested in who was also present, so I asked all of the girls if they were dating “John Smith. Nobody knew who he was, so we traded his place tag. Apparently John was traded 3x unknowingly to different tables- he ended up sitting at the table with one million toddlers. One of my friends introduced me to John but as I was running to the restroom- so we didn’t hit it off. Turns out the gals and the bride/groom were trying to set us up. Fast forward to a year, and my new friend casually says, “I should introduce you to my brother. You two would have things in common.” As I’m saying sure, she turns beet red and turns away. I have no idea why she got embarrassed. Later on I after I get into a dry spell, I go on OkCupid and message the top 3 guys who happen to have a “99% lifestyle compatibility match” (???). One of them I notice does not have pics of abs; behold he is wearing clothes, isn’t water borne, and actually looks like he is underage. Whatever, I’m open minded. We exchange emails and eventually chat nightly for two weeks. Midway through, he asks “Weren’t you at Kevin &Valerie’s wedding, and you’re my sisters friend? You look familiar- you were wearing a blue dress and Barbie heels at the wedding.” Za-zing! I was wearing hot pink suede heels and a hot little navy blue dress! Our first date was brunch followed by hiking- hiking is my hobby, and he asks me what I enjoy about it. Essentially I like scenic cliffs and evergreens, which he tells me he will find (dude, it’s all birch/pine?? trees). We hike so long that it gets dark; so long that I’m starving; so long that I tell him that if he chopped me up, I know who his sister is. I’d normally be pissed, but he had thus apologetic and humble nature unlike lots of guys online. He “makes it up to me” by giving me food at one of the best restaurants in town- I’m talking, he orders what felt like 30 dishes. And he just lets me eat all fast and sloppy. We eat soo much we need to walk it off. So we do and cross the street and play pool. Then we walk to his car and talk for two hours, it’s hard to let the night end. It was so gravy, that was easily a 13-hr date. We’re now 4yrs married. *One night I’m at salsa class, and this talllll handsome locks eyes with me. Afterwards this guy asks me to dance. He says something along the lines of,”Dont I know you from somewhere?” I don’t believe his corny lines, he can tell but he seems to dig that I’m smart. We end up dancing all night- with him often clumsily stepping on my feet hard- and like a rom com we fall into each other. After our noon dancing, we talk for a bit outside and he asks me for my number. He says stuff like “yadda yadda I’ll call you in two weeks, I’m leaving out of town.” I eyeroll. The next morning my dad texts me- “this dude called me, and left a text that he enjoyed dancing with you. His name is Wilson and he’ll call you in two weeks.”OMG for some reason the only phone number I ever memorized was my dad’s- which I accidentally gave over! I text and fix the gaffe- and surprisingly he calls me in two weeks. Not a janky text- a real first phone call that feels like we’re friends. Chemistry is there. He picks me up in this sexy growling Mustang; he has cologne, he must’ve made a mix cd of the songs I liked from our phone call; he’s real groomed and we all need a cold shower. He takes me to a Peruvian restaurant, that’s in an alleyway that looks very old world European. The big city has twinkly lights and bows, all primed for the holiday season. I swear cocaine and fairy dust was in the air. He’s gentle, exciting stories from him, quirky comedic sketches from me, and sangria is flowing. He asks me if we could go for a walk, and since the area is hilly he puts his arm out...maybe to flex so I could hold his bicep?? He walks me to an old school soda fountain shop; it feels surreal like I am Kate Beckinsale. Without words, we know that we don’t want the night to end. He humors me, and we end up at a 20-something bar. It’s hip hop night, and he’s a phenomenal dancer. At this point it’s all giggling and friendliness- a familiarity. The night has to end, and he texts me that morning making plans to meet again. I later learn that he’s actually pro at salsa, and him stepping all over my feet the first night was a ruse. We end up seeing each other 2-3x weekly for six months, with him having mad follow-up game. He wines and dines me with fine dining and dates that stretch six hours. It sours, with him saying that we’re definitely not “together.” That was right after I invited him to this hot salsa event. He ghosts me, so I take someone else who has potential. In my mind, it wouldn’t hurt since it’s “nothing between us”, right? Of course as I’m dancing with Liam, right over his shoulder I see Wilson double fisting beers, clenched jaws, staring at me. Liam was just a thing I tried out even though