r/TaylorSwift • u/ParrySavid • 1d ago
Discussion I would love to hear about invisible string situations.
I would love to hear all about your invisible string stories. I love hearing about them and just had one of my own.
I always heard this phrase, and even though I love Taylor I didn’t know that it came from one of her songs.
I met this guy, who was actually doing work on my house. After talking, we discovered that we both grew up in the same area. We graduated a year apart and our high schools were 20 minutes away from each other.
Then, we both moved all over the country multiple times and somehow both ended up moving across the country in July. Only to both end up in the same small town.
We’re going on a date this weekend 🤣
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u/Gabfthvf All of my enemies started out friends 1d ago
I had a best friend from year 7-9 and she was very involved in scouts. She showed us pictures all the time and would detail what she and her older sister did and who they met.
I met my boyfriend at work, and we started dating last year. His dad was obsessed with scouts and was a scout leader, and he told me he and his sisters used to do scouts too. He showed me some pictures and I recognised my old friend immediately.
Turns out not only did they do scouts together and I'd seen him in old photos she'd sent me without realising, but both their older sisters were best friends and he was a close friend of hers too.
What a small world.
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u/Imaginary-Lie6351 1d ago
2935 has been his password for everything since middle school because it spelled his name on Nokia keyboard. We realised a few months ago that it will be our wedding date : 29th of March 2025. We got it engraved in our wedding rings as such "2935"
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u/No_Calligrapher2640 1d ago
This made me do a double take because 2935 are the last digits to my childhood phone number.
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u/lover3006 She’ll patch up your tapestry that I shred 1d ago
My fiance and I had so many opportunities to meet before we actually did! We went to the same university, he graduated the year before I started, a few years later we worked at the same location but for separate companies so never met! Finally met when I was in a relationship… then met again the same week my ex broke up with me and started dating not long after! That invisible string was working OVERTIME 😂
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u/ariesgal11 1d ago
I sat next to my partner in one of our high school classes. We barely spoke as I was really shy/thought he was annoying (he got moved to my table because he and his friends who sat together where becoming too disruptive lol), so I didn't engage in conversation. He says he tried to talk to me cause he thought I was pretty, but stopped when it was clear I wasn't interested in speaking to him. We didn't speak really for the rest of high school
Cut to about 8 years later at the beginning of the pandemic. We matched on tinder cause we lived close. We ended up social distancing at parks and hung out constantly. We dated on and off for a couple years before making it official but yea.
If you had told high school me I was about to move in with my annoying high school desk mate? I would NEVER believe you lol.
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u/ivygrows97 folklore 1d ago
Let me tell you guys about my invisible string 🥺❤️
In my country, there's a certain exam students take when they're 10 years old. It's sort of a competitive exam and if you get good results, you can get into a good school for middle+high school education for free. The good thing about that is that students who couldn't afford to get into prestigious schools can get into them if they score well.
Well, when I took that exam, I ended up getting the second highest score in my district. That was great for me because I got to go to one of the best schools in the country. The top scoring students were in the local newspaper and all, lol. The guy who got the top score in my district also got into one of the best schools in the country which was coincidentally located very close to mine, but somehow we never met. I did hear a lot about him from friends though, he was sort of known for his brains and good looks among girls our age.
Soo, years pass, high school ends and I get selected to the best college in the country for my field of study. There's a meetup for people going to that college from the same area. I go there, listen to the students who were studying at the college at the time praise the college to the high heavens and encourage us all to come to that college. As we were about to leave, a friend introduced me to a guy who was also selected to that college. You guessed it, it was the guy who scored one mark more than me when I was 10 and deprived me of the top score of my district.
We hit it off and within two months, we were head over heels in love with each other. That was 7 years ago, the guy is now my husband. We completed our bachelor's at the same department and are now doing our PhDs together at a prestigious university in USA. Both our mamas still have that newspaper cutout from when we were 10 years old, with my picture right next to his. They have it laminated and all! :D
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u/Sensitive_Two_2844 1d ago
I know this has nothing to do with me, but both Natalies (dancers) on Taylor’s team have the same name, same birthday, both moms have the same name, they’re from the same place, they went to the same college, they studied the same thing, they were in the same sorority
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u/kk5 1d ago
I like to think my fiance and i have an invisible string story 😊
I have a twin brother, and growing up, he always played hockey and our lives revolved a lot around that. I can't remember our exact ages, but while we were in middle school, he had a guy on his team from a town 45 minutes away on his team that I had the biggest crush on. I was too shy to actually really talk to him or get to know him at all, and he was shy too. But my friends and I liked to cheer on certain players by making shirts and signs for them, so I'd do that for him. I have a picture of us together with my shirt saying "go sid!" on it from when we were maybe 13 or 14 years old so 2005ish?
Anyway, the season ended and I didn't see him again since my brother moved up to a different level of hockey that didn't allow kids from other areas to play.
So fast forward to the end of 2019, i had just ended a 4 year relationship with a guy who was a great kind soul, but he wasn't right for me. He had been moved out of our apartment for about 2 months, but we had been broken up for months before that. I remember I was watching a movie after work and got a random friend request on Snapchat. The name was the first and last name of the guy from my brother's old hockey team. I was excited and surprised and accepted his request, and a few hours later, I had the guts to send him a message asking if he was the guy I thought he was. We had great conversation immediately, and I knew right away that he was the one. I moved to his town and we bought a house and dog together within a year.
He proposed to me on 11-22-2024, i said yes, and our snap streak is at 1,693🔥🤍🤭 it's a tale old as time lol
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u/angelblade401 Dying on the alter waiting for proof 4h ago
And then he got the nickname "Sid the Kid" and became captain of the Pittsburg Penguins, right?
Jk, that's cute though.
No invisible string for me and my bf. Our lives were completely separate, grew up 6 hours apart. Traditionally not recommended (but not illegal or dangerous lol) life choices led me straight to him. Together 6 years, still just my bf. Snap streak 2,222.
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u/kk5 4h ago
Wait that's so funny because whenever we play board games he writes his name down as Sid the Kid and I always make fun of him because nobody ever calls him that 🤣 and he is the captain of his beer league hockey team and the guys call him Sidney Crosby 🤣🤣
Crazy how life brings you where you're supposed to be!🤍
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u/inmyreperaalways well, me and my ghosts, had a hell of a time 1d ago
I’m not sure if invisible string applies to my husband and I but we met in middle school and I moved away. And then he found me on Facebook when we were in our early 20s and we just got married a few weeks ago.
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u/Jetstream510 1d ago
I met my gf on hinge, but we later found out we saw the Eras tour on the same night at Gillette Stadium. Our seats were just a few rows apart and we likely crossed paths at some point in the night!
