It was 1988, and I was working after school at my family’s little mom-and-pop video store. My mother had instructed me to “train the new kid” she recently hired, who was starting that afternoon.
I’m sure I rolled my eyes at this task, because that’s just the kind of teenage girl I was.
I was retrieving VHS tapes from the drop box at the front of the store, and carrying them four at a time to the inventory shelves in the back, when the new boy walked in.
He was tall, with a wild mop of curly hair. We introduced ourselves, and as I continued carrying the VHS tapes a few at a time across the store, I noticed him staring at me curiously.
“Umm…” he finally said, “Is there a reason you don’t just carry the whole box to the back?”
I stopped in my tracks. OMG. I was SO dumb. Why DIDN’T I just carry the whole box?? It had just never occurred to me. So embarrassing.
I laughed and looked at this boy like he was some kind of genius.
That was the first of many laughs we shared at that video store.
We’ve been married for 29 years.
Janene
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Met at work when my boss told me I had to fire him. Then publicly hated each other for two years. Finally had it out with each other, which ended up in agreeing to a lunch date. Been married 19 years 😆
— Suzy Barnes (@Suzybarnes) July 24, 2021
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We met in college. He wrote a negative review of my club's poetry reading for the school paper. I was furious. I had to give him a piece of my mind. It was love at first sight. I never met anyone like him. Patient, kind and intelligent… happily married 28 yrs.
— Katie Turner (@KatieTurner2) July 23, 2021
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my grandma met my grandpa at her first husband’s funeral. he lost his first spouse too, so they just clicked. both loved eachother dearly, but had a mutual understanding that their heart would always be with their first love, and that’s who they’re each buried beside today
— u (@eugenesims) August 28, 2020
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She moved in two houses down when I was 10. We became good friends, but I loved her right away. I knew that if I told her and she didn't feel the same, it'd mess things up. So I held my tongue. For 30 yrs. When I finally told her, she said, "I've loved you since we were ten."
— Frank Zafiro (@Frank_Zafiro) September 6, 2020
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In 1965 the University of Texas engineering guys wrote a computer matching program that cost $3 for twelve names. Best $3 I ever spent. John and I have been married 54 years.
— Ellen McLean💕🌳🧩🌊🌊😷🤟🏻🌎☕️ (@EClaireMcLean) September 6, 2020
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We both worked at Toys R Us. We started dating. He got promoted to manager, I got fired because our relationship violated the fraternization policy. We got married, I became an employment lawyer.
— wix (@Wixwixwixwix) September 6, 2020
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My dad worked at 7-11 at night when he got off from his job at the post office. I went down to get milk and bread one night, and he took me behind the bread aisle and said he wanted to bring home the new employee, who had just gotten out of the Navy. We have been married 51 yrs
— JoAnn Breitling (@JoannBreitling) September 6, 2020
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We went to middle school in Florida together. We were friends. My family moved back to Atlanta. 30 years later, we reconnected on Facebook and realized we were both in Dallas. She was going through divorce. I was, as always, lonely. 2 years later: Married. We won Facebook
— Evan Grant (@Evan_P_Grant) September 6, 2020
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He was the long lost love that broke my heart 30 years earlier. After I got divorced I decided to see if I could look him up and as they say, the rest is history. I originally met him at my first job post college. I was 23 and he was 26. We married when I was 55 and he was 58.
— ViviLynn (@Vivi90054191) September 5, 2020
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I answered the phone and started to take a message for my roommate. My future husband and I wound up talking for three hours. We’ve been married over 30 years.
— stace (@stacevalue) June 13, 2018
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Grandma worked in a diner when she was 18. For weeks, my grandpa would come in in his army uniform, trying to impress her. One day, she dropped food on him and said he'd have to wear something to go dancing in while she cleaned it. Married 2 weeks later and 70 years afterwards.
— Commander Robin (@commander_robin) October 25, 2024
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#20 Although this isn’t a marriage story, I included it because I thought it was a cool story of coincidence!