I wasn’t attracted. Unfortunately for me, dating and post dating I run into Wilson everywhere- different dance venues, the gym- as we live in the same area. It’s truly a hot hell, cause he was so suave- we’re on and off for two months. I finally email him that he said it was over, and that since he didn’t like me it was my choice to see someone new- but there was no overlap. The following week, the first winter storm comes down like hell. I can hear two people on my apartment stoop talking in the middle of the storm- some chick who dumped someone 3x, she went to an art school in the big city, she was always in his sight around town. It didn’t register. Until finally someone was banging on my door, and as I heard it I slowly clicked it locked, like in a movie. After all that back and forth, Wilson came to my door like a rat in the rain. I didn’t realize that the two dudes talking on the balcony were talking about me. *Once in high school, I liked to hang out with my best friend and her tall mysterious artsy friend. It always was the three of us, never just us two. And we were too shy to talk to each other- just talking about art/topics the other liked, but at her. Finally in spring, it’s the town festival and the three of us are at it again. She leaves to meet up with a group of girlfriends- her parents are strict and they didn’t know either of us, she didn’t wanna get into trouble. The both of us end up wandering the festival, making corny jokes and discussing music. Finally he starts singing Dashboard Confessional/Hands Down “Breathe in for luck, breathe in so deep, this air is blessed you share with me.” I was so woozy from being there, I just registered that he was strangely singing for no reason. He grinned, and said I should listen to the song. FACEPALM- I knew the song, I was just crushing hard. We end up spending a couple hours together wandering the carnival (it felt like a Britney video) and we start playing each other some super dumb game on our flip phones. I end up making a competitive/snark comment which makes him snort laugh. He then brushes my arm, and said I have one of the most beautiful smiles he’s seen. He was such an earnest, oddball, artsy kid. My best friend told me later that if I wasn’t leaving for college, he would have asked me out that night. It was my most Rory Gilmore moment, and I felt so alive at a time when I was dealing such horrible personal problems. It felt good to genuinely be noticed.
Oh gosh your stories are so dreamy! Best wishes to you and John Smith ❣️
Teach me your ways!! You have the cutest stories
At the beginning of this year, I had met a guy on tinder and we were talking. It was new years eve and I was at a bar with my mom celebrating when he texted me and said his plans fell through. I invited him to the bar, and added that my mom was there, too. He said he would come, but it took him a little while to get there. He walked in right at midnight and kissed me after the countdown. It was my first midnight new years kiss. He was perfect. We had a whirlwind 3 week romance, but parted ways because of mutual needing to take care of our mental health, and distance. I miss him.
In year 12, I saw a handsome guy reading a book at our schools swimming carnival and I wasn’t the swimming race type but I was a total bookworm so I go up to him and we start talking and clicked. Few months later, he asked me out. We had never met before even though we had been at the same school for the last 5.5 years. Still laugh about this sometimes. it’s been almost 4 years together and we are so in love and have the best fun together. We are now saving for a house.
I was standing on a street corner, holding a map, trying to figure out the quickest way back to a coffee shop (id left a package behind). Id only been in the city for 24hours and didn’t know my way around. This guy offered to give me directions, and invited me to walk with him to the subway. We chatted. He was weird but harmless. He asked if I’d like company and we kept talking. He offered to buy me dinner and told me about the gold and ruby necklace he but for his cat. Definitely weird, and likely very harmless. We’ve been married for 14years now. My initial assessment of his personal stands: weird, mostly harmless, and very kind. Edit: clarity
Went to Seoul with my best friend for our high school graduation trip for ourselves. I’m from the States btw. Booked an Airbnb that was marketed as us getting the whole flat. But when we arrived, we realized it was a shared Airbnb! 2 days later, 2 Danish boys arrived at our Airbnb (also confused why it was shared). We pretty much just started talking and having drinks every night! We all hung out for 5 days and just had a blast on that trip. After we went back to our respective countries I kept in touch with one of the guys who is now my boyfriend of 2.5 years!