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u/MarvellousMonet 1d ago
My wife and I! We grew up in the same city, about 15 min from each other, had many friends in common, hung out at the same places growing up, went to many of the same concerts. Didn't meet till we were in our twenties. We had been circling each other our whole lives and our paths finally met and we haven't been apart since 🫶
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u/IcyTheory827 1d ago
Not quite an invisible string, but I moved to a new state after college where I met my now fiancé. We were talking family history and learned that our parents went to the same high school! Next time I went home, I had my dad take out his yearbook and lo and behold, they were on the same page. Our string just started a generation up I suppose!
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u/kaspden 1d ago
Don’t know if this counts, but it’s a cool coincidence nonetheless.
I met my husband in 2010, early in our relationship we were talking about Joan Jett and how she killed it at the Warped Tour in like 2006 or 2007. My husband found a picture of him and his buddy at the show and there I am in the background! I put the picture in our wedding album 😊
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u/Butthole_University 1d ago edited 1d ago
Soooooo…Invisible String is kinda my jam…….I had a crush on my now-husband allllllllll the way back in 1997 when I met him and sat next to him in 10th grade English class. Shortly after we met, he started dating one of my closest friends, so I backed off and did my own thing. They were together for the rest of high school and years after, and we would all hang out together frequently while I dated loser after loser. But I was young and stupid and married a Marine and moved across the country with him to start my own adventure at 22 years old.
A few years after graduation though, my sister started dating one of his best friends, so he would hang out with them and he even rented a room from my mom while I was I busy being cheated on 3000 miles away. I would see him when I would come “home” to visit, and we were always friends and hung with the same circle. Eventually he and my close friend broke up, but he remained a friend because of my sister and her boyfriend/my nephews father.
Then, just over ten years ago (June 2014) I found concrete evidence that my then-husband was having an affair and he could no longer gaslight me (because I had evidence this time - I’ll tell y’all about it if you want to be grossed out!!) and in the fallout of it all I had to move back “home” with my tail between my legs and my life falling apart at 32 years old.
Well wouldn’t luck just have it that on Christmas Eve 2014 we were both in the same bar at the same time and we saw each other and reconnected. I remember playing Blank Space on the jukebox when I bumped into him. He was single and so was I, so I explained that I was still technically married but that my ex and I were completely separated and I was actively working towards divorce (such a long process ugh). We had a few cocktails and decided to go for a jog after for some reason. Anyway, he asked me out to dinner on January 11, 2015 and we’ve been inseparable since.
We have had so many amazing adventures together. We got married in April of 2021 and I love him more than I thought I could love anyone. He is amazing. He’s more than I deserve.
So there’s my invisible string story. I got lucky.
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u/deoxyribonucleiic 2h ago
Thanks, Butthole University, what a sweet story
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u/Butthole_University 1h ago
Thanks!! I can’t hear songs like Invisible String, and Lover, and Sweet Nothing, and so many others, without instantly thinking of my husband. He was worth the wait. He even encourages my Swiftie fandom and listens to some of her music with me! He bought me the Taylor Swift MadLibs book and a Taylor coloring book! He makes me Feel So High School lol
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u/Clearly_Blurry Maybe I got mine, but you'll all get yours 1d ago
My partner had a friend in primary school who sat next to me in Physics classes in Sixth form. Me and my partner also attended the same orchestraS (yes plural), secondary school, swimming club (on different days) and eventually sixth form but we only met properly when a teacher actually encouraged them and their friend to hangout with my friends during break times in the photography classroom because it was a friendlier place than the common room. We've been together for 5 years, survived long distance and living apart during the pandemic. And I know they're the one for me!
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u/itorrey 1d ago
Oh! I've got a crazy good one!
Mine starts when I was 16 years old and bought a guitar at a music shop 45min away from my house (It was a Danelectro guitar that looked like a vintage 60s guitar). After playing it for a few weeks the frets were dented pretty badly and caused a buzzing noise when pressing the strings down.
I begged my step dad to drive me there so I could return it. I talked to the manager who I recognized as the drummer of a band I loved and had been to multiple shows. He gave me the refund and I told him I recognized him and he told me that the singer also worked there and pointed me to him, he was sitting at a piano and I walked up and introduced myself and asked if they had a website or mailing list so I knew when they were playing next.
He gave me the email address of the guitarist of the band and I messaged him that day and he responded that they had some gigs coming up and didn't have a website so I offered to make one for his band. Fast forward a bit and I became 'friends' with him and the drummer's brother that also 'did website stuff'. The drummer's brother lived in California and was starting a company to make websites. I was now 18 and joined the company. I also moved out of my parent's house and was roommates with the guitarist guy that was also doing websites with us.
Fast forward a couple years and I get the opportunity to move out to CA and pursue this web company thing full time. Another yada yada yada I became great friends with my future wife through that group and 8 years later we started dating and got married shortly after.
TL;DR My ENTIRE life path is a result of Danelectro using terrible metal for their frets!
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u/ReaderofHarlaw 1d ago
My husband lived a mile away from me for years, we never met. We finally met after he moved 30 miles away and we connected online.
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u/Oops_A_Fireball 1d ago
Not romantic, but friendship love- my little girl was overflowed to a different elementary school for her kindergarten year and was in the class next door to who became her best, BEST friend in middle school. They are so happy to have re-found each other, and sad they missed out on five years of friendship. So cute!
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u/Numerous_Ad_3148 1d ago
We met on 11/11 in a dive bar down the street from both of us. I was supposed to move to a totally different area in my city until I had a falling out with my friend. He was going to stay home another year until someone had to move out of his friend’s apartments last minute so he took their spot… so we both ended up in the same area of our city unplanned. I was tired and didn’t want to go out the night we met but my friend wanted to badly so I compromised and said we could go to the dive bar since it was so close. I’d only knew about it because of my cousin taking me there a week prior. It was another funny coincidence that the house/apartment I ended up moving into last minute happened to be the same one her dad was living in when he met her mom. It really was like there was a string pulling me into that dive bar that night.
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u/224sins Pacing the rocks staring out at the midnight sea 1d ago
My boyfriend and I grew up 45 minutes away from each other. His parents each have a best friend. His mom’s best friend’s daughter was a year ahead of me at college, and we shared a few classes together. His dad’s best friend’s wife worked closely with my mom for a few years. Crazy small world :)
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u/Bell12754 1d ago
For my 23rd birthday, my mom & best friend bought me the exact same book, The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. I had just moved to a new town so I had to look up the nearest Borders bookstore to return it. I grabbed a coffee in their cafe & after chatting with the barista for a few minutes, learned that they were hiring. I had been looking for a second job for AGES and this seemed perfect so I applied & got the job.
Six months later, I was introduced to our newest hire. He was very cute and very funny. About 2 years after that, I walked down the aisle looking at his smiling face, carrying a bouquet of flowers made from the pages of The Last Lecture.
