19 amazing dating stories that make you believe in love again

In the age of online dating, love stories can be as diverse as Instagram filters.

Brooklyn Sherman, 27, has always been fascinated by dating stories, so she created the How We Met Instagram project. It documents amazing stories of how different people fell in love with each other. Since June 2015, the number of posts has reached 266, and subscribers - 280,000.

“I love good fairy tale stories, but I think it's important to talk about wrestling too, because it gives hope to people,” Sherman says. The couples selected for the project range from those who have lived together for more than half a century to those who met through the app last year. “Love is possible more than once in a lifetime, and I have received many confirmations of this. You are never too old. It's never too late now. And there is always hope,” Sherman says.

Here are 19 love stories from the How We Met project that will remind you how different love can be and in what different places you can find it.

1. Independent careerist

I met my wife 35 years ago in Kabul, Afghanistan. I was in my early thirties, she was almost thirty. Then it was rare that people of this age had not yet started families, especially in Afghanistan. I served in the army as a general, and she was a correspondent for the city newspaper. And it was a rarity in those days - a woman with a bachelor's degree and a successful career in journalism, but that was my wife. She was different from others, she could not be a housewife. She loved books, studying, going to libraries and working somewhere outside the home. My brother worked at the same publishing house and we were always very similar in views, so he saw that Messri was perfect for me. One fine day, he came to my house and said that a wonderful, smart and kind woman was working with him ...

2. The guy who was not on her list

Seriously, in Chia, I found the most amazing partner in the world. I was preparing for a wedding with a black guy who burned incense and listened to Lauryn Hill and Dwele, just like me. Instead of him, Chia entered my life with all the great difference from me.

He didn't have a clue about half of my favorite artists but was always open to learning new things. I am from a poor district, and he is from a poor country. We are so different that it seems there is nowhere else, but our souls have always been connected and this is what our hearts say.

We first met outside the Ohio State University concert hall. We were introduced by mutual friends, we talked a little and then everything went by itself. Later we worked in the call center of an insurance company. Over the next four years, we became very close friends. Then I moved to New York for a career in ballet, and he called me every night ...

3. An accident in the parking lot.

It was just another normal day three years ago when I stopped by the supermarket to pick up groceries on my way home from work. After paying, I left the store and unlocked my white Jeep Cherokee. While I was walking to the car, I noticed that the back door on the passenger side was open and there was a guy standing near it. At first I thought he wanted to steal a car or rob me. But when I got closer, I found that he was shifting food from the cart there.

I was scared, so I approached hesitantly. I said, “Uh, hi,” he said, “Hi,” looking at me like he didn’t understand what I was doing here at all, and continued to lay out the products. Then I said: "Eh ... This is my car." He laughed like I was talking nonsense and said, “No, mine.” I pressed the button on my car key fob to demonstrate that the car was still mine. He turned pale and looked around in confusion. I apologized...

4. Love at first blush

My best friend was on the girls' basketball team in high school. One day after practice, she invited me to eat with their basketball team. And this after I failed as a point guard! The freckles on her cheeks touched the strings of my soul, and I wanted to know her better. In the car on the way to the restaurant, she chatted with everyone but me.

In order to somehow get her attention, I asked: “Why are your breasts so sparkling?” She turned crimson and there was silence in the car until she replied, “My sister used up my lotion and I tried her glitter stuff instead.” That was 7 years ago and I'm still able to make her blush.

5. Love me Tinder

My boyfriend and I met through Tinder when we lived in Los Angeles. It turned out that we both grew up in Ohio, 20 minutes away from each other. Today is our second anniversary.

6. Golden couple

We worked for the same company. She's in the punched card department (it's gone now) and I'm in the blueprint department, so our paths must have crossed. I invited her to dine at a cafe, and, imagine, I did not have any money with me, so she had to pay! Well, the rest is history, since then I have been happy to always and everywhere pay myself. We have been married for over 58 years.

7. Let's move your body

I met my boyfriend at a salsa and bachata dance. We still dance from time to time. Just celebrated our fourth anniversary.

8. Added as a friend

Jake just showed up on my dad's "people you might know" page one day, and that's how we met. My dad says that he clicked on the "add as a friend" button quite by accident and blames his fat fingers for everything. Two days later, I got a message from super duper Jake: “Hi! I don't think we know each other, but your dad added me as a friend."

It made me a little nervous, but it turned out great. Soon Jake asked me on a date and now we are in love and we have a wonderful red-haired son. Long and happy until the end of his days.

