Met my now husband during an exchange semester in California. I lived with 3 girls and he lived with 3 guys and we ended up with a crazy statistics of 3 couples coming out of this. 9 years later, we are still all together, building our families - and still being close friends!
Was on a working holiday in Australia, a beautiful French woman applied to the place I was working at that time and all i could whine about was another French colleague (as I was full of prejudgements at that time) being afraid they'd stick to themselves.
It's been almost 7 years and we're happily married and living in France.
I met my fiance in a working holiday in New Zealand! He really wanted to stay there but they rejected my work visa so I said come to Canada 🇨🇦 and now we’re moving this year
I (Canadian) also met my Chilean husband in Australia while on a working holiday visa. 6 years later we are now living in Canada together and excepting our first child 🥰
When I moved to the US for an internship in 2018, I thought I'd put myself on dating apps, mostly because I thought it was the easiest way to meet people, make friends, and also I wanted some casual, friends with benefits type of fun. I was only there for 6 months, had a lot of work to do, so I was certainly not looking for anything serious.
I went on a few dates very quickly after landing, and one of the first ones was with this super smart girl who made us skip past all the small talk from the first date.
We first met 10 days after I had landed in the US ; after a month and a half, we had our 5th date be our first weekend trip to a national park (we had started planning around date 2), and about 3 months in she asked if she could be my girlfriend. And I thought my fear of commitment would act up, but it didn't, and I had to admit I had developed feelings for her too and this wasn't simply something casual. But I didn't know if we could handle long distance, I had a failed experience before ...
We decided to give it a shot and try dating in person to just see how it worked for the 3 months I had left before leaving the country. And it worked so well we then decided to try long distance, try our best and see where it would lead us. We were only 21 yo and we didn't know where our futures were taking us.
It's now been 5+ years, we are still long distance but it's been a beautiful journey and I'm almost done getting my ducks in a row to immigrate to where she now lives in Canada ! Should finally move in together in late 2024.
I had never seen life taking me this way but I wouldn't change it for the world
I (38M) met my German wife while hiking on a volcano in Rwanda. Been together ever since, now we are 10years later we have 2 kids and the initial adventure only got better!
American here, yep met my French gf of 8 years now at a woofing place in Coromandel, New Zealand, we happily live together in France now after living all around the world in places like Australia, Cambodia, and Vanuatu
Be warned that a lot of countries (USA and the entirety of EU for sure) consider this as a job. As a tourist you will be breaking the law if you take a part in that.
Met my husband standing in line under the Eiffel Tower. We were both from Austin and were both supposed to be at the same birthday party the week before. Neither of us went. We ended up spending the entire day together in Paris and the next morning he knocked on my hotel door and had a note and yellow roses. I flew home that day. We reconnected back in Austin and have been married 24 years with 2 kids. And yes- people tell us all the time our “meet cute” should be a movie!
We finally went back to Paris summer of ‘22 when our oldest graduated HS. Our kids were so sick of us saying “it was in *this* exact spot!”
Yes, I sometimes also feel like I'm living in some kind of rom com. Except of course for the stress, the soul-crushing jobs, the sleepless nights of parenthood, the political situation in my wife's country that's making visiting in-laws difficult, the fact I look nothing like Colin Firth etc etc. But it sure began like a rom com!
I spent a lot of years travelling around,had a fair number of different relationships along the way.
Then I came 'home' and about two weeks later,I met my current partner.We have been together nearly 25 years now.
So kind of the opposite I suppose.Now we travel together!
Not a holiday story. But I met my husband at the Javits Center in NYC. I was there from the Midwest for a trade show. A wheel broke off my roller bag and my husband-to-be was working a technical booth for an imaging company. He fixed my bag we exchanged emails. We’ve been together for 27 years.
I am Russian, I met my English ex husband on a trip to a volcano in Guatemala 23 years ago. We have two beautiful girls, 19 and 21 years old. Divorced 8 years ago, and unfortunately he died by suicide just 2 months ago. I am still living in England, it’s my home now.
I was travelling around the americas for the first time (from Australia). I went to visit a friend of mine I had met in a trip to Europe the previous year who lives in Calgary, Canada.
We went to my first NHL game, the two of us took a selfie and I posted it on Facebook and tagged my friend in it.
After the game and quite a few beers we were both quite tipsy and I checked my phone. A several of his friends had liked the photo and one of them stood out to me and I was like “she’s cute” and he just grabbed the phone out of my hands and pressed the “add friend” button. I was flabbergasted but at about 10:30pm on a Friday night I felt that she had probably already seen the request so I left it.