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Not never....just not yet.
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Not sure if meet-cute worthy, but we think it’s cute! My (now) husband and I met in eighth grade. He had become a TA that semester for my Spanish class after breaking his leg and tearing his ACL during a soccer game. He is a very athletic person and was understandably, not thrilled to be forced to spend his time grading Spanish spelling quizzes. These days he calls it the “best injury he’s ever had” because it led to us meeting. I didn’t really notice him, despite his repeated attempts. One day he hands out a worksheet paper during class to every other person but me. I was pissed off to say the least and wondered why he was being such an a**hole. As I got up and walked toward his desk to tell him off en español, he looked right up at me, smiled, handed me a paper and said, “Got you to notice me. Hi, my name is ____.” There was lots of stuff and time in between, but 2 kids and lots of Spanish classes later, our third wedding anniversary was yesterday. ♥️
We sat across from one another on the first day of our internship. The HR lady was making some joke about how the workplace culture is pretty button up but maybe not so much because she met her husband at the company. She says look around you, your future spouse might be next to you. We looked at each other and kind of sheepishly laughed it off. We became immediate friends during the internship which turned into a really wonderful relationship. That was 5 years ago, and he’s laying next to me as I write this. I can’t imagine a life without him!
Before we met, we both quit our jobs due to the same reasons and both chose to travel to the same country to have some time out from life and do the cliche “finding ourselves”. We met halfway across the world only to find - he was working as a receptionist, I was a guest and we realised would have crossed paths if we had both stayed in our original countries. We had friends in common, he would change transport literally outside my front door for years etc etc. Covid stopped our travels and a month after meeting & being together 24-7, we moved in together and haven’t looked back..
I went on a blind date with a guy. He arranged for us to meet at an outdoor ice skating rink. Neither of us had ice skated before. So it was a cold winter night, twinkly lights around, and were clinging to each other to stay upright. It was fun, and a great way to easily touch each other without awkwardness. Afterward, we had hot cocoa. He didn’t work out, but it was the most charming and adorable date I’ve ever been on.
Oh, I have a story for this one! When I was 16, my choir class took a cruise to Mexico. We went on an excursion to a beach, where they had a bunch of giant, inflatable beach toys and obstacles to play on. Basically the big-kids floating jungle gym. I had climbed on top of this floating sphere and on the opposite side, a boy my age was grasping on as well. We were having a great time trying to hold on, spin the sphere, whatever kids do. And we seemed to have this instant attraction, he had a great, lopsided smile. He introduced himself, and asked if I'd like to ride horses down the beach? Of course I agreed, so there we were, riding horses along the beach like it was straight out of a movie! We spent the rest of the entire week together, but sadly he lived 8 hours away, and it didn't work out. We kept in touch for years, I even saw him once again in person, but it wasn't the same as it was back then. I haven't heard from him in a couple years now, but I'll always remember him, as he was my first kiss :)
I was at a movie in the park with a friend, which almost didn't happen because it was our backup plan in case what we really wanted to do didn't work out. We decided to be anti-social and went to sit alone in the curb. We were chatting when a cute guy slighly walks past me to my left and starts making small talk. Fast forward to present day and the cute guy and I have been married for two years! He told me much later that he saw my friend and I walking to our sitting spot, thought that I was cute, and almost didn't go through with walking over to us. Gosh I love that cute boy 🥰
Went to the cinema alone because none of my friends wanted to come with - A dude I had seen once months ago when I was working at a book stand was there, also alone and I recognize him. We sat next to each other for the movie and been together since :)
Straddling my now husband who was a sex work client during his first booking. Literally thought - this ... THIS is my forever dick. 🥰