9. In happiness and in sorrow

We met at work. We were both just getting divorced and at first we just supported each other, like friends, in difficult times. We started dating about two and a half years ago, but we are still slowly developing. I think it's scary for both of us to be heartbroken again. 8 weeks ago I was diagnosed with liver cancer.

During the examination, surgery and rehabilitation, she was always there. She hid her fear with all her might, but one day I noticed a tear in her eyes. When I asked what happened, she looked at me and said, "Nothing will happen, I can't lose you." I have never felt so much love in my life as I did at that moment.

As I recover from surgery and start my cancer-free life, I do so in gratitude for the wonderful woman beside me. The photo on the right is her squeezing my hand while I sleep in a hospital bed...

10. Love and basketball

In 2009, I was an NBA fan, I had their logos on my car and everywhere. There was an All-Star game in my state that year, and I saw an ad for volunteers for it. I called best friend and said, “We have to sign up! We will be the only girls and I will find a husband there.”

Well, in short, it did. I married a fellow volunteer, also a basketball fan, on August 3, 2014. Such is our story about love and basketball.

11. Love at the cash register

I met my boyfriend in 2009 when I was working as a part-time cashier at a supermarket. One evening before I left, I offered another cashier to work at her checkout while she went on break. The world was clearly on my side because Calvin happened to be one of my customers.

Six years, two dogs, a house, and a million memories later, I'm still incredibly grateful for my own decision to punch Calvin that night at box office 29.

12. How to Become Legally Blonde for Life

All my life I wanted to be a lawyer. But none of the guys I dated were willing to put up with how much time I spent studying. They cheated on me while I was studying to be a lawyer, and I was constantly dumped for busty waitresses because I didn’t give the guys enough time.

Then I met Luis, the secretary of my civics teacher, who was the best in his class but seemed so boring as hell. We hardly spoke to each other until the lesson was over. I found out that he saw me as the epitome of a cliché, a type of Legally Blonde, and he discovered that I only saw him as a typical law school nerd.

When he texted me after my first exams to find out how I finished the semester, we started talking and chatted until 3 am. A few days later, we discovered something incredible. Since I met him, I have accomplished more than I ever imagined or hoped for. He will never admit it, but he is the main reason...

13. Intercontinental Romance

Alex and I have a very special story. We met while living in different countries. I myself am from California, but I was visiting Ukrainian relatives, and Alex lived in Washington. We met on the Internet, but I did not know one wonderful detail about Alex until some time.

When I first saw his photo on Instagram, I thought that he was handsome and not on my level. I also admired his photographic talent - he took beautiful pictures of nature. So I was shocked when Alex sent me a message. I decided to play hard and made me wait several days for an answer.

Finally, I answered and we had an amazing conversation. We became closer and closer friends, and our feelings for each other grew stronger. A month later, we were still in different countries, but we talked a lot on the phone and saw each other on Skype. One evening Alex said he had to confess something to me...

14. Chemistry of a joke

She was my best friend younger brother. They had a constant joke, sort of like they were dating. She and I were close for years, but she always had a boyfriend (not my brother), and I had a girlfriend. Once, when we were both free from a relationship, we went for a walk together and got kicked out of a bar. We decided to take revenge by writing a negative review online, like this: “I ordered beetroot salad, and it turned out to be without beetroot!”

After that, we began to exchange text messages and found that only we thought the comment about beetroot salad was funny. Two and a half years later, she moved across the country to live with me, and we still laugh at that terrible joke. She's the only person in the world who thinks I'm funny and I like to make her laugh.

15. Lived nearby - live together

I met my husband after three unsuccessful attempts to live in the same apartment with female neighbors. I have three older brothers, so it's easier for me to get along with men than with women. So I decided to try and find a guy next door. When Matt showed up, I was scared, because I felt like I was looking into the future and there was an incredibly strong connection between us.

He moved in and I stubbornly refused to go on dates with my flatmate, so I was dating someone else, and it upset him. My dad told me over and over that he didn't like my current boyfriend and I should start dating someone like Matt. When I graduated, Matt and I went to different cities, and he asked me why I never gave him a chance and if I would agree to try now that we no longer live under the same roof. This was the day we had been waiting for so long.

16. Blind date

My wife passed away on March 24, 2015, 3 months after our 53rd anniversary. We met on a blind date set up by a good friend in 1958 while in college. My wife saw me at the college bookstore where I worked and told my friend's girlfriend that she wanted to go on a date with me.

