Random "If We're Both Still Single When We're 35 We'll Get Married" Real-Life Stories (23 items)

• (#5) Life Is Good

  From Redditor u/ItsMeChara:

  My husband and I did this!

  We met at around age ten. I lived in a violent household and he lived in the trailer park near my house. I ran away one night, and he was sitting on the porch shuffling Yugioh cards silently. We both froze when we saw each other. He then asked if I wanted to play because he had an extra deck.

  We became quick friends. Whenever the violence got to be too much, I'd run to his house and we'd play. As we got older, we tried dating, but we were fairly innocent and messed it all up. Went back to being friends, but we swore to one another that we'd get married if we were single by age 30.

  I joined the military after high school and he decided to go to college. We stayed connected through social media. I got married and had a daughter, he found a girlfriend and had a son. We talked about our kids and how happy we were for each other, and even laughed about our 'silly' agreement.

  One day a few years later, after my then husband and I split amicably, he texted me out of the blue. We hadn't talked in months due to being adults now, and things got in the way. The text made me very nervous; it sounded more like a goodbye. His girlfriend had left him, and so much else was going on in his life that he just wanted to thank me for being his friend. I immediately called him and we talked for a long time, once again bringing up that we would never face the future alone because, if we didn't find our 'soulmates', we were going to get married at 30, grow old, and sit on our porch while I made tons of cookies. By the end of it, he was laughing and agreeing, and I felt like he was out of that dark hole.

  I moved back to my hometown a few years later. I was 29 and he was 30. I kind of forgot about the plan at this point due to some family members being very sick. We bumped into each other one day with our kids and he also had a guy friend in tow, and it was like we were teens again. We chatted a bit. He apparently hadn't dated much after his his first girlfriend left him. The friend spoke up and said I should totally double date with them, me being the date for my best friend.

  He casually mentioned we didn't need to date; he was 30, I was almost 30, and it had dawned on him that his soulmate was standing right in front of him. He refused to let me run away again and wanted to fulfill the contract. I swear my face couldn't have been redder nor could my heart have thumped any faster. It was the sweetest thing anyone had ever said to me, and I didn't expect it from him. And, honestly, I don't know why I never realized how much I really loved him also, from the moment we played Yugioh on his porch that fateful night.

  Fast forward to now and we are happily married with a beautiful 16 month old son. We still talk about our journey to each other. We still play Yugioh occasionally, and have taught our kids to play too. Life is good.
• (#17) Dodged A Bullet

  From Redditor u/CountZapolai:

  Yeah, that's not a good idea. I agreed this with someone when I was 21 for when we were both 30.

  Actually we ended up dating IRL for like a year at 25 and it was a complete and utter f***ing disaster after the first 3 months, turns out the reason she was still single was that she was that, while to everyone else she met, she was extremely sweet and caring, after 3 months into any relationship, she turned into a complete and utter neurotic psychopath- as in, probably diagnosably so- and relentlessly bullied everyone she had ever dated until either they dumped her or she dumped them- if she thought that would cause more emotional pain. It clicked when I got speaking to one of her exes who had had basically exactly the same experience.

  Was happily married since 29, so wouldn't have come up anyway, but f***ing hell, dodged a bullet there.
• (#10) Couldn't Wait Ten Years

  From Redditor u/mamamoonzz:

  I did. But we got married 10 years earlier. We met at an inkmaster finale. We immediately connected. He lived in New York, I, Florida. I went back home and we Kept in touch. Made a promise if by the time we were 35 we'd marry eachother. I was 25 at the time. Things intensified so much we truly believed we were meant for eachother. I moved to Illinois to take care of my sick grandma. 3 months after meeting he flew there to visit and we got married. After a few more visits he moved there too. 4 years later and we have 2 kids.
• (#2) Don't Let The Good Ones Get Away

  From Redditor u/Marilolli:

  We ended up getting married a lot sooner. He wasn't necessarily waiting around for me but I realized I'd be devastated if he ended up with someone else and no longer had him as a constant friend in my life. Don't let the good ones get away. We've been married 13 years now and never regretted a minute of it.
• (#16) She Was And Still Is The One

  From Redditor u/Bullzy17:

  Our promise wasn’t for when we’re 35 but 30. We have been friends for years before we made the joke-promise and have been friends for 11 years (became friends when I was 17 she was 16) Through many friendships and relationships with other people, including one of us almost getting engaged to a former lover, we still remained friends.

  When I clocked 20 if I recall correctly, we jokingly promised to get married to each other if we weren't married by 30. Long story short, I’m 28 now and she’s 26. we didn't start dating until last year and are supposed to be getting married in June (if corona virus lock down let’s us). We went through a lot of maturity and personal changes in our early 20’s and it was so admirable watching how she grew and became “woke”. Over the course of 5 years watching her grow, I knew she was and still is the ONE. No regrets here.
• (#15) Sometimes It Works Out

  From Redditor u/Jungleg1337:

  I met my fiance studying abroad and we became very good friends. I would say best friends. We had a low-key relationship while we were there. We were young. We'd just make out and hold hands when our friends weren't around. We did it because both of us knew that when the program ended, we will go back to our home country and it wouldn't work if we dated. I would jokingly say when we are 30 and single, lets get married. We stayed friends over the years.

  Fast forward to 2018, I got out of a relationship and she was healing from her last relationship. We get reconnected and talk more over a few weeks. I brought up the pact we made 7 years back. Now, we are engaged and soon to be married.

  If I could wish for a perfect woman, it would be her.

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