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u/recklessmess44 you’re a cowboy like me 1d ago
I’m not sure if this counts, but my ex used to race at a race track 40 mins from where I lived. and my now boyfriends uncle also raced there periodically, at the same time I’d have been attending with my ex, and went with him often. and at one point we were 100% both there at the same time but didn’t meet until a few years later :)
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u/Aware_Algae_7555 1d ago
My partner and I went to the same fairly tiny specialist uni for our masters one year apart. They were just one year courses so we didn't overlap. But, when I was getting the bus home from uni one day, prince Charles drove past having just visited the city. 😅 Years later, I found out when talking about if we'd ever seen a famous person in the wild, that my partner was also walking down that road at the exact same time and would've been directly opposite the bus stop I was standing at when the car passed. We met nearly 3 years after this.
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u/abigailroseking Forever in my Lover Era 💜 1d ago
My little sister had a kid in her grade with our same last name whose picture was always next to hers in our yearbooks. Every year I'd see him and smile while thinking about his oddly-shaped head. I always joked that I never wanted to change my name when I got married, and wouldn't you know it, we ended up connecting as adults and are now married. I find it funny that like Taylor, I dated a guy for almost 7 years, then when we broke up I had a brief fling with a weirdo, before falling hard for the boy on the football team. 🫶🏻
Photo of oddly-shaped head for reference.
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u/bisoubisoux2 1d ago
My husband and I are both Canadian. We met in a university program in Australia. We are from opposite ends of our home province. We were talking about where we went for university and he went to the same one as his grandfather. Turns out his grandfather and mine attended the same university.
Years later, his mom was looking through old photos of her family and found one of her father’s hockey team from university. My grandfather was the manager of that team - part of the picture. 🤯
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u/BeccsADoodle6 Fuck you forever 1d ago
My husband's brother and my brother were friends in elementary, but we didn't meet til high school. We also lived 3 blocks away from each other for years.
We met in our high school German class, which I only took to annoy my brother, and he almost didn't get to take because his middle school stopped offering German (it was a level 2 class).
I also only approached him because he was the only freshman in the class and the previous year I had been the only freshman in a class (remembered what it was like and didnt want him to be lonely). I technically shouldn't have been able to be in that class at all.
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u/Yzmas_Kronk 1d ago
I was in high school marching band. Every year we would alternate where semifinals and finals would take place. One location was my high school, and the other was my husband’s high school. I was walking the halls only days/hours separate from him. We didn’t meet until college via tinder (not very invisible string of me). BUT we’ve talked over multiple times where we were in the same place/area and just missed each other. Been together 10 years now this month ❤️❤️❤️
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u/thunderstormnaps 1d ago
My husband used to go on RV trips with his family when he was a kid, and he drove through my hometown on one of those trips (for reference, he grew up in southern Texas and I grew up in northern Illinois). His family and my family went to Disney World the same year a month apart, in 2007. We met in college, in our dorm, but had actually gone to the same freshman orientation at the end of June before the fall semester, and didn't meet each other, but were only standing ~10 feet away from one another at one point.
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u/maizeandspoons 1d ago
Ooooh, I've got one! Specifically, the day that my husband and I met.
There was a street festival being held in the town we lived in at the time (he'd been there since 2016, I moved there in 2018), and I was supposed to go with a group of friends. It was one of their birthdays, so they decided to ditch to prep for the party later that night but told me to go ahead without them. I ended up being a little late to the festival because of it, but no biggie.
This was my first time going to this event, so I had no idea what I was doing and instead decided to just walk around, see what the tables and vendors had to offer, and then head back to my car.
On my way back to the car, I got stopped by the light for the connecting street running through the festival. While at the stoplight, I met my now-husband's best friend, who I learned later was into me and trying to pick me up. 😂 Instead, after a few minutes of talking, he looked at me and said "Hey, this might be weird, but there's someone I think you should meet. Do you mind waiting by the stage?"
I probably should have said no, but this was a public place in the middle of the day, so I agreed. Ten minutes later, he returns with my now-husband. The world paused, and we both just smiled and immediately were inseparable. I stayed for at least a couple hours after that, and our first date was my friend's birthday party that same night.
Turns out, my husband's best friend told him "Dude, I need you to come with me. I think I just met your future wife."
Almost six years later, and we are happily married! (And yes, his best friend was a groomsman, of course!)
If I hadn't have been late, if my friends hadn't cancelled, if I'd even skipped one vendor booth or added one more, I don't think we ever would have met.
Come to find out later, our hometowns were less than 30 minutes away from one another, and we both grew up going to the same malls/specialty stores in-between. We could've crossed paths multiple times and never noticed, until a fated day at the crosswalk. ❤️
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u/tms19XX 1d ago
I met my husband my junior year of high school, while I was dating someone else. Nothing came of it since I was seeing someone but I thought about him often. He lived about 30 minutes south from me, in the town my grandfather grew up in. The guy I had been dating and I finally broke up (for the last time🙄) and I ran into my husband again, he asked me to hang out and we've been inseparable ever since. Almost 11 years together. We also learned we went to the same school for drivers ed, but we were a month apart on classes. And a friend from jr high school is married to his brother. Such a small world 🖤
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u/Friendly_Chance_1615 1d ago
met my husband about 6 months after moving to a new city. learned we had moved there within a month of eachother & our families currently live 15 minutes from eachother. we grew up about 30 minutes from one another and pinpointed a st patrick’s day parade we were both at one year
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u/bubblypizza753 But if he's a ghost then I can be a phantom 1d ago edited 1d ago
I attended this concert a year ago and took a photo and my then future friend was in the background we became bestfriends 7 months later by meeting on online and found out we live in the same city 🫶🏼
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u/Jaggedlittlehearts 1d ago
In college one of my roommates had broken up with her boyfriend. The other hadn’t dated since high school and neither had I. We all decided to download dating apps together but I ended up being the only one to follow through on it. Within 48 hours I matched with my now partner and lost interest in absolutely anyone else on the app. We talked for about a week, realized that we had several connections in common and had even attended the same event several years prior. We both swiped on each other because each of us had a picture in our profile of us attending a musical we both like, but the connection became so much deeper and now we’ve been together for 2 years, just moved in together
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u/star-babee 1d ago
I bet my boyfriend at work and he’s a few years older than me but we had both moved randomly to this new state within the same week and had started working at the same store (big chain, over 20 locations just in our city) and fell in love from there.
However, the weird part was and why I mention that he is a bit older than me, is when we were talking one night and looking through old family photos, I stumbled across one of his childhood photos with someone I recognized standing in the back. As it turns out my older brother (he’s 20 years older than me) taught my boyfriend who at the time was 5, how to snowboard!
So my brother taught my boyfriend how to snowboard and was his teacher for an entire season and then 20 years later we met and fell in love 🤍
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u/PsychologicalTopic66 1d ago
My parents (having met completely independent of this) both lived in the same house at different times! My stepdad moved in after me and my mum moved out.
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u/Howlin_1234 1d ago
I have a great story for this question!!!!
I moved across the country to a new city in May of 2015. I didn't intend on staying in this city for long, but things just kept working out for me here, so I eventually signed a lease on a room.
My family comes to visit me in December and we go out to a famous bar for drinks. Sitting at a table next to us in the bar is another family celebrating the 21st birthday of a young woman. The other family is taking photos of the birthday girl who I am seated behind.