I had a double date, my friend and his girlfriend and I went to a college basketball game. From the moment my friend and I went into the bedroom to get ready for our date, everything was going well until a plump and not very attractive girl walked into the living room. A friend said: “Here she is”, I replied: “Thank you” and went to say hello. He grabbed my shirt from behind and said, "Wrong girl." At that moment, the girl I actually had a date with entered the living room. This was my wife.

We dated throughout our studies and got married a week after graduation. We had three children and five grandchildren...

17. You never dreamed

Gabe and I met when we were in high school. As soon as I saw him, and I was 14 years old, I realized that he was “my man”. And I did what any fourteen-year-old girl would do: I walked over, pushed him against the locker, kissed him, said goodbye, and ran away. I was so afraid to talk to him that I avoided him for three months afterwards. But in the end we started talking and a couple of months later he invited me to take a walk.

Now Gabe and I have been together for almost six years. This year, my world with Gabe was turned upside down when he was diagnosed with a third stage of brain cancer. As a result, we had to move out of the apartment, live in hospitals and move to another city, where Gabe received chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Despite the difficult times, Gabe remains positive and his smile makes my heart stop...

18. Cross-cultural romance

In 2007, I felt that my life in Detroit had come to a standstill. I realized that it was time to look for new adventures and moved to Britain to study optics. Matthew and I met during my internship. I immediately singled him out from the crowd. I found him incredibly funny and we became fast friends.

Those around us noticed faster than us how strong our feelings for each other became. Friends tried to persuade us to meet, but we both denied our feelings until we realized that it was time for me to leave back to the USA. We are not only from distant countries, but equally distant cultures.

One day I jokingly told his friend that I needed to find a way to take Matthew with me to the States. The friend, of course, ran to tell him, and that was all Matthew needed to hear. He came up to me and kissed me.

19. Trusted fate

On August 21, 2006, I trusted fate and wrote my name and email on a crumpled business card taken from a soldier's wallet. We were in the middle of the Dallas airport, terminal D to be exact. The soldier was returning to Iraq, and I just came to see a friend.

Luckily for us, his flight was delayed, so we sat and talked for three hours. A couple of weeks later, I found my favorite flowers on the porch and soon he called and asked me to wait for him. Needless to say, I agreed. I owed his return, and everything else is clear.

Nine years ago I met a soldier who has now been my husband for seven years, my best friend and my hero.

Is it possible to meet love on the Internet? Or they don't register on dating sites serious men which later ? Our heroes will help you figure it out. They are ready to share the most intimate.

1 Without dinner

Tatyana, 35 years old

“We met on the app. He seemed to me a charming and intelligent person. A couple of days later, they made an appointment, which I came a little later. He met me annoyed: “You were late by as much as 5 minutes!”

As we walked to the car, she asked what we were going to do. We decided to have dinner. In the car, he put his hand on my knee. I got worried.

We drove for a long time. When I asked where the restaurant was, it turned out that he was taking me from Moscow to my native Korolev to try “the best”.

I suggested that he either have dinner in Moscow or let me out of the car. He said that he would drop off at the first stop, but we passed it. Dropped her off only when she threatened to call the police. In general, now I am more careful about dating on the Internet.

2 First time

Daria, 32 years old

“I have always had prejudices against dating sites, but cousin I sat on them around the clock and managed not even once, but twice.

After 1.5 years of loneliness, under the strict guidance of my sister, I went to look for happiness on the Web. At first, strictly perverts were interested in me, but one day a guy “knocked” who had a bust of Voltaire in the title photo.

And we began to correspond: we chatted for hours, a week later we switched to Skype. We agreed to meet at a cafe. He came with flowers, drank coffee and went to the cinema. We recently celebrated our second anniversary.

In general, I chose my own and over the past 4 years I have never regretted it. And now I am agitating my friends in every possible way: dating sites are really a great opportunity to find a loved one. If it weren’t for the Internet, I wouldn’t have met my husband in my life.”

Alina Demeeva

"Our history of acquaintance is obscenely banal: there were no accidents and mystical coincidences - we were introduced by mutual friends. First there was correspondence on the Internet, then followed by the first meeting at the celebration of Catholic Christmas in a club where we rested with classmates, and then the wonderful time of our relationships - dates, movies, walks around the city, cafes, flowers, gifts. Six months later, I realized that I fell in love for real, and how happy I was when I realized that my feelings were mutual! We remember this moment as the beginning of something serious and global.A year later, we have already begun to think about cohabitation. My husband (then he was still just my young man) insisted, but I was categorically against it - my upbringing did not allow it. That's how the idea of ​​marriage came about. Our parents supported us, and together we began to prepare our wedding.

