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I love hearing about the improbables and unusuals of relationships.
For us - probably the most unusual thing was that our second date was a 16 day trip to Australia together! After that, our fate was sealed.
along those same lines, alicia, we lived in europe together for just over a year. that was definitely unusual as far as our friends' relationships are concerned...
Hmm... for us it would have to be that we have so many factors working against us: we shouldn't have worked out.
I'm 12 years younger than him. When we met, I was a broke student & he was paying off his student loans. So we didn't have tons of cash to spend to see each other. We live in 2 different countries & it costs on average $400 to get to one another. We've been apart for the last 3 years & have traveled close to 160 000 miles via American Airlines.
Here we are.... planning our wedding for next summer & I'll be moving to the US. It doesn't feel real. I wonder when it will start to feel real :) lol
Wow that is quite the second date!
I was in a relationship when FI and I met and I had no thoughts of ending at the time but Mr. M saw something and stop dating or pursuing anyone a month after we met. 6 months later current BF and I had a big blow-out and broke-up. While he was waiting he was a perfect gentlemen and never did anything innappropriate. 4 months after that Mr. M and I got together!
He says that he loved from the beginning and knew that current BF wasn't right for me and that I was worth the wait.
FI and I have an uncanny mind connection. Seriously. We don't know why we speak sometimes. It was this mind connection that led us to move in together after two months and engaged after three.
That's awesome, Alicia-S! Rock on. That's such a great story. A couple of weeks of travel definitely causes you to know your partner well!
I met my guy in an online game, and the first time we laid eyes on each other was when I flew down to visit him in Oz. We spent a month traveling around and I told him it was the longest first date I'd ever been on (though some have felt longer...) Some folks thought we were crazy, but I just pointed out that if we could share a bathroom for a month, everything else would be easy.
I guess it's kind of unusual that we fell in love and got engaged after our online characters had fallen in love and gotten engaged (they later married). But actually, it happens more than you'd think. Geek love forever.
@recessionista bride, If u dont mind me asking, where are you from?
In Canada it's quite common to see people who are in interracial relationships, but we live in Korea, and white Western female/Korean male almost never happens here. Even when it does, the couple usually leaves Korea. I hear that there are other couples like us, but I've never met one. We literally have no role models of relationships to follow, for example, how does a Western woman have a baby here? (it's still common for women to be fired because they are pregnant or took materinity leave...but does this happen if you are a foreign mother?) How does a Western woman fit into the super conservative Korean family structure? (A question Koreans always ask me). It's like a whole new world we don't have answers to because we don't know anyone else in the same situations.
Thankfully we are both adventurous and not afraid to be different than other people. But most people make a big deal about our relationship lasting because they've never seen an example of a couple like us before.
NotFroofy actually moved in on our second date. She was living in the UK at the time, and I was living in the US, so we couldn't exactly go out for coffee. We talked online for quite some time. She then came for a visit of a week and a half--our "first date." At the time, she had quit her job and was in the process of selling her house so she could retrain for a new career. We agreed that she would come to the US for her training, so we could get to know each other better and see how things went. She came here for the six-month training course nearly nine years ago, and never went back.
What's unusual about our relationship is that we have a third pary invovled in our relationship. That third party is...God. My BF and I are both devoute Apostolics (generically knwown as Christian). We try our best to make sure He is the foundation of our relationship. I beleive so many people have religion in their wedding ceremony but when it comes time to making the marriage work they forget all about Him. I am not saying we have the perfect relationship but having God as the foundation does help when times get hard.
This isn't too unusual, but we met on a blind date and fell in love. It was suggested by someone I had IMed before and he said to meet this guy, he was perfect for me. I said, what the heck, and went. I've never been on a blind date before him and I fell in love. Oh, also, we are the only person the other knows who remembers The Getalong Gang from the 80's.LOL
Carebear0613- I have to say I totally agree with you when you said " so many have religion in their wedding ceremony but when it comes time to making the marriage work they forget about Him".