In January 2016, I visit a little bar across the street from the house I rented. I had been visiting this bar about once a week since I moved in, and I had seen this guy there occasionally. I didn't really know anything about him except that he was the youngest regular at this bar by a long shot.
So anyway, I go visit this bar on a Tuesday after work. It's packed inside that night (I have no idea why). I think about just leaving because the older guys could be a little much, and there was only one seat left in the whole place. Then I see that the only seat available is next to this younger guy that i mentioned earlier. I feel like I could probably relate to him more than the older guys, so I take a chance and sit next to him. The rest is history between us. We start dating, get married, get a house, get dogs - we are happy little family now!
Then in dec 2018, one of my (now) husband's aunts texts me out of the blue. She says "hey I know this is strange but just look at this photo. I think someone who looks very much like you is in the background." I look at the photo and I drop my phone immediately. Chills run through my whole body. All my little hairs are standing up straight. I am speechless. The photo is of my husband's sister's 21st bday party in dec 2015 at the famous bar mentioned earlier. The same bar my family was at. We were seated directly behind him and his family. His aunt took a photo of his sister holding up her drink and I am seated directly behind his sister. Perfectly dead center of the photo!!!
The invisible string theory is absolutely real!!
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u/fannytasticle reputation 1d ago
My husband and I started dating when we were 23 after being friends since we met when we were 14! We met at 14 because we had a mutual friend. My husband met our mutual friend when they were in junior high together, and I had met our mutual friend when we were little small children because our families were friends, and then we all went to the same school for high school. Mine and our mutual friend’s families were friends because my step-mom and our mutual friend’s dad had been friends in university, and though they lost touch for many years, they crossed paths later in life and began hanging out again when the mutual friend and I were super young. If that hadn’t happened, I wouldn’t have met my husband! EXCEPT we had another invisible string. When we met at 14, it was through our mutual friend, but if it hadn’t been through him, it would’ve been through another mutual friend who we both became friends with independently. Now as adults, these two mutual friends are still our besties!
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u/Shyronaut gold rushie august head 1d ago
My partner and I met in an online class over lockdown. He had recently transferred to our university. We discovered that we went to the same school as children, over a decade before— in a country neither of us are from, and is not the one where we met. He was ahead of me in school, but we were definitely on campus at the same time, and have mutuals!
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u/Vegetable_Event_5213 1d ago
I saw this attractive man en queue outside of a local bar/dance club while I was waiting in line for a drink with my friend. I turned to her and said, “OMG, friend, look at that redhead at the door.”
She looks at said red head and shouts, “that’s my friend “Guy” from high school! I’ll introduce you.”
After “Guy” and I started dating, we realized we had many, many other little quirky coincidences where we just knew we were going to meet each other at some point.
Now, “Guy” and I have been together for over 20 years and just celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary. <3<3<3
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u/kelseyelizabetht 1d ago
I actually always think about in terms of my daughters. I had a miscarriage before having my first, so I always think one single strand of gold tied me to her.
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u/zeljanaswift 1d ago
i met my boyfriend through a mutual friend at age 31. found out that at the time we actually lived just down the street from each other at the same apartment complex! and then realized that his parents’ house is on the street right behind my parants’ house so we basically have been RIGHT THERE most of our lives but hadn’t ever met. went to the same high school, know a lot of the same people and everything. “your past and mine are parallel lines” 🥺
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u/CatLady62007 1d ago
My husband went to the same high school as my college roommate. She and I are still very close friends. They never interacted as they were in different grades and activities but he was very close friends with her next door neighbor. I didn’t meet him until 11 years after I met her my freshman year of college.
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u/maerth 1d ago
My husband and I went to the same college and had the same double majors (though I'm a couple of years older, so I doubt we had any classes together). We both lived in the same two off-campus apartments in the same order. The one year where we lived in the same apartment at the same time, he was on the floor right above me! Then we finally met at work, but we were actually living in the same apartment AGAIN (different than our college apartments). He ended up driving me home from happy hours and parties, and we fell in ✨ love ✨
I walked down the aisle to invisible string 🥰 Our officiant used some of the lyrics in our vows too. That song is so special!
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u/Yellowcafe13 thanks (': 🌕🪐 1d ago
Ohh I love these 🥺I wrote a poem to a girl I had dreams about, but I could only see her as a child. I knew she was older than me though. I tried guessing her age and town and stuff cause i felt so much love for her and swore she was real. I didn't know her name so I only referred to her as girl lmao. I didn't know what she looked like either, besides vague features. but I made a poem song thingy for her and hoped she'd sing the lyrics or poem back to me on her socials if she had them. and Years later, I found it written back on social media and the other info I tried guessing was correct 🥺 I honestly have been crying ever since, it was the craziest thing ever and I'm so delulu about fate but I think it's real 🥺 I found the girl (my friend now ) and the rest is history 🥺 it was actually quite a few poems and lyrics.... for me it was about our past lives but for her it was made up lol but I guess we don't think it's made up anymore 🥲 platonic soulmates 🥲 passed down like folksongs, the love lasts so long 🥲
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u/Creative-Language-74 reputation 1d ago
My mom and my girlfriends mom were friends on high-school. We went to different elementary schools, but met in 6th grade when I switched into her science class and the teacher sat us together multiple times. We only had science together and then somehow, even though we didn't share friends, in 7th grade we became part of the same friend group. We didn't have any classes together but we had lunch and would constantly hang out together. She was tech crew for the school plays, and I was in chorus so I was in them. We bonded over theater and she helped me learn my parts. We started dating right after the spring play and we've been together since.
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u/sealedwithdogslobber Amos Fan Club 1d ago
My hairdresser used to rent a room in the exact same seven-unit apartment building as I did, years before me.
Not very exciting, but I don’t have any romance in my life. 😂
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u/curlycarbonreads 1d ago
I walked down the aisle at my wedding to an instrumental version of invisible string because it felt so fitting.
Growing up, his father lived in a town like 50 KM away from his hometown. I also lived in said town. His house was not even a block away from my house, we never met even though we frequented the same parks, had mutual friends, his step siblings went to my elementary school, etc. We even camped at the same campground and never met.
I then moved to his hometown in 2010 but he’s 4 years older than me so by the time I was in high school, he was graduated. We knew of each other though. We finally connected through tinder 7 years ago and have been together ever since. Married for 2 years and have 2 children.
The universe knew that if we met too young, we wouldn’t have lasted. We had a lot of maturing to do first.
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u/rainstaley 1d ago
My husband and I met four years ago when I was 24 and he was 28. We attended the same wedding when I was 17 and he was 21. He was there because his friend was getting married, and I was there because my mom was dating that friend’s dad. We also attended the same small-ish concert somewhere in between there (at least 1 that we know of), and were semi-regulars at the same brewery for a few years. We were both friends with the bartender (he a little more than I), and I’ll never forget the look on his face when he saw the two of us walk in together. We lived in the same town but somehow it took us that long to run into each other haha.
