I was thinking in another thread how sometimes the circumstances of how a couple meets can make for interesting conversation. With some people's parents, I'm sure there are interesting stories in how they met, or how you came to be, or what kind of living arrangements they brought you up in... I'm sure that if there's something juicy there though you may not have found out about it until much later.

About the best I can do personally is to say that my parents anniversary and my birthday aren't 9 months apart - more like 5. I was a mistake!! Guess that makes it a shotgun wedding. lol. Other than that though, they just met through a mutual friend and raised me in a rather standard house in suburban America and stayed together and such. I'm sure my mom was a bit crazy (she still is), but from what I hear they rarely even drank besides the occasional glass of wine.

I do have friends whose parents were hippies and partied together all the time though, and I remember hearing a story about one couple that started out with both of them drunk hooking up in the back seat of a car the first time they met - now happily married with kids.

So anyone have interesting stories about the 'rents? What's your story?

My parents met the traditional way, ie an arranged marriage. My mom said that she was asked if she would marry my dad, and she agreed since she couldn't be seen as being too fussy, or she may end up not getting any more suitors. So no exciting story there. She had also told me that before she had been married she would hold her chopsticks at the far end (closer to the thicker, non-eating end). This was because they had been told that they would then marry someone who was further away from their own family, and she didn't want to marry too close to her family. It actually did work out for her in this respect.

As for growing up with them, here's a bit of a funny story with my mom. I remember, she used to tell me how chinese were superior to other (non asian) races because we didn't have much body hair. So we were much more evolved than say caucasians, because they were closer to monkeys. After I had heard this a few times I started thinking about monkeys and comparing the races to them. That's when I thought "Hey! Chinese have flat noses like monkeys, so doesn't that mean that we are closer to monkeys?". The next time that she reminded me of how chinese were more evolved, I believe I brought up the question, but I don't think that I got an answer.

My parents met while double dating. Her sister went out with my dad and my mom went out with some other guy. My dad really liked my mom and eventually they got together. My mom came from a family that was very well off financially and lived in the city. My father came from a poor family and lived in the country. I have no idea what attracted them to each other initially but they were as different as night and day.

Growing up with them was interesting to say the least. I was fortunate enough to grow up and live mostly in Europe but I remember as a child my parents always arguing. They argued about everything. They argued every time I was home in the US and continued to do so until my father died in 2003. Personally, all that constant arguing would have made me nuts, but I know in a way my parents did love each other. They just never really had learned to accept each other.

Unfortunately, my parents died when they were young and I guess perhaps I am lucky in the sense that I didn't have to watch them get older and older and more helpless. My mom went down hill pretty fast with her illness. It was terrible to watch but when she got at her worst, she went pretty quick after that. At least she didn't suffer for longer.

My mother was a self centered and cold kind of person. But then her mother (grandma) was that way too. My dad was a very down to earth, give you the shirt off his back, hard-working man. I was a "Daddy's girl". He and I were close off and on during my life. I miss my father very much. I loved mom too but she was just not the kind of person you could get close to and she was very demanding and hard to live with.

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My mom's family relocated to the US from Japan. My dad likes the Asian ladies, I guess. They one of the very few Asian families in town. Yes, we even ran the only Asian grocery food store. Ahh, back in the days when botan ame came with cool plastic race cars and not the safe, silly stickers nowadays.

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My parents actually met working in the cotton fields togethor when my mom was 13, and my dad 16. My mom is the oldest of 9 girls and my grandfather was super strict with them. My mom wasn't allowed to speak with my dad, but she had to pass his farm on the way to the busstop every morning. He used to leave her letters and she'd pick them up from his mailbox and leave her own for him.

They ended up eloping when my mom was 17.

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Wow!

damn.. and this had the mark of alex haley written all over this. lol.

unfortunatly the eventual result is more along the genre of Jerry Springer.

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