I admired his work ethic and his attitude toward recovery. My first impression of Matt was that he was incredibly strong. I was the first person to transfer him out of a hospital bed and into a wheelchair. He needed to learn how to move again without the use of his legs. I was working at a rehab hospital as an occupational therapist, and Matt was transferred to my unit to begin his rehabilitation process. The accident left him paralyzed from the waist down, and he also lost a friend who was in the car with him at the time. He had suffered internal-organ damage, various fractures, and a spinal cord injury. “Matt was involved in a terrible car accident in 2014.
So in case you need reminding that love can come from unexpected places, here were some of my favorites.ĭolly, 34, met her husband Matthew, 35, when she was his occupational therapist. In fact, when I put a call out on Twitter for couples with these kinds of introductions, I learned that some of the least romantic “how we met” tales have spawned some of the best love stories I’ve ever heard. There’s something appealing about the idea that an extraordinary love can be born out of the plain ordinary, or even downright unromantic. A friendship that had no chemistry until one day, for some reason, it does. A string of weird dates and ghost attempts that somehow turn around. They’re a bad one-night-stand that blossoms into a full-blown relationship. But more often they’re nothing like a romcom. A fortuitous combination of chance, spark, and timing, like Kate Beckinsale and John Cusack reaching for the same glove, or Zooey Deschanel singing The Smiths to an immediately lovestruck Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Sometimes the resulting story sounds like a Hallmark commercial.
Whatever the cause, I’m always the first to lean across the table at a dinner party, wide-eyed as I address a couple that I’ve only just met, and ask: “So, how did you meet?” Maybe it’s the idealist in me, or my world-weariness vis-à-vis our current swipe-happy dating landscape, or my childhood obsession with watching Pride and Prejudice on repeat.
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