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18 Unexpected Love Stories About How Couples Found Their Soulmates
Article created by: Monika Pašukonytė
Sometimes, I honestly feel like love is a spell that some magician casts when you are unaware. Because how else can you explain a sudden rush of passion for someone you never even felt anything for before?
When the spell is cast, two souls meet, fall in love, and live happily ever after. But not all love stories have a fairytale meeting, for some couples find love in the strangest of places and situations. And today’s thread is just about these couples who met in the most unorthodox way possible, only to end up together.
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#1
We knew each other only a little bit through friends. I was badly injured in an industrial accident. I needed time to heal. I lived alone, and it was dangerous for me not to have someone who could check on me periodically. She happened to be recovering from eye surgery and wasn't able to to her job or drive for a couple weeks and offered me her guest bedroom until I could safely go home. I think it felt safe for her to make the offer, I was pretty much completely incapacitated and barely ambulatory.
We had an amazing 25 years before she died. I'll always love her.
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#2
Fortune Teller: "Ah, the mists are clearing. You are going to meet a handsome stranger. I sense that he is a kind, caring man. The spirits say he has a well paid job, He installs air conditioning. You know, this sounds a lot like my son. I'll give you his number."
They are still together, with kids, twenty years later.
And people think that fortune telling is a scam!
#3
My brother and I took our 3yo niece to a toy store. I needed to pick something up for a baby shower, and my bro was flying a small plastic Incredible Hulk drone, that was on display, just to keep my niece entertained.
The drone got tangled in this random girl's long flowing locks.
My brother tried to help her get it out. He made it worse. The girl was getting pissed...and that was BEFORE my impatient niece got a hold of the controller and tried to make the drone fly while it was still tangled in the girl's hair.
Somehow, out of this, my brother managed to get this girl's number, a date, and now they're married and about to give me another niece.
#4
So I have a mate of mine from work who's a Nepalese immigrant, and I asked him one day why he came to our country (we were talking about another coworker who immigrated more recently). He replied "I could find another job here, but I couldn't find another wife at home" because his wife had come to Oz with their child to become a...nurse I wanna say? Don't quote me on that.
And so I asked how he met his wife, and he revealed that when he was in his early thirties his mother basically went "You should be married" and found him a wife almost immediately. Like from the point she said that to the wedding was two weeks, no joke.
You hear a lot about arranged marriages going badly, but I've met both his wife and his daughter and how the couple speaks of each other you can tell they're madly in love.
Especially him. Every time he speaks on his wife, even if it's just telling me about something she did at work or what she's cooking that night, his entire body and voice screams of how much he loves his wife.
It's honestly super adorable, and I hope their love lasts forever.
#5
My great-aunt went to Paris to study art in the 1950s, sunk into a depression, and went out to throw herself into the Seine.
Along came a frenchman who was fresh out of the foreign legion. He talked her off the bridge, talked his way into her heart (pants), and they both moved to Sweden together and lived happily painting together for about forty years.
#6
When my nephew was in college they had a snow day and they cancelled classes. The students decided to put on a mock wedding just for fun and they picked two students to "get married." My nephew and a girl were chosen. A few years later, they did it again, for real.
#7
A great grandma had an arranged marriage at 18 to a mean drunk who was 25 years older than her. After several kids and 20 years of marriage, he thankfully died. Several years later after my grandpa graduated university he invited a college friend to visit. One thing lead to another and my grandma and my grandpa's friend got married. It was quite the scandal for the longest time-great-grandma was the ultimate cougar.
But they had a happy 40 year marriage and he was the caregiver to my great-grandma when she developed Alzheimers. Never put her into a home and she was always clean and well groomed. He lived about 20 years after that and though a lot of the family was scandalized, I always thought my great grandma won the jackpot with her second husband.
#8
My grandparents told me about a woman who met her fiancé's cousin during the rehearsal dinner (night before the wedding).
Everyone noticed they spent an inordinate amount of time chatting that night but no one thought anything of it.