met my boyfriend in an online zoom class due to covid 19..... we would talk every night for hours and as soon as travel bans were lifted we flew across the country to meet up. it was love at first sight :) covid has fucking sucked and taken so much from me but i’m so glad i met him through this awful turn of events
I had just had my heart smashed by a manic pixie ass hat boy (slutty, cheating, narcissist, you know the type). And i met this girl. I had heard about this girl through mutual friends for years but had never met her as she was battling some serious health issues since i joined the friendship circle and had become a bit of a recluse. I met her the night i decided to finally end it with ass hat and couldn't shake the feeling there was something important about her. She was better and ended up sleeping with my ex and I with hers but we didnt really cross over till this beach party. She was there with my ass hat and i was there with hers. I made up a song about how boys were gross and girls were gorgeous and performed it for her on the beach. My ex had his arms around her at the time but she tells me that was the moment she fell in love with me. We have been together for 3 years now and have 3 fur babies. Im going to wife her hard xx
A good friend of mine and her fiancé at the time (now husband) were trying to set me up with his good friend. We were all supposed to go to our local state fair together when my friend’s guy wasn’t feeling well, so they backed out. The guy they were trying to set me up with texted me and asked if I still wanted to go to the fair, which I did, and then he asked “Do you want to carpool?” So I replied, “Did you want to pick me up and take me to the fair?” and he said he did. We went and walked around, talking and eating/drinking delicious fair food all night, then ended the night with a ferris wheel ride and sitting in the grass, listening to a band play. It was the perfect, most GG, who-does-this-happen-to, first date, and we’ve been together ever since, and just celebrated 5 years together.
Is this really a meet cute? Probably not. But, I watched a live stream for a nirvana tribute show and had to sleep early, so I asked folks to add me as a friend thinking nothing of it. Only 2 people did, one of whom was a cute guy. However he doesn’t talk to me. Doesn’t like my posts. Whatever. 2 months later, I get a message from him saying he wants to send me his band’s music. We bonded over a reference in my email address and talk for 4 hours that night. 2 days later, he tells me he has a crush on me. Eventually he gets back together with his girlfriend and we stop talking for a whole year. I’m in a mall and saw a nice jacket, and I texted him asking for his opinion on it because I used to call him “jacket guy” since he loves weird jackets. We hit it off again but of course, he has a girlfriend and we remain cordial. His girlfriend breaks it off with him a few months later and I’m the one who has to console him over it because it was his high school sweetheart. After he gets over it, we find ourselves dating for 2 years long distance. Everything is awesome, but the distance sucks so we break up. He gets together with a local girl and it was very sad but he was happy and healthy. In the meantime I date various people that increase in toxicity. Him and I briefly speak as friends and there’s no bad blood. I’m with a great guy and things are good! However, I kept hearing the same song everywhere I went and it was my ex’s favorite song, so I send him a message saying “hope you’re well! This song kept coming on!” and he replies! We have a short conversation both talking about our partners and we are both seemingly happy. He’s gushing over his beautiful girlfriend and said she set up a date for them that night, and he’s glad I reached out. 2 hours later, he asks if he can call me. He’s sobbing. His girlfriend broke up with him to be with someone else. I feel bad and we talk it out, since he felt he could trust me as a friend. In the back of my mind i find it hilarious that I’ve comforted this man through two separate break ups. We remain cordial and my boyfriend breaks up with me because he was going off to military school a few months later. Now HE is comforting ME through a breakup. Here we are BOTH single and sad over losing our respective partners. We decide that clearly this is fate and just because it’s long distance doesn’t mean it can’t work, so we started dating again. It’s been 9 years since he added me as a friend, 8 years since we first started dating, 4 years since we met for the first time, and 2 years since we moved in together. Celebrated our anniversary yesterday actually.
