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Some couples went to school together, or worked together or grew up in the same area... so it seems inevitable or fated that they would fall in love at some point.
On the flip side, Mrs. Bee and I kinda only had one shot at it... so our meeting was almost pure chance. I sometimes think: what if we didn't meet that one time for drinks when Bee was visiting NYC?
I can't imagine how we could have possibly met under other circumstances... so I guess we only had one shot at falling in love! It seems almost random that our paths crossed... although you could rationalize that and say it was fate!
How about you: how many chances did you guys have to meet and fall in love?
I had a chance every single day of middle school, high school and college. We actually went to the same elementary school for awhile as well. So I guess you can say it was inevitable!
I think us meeting was inevitable because we always lived minutes aways from each other and knew many of the same people. Somehow we didn't meet until college, but I have a feeling we met when we were supposed to meet! 
Ours was completely random! Had I not decided to go out with this random girl i met in class and if he decided not to visit his friend that lives 30 min away we never would have met.
I love our story because its so random! I like to think it was fate
Mr. Bee, you're on fire with awesome thread topics tonight!
Our meeting was totally by chance. If my terrible ex hadn't gone to Vegas for NYE and ditched me for his frat brothers, and if my MOH hadn't dragged me to a party I didn't want to go to, I would have never met him. We were together from that night onwards. :)
Ours was one of the one in a million ones. We were introduced by a mutual online friend. But the only reason we were able to meet in person was that NotFroofy had just quit her job and was in the process of selling her house, so that she could take a class to retrain for a different career. I suggested that she take the training course where I lived, instead of in England where she lived at the time, and one thing led to another...
I think it was pure chance. One small decision, and I think a lot of things could be different. If I had stayed in DC a month longer, then I don't think we would have met.
We had exactly one chance to meet each other. And it was extremely random. My ex at the time was on a dating website (yeah what a great guy) and well I joined in a sort of retaliatory type of way and one of the first people to email me was M. And we became great friends and eventually met about four months later (after ex and I were on the outs) and again June 1, 08 and have been together ever since.
Now here's where the freaky part comes to play. When I was 7 I had a crush on a guy named M's name. I always said I'd marry a guy named M. Also when I was about the same age I was constantly waiting in the middle of the line and it drove me crazy because I had no patience (not much has changed if you read my waiting posts LOL), but I said I'd marry someone whose last name began before mine. M's last name begins with an H. Mine with an M. (Freaky right).. well it gets freakier. I had a psychic reading shortly after I met M online, like two months after I met him and the psychic told me I would marry someone with green eyes, well I didn't know anyone with green eyes. Guess what, M has green eyes. So was it by chance or was it serendepity? I don't know but I will say we are perfect for each other lol...
inevitable! We're grad students in labs that collaborate with each other and met at a lab meeting (I know! so nerdy!). It was bound to happen sooner or later ...
@crebre- Wow, well predicted 7-year-old-you! My 6-year-old-self thought I was going to marry my golf teacher, and then I found out he was engaged. I was crushed (a la My Girl) and haven't golfed since then. lol.
@50: LMAO!!! Nope. I knew I was going to marry someone whose name was M (A-L last name) LMAO!!! And M is the first M I have ever dated. I should have known something then!! I secretly always searched for an M, but crazy me forgot all about it when I chatted with him etc. It wasn't until we got way serious that I remembered... it was like OH WOW! He teases and says I've had our wedding planned since I was 10 (I say, nah it was 7)LMAO!! sigh if only I could get engaged....
if you read my post in the thread "If it weren't for _____ ..." you will know that our meeting ridiculously by chance.
some crazy things had to line up for that to happen! although once I was living in a house with one of his best friends, it was inevitable.
our meeting was inevitable... as scuba divers in sydney its not a huge group of people and i was hearing about this guy before i met him and when i did eventually meet him i said "oh your [insert name her]" because people i knew had dived with him
Our meeting required so many twists of fate it was crazy. We met at a National Convention for our co-ed fraternity. I'm from Atlanta and he's from Kentucky, so normally our chapters wouldn't hang out (we're in different districts). A girl from my chapter who happened to go to convention knew him from another band event (BOA) and introduced our two chapters. I initially liked another guy in his chapter. We talked via IM a couple times, but nothing really happened. Then, I had to make the decision to cut my spring break short, come back to Atlanta, and see him when UK played UGA in the SEC championship. Then, there had to be a tornado that night so that I couldn't drive home and had to stay at their hotel. I like to say it took a force of nature for us to realize we should be together :-)
We went to school together for 3 years before we met... and then we were friends for another 8 before he finally had the guts to woo me, hahaha...
I guess we're an 'inevitable' couple. But we're both total homebodies, so I don't think either of us would have much chance to ever meet anyone by chance.
Inevitable!