We have been married for almost 2 years, we have been together for more than 4 years, but we still remember that evening of the first meeting and our feelings and emotions. We often remember our acquaintance and each time our story acquires more and more new details that we used to be embarrassed to tell each other. It turned out that we liked each other at first sight, and although we are very different, we can no longer imagine life without each other. Only when a loved one is near, I am calm and incredibly happy. Love helps us to be together in harmony and understanding."

Katerina Lebedko-Pogrebnaya

"For the first time I met my now husband at an acoustic evening dedicated to the fans of the Splin group. I sang there, and he came as a guest. Our eyes met and I immediately liked him. However, that evening we did not we met. After 4 months, an acoustic evening was again held in the same place, this time dedicated to Russian rock, and I was again invited there as a performer. What was my surprise when I saw Him there. We again met eyes, and to at the end of the evening we met and talked a little, but things didn’t go beyond that. I left the institution earlier, but he stayed. Later, I tried to find him on social networks, but, unfortunately, nothing came of it. About a month later, we completely "We met by chance in another place. That's when I realized that it was fate! It was like this: somewhere in the middle of March, my girlfriend and I agreed to meet at a bar. It was Friday, I came to the bar before my friend, ordered myself a cocktail and in waiting was at the bar. And suddenly he passes by! I was a little confused and continued to stand near the bar. Suddenly, from behind, someone lightly patted me on the shoulder, I turned around and saw my future husband. He was no less surprised to see me, and decided to come up to say hello. We started talking, it turned out that he came to the “corporate party” with his colleagues. The most amazing thing is that he first came to that bar, while I was a regular client of this institution. That evening we exchanged phone numbers. He called me 2 days later, and our romance began from that call. A year and a half later, we got married."

Zhazira Zharbulova

"My husband and I met in a cafe on August 30, 2008. I often went there with a friend, and, as it turned out later, he lived nearby all his life. On the same day he drove me home, and I understood everything. I realized that he is the one. The next day he invited me on a date, and a day later, on September 1, he left for Russia to continue his studies at the military academy. At that time, I lived from call to call, from text to text. He came 2 times a year for summer holidays and on New Year. So two years passed. After graduation, to my great joy, he was sent to serve in Almaty. But, as it turned out, I rejoiced early. He disappeared for days at work. We even broke up a couple of times because of it. So another 2 years passed. And in the 5th year, we finally decided that it was time to decide something. I told him that if we don't get married by September 30, 2013, we will have to leave. After all, I was already 25 years old and, as is customary in our society, it was time to think about the family. As a result, in January 2013, I was put on earrings according to the Kazakh custom, in July of the same year they married me, in August they first held “uzata”, the traditional farewell to the bride, and on September 21, 2013 there was a wedding (it turns out that my husband managed to marry me before September 30th). Now we are waiting for our baby!

Tatyana Kudrina

"I sincerely believe that there are no accidents, and when we meet our man, a certain mysterious voice quietly whispers to us about how important this meeting is, urging us not to pass by. You need to have very big hearing problems in order not to pay attention to this voice.:) Apparently, I had such problems, so I did not immediately recognize my happiness and could not even imagine that a banal story of acquaintance at work could develop into something big. and my husband was a representative of a contractor company, and, accordingly, initially our conversations with him were based on topics such as the terms of the contract, the terms of payment and the quality of the services provided. In general, when the move was successfully completed, he continued to come to my office under various pretexts, but even then we did not think about anything serious. step by step, we became closer to each other, until we finally noticed how all doubts disappeared, and we both realized that we want to be together always, all our lives."

Perhaps these very personal stories will not form the basis of a romantic film, will not touch hearts and will not cause tears of tenderness. However, they will always keep that special magic and warmth, turning into a little fairy tale for each individual family.

Dear readers, how did you first meet your loved ones?

First of all, this is a mood, lively and genuine emotions and feelings! And each couple has their own, special, unique, yes, I didn’t make a reservation, it’s unique, because even if we are talking about one thing, about love, then each of us means something completely specific for ourselves, some kind of our own. meaning, understanding, inner feeling of this concept and feeling!

And how was it born, this feeling, here in these two, very specific people? How did they find each other? How did you meet? What were your very first mutual impressions? How were they cared for then? And how did they show and express themselves and their feelings? What did they think, feel, experience, do and say then? How did they search for and find that one and only true path to each other's heart? How, finally, did they declare their love and how did they ask or offer a Hand and a Heart? Can all this be uninteresting, banal, boring!? Especially when it comes to people close to you! Never!