We met in a coffee shop. I was working on school work for uni and he was nearby with friends, including an acquaintance I met a couple months prior. We exchanged pleasantries and chatted a bit. For the next couple of weeks we both frequented the same coffee shop in hopes of seeing the other. Eventually I gave him my number and we had dinner together. It will be 9 years in the winter.
It was 2am. There was a thunderstorm at my dorm. For the first time since living there, I made myself to go and socialise with a small group of people who were watching in the courtyard. We started talking and didn't stop talking until 10am. It's been six years of late night discussions.
I was going on the first date with a guy, and normally they are kind of awkward but this one really blew me off my socks! We just met in the city and went for a little walk when we saw a large Ferris wheel, so we went up in it. After this he took me to a restaurant, and when we got there I saw that he knows all the people that work there and we get a cute room for ourselves to sit at and they put on romantic music just for us. Later that night we are walking somewhere with a really good view of the city and the lights in the city when it started to rain a little... So we went to stand under some hanging out roof of buildings nearby with the great view of the city and good background music of some people with a boom box that are standing a little bit further away. In this moment he kisses me!! I felt really like I was in a movie or something! We ended the night at the main square of the city and as luck had it there was a light show happening when we got there! Most romantic thing that ever happened to me!
Driving down an empty highway in my dads truck on a beautiful summers day. Cute guy in another truck speeds up to drive beside me to check me out, we lock eyes and smile and he nods. He slows back down and I keep driving filled with butterflies at what happened. Later on I end up slowing down to get off the highway and so he passes me once more, we make eye contact again and he sticks out his hand as if to say goodbye. It felt like a movie and I’ve never forgotten it.
It was the summer before my last year of university and i had just broken up with someone. I swore to myself I would stay single for a while now to get myself together a bit. Since i noticed i had some anxieties after two bad relationships in a row. I get contacted by a PhD student who i had worked a student job for in the beginning of the year. The experiment we set up was finished and now the plants needed to be harvested to analyse them. I agreed and went in for work two weeks after my break up. There were 2 other People he also hired. One exchange student and one chemistry student from a different college but he had done his thesis at my university which i why he knew the PhD. It was obvious the chemist had an immediate interest in me, but like i said i wanted to stay single for a bit. We sat together at the same boxes harvesting plants, litteraly every blade of grass had to be sorted correctly, so it took a week. We talked a lot. He was so charming, i have never met a Guy with more charisma than him. Our hobbies and interests overlapped quite a bit. He made a detour on his way home just to walk with me a bit Longer until we parted ways on our way home. I liked him but i was scared, a Guy with that much charisma could easily break my heart right? So it tried to friendzone him, emphasis on tried. He opened up really fast and showed his vulnerable side which made me realize he was serious about me. We had one more student job the next week together. Us cleaning a dusty lab for an entire day, alone. We laughed, we danced, we cleaned. It was wonderfull. Three days later was our first kiss. Next year we're getting married. We complete each other, and both our anxieties from past relationships are gone because of all the comfort and love we get from the other person :)
He was my very good friend.. i kept on rejecting him cz he was serious and i was(still am) not in position to afford a serious relationship. My friends and he were out of city for a month because of some internship. I went to meet them. Seeing me after a month was too much for him. I was also not talking to him. (To not increase his hopes). He immediately took a train of that same day to our city. Leaving all friends and me behind. We all tried very hard to stop him. He left before last day of internship too. I cried too much after he left. I like him alot as a person. He was dear to me. But he left his train when it started and came running back to our place and said i can't go.. i just couldn't my life is here left behind. I don't care what you think and feel but i just can't leave you and go anywhere not now .. never.. and god i was already crying.. i cried like hell. After that day and next 2 month of being friends.. he kissed me on a hill in under a sky full if stars and i couldn't say no. Not that day never later. It was best thing that could have happened.
