Not everyone experiences love at first sight.
By Cassie Neiden, Martha Stewart
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Same day, second chance
Murray and his wife were both students at Harvard's Graduate School
of Education when they met. At the time, his wife was looking for a
private school where she might teach, and overheard that Murray had
written an unusual paper about a private school in Western
Massachusetts. She called him up and asked to read the paper and to have
Sunday brunch. He showed up—but an hour late. The meal she prepared was
ruined, but Murray wasn't picking up on her disappointment. Instead, he
was checking his watch to make sure he could escape in time to watch
football on TV. After she promptly told him to "get out," he was
startled, and asked if they could start again. "I stayed the rest of the
day—12 hours," he says. "We discovered how much we had in common." They
moved in together the very next day, and were married 10 weeks later.
Blurred vision
Cori from Portland, Connecticut met her husband in high school. Their
first date was the night of a school dance. Cori, a new student, wore
glasses at the time, but she opted to leave them at home because they
made her feel self-conscious. Andrew offered to take her home, but the
problem was, she couldn't see well enough to tell him how to get there.
"I didn't want to admit how directionally challenged I was, so I kept
randomly making instructions like, 'Turn left here,' and, 'Make a
right,' hoping something would look familiar," she recalls. In the 90s,
without a phone or GPS, the couple had to stop somewhere and ask for
directions. Andrew loved that Cori wanted to impress him, and Cori loved
his patience. That was the night they fell in love, she says.
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Breakdowns in communication
Beverly and Pablo, from Austin, Texas, have been married for 40
years, but before they fell in love, they thought they stood each other
up. After they met at one of his art shows, they set a date. Pablo
planned to call Beverly to get directions, but unbeknownst to both of
them, her phone was out of order. He thought she purposely disconnected
to avoid going out, and she thought he had simply stood her up.
"Thankfully, one of Pablo's friends talked him into calling me at work
the next day to find out what happened," Beverly says. "We went out the
next night for a fabulous romantic dinner and were married two months
later."
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The family ma
Megan met her husband on Match.com.
They hit it off via email, so they were working to set up a date. She
suggested one Sunday afternoon, but he declined, saying he had plans
with family that day. That Sunday, Megan went out with a few friends and
saw who she thought was her potential match. He was with another woman.
"Definitely not a family member," she says. Her friends went
to the table with a made-up story to confirm that it, indeed, was him.
Megan wasn't sure to go on their planned date or give him the heave-ho,
but she cut him some slack because they live in a small town, and it
could have happened to anyone, she says, and seven years of marriage
later they still get laughs out of it.
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