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

It was such a weird one-in-a-million thing.

I used to work for a major appliance manufacturer, running a powder coating process. Other than me, there were four people directly involved in the process - one to hang parts on a conveyor line to be washed, another to take them from the wash line to the powder line, another to take the powder-covered but unfired parts off the powder line and put them on the furnace line, and finally, once the parts were fired in a furnace to shiny perfection, a person to take them off the furnace line, verify they are perfect (or good enough that someone who doesn’t see thousands of cooktops a day won’t notice a defect) and put them in a rack which is carted off to assembly.

Well one day, the day who was supposed to be in the furnace area was gone. Start of the shift. I knew this individual well enough to know he’d he trying to chat up some beautiful woman half his age. I found him trying to “train” a gorgeous young woman who was taking another color of part off another line, and I let him know he had parts coming. He didn’t want to leave, but he had to.

I, being no better a person, apologized to the woman, introduced myself, found out her name, and went back to my area. And I couldn’t get her out of my head. I stopped to talk to her at lunch, and she was very friendly. Talked about her dogs and falling off atv’s with her friends and all sorts of things. I couldn’t belive it. This supernaturally pretty woman was talking to me? I asked for her email address. This eventually led to me getting her number, and us talking outside of work… and we fell for each other hard. She was the best girlfriend anyone could ask for. I wiped out on a bicycle one evening and she came to get me off the side of the road, took me to the hospital, took my bike home, and took me home afterwards. When I proposed to her, I still had the cast on my hand. I had a patch of velcro on the palm, and I put the other side of the velcro on the box with the ring in it. She was so excited she forgot to say yes at first.

I don’t remember what day it was when I met her. Sometime in 2007. But that day was the dividing line in my life. There is before I met her, and there is after I met her. We’ve been married 14 years, and everything good in my life is because of her.

We were sparring and she kicked me in the nuts.

In a calculus study group. We were practicing limits, and things got out of hand.

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

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

Discord, of all places.

A few weeks away from birthing our newest family adition!

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

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

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

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

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

StumbleUpon, back when the internet was young and finding love on the internet was poor judgment.

Happily married.

She kicked me out of a bush when we were kids

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

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