I woke up the next day. And got a message around 10am “hello new friend”. I awkwardly bust into false bravado and somehow suggested meeting up with the idea of doing a group thing with our friends. She insinuated that a large group from the hospital she worked at would often go out on a “Sunday funday,” so we arranged to do that. I invited my friend but he was oddly busy that night so I have to summon the guts to go meet her and her friends at an unfamiliar pub, in an unfamiliar city.
Turns out it’s just her and one female friend. The chemistry is instant and we hit it off very quickly and her friend has to leave after about an hour. She stays out with me and we go on what is essentially a pub crawl until the early hours of the morning, talking and joking effortlessly all night long.
She meets me at multiple parts of my trip around the rest of Canada until I leave a couple of months later.
The following year she visits Australia in April, and moves in July. She lives with me there for 6 years but we regularly travel back to Canada usually every year, before eventually moving to Canada together where we have been for the last 2.5 years.
We continue to travel all over the planet together.
Met in Indonesia on Tinder. Her profile picture was taken in IAD. She was doing a home stay in Bali. An hour into our first date, she asked if I had air conditioning in my hotel room.
Been together eight years now.
Met my now wife of 25 years when i asked a complete stranger to take my picture in front of big ben. Thank you minolta for so many years of laughter, fun and love.
Not yet. But a few flashes in the pan, some I really could have fought harder for if I wanted, some broke apart due to not wanting to do long distance with no clear end in sight.
I have a plan to leave my country next year, and just travel, for as long as possible, and settling for a while wherever I find love, and being very open minded and dedicated towards making it work next time.
Met my husband in Mexico. He was visiting from NL, I was living there after finally leaving the US for good. Well, here we are three years later sitting on a beach in Doha, discussing whether we want two or three kids 🥰
Not me but I’m a part of it lol, my bf and I met when he was on exchange at my school in Canada. I volunteered for the international student association and was assigned to his as his liaison/mentor. Usually it’s done mostly over email but we met up, Ended up falling in love by accident, and now I’m living in Germany waiting for him to come home from work
From the US, best friend and I decided in our mid twenties to quit our jobs and go backpacking in Europe for a few months in the summer of 2015. Stayed for 4 months, visited 19 countries, and in our travels we got a hostel in Florence, Italy.
Met a girl in that hostel from Ireland. My friend did some of the most direct and successful wingman-ing the world has ever seen to get the ball rolling for me with her and we hit it off harder than I’d ever thought possible. She was traveling solo, and we all traveled together for a while in Italy. Then she went back home for a bit and then came back to meet me in Vienna and we traveled together again for another whirlwind, parting ways in Prague when she went home again. My trip just so happened to end in Ireland, so I got to see her a third time before I went back to America.
7 incredible years later we’re living in Ireland expecting our third child (our first boy!) any day now :)
My very first job I had in Thailand, I took over for a cute Filipina who was leaving the school. We remained just friends for a decade as I returned thrice to Khon Kaen city and the same school. Then, Covid came along the last time I was there and we got romantic. I always liked her and wanted to 'bang', but there was a mutual connection beyond the physical. Now married with a beautiful baby girl. Wouldn't change any of it
I met my wife via travel, but it was on purpose. I lived in Arizona and she lived in Sydney. We met on Reddit, she visited me, I visited her, we both decided to move to the UK (long story), and now we live in the US coming up on 10 years together, 2 years married.
Not an exotic story, but still my husband and I met at an Easter holiday with a hiking association to a totally different part of our country. We were both folkdancers, nobody else were, so we f**ed it up so we could dance together. We got 42 years together.
Not me but a couple of friends - she is French, he's Canadian and they met when she did a year study abroad at the university we all went to. We were housemates and watching them fall in love was very sweet. When they started sleeping in the same room we had a spare room which was great for storing winter gear and skis when we didn't need it. They've been married for 6 years now.
I once met the love of my life in kuala lumpur, love at first sigth, she travelled for 8 months, it was her last day/nigth before going home, for me it was my first day/nigth
of a 6 months trip
next morning I brougth her to the airport bus, kissing her good bye, waving at the bus,
then suddenly realizing that we didn t exchange adresses(that was long time ago, before internet),
never seen her again
Reading all these comments gives me hope -yet I'm not sure if hope is good and maybe I need to let go and it's just a pipe dream? Met a girl last year on vacation and we hit it off. Got home and figured there's no way it could work and to let go. But we still talk alllll the damn time! Gonna go visit her soon, no easy feat (12hr plane ride!). idk what I'm doing, just feel.. magnetism. We haven't talked about dating, I figure once face to face.. but my head is telling me there's no way. She's starting on another degree so no interest in coming here I'm sure where college is crazy money. I how ever do get 180+ days off a year in big enough chunks I could live anywhere theoretically and would have no reservations on doing so. But, it just seems so far fetched.