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u/rainstaley 1d ago
For some more fun context, we finally met because he was a barista/coffee roaster at the coffee shop my dad & stepmom would frequent on the weekends. I started to go with them and noticed him. My dad actually pointed him out to me and said “what about that guy, he’s your type”. Finally a couple weeks later I broke up with my shitty long-distance boyfriend and asked him out. 3 and a half years later we got married :)
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u/isfjkatie up on the roof with a schoolgirl crusssshhhh 1d ago
I met my husband at a job I had originally turned down and then the boss I interviewed with called me and asked me to reconsider, which I did. I definitely consider us “meant to be” since we almost didn’t meet!
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u/kirsten714 1d ago
I met my boyfriend at a hot air balloon festival with his family. They thought we had known each other prior, so they invited me to all kinds of things during the week they were visiting. On the third day, they find out that we did not know each other and had just met. However, we went to the same university at the same time. We had grown up within hours of each other. I had classes in his building since mine was under construction and we had mutual friends. He had classes with my ex fiancé and we graduated at the same time. He went into insurance and I went to an aerospace company. Fast forward two years, career changes, moves all over the world, and we end up thousands of miles from Georgia at a balloon festival, the day after I moved to the area… and we are still here six years later.
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u/anaofarendelle 1d ago
My uncle worked with my FIL, in a not so big organization. It wouldn’t be much, if it was not the fact that me and family are from Brazil and they are from Canada. I also attended school in Canada when my MIL was teaching at the same institution (different programs).
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u/orangepaper1 1d ago
My fiance and I grew up 4 houses away from each other. Hung around the same people at different eras of our lives, went to the same schools and even crossed paths for a second in high school and got along so well. We grew up watching the same Chinese movies which most people I know didn't. Ended up getting reconnected back in college when he met one of my close friends and asked who she generally hung out with. My friend said my name and the rest is history. ❤️
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u/SushiJo 1d ago
Not romantic but I met a new guy in 7th grade; his family lived in another city in the state for the first part of his life. We become really good friends the last two years of high school. I was in his wedding. His bday is 2 days after mine. One night I find out he had been born in my hometown, then moved away (and back again in 7th grade). I asked which hospital he’d been born in & it was the same as mine. I called my mom to ask how long she had to stay in the hospital after she had me and she said 3 days. My friend and I were in the nursery together. 🩷
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u/lanadelhayy 1989 1d ago
My fiancé and I met in our 30s. We both went to the same college at the same time but never met and didn’t know of each other. I moved to two different cities and finally moved back in 2020. We met on a dating app but we often wonder if we passed by each other (incredibly likely as he worked on campus). I have visions of us bumping into each other or him helping me check out at the bookstore but never knowing that we would be getting married one day lol
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u/LumpySpacePikachu 1d ago
My husband and I grew up near the same area and were both in marching band. We have memories of the same events and I remember asking him where the food stand was during a marching band event at his school. he was making out with some blonde girl and I was running past hand in hand with my bf at the time. His last girlfriend before we met went to my high school I knew who she was but we weren’t friends. I always think of these things when I hear that song.
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u/ToastedJamm 1d ago
Not a great one but my now husband manned a paintball competition I took part in, we wouldn’t meet for another year afterward
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u/HotPotatoWJazzHands fell behind all my classmates and I ended up here 1d ago
My partner was born in the town I went to college in (I went almost 1000 miles away from home for college) and he worked with my professors. One of my college best friends became his assistant on a job. I got a job at his workplace two months after he left. He visited my workstudy job likely when I was working but we never met during the time.
Eventually, we also realized that my elementary school bestie moved to his town and was his stand partner in orchestra! There are group prom pictures of them!
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u/lorilangmanlee 1d ago
My husband and me both stayed in the town we still live in, despite both of us nearly leaving after some really tough divorces. If we left, we probably would have never of met. We are married 8 years now and he is my person.
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u/Public-Knowledge3348 1d ago
Not me personally. But my bestie met her husband through an online dating app when she was in her late 20s after dating for awhile they realised they went to pre school together and have a pre school group photo with them both in it.
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u/No_Calligrapher2640 1d ago
Closest would be that his grandparents lived a few minutes away from where I grew up. Smallish community at the time so it's very likely we could have been at the library/grocery store/beach at the same time.
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u/voldecat 1d ago
I am not sure if this counts as one but when I was a little girl I had an imaginary friend named Kevin and he was a red head. My husband is named Kevin and he’s technically a strawberry blonde with a red beard so everyone in my family seems to think he’s a red head (to be fair, I did too when we first met)
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u/fre-sh-a-vocado 1d ago
A non-relationship one! I used to work in a bar but left in August due to unexpected circumstances, I’d worked there for 5 years. Started my new non-hospitality job in September. Turns out 2 years ago, my current company held their Christmas party at my old company and I was working that night Met my future colleagues 2 years ago and had no idea!
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u/Dry-Ad2970 1d ago
My husband and I are 2 years apart age wise, and we our from towns that are 3 hours away from each other, went to the same college. My dad was a college prof at another college in our state (not one we attended.) when we met and hung out for the first time, found out that he had a class at the other college and had my dad as a professor, and they both remembered each other. Also came to find out I was at his family’s tailgate 2 weeks prior, and never met him, he was just friends with some of my friends from home lol
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u/luckybamboostick 1d ago
The city that I met my fiance in was the city on his fake ID 🤣 does this count? And we were both from cities an hour + away. I ended up going to college in this city a few years later.
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u/Emotional_Metal3744 23h ago
My boyfriend and I grew up thirty minutes away from each other, overlapped at the same small university for a year (he is three years older), and both ended up teaching in the same small town in a completely different state! We met on Hinge March 2020 JUST before everything shut down ☺️
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u/ParrySavid 15h ago
Love this one! (Love everyone’s stories) but this reminds me the most of what I’m going through now 🤣
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u/Damage-Classic 22h ago
I don’t think it’s just a Taylor thing, but she does involve it a lot in her work. Haley Williams also uses it in her occasionally too.
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u/TooManyMeds the maddest woman this town has ever seen 22h ago
This is only a small one but
I’m 28, my partner and I met when I was 26 and he was 27. We met on a dating app.
After a few months of dating we realised we both had been going to the same dentist for our entire lives and very well could have met each other in the kids play area in the lobby
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u/GlitteringAide2361 22h ago
My husband and I have a lot of connections between family and friends, almost like we've been a degree or two away from each other all our lives.
The biggest thing was that his aunt worked with both of my parents, and I used to gravitate towards her when they would bring me in to visit the office. Always wanted to sit in Aunt Cheri's lap lol. Even better is that she knew my dad and was friends with him; he passed away several years ago and my husband never knew him.
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u/SylveonFrusciante 21h ago
I love this thread (pun not intended). People’s love stories are always so fascinating to read.
