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It seems like the older generation always has the wildest, most exciting, and sometimes even borderline comical couple stories of how they happened to meet their significant others. Which often makes the youngsters out there feel at least a tiny bit envious. But mostly—absolutely entertained.
If you, just like us, enjoy a good “how we met” story, get ready for a real treat! Recently, X (formerly Twitter) user @Coll3enG shared a post that currently has almost 800k likes and more than 50k retweets. Her tweet contained a brief summary of her grandparents’ meeting story:
Thousands of people absolutely loved this story, and it inspired some of them to share more bizarre tales of how they or their relatives met their significant others. With that being said, Bored Panda invites you to look through some of the most wild, funny and wholesome movie-level “how we met” stories shared by people on X (formerly Twitter). By the way—we had a chance to talk to Colleen (the girl who started this whole thread) and find out a bit more about her grandparent’s love story, so make sure to look for her answers while scrolling down!
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KittenQueen 4 years ago
My Grandparents met in a similar way, my Babcia was sold for a pair of shoes in Naliboki where she met my Grandpa since they were both slaves for the same household.
Elizabeth Molloy 4 years ago
Sorry to be that person, but the correct way is WWII, which means the Second World War.
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Pacifico Fernandez 3 years ago
If she was smart enough, she would have put the note in an officer uniform
The Start of the Relationship
We were extremely curious to learn more about the love story of Colleen’s grandparents, which started this whole thread. Here’s what she told us: “My grandma and grandpa were from a smallish town with several big families, so my grandma knew of my grandfathers family and decided to go to his dad’s funeral with a friend because most funerals in their town are just large social gatherings.”
“My grandma and grandpa didn’t actually approach each other at the funeral because the funeral was for my grandpa’s dad, but my grandma saw my grandpa and asked her friend ‘which son is that boy,’ because she thought my grandpa was cute,” said Colleen.
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Camden 4 years ago
lets be honest - everything and anything being discussed is about dogs
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Kaitlynn Dumaresq 4 years ago
well before my mom married my dad, she actually dated his uncle(he was three years older than my mom and dad) and she was like man he's a piece of s**t going no where(no one in the family speaks with him now because of his actions that i won't get into detail about) and she started dating my dad! they grew up in a TINY town in Quebec
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EQXL 4 years ago (edited)
Sounds so much better than him saying "I came to deliver a cow, but came home with two" 😅🤣
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Doggo 4 years ago
"Uh ok so you wanna switch?" "Uhh what?" "I take yours you take mine" "..sure"
Sage Cowan 4 years ago
This happened to my dad lol his friend starting dating his ex wife and he took his friends baby mother
Lillukka79 4 years ago
I know someone who did this. Or the ladys just desided to swap. Both couples have been married almost 50 years, so it worked out well.
Susan Price 4 years ago
That is how my parent got together - friends with another couple then after a while they decided they should swap. Yay for the 60's?
A Rough Patch
“After learning his name she found him at school (he was a year older) and asked him out to her formal dance and he said yes. From there they went out, even after my grandpa went to college,” Colleen continued. “While my grandpa was away at college, he actually dropped out and didn’t tell my grandma and my grandma was so upset that every time he called for the next several weeks she would slam down the phone and refused to speak to him. My grandpa still called her every day to apologize and eventually my grandma agreed to give him another chance.”
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oddkiddo 4 years ago
That's some seriously f****d up manipulative s**t to do. He sounds like a complete idiot.
BeenElle 4 years ago
Absolutely. Doing it for a couple days could make for a funny joke, but to do that for MONTHS is just bizarre.
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Becky Graybeal 3 years ago
My daughter's husband told his brother in grade school "I'm gonna marry Amanda." And he did!
Beth 4 years ago (edited)
I still have the birthday card I was given by my now sister-in-law. It was the first day that she and my brother met. She was a friend of a friend that I also knew through school. My brother walked in, and it was almost as if his body followed his eyes magnetically to her. He sat down next to her, never having lost sight of her and simply said "Hi." Their relationship survived her moving to Texas and back, and they have been married for 24 years and have five kids. (ages 23, 21, 19, 7 and 4)
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Karynne Williams 4 years ago
this sounds like the same story from @cultish613 at #4 on this list.
