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 would share at that video store as teenagers.
We’ve been married for 27 years.
I love reading stories of how people met…feel free to share how you and your spouse met in the Facebook comments!
#1
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
#4
Every day going to work on a no 8 bus, this girl was so nice n lovely to talk to. Took me ages to try & ask her out, but always saw a reason she wouldn’t want to know. Then 1 day the bus hit a milk float, seized my moment of opportunity asked her out! Been married 34 yrs.
— Simon Hay (@bluenwhite61) June 13, 2018
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#6
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
#7
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
#8
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
#9
We were teens. He came in the grocery store where I worked. I told him I would get in trouble for talking to him while I was supposed to be working. He went through my line over and over, buying one piece of gum each time.
— Brenda Vanderford (@brendavanderfor) September 6, 2020
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#11
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
#12
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
#13
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
#14
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
#15
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
#16
My husband and I met in 1999 at the (now long defunct) Borders Bookstore at the intersection of Diversey, Clark & Broadway in Chicago. Fittingly, we met in front of the “New Releases” section. We went back to where we met at Borders to take pictures on our wedding day in 2002. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/MxnGc8iv0X
— Sonya Olds Som (she/her/hers)🖖🏾 (@SonyaOldsSom) July 24, 2021
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#21 Although this isn’t a marriage story, I included it because I thought it was a cool story of coincidence!