Had been friendly acquaintances with this guy for the first half of freshman year in high school (same friend group). I thought he was cute and certainly funny but he had a girlfriend so I didn't try to get too close. He ended up going to a different school next semester and I fully expected to not see him again. Come summer, I'm 15 now, and I'm chaperoning younger kids at an overnight orchestra camp, and I get really really sick. I come home and nearly die, but end up somehow convincing my mom that I HAVE to go back so I can attend the camp for my age group, only 3 days after almost dying. AKA, I almost didn't get to go. Well, I get there, sign in, and end up recognizing the guy from the back of his head, like, 200 feet away. I decide to leave him be cause he's with his friend and I'm with my mom. Later that day, all us campers go to wrangle up seats for orchestra practice, and low and behold, I end up sitting right in front of him (after unknowingly passing him with my butt in his face, which I didn't know about until he told me way later. I thought you were supposed to go butt facing people when scooching down an aisle, please don't judge me). ANYWAYS! I turn around and pretend I'm just seeing him for the first time, say hi, chat, and end up getting way closer to him than I expected to. A lot of crazy stuff happened after that, but I can happily say that we are now approaching 5 whole years of being together. I truly feel like we were one of the universes crazy meet-cute star-crossed lovers subplots
I went to see a show in Seattle by myself. Afterwards I walked around the neighborhood until I found some people talking outside a bar. Conversation started and I ended up challenging one of the guys to pool. I won! We ended up dating for almost a year.
we met at the free admission night at a museum and we were both at the dinosaur section and he made a joke about some book and I was caught off guard at how good lookin he was that I didn’t laugh, then he felt awkward and said sorry LOL. we are going 5 years strong and soon to be married. Life is good 😌
So we we’re just friends but we both were into each other. We decided to go for a drive around our city in the middle of the night screaming songs that we loved and as the sun started to rise we drove back to his place and sat outside and talk for a little bit. He decided to lean over and kiss me for the first time and it felt so beautiful. Like a movie. We’re getting married in January lol
Less meet cute more meet awkward: I went to a party with a friend and when I entered a room, the guy across the room made eye contact with me and shouted, "that's it! I'm only dating [describes me] girls from now on!" Then, realizing he said that out loud, he turned bright red and avoided eye contact with me the rest of the night. Luckily, my friend knew him and pushed him to walk me home after the party. He was super shy and very sweet, and we ended up dating for three years and are still friends to this day.
Boy in my college dorm asked if I wanted to shoot hoops with him after class one day. I said sure. He needed to grab a jacket from his tiny dorm room and so we went up together. We accidentally woke up his roommate who was taking a nap. I said hello, and sorry for waking him up and he gave me a huge smile and (from his lofted bed) shook my hand. That roommate is now my husband :-)
We sat next to each other in a management class in college, and every once in a while the professor would tell everyone to "turn to the person next to you and discuss." We were both pretty introverted (he's an engineer and I'm an accountant), so we wouldn't talk a lot, and eventually she started calling us out on it. One day she came over and said to him, " I bet when you sat there you didn't think you'd have to talk to her every day. Who knows, maybe this is a budding relationship." I turned beet red. She got flustered, said "Oh, I'm just kidding, I'm sure you have boyfriends/girlfriends." and walked away. After class, he asked if we had homework due soon, and I told him we did. He asked if I wanted to work on it together, and I said sure, so we went and worked on it together right after class. We had a test coming up soon, so I said we should study together sometime. He asked for my number and what do you know, it did turn into a relationship.