Or would you rather like the always impersonal and often fakely sensual monologues of the registrars "about the ships and harbors of Love"!? Can these lengthy speeches “about in general” and, as a result, “about nothing”, be able to captivate you? Do they really immerse you in the amazing and unique emotional world of any newlywed couple? Maybe they open something new for you? Or do they give unforgettable sensations and make you sincerely participate in the ceremony and empathize with people close to you? Not sure…

And if you agree with me on something, in conclusion I will say that there are no uninteresting stories, there are none !!! Yes, although this is how many couples begin our conversation about the upcoming ceremony, they say, our story is “nothing at all”, they met corny, met without incident, etc., or they say, they say, many details of our history should remain a secret, we we can’t talk about it publicly… Great! After all, it is not at all necessary to lay out the chronology of events and all sorts of details, one or more episodes, pictures, events are enough for some kind of emotional narrative to grow out of them, a fascinating story, somewhat poetic and spiritualized precisely by your living, real and absolutely sincere feeling of love for each other !

For me, as an interlocutor and author, it’s not even the specific nuances of your story that are important, but the excitement, emotions that you experience, living anew, remembering certain moments of your novel, I seem to be saturated with them, become a witness and accomplice of these events, and therefore , and then I write your Love Story, and I talk about it with your guests, as already, probably, about a part of my own life, conveying to them all the wealth and joy, and impressions that you shared with me ...

That, in general, is all, I invite you, read, be inspired, and come, together we will create and tell your guests your Love Story ...

It's the turn of the newlyweds. Very prepared for them interesting competition"Apple of tender words." Stas and Sasha were given an apple resembling a hedgehog thanks to the toothpicks inserted into it. It was necessary for the newlyweds, pulling them out in turn, to speak to each other one affectionate and tender word. When all the well-known phrases were spoken, the guests joined in the pronunciation of compliments. I had to turn on the fantasy, and “sexy”, “glamorous”, “brutal”, “passionate” went into action, and so on until the toothpicks ran out.

Perhaps one of the largest competitions was called "Redemption of the Bride". A sheikh from Turkey unexpectedly arrived at the wedding with his harem, stole Sasha and offered the groom to ransom her. And, as you know, whoever did not save the bride will have to answer. Naturally, honorary witnesses went to ransom her. The sheikh announced the terms of the ransom: as a reward for completing the task, he offered not the bride, but his concubines. The Turk decided to test the ingenuity of the witnesses and suggested that they first practice eating an apple without using their hands. It looked pretty funny, especially when the witness tried to roll the apple to the witness's mouth in order to finally bite off at least a piece. At some point, the girl regretted that she had come in a dress. Finally, the apple was safely eaten. The guest was satisfied, but he did not give away the bride.

After the sheikh asked the witnesses to fill the glass with wine in a very specific way - without using their hands - the guests momentarily imagined this situation. Even before it began, the action caused deafening laughter in the hall. This process looked something like this: the witness sat on a chair, securing the glass with her knees. The witness, having fixed the bottle with his feet in a horizontal position, defiled to the girl. Focusing on the action, he managed to fill a glass without loss, by the way, which then had to be drained for the health of the young. The sheikh has already offered two concubines instead of the bride.

The third task was designed for the endurance and ingenuity of the witness. The guy had to come up with 10 ways to ferry the witness on his shoulders. She was in all sorts of positions: upside down, over her arm, along her torso, behind her back, and on her leg... In general, the guests were able to appreciate Slavik's fantasy with loud laughter.
Somewhere in the sixth task, the sheikh decided to stop. Witnesses pleased him and amused him from the bottom of their hearts. Then, as a wedding gift, he returned Stas to his beloved. The rulers were applauded and the evening continued.

One of the competitions was supposed to help determine the degree of sobriety of the guests. Four bottles were placed in the center of the hall at a distance of a meter from each other. The most daring decided to test their accuracy. The toastmaster gave them the rings, in the allotted time it was necessary to throw the ring on the bottle. Circles flew around the hall, never reaching the goal. However, the awards found each of the participants in the competition.

Words of gratitude from Stas and Sasha, addressed to dear mothers, allowed the presenter to invite mothers to take part in the comic competition "Hairdresser". No, no, no one had to cut their hair, but the opportunity presented itself for two young people to fix their hair. After visiting the salon, Zverev would envy them. The tails stuck out in different directions, each of the guys resembled Kapitoshka.