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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 3 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 3 years ago
Sorry to be that person, but the correct way is WWII, which means the Second World War.
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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.
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.”
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.”
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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Renae Weidman 3 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.
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Amy Jo Buchanan 3 years ago
That's just so sweet... "He took her home for the next 50 years..."
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gracey grace 3 years ago
That's the level of confidence I want to be when I meet my match. lol
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Stille20 3 years ago
There are a lot of stories of cheating or pursing someone who is already taken....wild story but not cute
Bob Belcher 3 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 3 years ago
I'm wondering how the family relationship were after one stole the other from a sibling?
JessRS 2 years ago
well, you can't really "steal" a person unless we're talking about kidnapping.
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Troux 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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.)
Amy Broderick 3 years ago
My grandparents met at a USO dance. My Nonie saw my Papa and said ‘he’s going to ask me to dance cause he’s so short’. He did and offered to drive her home and she made him drive all her friends home too. Married for almost 50 years until death did them part.
I'm lay sheep in China 3 years ago
Everyone talking about how their Grandparents meet, here mine one who met at their own wedding day
Cora Thiemann 3 years ago
When my grandad learned that my grandma's husband had died he went to find out the exact day (he lived a few villages over). One year and a day after my grandma became a widow he knocked on the door with flowers.
Phoenix 3 years ago (edited)
My parents just met deployed in Kuwait and ended up coming back engaged. After their wedding I was conceived the same month. My parents move fast.... Don’t know how my grandparents met, probably did have something to do with the military cause on my grandpas was a Marine and the other was in the Army.
Elise Collins 2 years ago
My grandpa's brother introduced his gf to his brother, later asked 'so what did you think of her?' grandpa said 'she's great, does she have a sister?' She did. They had a double wedding and both couples are still together!
Kiss Army 3 years ago
My mom's sister wanted to go on a date but their parents said it had to be a double date. My mom's sister gave my mom $0.50 and did he dishes for a week and my dad's friend gave him $5.00 to go out with each other so that they could go on the date. My dad was 19 and my mom was 15... they ended up eloping a few months later when my dad got stationed somewhere else and my mom wanted to go with him. They were married over 54 years until my father's death and my mother still would not even look at another man.
Florencia Renedo 3 years ago
Worse than silly posts (and this one is not) is being rude and insulting
hydrostatic joints 3 years ago
My grandfather was like 25 and my grandmother was still in high school when they met. According to my mom he kinda just followed her around until she agreed to go out with him. They ended up getting married and had seven kids. And apparently, he already had at least one whole different family at the time. And my aunt met a dude on the street who had the same last name as my grandpa and was from the same place as them.
Stille20 3 years ago
There are a lot of stories of cheating or pursing someone who is already taken....wild story but not cute
Bob Belcher 3 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 3 years ago
I'm wondering how the family relationship were after one stole the other from a sibling?
JessRS 2 years ago
well, you can't really "steal" a person unless we're talking about kidnapping.
Load More Replies... Troux 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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.)
Amy Broderick 3 years ago
My grandparents met at a USO dance. My Nonie saw my Papa and said ‘he’s going to ask me to dance cause he’s so short’. He did and offered to drive her home and she made him drive all her friends home too. Married for almost 50 years until death did them part.
I'm lay sheep in China 3 years ago
Everyone talking about how their Grandparents meet, here mine one who met at their own wedding day
Cora Thiemann 3 years ago
When my grandad learned that my grandma's husband had died he went to find out the exact day (he lived a few villages over). One year and a day after my grandma became a widow he knocked on the door with flowers.
Phoenix 3 years ago (edited)
My parents just met deployed in Kuwait and ended up coming back engaged. After their wedding I was conceived the same month. My parents move fast.... Don’t know how my grandparents met, probably did have something to do with the military cause on my grandpas was a Marine and the other was in the Army.
Elise Collins 2 years ago
My grandpa's brother introduced his gf to his brother, later asked 'so what did you think of her?' grandpa said 'she's great, does she have a sister?' She did. They had a double wedding and both couples are still together!
Kiss Army 3 years ago
My mom's sister wanted to go on a date but their parents said it had to be a double date. My mom's sister gave my mom $0.50 and did he dishes for a week and my dad's friend gave him $5.00 to go out with each other so that they could go on the date. My dad was 19 and my mom was 15... they ended up eloping a few months later when my dad got stationed somewhere else and my mom wanted to go with him. They were married over 54 years until my father's death and my mother still would not even look at another man.
Florencia Renedo 3 years ago
Worse than silly posts (and this one is not) is being rude and insulting
hydrostatic joints 3 years ago
My grandfather was like 25 and my grandmother was still in high school when they met. According to my mom he kinda just followed her around until she agreed to go out with him. They ended up getting married and had seven kids. And apparently, he already had at least one whole different family at the time. And my aunt met a dude on the street who had the same last name as my grandpa and was from the same place as them.
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