My husband and I could have met when we were kids and it turns out our families had crossed paths a number of times. For he and me personally I lived three houses down from his cousins when I was 4-5 years old. I remember playing with little girls down the street but can’t remember their names or any real details. He played at their house all the time too.
It turns out that my dad and his dad were both born in the same teeny tiny town in Alberta (we live in BC). My grandma and his grandma used to play bingo together when, and his Uncle came out to BC when I was a teenager to meet with my dad about buying some land from him in Alberta. I am estranged from my Dad so no chance of meeting.
I met my husband when my then boyfriend got me a job at the restuarant he worked at. We all worked together.
My wife and I both grew up and lived in the same city (or suburbs of it) our entire lives. Whenever I’d go to the nearest mall, we drove within a third of a block of her house, which was about five miles from our house (for the first 21 years of our lives), so undoubtedly there were times we were very close in the 27 years before we knowingly met.
I first officially met my husband when we were both 16, when his dad’s job brought him to the city where we both graduated high school. However, both of us were originally from very small towns that were about 20 miles apart. It turns out that both of us went to the same medical clinic in a nearby larger town because both of us had to wear corrective shoes when we were small. It’s highly likely that we crossed paths there, or grocery shopping with our moms when we were dragged along to the “city.” (I think the population there recently passed 15,000. But it was still larger than our hometowns, which both have current populations ~ 4000. Heck, neither of our hometowns even had a McDonald’s until about 1995!)
In addition to crossing paths in high school (where our social circles didn’t overlap much,) and likely as little kids, we ran into one another about 15 years ago, when we lived about a half-mile apart, in a different city, with our then-spouses. We went on our first date with one another five years ago!
Same distance for us. Very unlikely.
My first wife and I grew up in the same metro area, though, so the odds, while still somewhat small, are relatively greater.
Did none of you people ever go to Disneyworld as kids?
Possible, given that we were both raised in Southern California (San Diego and Anaheim) and are only a year apart in age. We did determine accidentally just a few months ago (after 25 years together) that we absolutely did meet and interact briefly in our late teens at a science fiction convention, about 10 years before we officially met. We also lived with a couple blocks of each other in Hollywood in the early '80’s for about two years and may have passed each other dozens of times.
Pretty much impossible we crossed paths as kids, although driving from her parents’ home in Maryland to Florida State she drove right by my parents’s farm off Interstate 81 in Bristol, TN.
I grew up in Chicago suburbia and she grew up between Huánuco and Lima, Peru so I’m going to guess nope on the OP.
Not a chance that my wife and I crossed paths, however it’s true that my father and his brother ran into each other on Michigan Ave. in Chicago and neither of them lived there.
Me? No. I don’t think I’ve ever gone out with someone from the state I grew up in, so it’s nigh on impossible.
My sister, though, spent an afternoon playing with her future husband at a local park when they were nine. Neither of them remembers, me and his older sister, teens saddled with baby-sitting younger siblings, do.
I went once, in November. My husband visited twice as a child, both times in the summer, so we were never there at the same time.
He grew up in Northern Ireland and I lived in the US until I was 13. Then my family moved to Korea. So no, there’s no way we would have crossed paths as children.
It’s possible we did as kids since we both grew up in suburbs of Chicago. We did realize when we met (at age 30), that we had attended some of the same parties in college but we don’t remember ever meeting each other.
Yes.
My wife and I attended the same day care - maybe one of us M/W/F and the other T/Th. Our parents knew each other as part of the PTA.
Then we knew each other in middle school and hung out with the same people. Dated briedfly in high school. Started dating again in college and ended up getting married.
Nope. Grew up 10,594 miles apart.
I know for certain we attended his high school prom at the same time, but I didn’t know him yet. I went with an older classmate.
There was now DisneyWorld until I was a teenager, and I’ve never been to Florida. I did go to Disneyland, but my future wife did not until I took her there during a trip to the mainland from Hawaii when we were in our 30s.
My SO of 5+ years was my younger sisters best friend in 1965 in Connecticut Our families were almost next door to each other, with lots of other family friendships.
They moved upstate and we moved to California, time goes on…never heard from them again till I got a Facebook friend request. (during that early Facebook phase where you see what old high school people are up to…haha I’m OVER that now)
Turns out we both live in the same city now…
and are much better suited for each other than when we were kids.
No. Different coasts, and the one time we might have overlapped we weren’t in the same parts of the state.
Not likely ;). Born and raised nearly at antipodal points on the globe. Her one international trip was to a country I had only been to a decade previously.
Mostly no. My ex-wife and I were only a few years apart, but we lived in different parts of the city, going to different schools, malls, etc. Of other, later partners, not likely due to age differences, being from different states, and so on. The closest I suppose would be an ex-fiancee, whom I met when her high school class sat in on a college course for which I was mentoring, and she was 16; five years later, I was still at the school, and she hunted me down to ask me out.
My current partner’s mom and I apparently crossed paths multiple times when we were children. Though she’s six years older than me, it turned out we went to many of the same places in the 70s and 80s, like roller skating rinks, local stores, hangout spots, all-ages concert venues and clubs… makes for interesting conversation.