We are complete and total opposites in terms of personality (and intelligence level!)... I'm generally pretty talkative and loud and silly about nothing important, and while he talks alot, he mostly lectures on whatever obscure topic he read about that day. He is absolutely brilliant, and I... am not so much. We've worked together for 2 years and I've always had a crush on him, but he had a super serious gf and I was in a series of TERRIBLE relationships that ended a week before our first (unofficial) date. We both read alot, but he reads theology/ philosophy and I read mostly cultural study or memoirs. He is MUCH more pessimistic than I am and likes to paint a super bleak picture of the future, whereas I'm more of the "well, just wait it out" persuasion.
He's also a minister, which weirds me out because I am SO not the type to be a preacher's girlfriend (or wife!); I grew up in the church but I tend to be VERY outspoken and VERY not afraid to tell you EXACTLY what I think if you're being stupid. So yeah, that might not go over well sometime.
One incredibly unusual thing about us was that we had so many opportunities to meet before we actually did. He actually knew who I was about a year before I ever met him. I'm not trying to be braggy, but I'm an author and it was announced in chapel one day, and that's when he first heard of me.
Then the next semester we had a class together, but somehow never talked.
And then I joined his group at lunch, oddly enough because I liked another guy in the group, and we never spoke then either.
It wasn't until the next semester that we actually talked and the first conversation I actually remember between us was about Twilight and that started it all.
And this entire time, he kept forgetting my name, so I was 'book girl', 'quiet girl', or 'hat girl' for months.
Also, he's going for a ministry degree and I always scoffed at the idea of being a pastor's wife.
I'm 11 years older. It's probably the main unusual thing about us, but nobody really knows or cares... The only thing it changes is his baby timeline.
Over the three years of our relationship, we only lived in the same country for the first month. One day we'll have to choose a country! I'm pushing for something across the world - at least for a few years.
We had a very unusual beginning to our relationship, in that we had an "open relationship" for 6 months. All my friends thought I was crazy & were shocked that I didn't care if the guy I was dating was messing with other girls. But it toally worked for us, it was my senior year of college & his junior, and neither one of us was looking for a relationship. BUT we really liked each other and decided that we were only allowed to date one another, but if you hooked up someone else it wasn't a big deal.
I should mention what makes this even more unusual was that we're not sex crazed people either, FI hasn't slept with many girls and I was a virgin; but we enjoyed the occasional make out session with strangers & didn't want to cheat on one another.
6 months later, he couldn't stand it & we made things official & dated for almost 5 years before we got married last month! Ahhh our love story is so weird!
Our story isn't that unusual, but I'll tell it anyways! I have a son with a guy, who is kind of friends with my FI (they don't really talk much anymore!) and their dad's work together and are great friends. We started dating, and moved in with each other after like a month of dating. Everything has been perfect, and now we are planning on tying the knot! :)
He is nine years older than me but we both met as freshmen at school (he was a returning student). We sat next to each other on the first day and every day thereafter, but didn't say a word to each other for three months (it was an 8 am public speaking class, so nobody was chatty). I am glad that after all that time we eventually started talking.
Well, here on the boards, I feel like my relationship is sorta the norm--military, long distance, etc. In real life, NOBODY is doing this! NOBODY I know in real life was long distance for 4 years or dealt with a 15 month deployment. My one friend's SO was in Korea for 2 years, but that's not quite the same. Still tough though.
To everyone who knows me they always react very strongly because they haven't met anyone quite in the same boat as me. I also don't live near a miliitary base so it's an unusual predicament to be married and life half the US apart
I am 5 years older than my FI, and we started dating when he was only 19.
we've been together for almost 5 years and have been long distance from the start. in fact, we made it official 2 months before we finally met in real life! that and we did say "i love you" a mere week into our relationship but we felt it.
and the funny difference: i'm a total sports nut and he does not like sports at all! but he tolerates it so that's all that matters to me.
He's 11 years older than me...and I'm 11 years older than his son.
(Our ages are: 35, 24, 13).
Hmm... not SO unusual anymore but we met on match.com. We're also kind of in the "opposites attract" boat.
Me: Super stubborn, very outgoing and opinionated, really good at academics, hates sports, loves art.
Him: Easygoing, somewhat shy, hated school, loves sports, doesn't get the art thing.
