Love at first sight

[NerdGirl]

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/67696/

Okay, this isn't quite a love at first sight story, but it almost is. When I was in grad school a bunch of us went out for Thai food one Friday night. As friends. All of us were just friends. None of us were dating anyone. We were walking back to this one guy's apartment to play Guitar Hero afterwards, and all of a sudden he and this girl were holding hands. They had known each other for about 6 weeks at this point. They hadn't really been hanging out alone or anything and they definitely were not dating. They hadn't even been sitting by each other at dinner. It was just like here they were in the street holding hands. And they kept holding hands. And we got to his house and played Guitar Hero and he sat next to her on the couch with his arm around her. When we were done playing Guitar Hero, we all left, but she stayed. We all looked at each other like, "What just happened? Did you know this was going on? Did we all miss something?" That same night, facebook relationship statuses were updated. They honestly had just been walking beside each other and had this simultaneous thought of, "I love this person and want to be with them forever." So they grabbed each others hands and they have been together ever since. They moved in together a few months later and when she graduated and moved to Europe for a postdoc and he still had a year left, he started working at night so that they could video chat with each other all day/night long while they worked. Then he graduated and moved to Europe to be with her. That fateful night was almost five years ago and they are now married and just had a baby. Most movie-like beginning of a relationship I have ever seen.

[Portia]

I love meet cute stories. I feel like so much of our judgment of others happens subconsciously, in the split-second before conscious ideation even occurs.

[Dragon Lady]

My grandpa first saw my grandma across the room at a dance. His first thought was, "I'm going to marry her." And he did. Obviously.

[Yarjka]

My grandpa first saw my grandma across the room at a dance. His first thought was, "I'm going to marry her." And he did. Obviously.

My great-grandpa, as the story goes, saw his wife soon after she was born (they were both from the same small town). He was 11 at the time and said "I'm going to marry her." Everyone thought that was just one of those cute things kids say... but then he actually did end up marrying her later.

[Dragon Lady]

My grandpa first saw my grandma across the room at a dance. His first thought was, "I'm going to marry her." And he did. Obviously.

My great-grandpa, as the story goes, saw his wife soon after she was born (they were both from the same small town). He was 11 at the time and said "I'm going to marry her." Everyone thought that was just one of those cute things kids say... but then he actually did end up marrying her later.

This feels very Twilight to me.

[krebscout]

Sauron and I caught each other's eye on our first meeting. I had a non-serious boyfriend, but I even wrote in my journal a few months after meeting Sauron, "What if I marry this kid?" and I kind of expected to. And I did, because he's the bomb.