People are tweeting the stories of how they met their partners and it's super sweet
It's a question as old as time itself, but one that truly never gets old — "How did you two meet?"
One curious tweeter posed this question to the internet, asking followers to share their stories of how they met their partners. And, boy, did the internet deliver.
People chimed in with their romantic tales — some heartwarming, and others downright hilarious.
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One Twitter user tweeted that they had met their partner "through World of Warcraft trade chat." The pair chatted over Skype for one year before getting in to a long term relationship. Now the couple live together in Norway!
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One woman tweeted that she met her partner because he was her Lyft driver. They couldn't stop chatting and they've been "best friends from that day on." She added that they're currently shopping for an engagement ring together.
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Some of the coupling up stories are delightfully simple. One Twitter user said her now-partner messaged her on Facebook to ask her for a drink. They went along and the "rest is history." Simple as that!
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One woman tweeted that her now-partner posted selfies on Twitter and a mutual friend retweeted them, making them appear in her timeline. She liked the look of the chap so she messaged him and asked for his number. "We've been together ever since," she wrote.
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Another Twitter user wrote that she parked next to a car at the library and found that someone had left their car key in the door. She handed the key to security and left a note. "He called and offered me coffee to say thanks. A few dates later, we both knew that this is it," she wrote.
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One woman met her partner after stopping for gas at a petrol station. "He pulls up to me, gets my number, takes me out on a date a week later, and now we are married with a beautiful baby girl," she wrote.
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Another woman wrote that she and her partner had the "world's worst date" during high school, but they still managed to fall in love.
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Awwww.
Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.