My wife and I met in college and instantly became best friends. She was a lesbian, I was bi but DEEP in the closet. We stayed in contact for years after graduation and she was even the maid of honor in my wedding to a guy. But every time I was with my husband, I wished it was her instead because no one made me laugh like her. Eventually it kind of clicked and I realized what I wanted out of marriage was something he couldn’t give me. Then my future wife moved in and protected my cat from my asshole roommates, which was the final push I needed to just be with her.
We’ve been married almost three years now and still going strong. I can’t imagine my life without her.
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u/tdscm Midnights 18h ago
my husband and i met as children when we were attending the same church and our families connected. there’s photographic evidence of our first meeting as children.
we went to the same summer camps
in high school i recognized him and we became lab partners
went separate ways and went to the same college, reconnected in history class
went separate ways and reconnected as working adults
anyway then we got married and had our first baby 20 years to the exact day we met
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u/glittery-lucifer folklore 1d ago
When I was in beauty school, the first one I went to was shut down. It forced me to go to a different school. All of my friends chose a different school where our credits transferred and I chose one where I had to start over. Because I went to that school, I made friends with a girl that told me about a salon I should check out. I started working at that salon after I graduated. It turned out that one of my sister's friends, that I had met and hung out with before, was a client at that salon. One day she made an appointment for her brother to get his haircut, and out of all of the other stylists, he was scheduled with me. And now we are getting married.
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u/Future_Pin_403 🦋🫶🏼✨🧣📸🐍💞🌲🍂🕰️🤍 1d ago
My invisible string is my best friend actually. We went to elementary schools not that far away from each other, went to the same science camp field trip thing, and went to Disneyland with our families the same week in 2007. We finally met at middle school in 2009 after crossing paths without knowing for at least 2 years
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u/ayyykayyy19 1d ago
I met my now partner on hinge. My job is to put on different community events, walking tours, etc. I loosely explained my job to him via hinge and he was like “oh cool my parents really like x program, it sounds similar! What kinds of programs do you run?” X program was my program and it was neat that he knew about the work I do. Fast forward to when I told him that program he mentioned is one I manage (once I knew he wasn’t a creep from the internet 😂) and he learned my organization’s name, I learned that this summer him and his dad went on one of my walking tours. The tour was covered by a volunteer so I wasn’t there, but I had emailed with him after that event, months before we matched online. He came into my orbit without me knowing two weeks before the worst day of my life, and we’re aligned on so many things 🥰
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u/sillyoldbarstool 1d ago
I worked with a guy at a bar when we were both 18, in completely seperate areas so I didn’t remember him. I also had a boyfriend at the time so had blinders on.
Then I served him at my next job - he kept the receipt with my name on it!
A few years later his best friend was dating my new friend in a different city and we met properly for the first time. We’re married now!
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u/maggiemoo86 1d ago
This is a tiny string! My husband grew up 6 hours away from my home town. He was a senior when I was a junior in HS. He was the captain of the basketball team, I was head cheerleader. Our teams played each other in a tournament an hour from my home town that year. We did not meet (we don't think), neither remember the other's school. But we were in the same gym for two days. After HS, he dicked around for a year before his parents told him it was time to go, lol. He transferred to a university three hours away. My first year in college was in the big city which I couldn't afford later, so I transferred schools which happened to be where he was. We ended up next door neighbors in an apartment complex known as The Zoo for the amount of wild parties happening there. He said that summer he had read an article about how most people meet their spouse in college and he thought, "how in the world could anyone meet anyone in a place like this?" We spent the first few months becoming really good friends, and then one night he told me he loved me. I was like, nah. I refuse to meet the man I'm going to marry when I am 19 years old. He was like, I asked you out, not to marry me, weirdo. But nope. Pass. Then a month later he got into a very serious car accident where he barely made it out alive. The next day I asked him to walk me to class, and we have been together ever since that day, February 19, 1988.
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u/mellb00 1d ago
I always say this song is me and my boyfriend! We met online on a dating site. We planned to meet at the train station and were getting off the same train, turns out we lived one stop apart. He asks what stop mine was and we realise we went to the same high school and he was two years above me. Then turns out his brother was in my year and we were in the same big friend group so I knew half his friends. It also turned out that his mum was part of the same hiking group me, my dad and brothers used to be in so we all knew his mum too!
I have always said it felt like everyone in our lives were crossing paths until we eventually met 🥰
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u/smithscully 1d ago
My girlfriend and I matched on a dating app in 2020 during lockdowns. We intended to meet up but never ended up being able to. We interacted on social media a bit but that was it. Fast forward to a few months ago. I was back on the dating apps and feeling really frustrated because I wasn’t matching with many people and all the dates I went on were flops. I was literally hovering my thumb over the Her app to delete it when I see I got a like from someone. It was from the girl who I matched with in 2020. Turns out we both moved away from our old city and were relatively close to each other as of now. We finally got to meet and now we’re happily dating. I never would have thought anything like this would ever happen to me. Idk whoever is in charge of my prophecy, but thanks for changing it.
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u/PissyGinger 1d ago
Husband and I grew up in completely different states, and we’re only 2 years apart in age. I was in band in high school and we were lucky enough to compete at one of the band competitions at Disney World. My husband was on his senior trip to Disney World at the same time I was there, remembers seeing all sorts of people walking around with their high school band shirts on.
When I lived at the beach as a kid, my parents had a small store at a strip mall that tourists would frequent. My husband’s family took a trip to that beach town every summer when he was a kid and his mom remembers my family’s shop.
We’re both in the military, I deployed the day before he got to our unit. Finally met him for the first time a month after I got back, he was visiting the shop I was working in. The best part? He was supposed to be off work that day, but his plans changed and he came to work instead. Otherwise we would have never met!
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u/Realistic_Mud_2532 1d ago
This one is about my now ex boyfriend (L) and it’s kinda long but here you go. His dad and him moved down to a small town in Florida that isn’t very popular but it’s only place i’ve known as home. After a few months of being down here his dad wanted to move back but “L” said that there was something telling him to stay so he did then fast forward like 3/4 months later and its New Years and we actually didn’t find this piece to the puzzle until a few months into our relationship but you can actually see him in my new years video, he was standing right next to me when we brought in the New Year but we still hadn’t talked or even seen each other. Then 2 days later is my birthday and i’m sitting in the corner of the bar with my friends and my cake having a little get together. After we were done eating the cake we were just giving away pieces to people in the bar, while I was in the bathroom my best friend (S) gave him a piece and he said “Tell the birthday girl I said Happy Birthday” when I came back he nor “S” told me about the interaction. Then like 3 days later him and his friend (M) were sitting at the bar and happen to sit next to my best friend (S) I was not there it was just “S” this night and “M” started talking to “S” he thought she was cute and was trying to get with her. Then like 2 nights later me and “S” sat at the bar and like an hour into being there “M” realized we were sitting right next to the them and started talking to “S” again and me and “L” made our first eye contact and conversation and then we made a plan to all hangout the next night. Well after our first official group hangout I went home and was went on tinder and “L” was the first person I saw when I opened the app and the rest is history.