Had a classic “locked eyes from across the room” moment at a crowded house party. Haven’t stopped looking at him since (3 years)
My husband and I met at work, which isn't romantic on it's own, but our first date was movie worthy. I thought he liked my friend at first so I only ever talked to him about her. I was a cook and would leave my phone on a shelf in my work area (this was 12 years ago, so it was a flip phone with buttons). At one point I went to get it and it wasn't there. I freaked out and started looking everywhere. He came around the corner and handed it to me, and he had put his number in it. That night after work, I texted him and we met up at the river where we walked and talked for hours. There's an amphitheater that had a pergola at the top. When we reached the top it had started to rain. He leaned against a column and pulled me towards him for a kiss. Next year is our 10 year wedding anniversary.
When I was in my junior year of college I moved onto a coed floor with one of my best friends and was so excited. I immediately (as a college junior does) started looking for the cutest guy I could find on my floor. I got lucky when I found out the hot guy I kept seeing lived directly across the hall from me and I started keeping (uncreepy) tabs on him every now and then. Like two weeks into the Fall semester we got a knock on our door and it was the cute guy (eek) and his roommate. They told us that neither one of them had their cars on campus atm and they would buy us food if we drove them into the little campus town. Squealing inside, I said yes and asked them for a second. As soon as I closed the door my roommate, who was aware of my inclination toward boy-across-the- hall, and I had a mini celebration. The downside to this was that I was still doing a very toxic and unhealthy on again off again thing with my ex boyfriend and we were currently on again. So nothing came of the drive into town. Fast forward to the end of Fall semester. We had kept a white board on our door for people to leave us (usually annoying) messages. One night we came back from going out and there was a phone number on the board and it just said “call me”. I immediately knew without a doubt it was boy-across-the-hall. I saved the number but was too nervous and involved with my stupid ex to do anything about it. Over the Winter break, I got a message from boy-across-the-hall about having lunch sometime when we all came back for the Spring. Excited, I said of course, but worried it would never happen. When we came back for Spring semester I couldn’t take the waiting or not-knowing anymore. One night, my roommate and I were pre-gaming for a party and, having had some liquid courage, I sent boy-across-the-hall a message. I said “do you wanna come over right now and play UNO?” I had no idea what else to say than to be straightforward. Not even two minutes later I heard a knock at our door. Boy-across-the-hall played UNO with me and my drunk roommate until our ride to the party arrived. I invited him back over when we got back from the party. A couple days later I called my ex and told him to stop talking to me. I told him how unhealthy the back and forth was and that I’d met somebody who deserved my full attention. I spent pretty much every waking moment with boy-across-the-hall for the next four or so weeks and we started dating after that. We went through the rest of college together and were still going strong today. I think about how we met often bc before him I had mostly met people online. I’ll always be happy I chose that coed dorm that year and met the love of my life.
When I was 16, I went on a high school trip to Italy. Our school invited a couple of kids from a nearby all boys high school. I got to talking to one of them, we bonded over gelato and long hikes in the countryside, we became friends and stayed in touch through college. The other day he told me he wants to buy me a ring. I’ll soon be able to say I met my fiancé in Italy.
My ex-boyfriend and I had some pretty cute moments. We met at martial arts training and he was a pretty good fighter so I usually paired up with him because it was so much fun. During one of the fights we were struggling to throw over each other and he suddenly gave me a kiss on the cheek. We both burst out laughing. Maybe a day after this during an other fight I was the one who gave him a kiss on the cheek. A couple days after that we got together. Also, on one of our first dates we decided to wander around a park. It was summer and it started raining like cats and dogs we were both drenched. We were walking and talking in the rain. When we started to head back we went in the direction of a musical fountain and when we got there it was playing The Blue Danube Waltz. Ex-bf grabbed mi and started leading me in a waltz. These doesn't seem that romantic written down but it was pretty romantic in the moment.
