# How did your parents meet?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-parents-meet/839991>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 10, 2019, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-parents-meet/839991 "2019-09-10T16:14:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-parents-meet/839991/81 "2019-09-13T02:15:48Z")

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My parents grew up in the same small community (where some of Mom’s family still live). They started dating when they were 16 and got married after high school. They celebrated their 66th anniversary last week.

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**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-parents-meet/839991/82 "2019-09-13T08:43:20Z")

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> [@HeyHomie](#):
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> My mom swears up and down it was a church hay-rack ride. I don’t believe it; neither of them grew up in families that made church a priority. Both families were culturally Christian, but neither was church-going.

My parents both grew up in families who went to church on Sunday because that is What You Do On Sunday. Neither was very religious, and they stopped going after they got married. Some people attend church for the social life rather than for the theology. Especially in small towns where your only recreational options are churches and bars.

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**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-parents-meet/839991/83 "2019-09-13T12:31:22Z")

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Late 1969. My dad was a senior at Yale, and his best friend was dating a junior from Connecticut College. She introduced him to a classmate of hers, my mom, and my dad’s friend decided to set my dad and her up on a blind date. Two months later they were engaged; God willing, they’ll be celebrating their 50th anniversary next spring. Pretty standard stuff. My dad’s friend became a big deal in television programming in the 1980s - we like to think of my parents’ marriage as his first hit production.

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**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-parents-meet/839991/84 "2019-09-13T13:11:20Z")

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He was a soda jerk; she wanted a soda.

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