Jennifer Crompton 4 years ago
This is a better story because she chose to speak up instead of being shoved forward like chattel by her parents
Almost 60 Years Together
What can we say—Colleen’s grandparents’ love story turned out to be even more beautiful than we imagined. “He proposed to her on a romantic bike ride through town, he went back to college to become an inventor, and they had 7 children,” Colleen told Bored Panda. “They were married for almost 60 years before my grandpa passed away! My grandma actually still carries their formal engagement announcement everywhere she goes. I don’t think it was love at first sight, but they loved each other so much.”
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Elizabeth Scarborough 4 years ago
My parents met almost the same way. Mum was a Red Cross nurse working in hospital somewhere in Italy. Dad was a Sargent in the British Army having been part of the Dessert Rats. He was visiting injured soldiers when he met Mum. He lost his stripes having gotten into a fight defending Mum’s honor. He was a boxer and always won. She was smitten with I’m after that. They communicated by speaking what little Italian they both learned. They were engaged in Italy, married in a civil union in London then again in Greece in a church since my Grandmother insisted.
Jarrod Nichols 4 years ago
I guess, unless you are the fiancee who got dumped because your grandparents were cheating dirt bags.
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Melissa Boatman Linebaugh 4 years ago
I’m glad some good came of it...I want to take a moment to educate anyone reading this that people “die by suicide”, they do not “commit suicide”. The reason we used to say “commit suicide” is that it was a crime—like “committing murder”. If anyone is feeling suicidal, don’t leave us, please get help. 1-800-273-8255.
Eglė Bukauskaitė 4 years ago
... that's a bad omen to name your kid after a suicidal person :O (Love story is actually a beautiful one - where one thing ends; a new and beautiful begins)
How Do Most People Meet Their Partner?
Today, most young people find their partners online, usually on Tinder or similar platforms. But if you ask your parents (or grandparents) how they met, you’ll most likely get a different answer: a bar, a social event, or a church. Although it is becoming increasingly rare to find your significant other in real-life situations, it is still a wonderful chance for like-minded people to mingle and hopefully start something new.
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Maddie Star ⭐ 4 years ago
Are you sure they weren't all dating each other? - hence the big secret of staying stum.
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Joyce Brazel 4 years ago
THAT HAPPENED TO MY COUSIN. SHE MARRIED THE HUSBAND OF THE WOMAN HER HUSBAND WAS HAVING THE AFFAIR WITH. THEY MET IN DIVORCE COURT..
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Aeon Flux 4 years ago
Probably struggling to keep it under the character limit.
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Hollysmom 4 years ago
Can't wait until someone in the far off future tries to decipher this
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Tobias the Tiger 4 years ago
Probably trying to keep it under the character limit.
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Elizabeth Molloy 4 years ago
This is the plot to a Doris Day film. Coronation Street nicked it for when Kevin met Sally. God, my mind is full of ridiculous facts!
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Renae Weidman 4 years ago
Sounds kind of like my parents. My mom was supposed to be at her BFF's house to spend the night. They went to a USO dance at Ft. MacPherson in Atlanta, GA. My mom and her friend had the same color hair and style. My dad came up behind my mom and put his hands over her eyes. She spun and slapped him and he told her he thought she was Beverly. They talked all night at when she was leaving he asked her to marry him. She said yes and they eloped. They were together until her death at 36.
Angela-Jayne Linford 4 years ago
Such a beautiful story, I'm so sorry for your loss. Both a story that made me smile but also cry at the same time ♡♡
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Beth Arriaga 4 years ago
I met my husband when he came stomping in to the company where I was working as a temp. He was furious because I had given him bad directions on the phone an hour earlier. I apologized and he went into his meeting with a sales guy. That afternoon he called back to the company and asked for 'Betty'. No one by that name. (He got my name wrong). We chatted for a bit and he asked me out. Drive two hours that Friday to pick me up and found out I was in the hospital from my roommate. (Pre cell phone). Came to the hospital and we chatted all night, lying that he was my husband so he could stay, and he laughed at me every time I got a morphine shot and talked gibberish (kidney stones).... we got married 6 weeks later and it's been 26 years.
Amanda Hunter 4 years ago
She was lucky, some abusers like to rush things to get their victim in their clutches.
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Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
"Told him to propose' - if you're the one suggesting marriage aren't you the one proposing? LOL
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A Head 4 years ago
Could have been a 19-20 yo bus driver and a 17-18 yo high schooler....
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Amy Jo Buchanan 4 years ago
That's just so sweet... "He took her home for the next 50 years..."
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gracey grace 4 years ago
That's the level of confidence I want to be when I meet my match. lol
Theodore Triant 4 years ago
This worked back in the day way better than it does in the age of porn
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Adrienne Early 4 years ago
I understand that sometimes love happens when they didn't intended it, but it's not a "nice" story.