Somehow it works. We give each other space for our individual interests, we come together for those things we have in common, and we always keep each other on our toes. :)
BF and I met online then in real life like 4 days later... Fooled around for a few weeks both claiming to not feel anything other than a physical attraction... BF came over one night because another guy made me cry and we made it official that night... Saw each other every day for the next 4 days then not again until he moved in 2 1/2 weeks later due to some unfortunate circumstances... It was a tough start but we wouldn't change it for the world because it forced us to get real and deal with life's issues almost immediately...
All of these are fun stories! My fiance and I knew each other for about 2 years before we started dating since we worked together. Although we spoke on a few occaisions we were not very close since I was dating someone else. So then, at a going away party for one of our collegues we really hit it off and he was such a charmer that night! What I found out was that he actually had already accepted a job in a different state when we started dating and he was leaving two weeks later. I was devastated! We saw each other every day until he left and we just knew that this is who we both wanted to be with for the rest of our lives! We visited each other only a few times in 5 months and then I left my hometown to move out of state where he was. After a few months, he proposed and here we are! Sometimes I still find it hard to believe that I am so happy and all of this happened out of nowhere! I am so glad that I took that leap of faith and decided to go with my heart. What a great gift I have been given!
I first met my BF when I was around 15 for like an hour. We hung out the summer when I was 18 because he was dating one of my friends (and me his friend).
That same year, BF’s friend and I left the country to get married. We didn’t (thank God), but we did have a child together. BF and I were still friends on and off during this time. Eventually we lost touch.
Later, I got married and BF was married. We both had other kids. We ran into each other at a bar that I would sometimes go to for happy hour while I was still with XH. We were really just friends, although I thought he was hot. We would occasionally text or hang out. I came to his birthday party, etc. I actually tried to hook him up with one of my friends from work, but he wasn’t interested in her. :P
I left XH and was enjoying my freedom. I was at a NYE party and it made me think of BF since it seemed like the kind of party he would go to, so I text’d him to see what he was up to. Apparently, he had a small heart attack from the shock and then promptly ran over to the party where I was. He was totally hitting on me, but I brushed it of.
After that, he invited me to one of his performances and then we accidently kissed. And then he asked me on a real date. He was so excited and into me so much it kinda freaked me out. Obviously, he wore me down and I gave in and we've been together ever since.
My BF knows basically EVERYONE in our city and we know a lot of the same mutual people and people always seem so shocked to know we're together and live together. I don't think they're bad surprised, just surprised that we ended up together since no one would have predicted it -- not even me!
FI and I didn't like each other at all when we met. One time I actually prayed to God I wouldn't end up dating him. A year later I followed him to Madrid on a whim, and he asked me out a couple of weeks later on Valentine's Day. Our second "date" was a trip to Portugal, complete with 9 hour bus rides there and back. We never stopped talking :)
Also, I think we are one of the only couples I know that tells each other everything and has absolutely no shame between each other. For example, all of my friends keep their beauty rituals secret from their BFs or FIs, but I never felt the need to do that.
We are high school sweethearts who dated basically... all of high school! Our first time dating was freshman year of hs, September 2002... yep, do the math. We've been dating off and on for 7 years! This is our fifth consecutive year together in about two weeks!
Probably that we met online (via a dating site), but then found out once we met in real life that we lived precisely three blocks apart. It's unlikely we ever would have met though without some Internet intervention :)
@TexasGalah - Geek love, indeed!
FI and I met at an anime convention..I needed one more person to get the group discount rate, and he became that person. :)
We met at work like so many others, but how we got together is kind of unusual. One night at work a mutual friend was tell me I had to go to Ski's party. I was like who the hell is Ski? And he just said come, it will be great, so by the time I finally got off got to the party, there were all of 5 people there including me! And they were trashed! It was pretty lame, but Ski walked me home (6blocks), and got a hug and a phone number for it. (I won't lie I was a little promiscuous in college with the boys I worked with. I worked with 90% men, and had little "flirtations" with quite a few of them.) So he was kind of dissappointed because he didn't get anything more, and I was proud of myself that I didn't do anything more, haha.
So then, the next quarter he wanted someone to write a paper for him (I know not very ethical, but I was broke!) and he would pay the $100. So I did, he got an A on the paper, too! We started talking more after that, then he asked me out on a date, and well I didn't go home till the next morning. But this was right before Christmas break, so we didn't see each other for like 2 weeks, but we texted EVERYDAY!