The cousin went to talk to the bride just before the wedding and...the two of them left together.
They've been married 62 years.
#9
There was a tornado and the only safe rooms in the building were in the bathrooms. The women’s room was already packed, so I had to go into the men’s room instead…which is exactly when and where I met my husband and had my first conversation with him, twenty years ago this year.
#10
One of my cousins fell in love with my other cousin's "mail order bride." The feelings were mutual.
So we had a wedding and one very unhappy cousin.
#11
My high school chemistry teacher took her husband square dancing, and they met another couple there. They decided they liked each others' respective partners more than their spouse, so both couples got divorced and remarried. The four of them still meet up to go square dancing.
#12
My dad as an upperclassman was an RA of a college dorm. My mom was dating one of the residents of his floor. My dad took a shining to her. The end of the school year comes, my mom breaks up with her boyfriend. Early summer, my dad calls her up to ask her to be his date to a friend’s wedding. Turns out my dad shares a first and last name with a guy from my mom’s hometown who was not a good person. She thinks it’s hometown guy and declines. My dad persists and calls her back and the misunderstanding is straightened out. It turns out my mom was going to be attending that same wedding anyways as her cousin is the groom. They go to the wedding together and would be married 50 years next summer (dad passed away a few years ago).
#13
My SIL's mother used to tell her she needed to get out more or she'd never get married. My SIL wasn't some shut-in. She had friends and spent a normal amount of time in and out of home; she just wasn't super social. Her exact words to my SIL were, "Prince charming isn't just going to show up on your doorstep,"
Well, one year my brother comes to visit me to go to Phoenix comicon with me and we pick up my SIL on the way.
The two of them spent the entire weekend together. They are now married with 2 kids.
So yeah, Prince charming did just show up on her doorstep.
#14
I met my wife through online dating. I signed up to the website, saw her profile that evening, and she was the only woman I wrote a message to.
So I have a 100% success rate at online dating.
That seems quite unorthodox.
#15
My grandparents grew up in refugee camps after WWII.. and then in 1950, both of their remaining families got the chance to board a boat, not knowing at the time if they were headed to Canada or Venezuela.. they met on the boat, and became friends for the duration of the journey.. they then landed in Canada, and went their separate ways..
A couple years later, my Oma received a phone call out of the blue - from my Opa, who had spent months tracking her down through the German refugees spread out in Ontario.. and he invited my Oma, her sister and their parents to join him where he was living, because there was lots of work on the tobacco farms.. so, they went..
They reunited, fell in love and were married in 1954.. it'll be their 70 year anniversary this year..
My parents have been married for 42 years this year.. and my dad proposed after only six weeks.. he wanted to propose after two weeks, but, my Nana convinced him to wait at least six.. because that's how long my Papa waited before proposing to her..
#16
My parents met when my Dad was living with another woman and my Mom was engaged.
They worked at the same department store (my dad had been their longer)... she didn't like him him when she started there. They were in separate sections of the store and they were always trying to outdo each other.
Shortly after their mutual relationships broke up, they joined the same company softball team. My dad was the coach, my mom was the pitcher. She was great in practice and absolutely tanked their first game... and he was very nice in front of the team, but absolutely roaster her at the bar afterwards.
They played one on one tennis on their first date... and eventually these two SUPER competitive people raised a child who grew up to be a game designer.
#17
The husband of one of our friends died suddenly and unexpectedly (only 36). They had 2 small children. The son of one of our couples in the friend groups son (18) was asked by his mom to help out her newly widowed friend, especially with the 2 young sons he was close to. Yep, the son and the widow(40)began a secret affair. They eventually came clean after about a year of suspicion. Got married about 5 years later. 28 years later, they are still married. His mom never spoke to the friend again.
#18
I met my ex-wife on a Southwest flight evacuating a hurricane. I didn't even expect to get a ticket, but after 5 error messages while trying to book, somehow it materialized. It was the last flight on the night before projected landfall. And, given that it was Southwest, she picked the seat next to me and it was a crazy story from that point forward...
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