Tiari 4 years ago (edited)
This negativity towards the man here is disgusting. Perhaps he was just nice, and she fell in love with the man who was THERE and out of love with him who wasn’t. As if there’s only one involved...
Rachel 4 years ago
Even if she did fall in love, he doesn't have to respond to that, so he is equally at fault. It's just pretty messed up to betray someone who trusted you to be a loyal friend. Hopefully the soldier who was risking his life found a better woman.
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Mosheh Wolf 4 years ago
The hidden or not so hidden misogyny of many of the people who are angry is pretty clear. Somehow people have this belief that a woman cannot make her own choices, and that if a man calls "dibs", that's it, the woman now belongs to him unless he decides that he doesn't want her any more.
Aren Horsman 2 years ago (edited)
Had nothing to do with her choice. Like you said, she is free to fall for whoever she wants. It was the friends choice people didn't like. Guy friends don't do that to eachother. It's a pretty huge breach of friendship between men to make a move on a woman your friend is interested in. Calling that misogynistic when it has very little to do with the woman involved just sounds kind of silly tbh.
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Aamna Shah 3 years ago
Your misogyny is quite evident in the entire thread.
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I'manoob! 4 years ago
don't worry, that was posted last year, so this year will make it 60 :)
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Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
Poor girl he took to the dance, you know how sad you would feel if the dude who took you to a dance wanted to walk a different person home and then ended up getting engaged with that person? :/
Two Silly Pups 4 years ago
I've been thinking about the partners whose partners got stolen this whole post. And the poor families of the 'taken' men
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago (edited)
Man steals girlfriend from other guy : "What a douche." Womand wrecks a marriage: "Legend. "
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Stille20 4 years ago
There are a lot of stories of cheating or pursing someone who is already taken....wild story but not cute
Bob Belcher 4 years ago
My wife and I met in the late 90s on an "adult" website. We saw each other naked before anything else. Apparently she had been getting a lot of emails from men asking if she would take videos of her eating and send it to them so she stated no weirdos and had a short rant which I found hilarious. I sent her a message with a funny joke. She took a chance, been together for 18 years now.
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Zoe's Mom 4 years ago
I'm wondering how the family relationship were after one stole the other from a sibling?
JessRS 3 years ago
well, you can't really "steal" a person unless we're talking about kidnapping.
Load More Replies... Troux 4 years ago
I expected this to be heartwarming. Then I read some. Then I realized BP's choice adjectives were "bizarre" and "interesting". Aight grams and gramps, you do you....
Kira Okah 4 years ago
My grandpa and grandma met in India in WW2, she was his nurse when he was injured. My mum and dad married to escape persecution - they met in an underground gay bar, they are both gay and it was illegal at the time.
Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago
That's amazing. Would you ever interview them or write their stories? (or convince them to write theirs together?)
Load More Replies... MrTree1779 4 years ago
I wonder how many of these "long lasting" relationships were actually quite toxic? --- Remember that a lot of these relationships are from "grandparents" and older parents who had a much lower divorce rate than later generations. Up until 35-45 years ago, women were frequently shamed into staying with a man and told that a bad relationship was their fault. --- So, just because people stayed together for decades, doesn't mean that they were the right fit, or that they were happy together. Divorce is perfectly acceptable if you don't think the relationship is working, or if you're in an abusive relationship.
Marina 4 years ago
i thought of that too but most of these stories ended with "are still happily married 50 years later" so I doubt it a little
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Lizz Lor 4 years ago
Geez my grandparents how I met you stories are tragedies.... One wanted to be a nun and tried to run away to a convent at 17 but her dad made her get married instead and had already picked out my grandfather for her...fairly loveless marriage...he died relatively young though. My other grandmother was date raped at a young age and ended up pregnant...destined to be ruined for life she met my grandpa who agreed to marry her but only if she gave the baby up.for adoption. The whole ordeal of being attacked, pregnant and giving up the baby wrecked her emotionally and she was a mental health mess the rest of her life. F*ck the patriarchy.
DamnBecky 4 years ago
My Grandmother's HS boyfriend went to war, and she worked for the War Office. At the time the girls were expected to have lots of penpals to write letters from home. My grandfather came though her city before deployment and his best friend's little sister worked for the WO so the office girls agreed to take the boys out on the town before they left. At the end of the night he asked permission to write my Grandma so he'd have a penpal. She agreed. They wrote through his entire deployment, never inappropriate but always friendly realizing how much they had in common. At the end of the war, my Grandma's fiancé told her that he had met a French nurse and would she allow him to break their engagement. She said yes. So the gossip pool went OFF at the WO, somehow my grandfather's CO in the PACIFIC got wind she was now single and made sure my Grandfather was discharged through her office, even if that meant extra travel and paperwork. He showed up for his discharge with flowers and a ring.