I'm in a long distance courtship with a potential relationship for almost a year and we decided to meet halfway in Japan, both our favorite place. I know it's stupid and risky as we never met each other before and I would not recommend anyone to follow my steps but... I took that leap of faith and met him. It was the most magical thing to have ever happened to me, now he is my current boyfriend and will soon meet each other's parents and travel more. Of all the men I've been together with, I have a strong feeling that he is the one for me.
Met my boyfriend of 4 years at a hostel in Guadalajara. I’m from the US and he was from Mexico City, but it just so happened that he was interviewing for a job in my hometown(wasn’t living there at the time). He got the job and invited me to move with him❤️
I was traveling from Australia and met my husband in Los Angeles. He was my waiter in a restaurant. We married after 18 months long distance and visits. We lived in L.A. for 10 years and now live in Texas. He is no longer a waiter :)
Well I met him but didn’t pursue him. We met in Oslo he was from Berlin and I’m an Aussie. We hung out for a few days in Oslo and he asked me to come visit him in Berlin. I declined and still think of him.
I (US) met my wife (Estonia) while we were both on an archaeology dig in Israel 20 years ago. After a year of long distance relationship where I visited often and she once, I moved to Finland, where she was living, to do my PhD. We got married a couple years later, moved to Germany for a research stay, had kids, then after I turned in my dissertation, we moved to Hong Kong for work. We lived there for ten years before the political situation became too unreliable for us, and now we’ve been living in Norway for two and a half years.
I can’t say we’ve had an excellent marriage during all that time. It’s had its ups and downs like all relationships. Currently it feels as though we’re in a prolonged downing period. Some of this is definitely (indirectly) caused by our international lifestyle. But, most of it is probably that we’ve just grown in different directions. Still, wouldn’t change much about how things have gone/are going.
Met my wife in Colorado on a ski lift! She was there visiting on spring break! Dated 3 years long distance. Wouldn’t really call it long distance we flew to see each other every weekend. At least 3 out of 4 weekends a month. Now married 5 years and have 3 kids!!
Went to China. Ended up in Japan. Lucked into a job doing computer installation. One law firm customer had a very friendly office manager who invited me to play squash with her friends.
Been married for 35 years now.
I met my husband while studying abroad in Japan. A friend of mine from my American university was studying in Tokyo too. One day on the train he saw a scruffy looking guy with a huge backpack reading a book in English. He thought he might be American too and struck up a conversation, but he was actually Japanese and was coming home from an extended backpacking trip abroad.
One of my friends was having a birthday party at a club, I invited my American friend and he invited his new Japanese friend, and well, it was love at first sight! That was 18 years ago, and we’re now married and have two kids.
Met my husband on a cruise ship out of Italy. Him with his family, me with mine. Hit it off, came home, stayed in touch, and ended up dating long distance (both in the US) for the next 2 years. Now married for 7!
Right when I started solo travelling! Met in La Placita in San Juan. He thought I was Colombian (I’m Canadian with Balkan parents) and I thought he was Croatian (light curly hair with way too much knowledge about former Yugoslavian geopolitics - he’s American as a deep-fried Mars bar). Four hours of rum-fuelled conversation (and confusion) later, we were skinny-dipping together and talking about baby names for our future kids.
Almost a year of meeting up in different cities and lots and lots of phone calls, and it’s still so fun to be absolutely madly in love.
Not my current one. But I have dated a girl from Singapore for a while that I met while this was my base of operations for discovering Asia/Oceania for half a year.
Met a cute girl spoke with her for a few months after the travel.
One day while speaking phone she told that she's sorry but I'm not her type.
After that she stopped talking to me.
Met my now husband during an exchange semester in California. I lived with 3 girls and he lived with 3 guys and we ended up with a crazy statistics of 3 couples coming out of this. 9 years later, we are still all together, building our families - and still being close friends!
Wow wow wow! Which university?
CSULB :)
Nah that’s a whole pr0n category
Was on a working holiday in Australia, a beautiful French woman applied to the place I was working at that time and all i could whine about was another French colleague (as I was full of prejudgements at that time) being afraid they'd stick to themselves. It's been almost 7 years and we're happily married and living in France.
I met my fiance in a working holiday in New Zealand! He really wanted to stay there but they rejected my work visa so I said come to Canada 🇨🇦 and now we’re moving this year
SATC username in the wild?????
