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Your most unexpected romantic encounter?

175 replies

WWE1245 · 08/09/2021 00:51

go.........

OP posts:
honeygriff · 08/09/2021 10:38

We found love in a hopeless place

Toucan123 · 08/09/2021 10:42

He was a controlling prick when we were together and tried to sabotage my career.
Said he was "Tired of having a relationship with my answering machine" and other such nonsense. He even turned up at my place of work with a picnic once when I was dealing with a crisis and tried to insist I stopped what I was doing and had dinner with him. He started a fucking fire with his stupid candles!

When I eventually said we should take a break he immediately went out and slept with the girl from the photocopy shop and couldn't understand why I had such an issue with that. Then several years later I was about to start my dream job in Paris but at the last minute I inexplicably changed my mind about going so I could be his long-suffering girlfriend again. It was so unexpectedly romantic OP.

TweedePrik · 08/09/2021 11:02

I fell off a boat and lost my memory and this rough type turns up claiming I'm his wife. He had feral children and the house was a tip, but I soon discovered his softer side. When my real dh found me eventually I recovered my memory and found out I was mega rich and that dh was a cheating nob. And we all lived happily ever after.

givinglessfucksdaily · 08/09/2021 11:06

There was that time I was in the jungle and he fought off the bad guys , the snakes and my vile fiancée
He embarrassed me a bit in the underground station but as everyone loved him I just went with it and it was ok when he walked on everyone's head to get to me for a snog

AttaGirrrrl · 08/09/2021 11:12

@Freeloadingtosser

Attagirrrl there was plenty of room for him and you know it.
Tbh, when I saw the video footage, I thought the same. It’s haunted me for years that I didn’t shift over for him.
laylap88 · 08/09/2021 11:22

So I'm at this party, and I had this habit of staring into fishtanks to look for my true love, and there he was! Looking into the fish tank too! We had such a lovely night together, dancing and snogging. But then I find out he's actually the son of my parent's enemy! But it doesn't matter, we're meant to be together.

So then the next day it all goes to shit. First we get married, in secret of course. Then my cousin kills his best friend, so he kills my cousin and I just don't know what to do then. I know! I'll pretend to kill myself! Seems a bit of a steep escalation but I'm sure it'll work out.

So there I am, laid out in a private church with nobody around, all dead but not really dead. And my husband comes in, thinks I actually am dead and obviously can't live without me so he kills himself. I wake up and I'm like what, he's dead! Omg! So then obviously the only thing I can do to is to kill myself for real. What option do I have? So anyway, we're both dead now but it was totally romantic for those 2 days.

furbabymama87 · 08/09/2021 11:28

I had a one night stand with this guy. Couldn't cope with the baby so dumped it on his doorstep. Him and his 2 mates cared for the baby till I went to live with them all. Then they gatecrashed my wedding to another man and I married one of them there and then instead.

takingmytimeonmyride · 08/09/2021 11:32

I met a bloke. He was driving home. He was only 24 hours from Tulsa.

again2020 · 08/09/2021 11:34

I lent a handsome stranger 50p for his bus fare at a bus stop and he ended up being the best sex I'd ever had Grin (many years ago now!)

FanFiction · 08/09/2021 11:41

I went for this job as a nanny. To 6 children!!! The youngest was a bit of a PITA, I had to help her get over her phobia of storms. Their dad was meant to be marrying this really, really rich and well-to-do woman they called The Baroness but she didn’t have a clue around the little ones, and she didn’t know how to play the guitar like I can. One night I got my strings out and everyone was singing together. It was so nice! I felt all warm inside. Then I looked up and he was, like, staring at me. It was so romantic, he broke it off with the ‘Ness and we had a massive wedding & his kids were bridesmaids and page boys. Oh I forgot, so I’m not accused of drip feeding, in my previous profession I was Bride of Christ.

HelloMissus · 08/09/2021 11:54

I’ll be honest I was working as a masseuse when this carpenter asked me to join him and his mates in a bit of a commune.
He was quite a laugh and he had lovely long blonde hair and blue eyes. He was a good cook too. I remember he could make a bit of fish and bread go hell of a long way.

But then he fell out with his best mate and it all went tits up.