After we got back from Christmas break, we pretty much moved in together (i.e. I spent every night at his house for the most part) and the rest is, as they say, history.
Well let's see...
Mr. Irish and I are inseperable. We are one of those couples that make other people sick. Not all hangy on each other - we give each other their personal space, and we go out seperately if we want to... but 9 times out of 10 we REALLY dont want to, and we have been together for 3 years *total time, we did break up for a year in which I saw someone else* in fact, when I was seeing the other man, FH came over every day in the evening and we would stay up all night long, nothing ever happened but we laughed and talked and had a heck of a time, and every night he would sleep on my floor and wake up with my son.
We physically hurt when we are away from each other. In fact, most of our arguements are centered on the fact we didnt get enough time together that day.
We groom each other. Example: He shaves my legs, I rub lotion on his back. We are 110% comfortable with each other's bodies.
One night a week he draws a bath for me and I sit in it and we light several candles and he comes in and sits on a chair singing me love songs and telling me funny stories.
We literately talk for hours - even now so many years later - for hours about nothing and everything and everything in between.
We are the only couple I know that can literately read each other's minds...
I guess none of that is particularly unusual - but as far as I am concerned it's pretty darn special
My fiance and I have a really unique situation. My friend went to school in New Zealand and met some friends from Canada. When she came back she told me one of them reminded her so much of me and she insisted that we meet. The two of us talked on the phone and decided to hang out in Vegas and then road trip to California. We did. I came from Texas and he came from Vancouver and the two of us hit it off immediately. We grew close on our 10 day holiday and decided to continue seeing each other.
We dated for months and saw each other only every 2 to 3 months. I went to Canada and he came to Texas. We dealt with a two-hour time difference and still got along perfectly.
Now, I am currently living in China and he is still in Vancouver. Our time difference is now 16 hours apart and we basically only talk on skype. We have decided to get married next year on 10/10/10 even though we have not been able to see each other and have a formal proposal - haha!
Long story short, I am spending a lot of my free-time trying to plan a wedding completely online.
Hmm, this is a tough question! I'm not sure that there is anything unusual about our relationship! Maybe that the Dude is the one who really likes to hug, while I tend to need my personal space more? Seems like it's the opposite gender-wise with lots of couples. I do like hugs, don't get me wrong, just not as much as he does!!
We were friends for YEARS before we started dating. There was no romantic vibe at all until wayyyyyy after we met.
Otherwise, we are eerily alike.
something odd about us is that my Fiancee is in a wheelchair. I know most people don't probably think too much about this but once you're in the situation your eyes are opened to so much that you could imagine. I love him nonetheless and I know what's in store for us in the future. but I have to admit that we've been together for 3 years and I am still annoyed by the amount of people who STARE at us when we're out and about. And it's not in a polite way, it's like they don't even try to keep it on the down low, it's rather offensive...
Hmmm...I don't think there is anything that is unusal about us...My FI is about 5 inches shorter than me and then on top of that he is a lot smaller than me in weight...Some people are just like huh...But I love him despite his height and body frame:)
Hmm, I guess the only really "unusual" aspects of our relationship is that he's 16 years older than me. And I guess we're also sort of "opposites attract" but really we're a pretty normal couple.
Well, me & my FI had known each other for about 5 yrs before we got together. I was with this guy for 5 years at the time & he was in the same boat with his girlfriend. One Easter, while me & the FI were just friends, we saw each other at church. I was talking to a girl I knew there and she had made the comment "Daniel is so cute!" and me making conversation, I said..."yeah, he's a good looking guy" Which there is NOTHING wrong with saying. Well, my current boyfriend's brother LIVED with my FI now at the time & he overheard me say that and like a little boy, he went and "tattle-tailed" on me to my current BF and told Daniel that I had said that.
WOW what a big freakin deal that turned into! Well, ever since that day my current BF would always say "why don't you just go be with Daniel, you think he's cute, don't you" I would always just tell him to be quiet and leave it alone. Well, one day @ college me & my FI now happened to see each other at breakfast and started to eat breakfast every morning together, one thing led to another...he broke up with his ex & I broke up with mine...and we started to date! Everything was great and has been from then on. 8 months later we got engaged & a wedding is in 2 months!
I've never been happier!
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