My husband and I first met in a bar. Which is somehow more exciting than saying that it was actually arranged via an app.
It says a lot about how highly humans prize kismet and happenstance that whenever someone says: “So how did you two meet?” I take a short inhale and prepare to disappoint them. Hinge.
From Ernst Lubitsch’s The Shop Around the Corner to Nora Ephron’s Sleepless in Seattle, we’ve learnt from movies that great love has an even greater meet-cute. Failing that, make it Glastonbury Festival or a ski slope or, at the very least, a friend’s wedding/birthday/blind-date set up.
Why, though, would it have made our relationship more special if we’d bumped into each other after too many drinks on a night out? The life we’ve built together matters far more than the matter of our meeting.
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It says a lot about how highly humans prize kismet and happenstance that whenever someone says: “So how did you two meet?” I take a short inhale and prepare to disappoint them. Hinge.
From Ernst Lubitsch’s The Shop Around the Corner to Nora Ephron’s Sleepless in Seattle, we’ve learnt from movies that great love has an even greater meet-cute. Failing that, make it Glastonbury Festival or a ski slope or, at the very least, a friend’s wedding/birthday/blind-date set up.
Why, though, would it have made our relationship more special if we’d bumped into each other after too many drinks on a night out? The life we’ve built together matters far more than the matter of our meeting.
‘I met my husband online – and we’re just as stable as couples who met in the pub’
According to a new study, couples who meet online are less stable than those who didn’t – but my experience is entirely different