Ori3 · 08/09/2021 12:08

@FuckingFabulous

*Me, just a small town girl. Pretty lonely. Decided to buy a train ticket. Didn't care where to. Train left at midnight. To my surprise, there was a city boy who had the same idea. So we went to a wine bar that was really smoky. There was a singer and the whole place smelt like Pinot Grigio and Sarah Jessica Parker perfume.

When we left, there were strangers waiting up and down the boulevard.... streetlights, people living just to find emotion that was hiding somewhere in the night.

We didn't stop believing, OP. We held on to that feeling.*

I had the exact same thing nearly happen to me. My train was feckin' late though, it being Southern Railways and left at 12.37. So the I missed the city boy, and the smoky bar, and the streetlights. BUT I haven't lost belief - or hope - that one day Southern will sort it's shit out and get their trains running on time

vampirethriller · 08/09/2021 12:14

He was in prison and jodhpurs. I was an archaeologist with a nice line in floaty dresses. Things got a bit dramatic and a lot of people died but it all turned out fine and he kissed me on my camel.

littleloopylou · 08/09/2021 12:20

My friend asked me to drive her boyfriend from Chicago to New York when we finished uni. He turned out to be a bit of a twat. We kept running into each other now and then and he was still a twat - but then we broke up with our partners at the same time and reconnected as friends. THEN he came over to comfort me after i found out my ex was getting married, and we slept together. After this, he showed what a twat he really was and pretended it meant nothing. I was ready to totally write him off when he showed up at a NYE party just in time for midnight, and gave me a big kiss.

littleloopylou · 08/09/2021 12:24

Another time, I was totally in love with this guy and I thought we had a mutual understanding about our shared affection. But then my family had to move cross country. After I moved, I met a woman who told me that they were engaged, though they kept it on the DL because of his controlling family! She made me promise not to tell anyone, and I didn't want to get him into trouble with his family, so I suffered in silence. Eventually, the fiancee hooked up with his brother (!) We ended up making a go of our relationship after that.

heidbuttsupper · 08/09/2021 12:26

I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar

FanFiction · 08/09/2021 12:27

Oh fuck i think it was 7 children. I used to always leave one of them (DSS4, Kurt) out. God bless Kurt!

givinglessfucksdaily · 08/09/2021 12:29

I know I would like a bit of a serial love rat here but bear with
There was this time these 7 brothers just blocked the field so none of us could pretend to try and escape and when one of us was up the duff we kept it from our folks so we could all Iive happily ever after

Showing my age here Smile

littleloopylou · 08/09/2021 12:29

And yet another time, I was acting as a carer for this very rich older woman who took me along on her holiday. While there, I met this quiet, totally dreamy widower who turned out to be quite prominent in the community. We met up in secret for lots of drives and picnics. My employer was so mad when she found out. Fortunately, the guy invited me to come live with him. I never expected that to happen! Unfortunately, things got complicated later when I found out that everyone in his life was obsessed with his late wife, who had died under tragic circumstances.

givinglessfucksdaily · 08/09/2021 12:30

Sound like ... not would like ..

Queenoftheashes · 08/09/2021 12:35

I was turning tricks in a seedy bar and his mate bought him a night with me. He got me pregnant and said he wanted to marry me but then left me in a warzone to go back to the US. I tracked him down and he’d married someone else so I shot myself in the tits so he’d at least have to look after our son even if he did abandon me.

littleloopylou · 08/09/2021 12:37

I've been around the block a few times iykwim. This guy who was in big trouble came to me for help as he knew that I have this kind of street cred - he really wanted to understand what it is that women want. I explained to him that all we want is to wear the pants in the family. He didn't really have any choice but to marry me after I was done with him, though he was disappointed because he thought I was a bit of a hag. But once he submitted to my will, I gave him what he wanted and tarted myself up - so I guess you could say that it was an unexpectedly romantic moment for him.

Bbq1 · 08/09/2021 12:37

He was the son of a Preacher man...

givinglessfucksdaily · 08/09/2021 12:38

Well I wasn't turning tricks I was only trying to serve in a bar whilst too shy to play my music to anyone
Ended up auctioning my bf and my dad off quite cheap and being a success in bottle juggling too

HippyChickMama · 08/09/2021 12:46

I saw him dancing there by the record machine, I knew he must have been about seventeen. The beat was going strong, playing my favorite song and I could tell it wouldn't be long till he was with me, yeah me