Tisha M. Scott 4 years ago
My Oma and Opa met during WWII. She was his nurse in the burn unit. They dated, got married and have 2 kids( adult now). They lived happily married until my Oma passed in 2001. 🖤
Rick Seiden 4 years ago
My grandfather went to visit his cousin, Vivian, who was staying with her cousin on the other side of the family. He ended up marrying his cousin's cousin. (No, my grandparents weren't cousins to each other, but the were both cousins to Vivian.)
Stille20 4 years ago
There are a lot of stories of cheating or pursing someone who is already taken....wild story but not cute
Bob Belcher 4 years ago
My wife and I met in the late 90s on an "adult" website. We saw each other naked before anything else. Apparently she had been getting a lot of emails from men asking if she would take videos of her eating and send it to them so she stated no weirdos and had a short rant which I found hilarious. I sent her a message with a funny joke. She took a chance, been together for 18 years now.
Load More Replies... Zoe's Mom 4 years ago
I'm wondering how the family relationship were after one stole the other from a sibling?
JessRS 3 years ago
well, you can't really "steal" a person unless we're talking about kidnapping.
Load More Replies... Troux 4 years ago
I expected this to be heartwarming. Then I read some. Then I realized BP's choice adjectives were "bizarre" and "interesting". Aight grams and gramps, you do you....
Kira Okah 4 years ago
My grandpa and grandma met in India in WW2, she was his nurse when he was injured. My mum and dad married to escape persecution - they met in an underground gay bar, they are both gay and it was illegal at the time.
Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago
That's amazing. Would you ever interview them or write their stories? (or convince them to write theirs together?)
Load More Replies... MrTree1779 4 years ago
I wonder how many of these "long lasting" relationships were actually quite toxic? --- Remember that a lot of these relationships are from "grandparents" and older parents who had a much lower divorce rate than later generations. Up until 35-45 years ago, women were frequently shamed into staying with a man and told that a bad relationship was their fault. --- So, just because people stayed together for decades, doesn't mean that they were the right fit, or that they were happy together. Divorce is perfectly acceptable if you don't think the relationship is working, or if you're in an abusive relationship.
Marina 4 years ago
i thought of that too but most of these stories ended with "are still happily married 50 years later" so I doubt it a little
Load More Replies... Lizz Lor 4 years ago
Geez my grandparents how I met you stories are tragedies.... One wanted to be a nun and tried to run away to a convent at 17 but her dad made her get married instead and had already picked out my grandfather for her...fairly loveless marriage...he died relatively young though. My other grandmother was date raped at a young age and ended up pregnant...destined to be ruined for life she met my grandpa who agreed to marry her but only if she gave the baby up.for adoption. The whole ordeal of being attacked, pregnant and giving up the baby wrecked her emotionally and she was a mental health mess the rest of her life. F*ck the patriarchy.
DamnBecky 4 years ago
My Grandmother's HS boyfriend went to war, and she worked for the War Office. At the time the girls were expected to have lots of penpals to write letters from home. My grandfather came though her city before deployment and his best friend's little sister worked for the WO so the office girls agreed to take the boys out on the town before they left. At the end of the night he asked permission to write my Grandma so he'd have a penpal. She agreed. They wrote through his entire deployment, never inappropriate but always friendly realizing how much they had in common. At the end of the war, my Grandma's fiancé told her that he had met a French nurse and would she allow him to break their engagement. She said yes. So the gossip pool went OFF at the WO, somehow my grandfather's CO in the PACIFIC got wind she was now single and made sure my Grandfather was discharged through her office, even if that meant extra travel and paperwork. He showed up for his discharge with flowers and a ring.
Tisha M. Scott 4 years ago
My Oma and Opa met during WWII. She was his nurse in the burn unit. They dated, got married and have 2 kids( adult now). They lived happily married until my Oma passed in 2001. 🖤
Rick Seiden 4 years ago
My grandfather went to visit his cousin, Vivian, who was staying with her cousin on the other side of the family. He ended up marrying his cousin's cousin. (No, my grandparents weren't cousins to each other, but the were both cousins to Vivian.)
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