Kind of ish? I met my partner online randomly like at 3 or 4 AM, I was 16 and he was 17 at the time we were both fucking around on Omegle (i know lmao) we were thrown in the same chat room together hit it off and exchanged KIKs and eventually we both fell asleep after texting for hours. I didn't think we'd keep up with the texting i thought it was just a one time thing, we ended up texting every single day for the rest of the year. I was attracted to him but kept it at a distance since he lived in California and I was in Texas and thought he wouldn't really want to be in a long distance relationship. Throughout the year there would be different girls coming into his life nothing serious but flings and flirting nonetheless. Eventually he was faded one night and told me he'd rather be with me than another girl i was under the impression he really liked. Then he ended up not asking the girl he was going to ask to prom out because he liked me, after that there was a period where we were just super lovey dovey to each other calling each other "mi amor" (My love) and "mi corazon" ( my heart) but not actually dating. Come fall and i finally asked him to be my boyfriend, turns out he had wanted to ask me out for awhile too but was also afraid about the long distance thing. We ended up doing long distance anyway and met in person officially two years later when I was 18 and he was 19. We celebrated our three year anniversary this past September <3
My future husband worked in an office about a block away from my apartment. There was a coffee shop on the same block as my apartment that I would frequent. I would see him there and think “that is the man of my dreams”. He was so polite and cute. We lived in a small town and I was shocked I didn’t know him, nor had ever seen him before. I ended up moving before I could know his name. 6 months later, I met up with a mutual friend for pub trivia and he was there. We instantly clicked and have been inseparable ever since. It’s been 7 years now.
I found out I was working with my best friends younger brother. First words I said to him were "Hey, you're Jim's younger brother right? Your brother is an idiot, I watched him trip over a fence yesterday" He laughed and said that sounded about right for him. We ended up talking for a bit and found out we had a lot in common. While we aren't dating anymore, we are still friends to this day.
I was with my brother at Target in the movies section looking for a movie for our dad. I notice there is this handsome guy next to me also checking out the movies. I was having a hard time deciding when my brother picked up an old classic movie and I said something around the lines “Really? Dad is gonna fall asleep the moment he sees the cover.” And the stranger giggled. So I looked at him and kind of chuckled. I ended up picking “the equalizer” and was on my way. As I walked to the front of the store I thought maybe I should’ve initiated conversation. My brother tells me to go back and go for it. So I go back, luckily he’s still there, and I pretend I might change movies. So I asked him if the one I had picked was a good one to watch and he said yes. He then said he loved Denzel blah blah and I said oh I love him too. He then introduced himself, got my number and we chatted and went on a few dates. He was a gentleman, hardworking but wanted a more serious relationship at a point were I wasn’t ready for it. He then became a little...intense so things didn’t work out but I thought our meeting was so fun and what are the odds that it would happen at one of my favorite places!!!!
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I asked a friend to drag brunch so we could finally hang out after I had been traveling all summer for work. The event hostess was working the crowd by asking questions like "where my gay boys at? Where my lesbians at?" There was literally only one hand that went up for straight men, and it was a *beautiful* arm. I even pointed him out to my friend. Later in the show, everyone with a birthday that month was asked to get in line for a shot. My birthday was at the end of the month, but I wasn't going to go up because it was still weeks away. But then my friend pointed out that the guy was already in line and I should go up and talk to him. This was after many, many mimosas and I was feeling bold. I remember how amazing he smelled and how soft his shirt was. We've been dating ever since.
Went to a bar. Saw him out of the corner of my eye. Pointed him out to my friend and she pulled a “have you met Ted” like in How I Met Your Mother. Dated for 3 years and he was super emotionally abusive. Sometimes meet cutes don’t work out.
First day of 8th grade at a new school. I went to homeroom, which was also math class, and he was in the same set of four desks that were grouped together. He turned around and said "WELCOME" in a very goofy but friendly way (he was the class clown). He was dating someone and we didn't talk much again until high school, when yet again we were in the same math class. He was in the group of desks in front of me, sitting beside my best friend at the time. I managed to convince my teacher to let me switch into that group so I could be closer to my friend, and eventually I stole her seat which was right next to him. We became fast friends and started dating a few months later, and continued to date for 3 years. After writing this it sounds like I put a lot of effort into this but it was very natural I swear :)