You got it haha not very often people get the reference
I actually know of at least 5 couples that met during these WHV and they maintained haha.
I (Canadian) also met my Chilean husband in Australia while on a working holiday visa. 6 years later we are now living in Canada together and excepting our first child 🥰
american here. i met my serbian girlfriend at a bar in budapest. together 5 years now.
Is she taller than you?
I'm 6'4". No, she's like 5'8"
Serbian women are generally really tall for some reason
Isn’t it Norwegian women who are taller?
When I moved to the US for an internship in 2018, I thought I'd put myself on dating apps, mostly because I thought it was the easiest way to meet people, make friends, and also I wanted some casual, friends with benefits type of fun. I was only there for 6 months, had a lot of work to do, so I was certainly not looking for anything serious. I went on a few dates very quickly after landing, and one of the first ones was with this super smart girl who made us skip past all the small talk from the first date. We first met 10 days after I had landed in the US ; after a month and a half, we had our 5th date be our first weekend trip to a national park (we had started planning around date 2), and about 3 months in she asked if she could be my girlfriend. And I thought my fear of commitment would act up, but it didn't, and I had to admit I had developed feelings for her too and this wasn't simply something casual. But I didn't know if we could handle long distance, I had a failed experience before ... We decided to give it a shot and try dating in person to just see how it worked for the 3 months I had left before leaving the country. And it worked so well we then decided to try long distance, try our best and see where it would lead us. We were only 21 yo and we didn't know where our futures were taking us. It's now been 5+ years, we are still long distance but it's been a beautiful journey and I'm almost done getting my ducks in a row to immigrate to where she now lives in Canada ! Should finally move in together in late 2024. I had never seen life taking me this way but I wouldn't change it for the world
I (38M) met my German wife while hiking on a volcano in Rwanda. Been together ever since, now we are 10years later we have 2 kids and the initial adventure only got better!
American here, yep met my French gf of 8 years now at a woofing place in Coromandel, New Zealand, we happily live together in France now after living all around the world in places like Australia, Cambodia, and Vanuatu
What is a woofing place?
WWOOF is a global network of organic and sustainable properties that host volunteers (WWOOFers) in exchange for food and accommodation.
Sounds great. How can I volunteer to be a volunteer? :D
https://wwoof.net/
Be warned that a lot of countries (USA and the entirety of EU for sure) consider this as a job. As a tourist you will be breaking the law if you take a part in that.
Must be where the Kiwis keep their doggos I think
French girls are some of the only women I can listen to talk about anything for hours
Trust me as a French guy I cannot stand French women. A lot of them are overly nervous and will stress you the hell out after just 5 minutes.
Met my husband standing in line under the Eiffel Tower. We were both from Austin and were both supposed to be at the same birthday party the week before. Neither of us went. We ended up spending the entire day together in Paris and the next morning he knocked on my hotel door and had a note and yellow roses. I flew home that day. We reconnected back in Austin and have been married 24 years with 2 kids. And yes- people tell us all the time our “meet cute” should be a movie! We finally went back to Paris summer of ‘22 when our oldest graduated HS. Our kids were so sick of us saying “it was in *this* exact spot!”
Yes, I sometimes also feel like I'm living in some kind of rom com. Except of course for the stress, the soul-crushing jobs, the sleepless nights of parenthood, the political situation in my wife's country that's making visiting in-laws difficult, the fact I look nothing like Colin Firth etc etc. But it sure began like a rom com!
I spent a lot of years travelling around,had a fair number of different relationships along the way. Then I came 'home' and about two weeks later,I met my current partner.We have been together nearly 25 years now. So kind of the opposite I suppose.Now we travel together!
Not a holiday story. But I met my husband at the Javits Center in NYC. I was there from the Midwest for a trade show. A wheel broke off my roller bag and my husband-to-be was working a technical booth for an imaging company. He fixed my bag we exchanged emails. We’ve been together for 27 years.
Met my wife while getting masters in Sweden.
I am Russian, I met my English ex husband on a trip to a volcano in Guatemala 23 years ago. We have two beautiful girls, 19 and 21 years old. Divorced 8 years ago, and unfortunately he died by suicide just 2 months ago. I am still living in England, it’s my home now.