Sooo many close encounters, but this is the best one:
I worked with a girl (who I became good friends with) that had a picture of him on her desk for the two years we worked together (at the time, her best friend was dating him, and had been dating him while they were all in college - it was a group pic) and I would comment on how cute he was. Then one day, she ran in to him while I was with her, and i commented on how cute he was - and she said that he was the guy in the pic that was dating her friend. She and I lost touch eventually, and a few years later, I met him. I didn't recognize him as the guy in the pic at all. Once he and I were confirmed in a relationship (on facebook, haha), she saw and was like - holy cow - I know both of you, and told me that he was the guy in the pic on her desk!!!
Totally fate. :)
Insane odds. We live 9,000 miles apart.
But one summer, I had just quit my job and we both happened to be traveling solo and planned to visit Tibet. However a protest led to the Chinese authorities shutting foreigners out of the highest country in the world.
I made alternative plans instead, but needed other travelers to share the cost of the 4WD I rented. He was one of many who responded to my post on LonelyPlanet, one of 3 others who eventually did join up to share a ride.
3 continents, 10 countries traveled together and lots of LDR in between, we're happily married :)
It was totally inevitable. We went to school toghather from Jr high on we always talked and was in band togather. But he was always just that really sweet guy friend. I was dating this total dousche bag. Well in h.s Jon gave me a senior pic and i brought it home to show mom and she was like oh well you should marry him he looks nice lol 3 years later there is a ring on my finger from him. I started to see him in a different light when he came to my rescue after Mr. Dousche bag lol. We got closer and closer intill he kissed me one night and we confeesed we really really wanted to be more then best friends.
In some ways it was by chance and in others it was inevitable. It was inevitable because we were both on match.com LOOKING for relationships, but then again with so many people on there, what's the chance of actually finding the "one" after only being on there for three weeks? Also, it was by chance because there had been one instance when we'd been at the same party about 9 months before we met and we didn't meet there. Otherwise, we weren't in the same circles and probably never would have met.
We met ten years before we started dating when we were in the same theater group. We starred in the Threepenny Opera. For those of you who know the show, we like to joke that he was my pimp and I was his whore. We would run into each other through various events and friends but didn't start dating until nearly a decade later.
For us - It was totally inevitable.
We went to the same high school - I had no idea.
We have a few mutual friends and had several "meetings" at parties they had or outings. Our friend pushed each of us (individually) to go out with the other. She was a total match maker and at the engagement party she and her husband threw us, we laughed because her husband said "Oh real nice job there Honey, you have successfully gotten rid of our best friends..." We're so wrapped up in our couple life, we don't have near as much time for just hanging out... lol
I'm really not sure if it was chance or inevitable. I did work with him for about 7 months, so it was inevitable that we would meet. But I think it was chance when it came to the relationship. He just found me at the right time. If it hadn't been for my situation at that time, I definately would have blown him off.
PURE CHANCE!
I created a Yahoo! Personals profile on a Friday, was 'matched' with him on Saturday, and met him on Wednesday. We lived about 60 miles apart....since then, he's moved closer of course and the rest is history.
inevitable....we shared the same lab bench my sophomore (and his freshman) year in high school. we both liked each other and used to make up excuses to look in each others' microscopes. though we did not start dating until 5 years later during one special summer when we were both home from college. i always wonder what would have happened if we started dating back in high school....would we have made it? i think so
I think mine was inevitable, but chance that made me notice him. He knew who I was throughout middle school, but I didn't notice him until a church event in 10th grade. I then realized he was in the same class as me for 3 months and band (from 7th grade on) and NEVER knew it! So it was inevitable, but chance that I finally discovered him I guess :)
It was definitely inevitable. We had the same group of friends in college, ate in the same dining hall, and then had a class together...we did not get together until a year after actually meeting each other though
Inevitable, though improbable is more accurate in our case. We grew up in the same town, although we lived in two very different parts. Add to that the fact that I was slated to attend the other high school in town, even though I changed into my Freshman year. When we finally did cross paths, I thought he was cute, but I didn't think of him romantically because of our social circles. I don't remember why I gave him my AIM screenname, and looking back it doesn't actually make sense. But we kept in touch until we became grown ups, much to the shock of our respective friends from home. Now that he's in my life, I can't imagine a day without him.
I think it was a little bit of both. My SIL lost her mother about a month before my brother and I lost our mother. A couple years later, my SIL's dad started dating my now-husbands aunt. Two years ago, my SIL dad and my husbands aunt got married. His aunt decided I would be perfect for her nephew and our email addresses were exchanged. We emailed back and forth a few times, then I didn't hear from him for about a month. Until his aunt harrassed him enough for him to email me again. Phone numbers were exchanged, the first call was made, plans were made for our first date and the rest is history.
It was inevitable I think because of our families coming together. Otherwise we would have never met. He lived almost an hour away from me (although we were attending the same community college-on different evenings). We may not have ever run into each other.
Chance comes into play because if either my SIL mom or our mom wouldn't have died-we wouldn't have ever met. I was planning a move-possibly out of state-before my mom died. So I could have been in NC or SC instead of Ohio. Once my mom died, I decided the best place to be was with my family.