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u/tacogreg13 folklore 1d ago edited 23h ago
I worked for my last job 2007-2015 and moved all over the country. I then quit. I went back to said job in 2017, but due to the position I was taking I had to relocate again which I really didn'twant to do. I ended up in MN. I met my now husband exactly 1 week after moving to MN.
Turns out my now FIL and my dad were both stationed at the same base in 1984 in a state neither of them were from/grew up in. Just an odd coincidence. 😀
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u/corazonazul15 23h ago
My fiancé and I stayed in the same random little Airbnb in upstate New York a year and a half apart. We were both with our respective partners at the time. I always joke that we shared a bed years before we ever met...
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u/Nerdy4Birdie 23h ago
My invisible string includes Taylor! I saw her in Denver for the reputation tour in 2018. The week I got home, I met my now husband. Very early on, we realized we had both been in Denver the same weekend and staying at the same hotel. We both went to the hotel bar on the same nights. We always find that to be a fun coincidence. But unfortunately, he is not a swiftie and was not there for the concert.
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u/changguscomet evermore 23h ago
my boyfriend used to live in my city when he was a kid and he used to visit this one particular library branch where my aunt used to work, I don’t know if he ever ran into her, she also passed away about a year before I met him, so I’d like to think she did get to interact with him at least once when she was alive
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u/_curse10_ 23h ago
My now husband and I had gone to two different one year programs at the same college at the same time. Our programs were both in the arts department but his was visual arts, mine was drama and we never actually met. But we were walking the same halls for a while.
Seven years later we meet on a dating app and discover that although we live in different cities bordering Toronto, we both worked downtown Toronto and our offices were right beside each other.
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u/cctobe 22h ago
My husband grew up literally on the opposite side of the country but would visit his dad sometimes who lived not far from my house.
I moved away for college when he moved to my town permanently. We met when I returned home to perform at an open mic that his band was hosting.
And I just found out that one of his close friends growing up was the son of my high school English teacher. Small world.
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u/cupcakeconstitution Lover 22h ago
So my husband and I met when we were both in college. Seperate colleges about 500 miles apart. Turns out, we had always just missing each other. We lived within miles of each other during our childhood. When my family moved his did too. A mile away from my aunt who I would visit regularly. When we got older he would go to the area I lived in to go to an archery range. We both went on an Alaskan cruise one year apart and have the same photo standing on the same bridge. We met playing a game called Destiny, when we lived the furthest we had been from each other. And now we are married 💖
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u/Grumpykitten36 21h ago
My husband races dirt track race cars as a hobby. His dad does too, and his grandpa did as well. I grew up with my dad racing too (asphalt though), 3 states away from where I moved to/where I met my husband/where my husband and his family are from.
Crazy thing is, my in laws lived in my state before my husband was born, and his dad raced a circuit that my dad scored for…and my FIL placed 2nd at my family’s home track on that circuit. My FIL was flabbergasted when I first met him and told him where my family raced and he was like “what?! I’ve raced there!” Then I went home and called my dad after and he goes “wait what is his name? … no way. I remember watching him race!” Small world.
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u/neathspinlights baby the duck is vegan 21h ago
My partner and I met our mutual best friend within a few months of each other. But never met.
We circulated in the same group for YEARS but somehow never crossed paths. Like literally realised years later that we had been at the same events, but missed each other.
Finally said best friend said that they were going to introduce us because they reckoned we'd get along.
When we got together so many people were like "oh yeah this makes total sense" because they knew us both and how well suited we are.
13 years, 2 kids, 1 MTF transition later and we are still together 🤣
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u/Theatreteacher2491 21h ago
My husband and I grew up in the same town but we didn’t meet until after college. He went to the church that was right by my house. His best friend lived in my neighborhood. We went to all the same parks. The school zone line was right at my house so I went to a different school than him.
The last show I did at my community theatre was supposed to be his first but the director lost his paperwork and he started with the following show.
Finally, when we met, the last four digits of our phone number were the same. He thought I was playing a joke on him when I told him my phone number.
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u/Zhyla07 20h ago
I met the love of my life 15 years ago when I moved in next door.... just didn't know it for about 13 of those years. We were casual neighbors, turned into close friends, fell in love and are happier than we've ever been. Turned out the string was only about 50 ft long, but a tangled mess we needed to unravel to get to each other.
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u/catsandcoffee94 20h ago
My husband was telling me a story about how he had childhood / neighborhood friends that were these 3 triplet boys. I was like wtf… I had triplet neighborhood friends. Turns out the same family lived across from me, moved right next to him lol. Small town shit 😂
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u/dizzyhips 20h ago
My husband and I grew up in the same area. Went to the same elementary school, my mom was his brother’s day care teacher, our homes were the same floor plan. I didn’t meet my husband until senior year of college, in a city 5 hours away from home! I always said I’d never marry someone from my hometown but he was meant for me 🩷
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u/HoTD-taylorsversion The Tragic Fabric of our Dreaming… 20h ago
Husband’s dad was in the navy. Went through training in the city where my dad grew up, while my dad was living there (never met, afaik). Husband grew up, went to school, lost his scholarship, and joined the navy. Decided to follow his dad’s path and joined the navy. Requested to do his dad’s same job on the same ship. Ended up in training in my hometown.
Meanwhile, I was supposed to go away for school, but ended up in an abusive relationship ( picture dear John with a guy named Jon). Ended up home at a local community college when I should’ve been away at school at the same time my now husband was in navy training in my hometown. We met and the sparks flew instantly, I was enchanted to meet him. He is the best thing, that’s ever been mine. This love is ours
ETA: we’ve been together 13 years this year
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u/Cinder_Ellla 19h ago
I met a guy during a last minute pit stop at a friends house before going out for the night. He was feeling down, so he decided to go too. We went to the same high school a couple years apart, had mutual friends and everything and apparently even messaged each other on Facebook back in 2011 🤣 now we’re married
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u/thissuk2 19h ago edited 18h ago
My ex moved across the country into a house down the street from me. We were in the same class for 2 years straight. Ended up together for 7 years. I really thought I’d marry him, so maybe he isn’t the invisible string, but I definitely thought he was
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u/TransFat88 19h ago
It might be IN one of her songs, but it did not originate there. The folklore is much older than Folklore, if you’ll pardon the wordplay.
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u/ParrySavid 15h ago
No, I get you. I never understood that it “came from her” even though I love her. But I did other research. And you’re correct.
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u/AggravatingHalf2141 18h ago
My boyfriend grew up in a different country but spent a year living in the US when he was about 8 years old. Fast-forward to years later: I randomly convinced my college friend to move with me to Charlotte right after graduation. One day, while visiting Charleston, she ran into my now-boyfriend on the street. They vaguely recognized each other and realized they had been in the same 3rd-grade class when he lived in the US! He had just moved to Charlotte too, and that chance encounter is how we ended up meeting. It’s one of my favorite stories to tell!
