How Did Your Parents Meet Each Other?
How did your parents meet each other?
My father was in the army and was stationed overseas. He met my mother through a friend. They were married on an army base.
That’s the short and sweet of it. I thought of it recently because it occurred to me that everyone in my family seems drawn to someone of a different ethnic background. If you take either of my parents, my sister or me – each of us is married to (or, in my case, dating) someone with a different first language.
I attribute this to the fact that in order for anyone to tolerate dating someone in the family, he or she needs to have the option of chalking up half of the crap that comes out of our mouths to a “lost in translation” type of misunderstanding. Because not only are the first languages different from our own – none of them are alike.
We like DIFFERENT.
So, I’m curious… How did your parents meet? Are they pretty alike? or different?
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February 25th, 2010 at 11:03 am
Oh lord….my mother ran away from reform school at 14 and met my dad (who was 17) at a Valentine’s Day party. A bottle of champagne and the back of a Bronco and BAM. Pinky was made.
They’re super different. They got married when I was 2 (when my mother hit the age of consent, woo!) and divorced when I was 8.
February 25th, 2010 at 11:43 am
My parents first met in high school. Each of them was dating someone else. Then when they were in there early 20′s ran into each other and began dating. They have been married 57 years.
I believe they are very alike. I was an “oops” baby and came late in their life. So my sister and brothers will tell you that the parents they had were different then the parents I had.
February 25th, 2010 at 11:48 am
I have no idea how my parents met.
February 25th, 2010 at 11:50 am
My parents met at Cornell, in the cafeteria. My father, an MBA student, noticed my mom’s knock out legs and her pretty smile. She was an undergrad. They dated for a year or so and then married. They are now divorced. They were/are very different. I think my mom got married because it was the “proper” thing to do back then (at her age). Looking at who she is now, and looking back, I do not think she would have married my father. As an aside, every time I visit your blog, there is this huge pink elephant in the middle of my screen. I must be having PC issues. -P
February 25th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Ok I said I’d share….You can believe me or not but my parents met playing D&D. Like Dungeons and Dragons. Like growing up I went to many a “get together” that consisted of my parents and others rolling weird shaped dice, drawing elaborate “characters” and learning useful lingo like “hitpoints” and “chrarisma”. Yes I had THOSE parents.
February 25th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
my parents’ respective best friends were dating and set them up so they’d be able to double date. the friends didn’t stay together, but my parents have been married for almost 40 years.
they’re VERY different. i’m surprised, sometimes, they managed to make it work. they were both awfully young when they married, too – 21, i believe.
February 25th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
Well….
My mother was best friends with my dad’s FIANCEE! Yup. The best friend wanted to break up with daddy-o and had my mom do it for her. Little did she realize that this would cause my slick dad to lean on my gullible mama for some compassion and strength through the hard times… a couple months later her belly was poppin out. I emerged some time after that and a few months later they were married…
let the white trash comments commence…
February 25th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
My mom actually wrote a guest post on my blog about this a few years ago. Its fun for me to read: http://tsquest.blogspot.com/2008/07/60.html
February 25th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
I have no idea how my dad and mom met, and their divorce was so bitter, I have a hard time believing that they could have ever even been friends.
My dad and step mom met when she passed out while driving from low blood sugar, and went off the road. He was behind her and used his mad paramedic/firefighter skills to save her. Thus began an affair that lasted for a year, (prompting my parents aforementioned bitter divorce) and they have now been married longer than my dad and mom were together.
February 25th, 2010 at 9:49 pm
when i wrote my response there were no other comments! I must have taken my damn sweet time typing!
February 25th, 2010 at 10:51 pm
You’ve been jacked!
I stole your blog idea. Actually, I started to type my parents’ story but apparently I can’t keep things short so I decided to make it into a blog entry.
http://misslilred.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/how-my-parents-met-each-other/
February 26th, 2010 at 3:15 am
My father met my mother while he was on a Mormon mission in Austria. He knocked on my mother’s apartment door.
They are no longer Mormon and no longer together.
There are so many different languages and religions in my family. I feel blessed with the setup we have going on.
February 26th, 2010 at 9:44 am
My dad met my mom in Tijuana. He would go to a ladies house that had boarders to eat dinner most nights. One night my mom happened to open the door and my dad says his jaw dropped. From that day forth he was there every night. My mom did most of the cooking and so my dad one day told her that if she kept cooking such delicious food he would have to marry her. …that was that. They married a year later.
February 26th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
I wanted to comment on how my parents met, when I read Vino’s comment on how HER parents met, and really? Who can top that?
February 26th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
My mum came to Australia from Wales and got a job in a hospital as a secretary. My dad was training to be a doctor and they became friends. My mum waited and waited for him to ask her out and he finally kind of awkwardly did and the rest is history! They’re the most balanced and together couple I know!
February 27th, 2010 at 10:40 am
My Rents have a funny lil’ story…
Well, at the tender age of 21, my mom was engaged to a nice Polish fellow…
My dad, was visiting some friends in the town my mother lived in…
Mom & Dad meet, HOOK UP, get knocked up…
Mom breaks it off with fiance, marries my dad and older brother born 6 months later. Have me 8 years later and my lil brother, 18 months after me. Now, the kicker: My lil’ brother: same name as former fiance. Dude, WTF?
Scandalous.
February 27th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Well my dad convinced my mom to marry him instead of some millionaire guy who pretty much has it set… she tells us she wouldn’t of changed it for the world.
They celebrated their 40th last year. Still happily married, still totally in love with each other. And she still laughs at his dry humor… You know it’s right when the dry humor never dries up and it still cracks her up.
February 27th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
My dad almost hit my mom with his car in the church parking lot. He asked her out, she said yes. She wasn’t sure she was going to like him though and scheduled a second date with someone else for later that night!
March 1st, 2010 at 7:27 pm
My mom had me at the tender age of 17. She was kicked out of her strict Catholic home after I was born. She bounced around with friends and eventually had noplace else to crash so she closed her eyes and pointed to a map.
She landed on Canyonville Oregon. Packed up her single box of belongings, and tossed her baby into a wicker basket. A friend took her halfway and she hitched the last half.
Once in Or. a nice girl named Monica set her up on a blind date with her older brother, Remington. My mom invited him to our hovel of an apt. and made him meatloaf…the only thing she new how to cook.
He never left. They’ve been married 32 years this December. He says he isn’t sure if it was the meat loaf or big brown eyed toddler he fell in love with first
March 3rd, 2010 at 8:27 am
My mom was friends with my dad’s sister (my aunt) and they used to beat up my dad, apparently. This was Alabama, so I guess it’s like a Lifetime Movie in reverse.
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:59 pm
I dig these stories because of how vastly different they are. Some are so romantic and others….
involve odd shaped dice.