I'm pretty sure meeting my SO was an act of God, haha. If my sister hadn't been denied for the college she really wanted to go to, she wouldn't have met my brother-in-law, and in turn she never would have met my SO, who was eventually bro-in-law's coworker. And if things hadn't happened when they happened, we might not have gotten together at all, what with the age difference and the fact that we were both in long-term relationships (he married, I in a 3 1/2 yr. relationship).
In my case, fate > chance.
We went to the same college and knew a lot of the same people but we didn't meet until Junior Year at a nightclub off campus. I think this is amazing b/c it was perfect timing. I had been in a relationship from HS until the December of Jr Year in college and I met my husband 4 months after the relationship ended. It was just enough time not to be a rebound thing and we were able to spend a few weeks together at school and get to know each other well enough to stay in contact throughout the summer!
Pure chance. We met at a summer job. I was actually originally assigned to a different location and they changed me at the last minute. Turns out that FI was working there as well!
Our meeting was mostly by chance - though we had several moments where we should have met beforehand. I'm pretty sure, though, if my friend was dating his friend's friend ... we may have never met!
I guess we had a lot of chances to fall in love, seeing as we were friends for 9 years before we even started dating. Honestly, I didn't have the faintest clue that I would fall in love with him when we met--or probably for the first couple of years I knew him. We both dated other people and even though I thought he was cute, I never entertained the possibility of dating. I do think we came close to getting together at other times over the years, but I was hesitant to do anything because I was worried about ruining our friendship.
inevitable... we "dated" my freshman year of high school, but we were both silly and young then! I liked him from the day I met him, and it's been 8 years and hasn't stopped yet. Luckily he feels the same about me! :)
Definitely fated. I predicted I would have someone with my BF's first initial and approximate syllables to my best friend. I forgot about it until she brought it up.
I actually had dated a lot and pretty much given up. I was matched with my BF on the same night I just about had it out with God and wrote a letter asking for something more. We instantly had a connection, we met a few days later, and that first kiss sealed it. The weird look on his face and in his eyes, almost brought me to tears. I called my dad after he left and informed him I met the man I was going to marry.
I fall deeply in love with him every moment of every day. He is everything I have ever wanted and the only person who deserves all of the things I do. He also knew, and invited me to a family function ON OUR FIRST DATE. Boy was I nervous, meeting the people who would likely be in my life for the rest of it... only a week later. He never brought any of his previous girlfriends home. Ever.
Many other coincidences followed, one of my personal favorites is a birthmark we share on our ring finger. I always said it was my ring mark, smack in the middle. He has the same exact one. One day, after years of forgetting this fanciful idea, I decided to check his hand. I was completely beside myself.
Inevitable. We went to school together, even though it was a class of 500 we still knew eachother because we were in the same circles.
Ours was definitely pure chance. I went to a bar that I never go to, on a night that I didn't want to go out, and somehow started chatting with some random guys at a bar, and then sitting at their table. So out of character for me, but so glad I did!
mm, mostly chance (I like to say fate. way too many things lined up for it to be all coincidence!)
Ok, so, we met on a video game... except not entirely lol My brother actually met him first, and that's where the fate part comes in. If he and my brother hadn't been playing the game at the exact same time (different time zones no less), on the same server in the same location (because you can walk around in the game), and if my brother hadn't randomly decided to talk to hubby, I never would have met him. I know it's kinda weird because it's a video game and all, but I already had a crush on hubby before I even talked to him lol My brother started telling me stories of some of the things hubby said, and I was quite intrigued, and I started kind of hovering around my brother when he'd play the game. I'd be like "so, what did Magus say (his game name LOL)?" and then my brother would tell me, and I'd say "what did you say back to him" and "now what did he say?" lol I must have been SO annoying :D I couldn't help it though, I was just drawn to him! Eventually my brother consented to hubby's request for my user name (I played the game a bit too, but more for the social aspects lol) and we started chatting and we both really liked each other. Eventually we got "serious" but we wouldnt consider ourselves boyfriend and girlfriend since we hadn't actually ever met before. We eventually got to the point that we stopped going out with other people because we liked each other too much to do that. And finally, after about 2 years or so, hubby came out to visit for a weekend (I was 16 at the time, and looking back, kind of surprised my mom allowed it lol) and by the 2nd day he had told me he loves me, which was a big huge deal because he takes those words VERY seriously and had never said it to anyone other than family. Once a girl told him she loved him, and he responded by telling her that maybe she'll grow on him... LOL. So, there you have it. our fate-ish meeting :)
I'm actually pretty embarassed to tell most people the story that we met on a video game, but now that it's all typed out and stuff, it's actually kind of cute... lol
Oh, and I can trace this fate stuff back even further to my parents' divorce lol. If they hadn't gotten divorced, we never would have moved, my brother never would have met his friend who told him about this game, and even if he found out later, that exact moment would have likely passed. crazy!
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