How did you meet your spouse/partner?

[Anonymous]

He was my brothers best friend forever and he was always around our house. I was four years younger so he always treated me like a little sister but in a really nice way. I didn’t see much of him once I went off to college but when I was 23 I ran into him at a bar in Chicago and he was quite surprised by how I had grown up. We got married two years later and my brother was his best man.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He was my brothers best friend forever and he was always around our house. I was four years younger so he always treated me like a little sister but in a really nice way. I didn’t see much of him once I went off to college but when I was 23 I ran into him at a bar in Chicago and he was quite surprised by how I had grown up. We got married two years later and my brother was his best man.

Your brother’s “best friend forever?” How old are you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A friend of mine, met her husband on wedding day. It was arranged and though both had full say, they left it on their families. He was working in US after his masters while she was working in India after her bachelors, both attended same engineering school but didn't overlap as they were 4 years apart. It's been 27 years and they've a really solid and happy marriage. A miracle.

That is not okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He was my brothers best friend forever and he was always around our house. I was four years younger so he always treated me like a little sister but in a really nice way. I didn’t see much of him once I went off to college but when I was 23 I ran into him at a bar in Chicago and he was quite surprised by how I had grown up. We got married two years later and my brother was his best man.

Your brother’s “best friend forever?” How old are you?

+1. Very weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A friend of mine, met her husband on wedding day. It was arranged and though both had full say, they left it on their families. He was working in US after his masters while she was working in India after her bachelors, both attended same engineering school but didn't overlap as they were 4 years apart. It's been 27 years and they've a really solid and happy marriage. A miracle.

That is not okay.

I know. I'm from same culture but never would've agreed to such arrangement. I don't have any issues with arranged marriage as its similar as friends/app/matchmaker setting you up on a blind date, after that take enough time to date to get to know each other before you agree to get engaged and then live together and plan for marriage. However, my friend was very focused on career and just wanted a prevetted partner with similar experiences and goals. They just got lucky it worked so well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A friend of mine, met her husband on wedding day. It was arranged and though both had full say, they left it on their families. He was working in US after his masters while she was working in India after her bachelors, both attended same engineering school but didn't overlap as they were 4 years apart. It's been 27 years and they've a really solid and happy marriage. A miracle.

That is not okay.

I know. I'm from same culture but never would've agreed to such arrangement. I don't have any issues with arranged marriage as its similar as friends/app/matchmaker setting you up on a blind date, after that take enough time to date to get to know each other before you agree to get engaged and then live together and plan for marriage. However, my friend was very focused on career and just wanted a prevetted partner with similar experiences and goals. They just got lucky it worked so well.

I don’t think it worked so well as much as she just gave in and won’t leave marriage because of cultural perception.

[Anonymous]

We were 25. She had just moved back to town and randomly called up our mutual friend, who was hanging out with a group of people including me. She needed directions to where we were...our friend handed me the phone and that was our first ever conversation. When she walked in she asked "which one of you is Anonymous?" Two years later we were married. 20 years and counting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He was my brothers best friend forever and he was always around our house. I was four years younger so he always treated me like a little sister but in a really nice way. I didn’t see much of him once I went off to college but when I was 23 I ran into him at a bar in Chicago and he was quite surprised by how I had grown up. We got married two years later and my brother was his best man.

Your brother’s “best friend forever?” How old are you?

They have been best friends from ES. We are all in our in our 40s.

[Anonymous]

I was a new associate at a big law firm and at a client meeting I met a guy just a few years older than me. Other than say hello I just sat on the sidelines and I thought he’s smart and really good looking but that was it. A few weeks later I was at a party at my sisters home and he was there….alone. He recognized me and said he had thought about me after the meeting but wasn’t sure if he should call me.

[Anonymous]

At a bar in a foreign country - both Americans but from far apart

[Anonymous]

Met on the beach.🏖️

[Anonymous]

Met at a fundraiser party in 1992. I was 24, he was 30. Married 4 years later. Still married.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A friend of mine, met her husband on wedding day. It was arranged and though both had full say, they left it on their families. He was working in US after his masters while she was working in India after her bachelors, both attended same engineering school but didn't overlap as they were 4 years apart. It's been 27 years and they've a really solid and happy marriage. A miracle.

That is not okay.

I know. I'm from same culture but never would've agreed to such arrangement. I don't have any issues with arranged marriage as its similar as friends/app/matchmaker setting you up on a blind date, after that take enough time to date to get to know each other before you agree to get engaged and then live together and plan for marriage. However, my friend was very focused on career and just wanted a prevetted partner with similar experiences and goals. They just got lucky it worked so well.

I don’t think it worked so well as much as she just gave in and won’t leave marriage because of cultural perception.

She is truly happy, definitely not in it for cultural perception.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He was my brothers best friend forever and he was always around our house. I was four years younger so he always treated me like a little sister but in a really nice way. I didn’t see much of him once I went off to college but when I was 23 I ran into him at a bar in Chicago and he was quite surprised by how I had grown up. We got married two years later and my brother was his best man.

Your brother’s “best friend forever?” How old are you?

They have been best friends from ES. We are all in our in our 40s.

No grown men call someone their best friend forever. Neither should grown women.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He was my brothers best friend forever and he was always around our house. I was four years younger so he always treated me like a little sister but in a really nice way. I didn’t see much of him once I went off to college but when I was 23 I ran into him at a bar in Chicago and he was quite surprised by how I had grown up. We got married two years later and my brother was his best man.

Your brother’s “best friend forever?” How old are you?

They have been best friends from ES. We are all in our in our 40s.

And you say best friend forever for your brother and husband? That is so bizarre.