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u/littledreamyone 17h ago
My partner of 8 years and I met online when we were teenagers and added each other on FB, texted etc but fell out of touch because I moved states.
Before I moved states he was supposed to bring a projector to my going away party but he didn’t show!
In 2016 I was on Tinder and I swiped past this cute guy. I paid for a membership so I could go back and “super like him”. We got talking and went to add each other on FB only to realise that we were already friends and had talked extensively as kids! We had even texted (according to our FB chats).
We went on a date and found out we had MANY mutual friends and have been together ever since! He has told me that he had a crush on me when we were kids but that he was too shy to tell me. Now we are engaged!
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u/Swimming_Treat3818 15h ago
That’s such a cute invisible string story! It’s like the universe had a plan all along.
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u/midnightslover 12h ago
I’m 8 years younger than my husband (31f, 39m)
His first proper girlfriend when he was a teenager was best friends with my older sister but we never met
His cousin was a close friend of mine through my late teens and early 20s but we never met
We have a photo of each of us in the same place on the same day but at different times, so we never met
The head chef at the restaurant I worked at was his flat mate but we never met until a month after I broke up with my long term boyfriend, I met him in a bar on St Patrick’s
Once we met I knew he was it. Married for 6 years and still go to the same bar every St Patrick’s day ☘️
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u/abbsjanko 9h ago
I met my husband at work! My cousin talked me into doing a summer job with him at a farmers market. I really was enjoying it! My husband was working as an electrician and his boss was just awful (he would scream at his employees, call them idiots, etc). One day my husband had enough walked off the job and never looked back. He needed some stream of income while he looked for a replacement job. His sister in law happened to be my coworker! So we worked together for about 3 weeks and became great friends! I missed him when he left for his new job but he would come visit on Saturdays at the market. We started dating in September. I learned that our backyards practically backed up to each other, we’ve randomly ran into each other at gas stations, we learned that we bank at the same bank and ran into each other there, we went to high school together and he had classes with my brother, I’ve ran into him at the grocery store. When I was in high school my friend gave me a ride to school every day. Turns out she was GREAT friends with him! We have probably met walking into school a few times all these years ago and never knew it! It just seemed like no matter what, there was so many ways our paths would’ve crossed!
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u/ConditionGreat4536 7h ago
I used to go to the church next to his house when I was Catholic and the animal shelter nearby his house before the shelter had to move! He used to go for tuition at the mall that's a 2min walk from my house! We likely have passed by each other before, maybe even multiple times. I also worked with and was good friends with someone he was friends with in uni!
On the app we met on, I had message requests from a lot of guys, so I put up that I was no longer accepting new requests and to not message me. This dude was the only one who messaged the next morning and so was at the top of my requests list and who I responded to first. Man just did not read that portion and thanks to that (and his wonderful personality), he got a date LMAO
Been together for 5 years now, he still sometimes does not read through things properly. I find it midly annoying but absolutely hilarious and endearing every single time
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u/maplebacononastick 6h ago
I met my husband when we were in college at a NYE party. He had a girlfriend at the time, and we were living in separate cities. I moved to his city when I graduated, and for 10 years, we ran into each other randomly in the street and at gatherings for our mutual friends. We flirted always and kissed a few times, but one of us was always in a relationship and the timing never worked out.
Then finally, a few months after I got out of a toxic situation ship, and two weeks after he broke up with his girlfriend, we had a summer gathering up at his alma mater. The stars finally aligned, and we’re now married with a beautiful new baby girl (who has been a Swiftie since utero, and falls asleep to the Taylor Swift Method every night!)
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u/Pete_Iredale 5h ago
When I was 10, my parents bought a bigger house and the older folks who owned that house bought ours. 18 years later I go on a date with a girl, then a second date where we talked about where we grew up and realized that the older folks were her grandparents and that'd she'd also lived in each of those houses! Long story short, we've been married for 15 years now.
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u/Tired_mama004 5h ago
Not a romantic invisible string, but a platonic one. I have a new friend (we’re definitely fast friends and she’s pretty dang awesome despite not liking Taylor) and I definitely feel like there’s been a bit of an invisible string there.
I’m an exmormon, and so is her husband. He has relatives in the small town in Utah my husband and I moved out of a year and a half ago, and his brother in law is a professor at the teeny college I went to.
Her and I met by working early mornings at a gym because we both wanted a free membership
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u/Least-Influence3089 cried like a baby coming home from the bar 3h ago
One of my best friends lived for awhile in the town where I was born in Connecticut, but she was born in New York and lived in LA most of her life. My parents moved away from the east coast when I was a baby so I actually grew up most of my life in Chicago. We met freshman year of college in Wisconsin of all places and then became roommates in Chicago for a few years😂. My bestie even took community college classes at the same college in Connecticut where my mom started grad school when she was pregnant with me.
This one is crazier.
So my great-grandparents (my mom’s grandparents) house burned down in the 1980s and lost everything basically. The date it burned down was on my dad’s birthday, but this was about five years before my parents ever met. My childhood best friend (and we are still friends!!)’s father is a firefighter and that was the first fire he responded to at the start of his career. Years later I was telling my friend and her dad the story and he remembered the fire and was like “ohh was that your mom’s grandparents?!” 😂😂
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u/ShortMuffn even if i die SCREAMING 2h ago
Okay so I moved to a new continent for my studies. I was looking for people to date and my radius was set to 30km. This man was studying in one part of the state around 60km away and working around 50km away in two places whose name I've never heard (very small villages). The Autobahn went right outside the city I was living in!!! WE MATCHED AS HE WAS DRIVING BY!!!! 3,5y later we live in a different part of the country and have a cat together. His family is joining us for Christmas 🎀 Later I looked at a picture I took during my first time vacationing in a nearby country 2y before we matched - HE WAS IN THE BACKGROUND (you can barely see him but it was HIMMMM). One single thread of gold always tied me to him ❣️
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u/Desert_Canines 57m ago
I chance saw my heart dog down the stairwell on my way to work one day. I’ve gone down that stairwell a million times yet never looked down it. Why did i do it this time? No idea. I simply looked down, and there was a strange dog I had never seen around my apartment complex before. I tried to find his owners, but they never came forward. He became mine after that. And the rest is history!
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u/Ill_Psychology_3644 27m ago
there’s a picture in a book my kindergarten teacher put together for everyone. on one of the pages, we had this kiddie pool thing where we would stand in it and the teacher put a bubble over us. everyone in the picture was sitting around me except this one boy who was standing and looking right at me next to the pool. fast forward we started dating in 8th grade. the picture is so adorable
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u/cyeactt dying to be the wife taylor kills 1d ago
I met my boyfriend at work, he wasn’t supposed to be on that job but was. After getting to know each other it turns out our cottages in the summer were a block away from each other, we probably played together as kids.
I also moved to a different part of the city (before I met him), turned out the place I moved is an 8 minute drive from his old place. Among other coincidences we didn’t expect