" No one expect it to last … today is our nine - year anniversary . "
Love isn’t always at first sight; sometimes, it happens with someonetotallyunexpected. So, I recentlyaskedtheBuzzFeed Community: if they’ve ever thought “I’m never gonna marry this person,” but then actually ended up marrying that person, what on earth turned it around?! Here are some of their best stories:
1.“I literally told my now-spouse on our first date that if he was dating to get married he had the wrong girl. Joke’s on me I guess, because we got married seven years later.”
2.“I met the girl of my dreams on New Year’s Eve this year. Two weeks later, we were in a serious car accident and my new girlfriend had over 10 broken bones.”
" During our infirmary stay and the healing mental process , we became extremely close . We call it ' 20 years in 20 days . ' On May 18th , five and a one-half months after we met , we got conjoin , and we both have never been well-chosen . "
— Anonymous
3.“After leaving my daughter’s father after 10 years I went a bit wild for a couple of years. One night while partying at a friend’s house her neighbour came by and said he’d take me home as I couldn’t get a taxi.”
4.“He was my high school best friend’s boyfriend. I found him obnoxious and couldn’t stand him.”
" My friend and I had a falling out and she broke up with him . We hung out as champion . 23 years later we have been splice for 17 year with two beautiful tiddler . I do it him more every day ! "
— angelaw24
5.“I began dating my now-wife after dropping off my then 7-year-old son at his mom’s house. His teenage half-sister had her 19-year-old best friend over and we started talking. We started dating and got married six months later.”
6.“I went through middle school and high school with an unfortunate pattern of having guy friends [who developed] one-sided puppy love. At the end of sophomore year, I was introduced to my mom’s new secretary and her secretary’s son.”
7.“We met as kids and grew up in the same community choir program. [We were] always friends, but nothing more.”
" 20 years later , I moved back home and started run short to the same church service . We had drinks one nighttime [ and ] he spent the whole dark telling me he wasnevergetting tie . Eight months after , he ask me to splice him 😁 .
" Seven year on , I like to tell hoi polloi it take him 20 geezerhood to ask me out . "
8.“I [have been] an established emergency room physician for the past 15 years. [Previously,] I was employed by a private company that was contracted by the hospital, so when I started dating the ER secretary,technicallyit wasn’t dating a coworker…”
9.“I was very happily single, and it honestly didn’t occur to me I might not remain so. I would date when I felt like it, but I had freedom [and] my own home and lived exactly how I wanted to. It was lovely. And then one day, after dating primarily men for years, I fell for a hot girl’s thirst trap on TikTok.”
10.“I had a terrible phase of dating after my ex dumped me, but then I met my now-fiancé quite randomly. [He was] introduced to me by a friend and honestly, even though I wasn’t really looking to date again, I gave it a shot.”
11.“I met my husband when we were in high school, but that’s not when we started dating. I was two grades younger, a theater dork, and head over heels crushing on him.”
12.“Sometimes in life you find yourself learning life lessons more than once, just to make sure that lesson was really instilled and ingrained in your memory. I have been married twice, and I never intended to marry either of them.”
13.“So I grew up in the Northeast, went to college in the South, and fell in love with it. I never wanted to leave. Four years later I went to graduate school in North Carolina.”
14.“I married my best friend, but it’s not who you’d think.”
15.“I married young (not-legal-to-drink young) the first time, to a military cop. The ironic part was that I had five rules or deal-breakers [in regards] to partners I did not want to end up with, and being a cop or in the military were two of them!”
16.“I had this guy I’d ‘dated’ for about two weeks in high school. He left me a voicemail telling me to check my Facebook messages, where he dumped me.”
17.“I met this guy online and thought it would be a short fling. My best friend met him and then told me, ‘You’re gonna marry this guy.’ I laughed and replied there was no way.”
18.And finally: “We were in a biology class together and worked as lab partners. We had a lot of fun together and had a really compatible sense of humor. We stayed lab partners in another class we took together the next semester. I was so career-focused that I wasn’t interested in a serious relationship at the time.”
Some verrrry cute stories here — let me know all your thoughts down below! And if you want to share your own unexpected love story, nothing’s stopping you; I love love love reading all of these.
Note : Some submission have been edited for duration and/or clarity .
