Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! Like my favorite fictional couple Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe, my husband and I met in school. He didn’t pull my braid and call me “carrots,” though my hair is strawberry blonde. 🙂 He moved nearby, right before our junior year of high school. We passed each other outside one day, having learned about the other from a mutual friend, and said “Hi.” And you know the signifcance of that when you’re in high school!
Then he showed up in my drama class. We were paired up to do a scene from Romeo and Juliet – the balcony scene, no less – for a competition. Though we didn’t win anything, we had a very long bus ride to get to know each other better.
We went to a few dances that year and liked each other off and on – but never at the same time it seemed. When I finally realized just what an awesome guy he is, during our senior year, he already had a girlfriend! And though I knew it was impossible, I really wanted him to ask me to our senior prom. Alas, it didn’t happen – we both went with other people.
We graduated from high school and went to different colleges, though we stayed in contact. When I would come home, we would go places together. But we were just friends. We’d never even held hands.
Another three and a half years later, both of us more mature and wiser – ha, ha – we decided it was finally time to give “dating” each other a try. After a couple of months, when we realized we felt much more than friendship for each other, we began exclusively dating. Three more months went by, and he asked me to marry him. The theme of his proposal was about dancing, since we’d missed the chance to dance at prom together all those years before.
There are numerous ways the hero and heroine meet in books and movies, but one of my favorites has always been the couple who begin as friends. Maybe that’s because I planned on marrying my best friend, even before I met him – and I did.
How did you meet your hubby or boyfriend? What’s your favorite way the hero and heroine meet in a book or movie?
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I loved your story! How sweet! I met my husband in college, but not on campus. We met telemarketing! I'm sharing our story tomorrow.
I love that you guys did the balcony scene. Do you ever replay it for fun? 🙂
I love that story! And the pictures!
Jessica – Ha, ha – I only remember a few of the lines from the balcony scene. 🙂
Funny side note: We didn't kiss during the scene. I suppose I didn't want my first kiss to be part of a play, so I insisted we hug instead. Which meant our first kiss didn't come until YEARS later. LOL!
Melanie – I was surprised to see that we don't look completely different back then – just way younger! 🙂
This is such a sweet story! I love the friends-turned-romance stories. 🙂
My hubby and I met through a cat named Meathead. Yes, it's true. The cat was owned by mutual friends. It's too long a story for here, but we became friends right away, and we've been best friends for 41 years, married for 39 of them.
Moral: Treat cats with respect.