When my parents met each other in their twenties, they marveled over how many mutual friends they shared. They grew up in nearby towns in Connecticut, and although my father was a few years older, knew many of the same people- so many that they suspect they’d been at the same social functions a time or two without meeting. It’s funny to try to imagine them at a party before they knew each other, one of them leaving while the other was arriving, or a friend about to introduce them and then being distracted. I think we like to think that way, because it gives us a sense that it was “meant to be” or that fate has a hand in two people meeting and marrying.
Check out the couple I read about in this article. Two women were in hospital beds next to each other when they had their children on the same day, one had a girl and one, a boy. The women became friends and kept in touch over the years. Through their mothers’ friendship, the boy and the girl were in contact throughout their lives. When they were sophomores in high school, he asked her out. And then at age 24, they (you guessed it!) got engaged! Can you imagine? Being born on the same day, and then serendipitously being assigned the same room in the maternity ward brought them together!
http://www.lemondrop.com/2010/06/02/couple-born-on-same-day-in-shared-hospital-room-to-wed/
How did you and your fiance meet? Did fate seem to have a hand?