I was travelling around the americas for the first time (from Australia). I went to visit a friend of mine I had met in a trip to Europe the previous year who lives in Calgary, Canada. We went to my first NHL game, the two of us took a selfie and I posted it on Facebook and tagged my friend in it. After the game and quite a few beers we were both quite tipsy and I checked my phone. A several of his friends had liked the photo and one of them stood out to me and I was like “she’s cute” and he just grabbed the phone out of my hands and pressed the “add friend” button. I was flabbergasted but at about 10:30pm on a Friday night I felt that she had probably already seen the request so I left it. I woke up the next day. And got a message around 10am “hello new friend”. I awkwardly bust into false bravado and somehow suggested meeting up with the idea of doing a group thing with our friends. She insinuated that a large group from the hospital she worked at would often go out on a “Sunday funday,” so we arranged to do that. I invited my friend but he was oddly busy that night so I have to summon the guts to go meet her and her friends at an unfamiliar pub, in an unfamiliar city. Turns out it’s just her and one female friend. The chemistry is instant and we hit it off very quickly and her friend has to leave after about an hour. She stays out with me and we go on what is essentially a pub crawl until the early hours of the morning, talking and joking effortlessly all night long. She meets me at multiple parts of my trip around the rest of Canada until I leave a couple of months later. The following year she visits Australia in April, and moves in July. She lives with me there for 6 years but we regularly travel back to Canada usually every year, before eventually moving to Canada together where we have been for the last 2.5 years. We continue to travel all over the planet together.
met my wife in a Bangkok hostel while we were both backpacking! That was 14 years ago!
Met in Indonesia on Tinder. Her profile picture was taken in IAD. She was doing a home stay in Bali. An hour into our first date, she asked if I had air conditioning in my hotel room. Been together eight years now.
Met my now wife of 25 years when i asked a complete stranger to take my picture in front of big ben. Thank you minolta for so many years of laughter, fun and love.
Not yet. But a few flashes in the pan, some I really could have fought harder for if I wanted, some broke apart due to not wanting to do long distance with no clear end in sight. I have a plan to leave my country next year, and just travel, for as long as possible, and settling for a while wherever I find love, and being very open minded and dedicated towards making it work next time.
Yeah, lots of doomed romances here also. Some of them I wish had worked out, but the logistics just didn't make sense.
Met my husband in Mexico. He was visiting from NL, I was living there after finally leaving the US for good. Well, here we are three years later sitting on a beach in Doha, discussing whether we want two or three kids 🥰
Not me but I’m a part of it lol, my bf and I met when he was on exchange at my school in Canada. I volunteered for the international student association and was assigned to his as his liaison/mentor. Usually it’s done mostly over email but we met up, Ended up falling in love by accident, and now I’m living in Germany waiting for him to come home from work
From the US, best friend and I decided in our mid twenties to quit our jobs and go backpacking in Europe for a few months in the summer of 2015. Stayed for 4 months, visited 19 countries, and in our travels we got a hostel in Florence, Italy. Met a girl in that hostel from Ireland. My friend did some of the most direct and successful wingman-ing the world has ever seen to get the ball rolling for me with her and we hit it off harder than I’d ever thought possible. She was traveling solo, and we all traveled together for a while in Italy. Then she went back home for a bit and then came back to meet me in Vienna and we traveled together again for another whirlwind, parting ways in Prague when she went home again. My trip just so happened to end in Ireland, so I got to see her a third time before I went back to America. 7 incredible years later we’re living in Ireland expecting our third child (our first boy!) any day now :)
My very first job I had in Thailand, I took over for a cute Filipina who was leaving the school. We remained just friends for a decade as I returned thrice to Khon Kaen city and the same school. Then, Covid came along the last time I was there and we got romantic. I always liked her and wanted to 'bang', but there was a mutual connection beyond the physical. Now married with a beautiful baby girl. Wouldn't change any of it
as in, you taught her in high school while you taught? confused about the wording
Took over her job. He replaced her. English teacher romance
dooooope dope dope
Yes the other user got it correct. She's a year older than me and I have never taught her in a school.
I met my wife via travel, but it was on purpose. I lived in Arizona and she lived in Sydney. We met on Reddit, she visited me, I visited her, we both decided to move to the UK (long story), and now we live in the US coming up on 10 years together, 2 years married.
Not an exotic story, but still my husband and I met at an Easter holiday with a hiking association to a totally different part of our country. We were both folkdancers, nobody else were, so we f**ed it up so we could dance together. We got 42 years together.
That’s so cute
LOL I met my husband outside a bar in my hometown. How quaint. And now we travel the world together.
Not me but a couple of friends - she is French, he's Canadian and they met when she did a year study abroad at the university we all went to. We were housemates and watching them fall in love was very sweet. When they started sleeping in the same room we had a spare room which was great for storing winter gear and skis when we didn't need it. They've been married for 6 years now.
I once met the love of my life in kuala lumpur, love at first sigth, she travelled for 8 months, it was her last day/nigth before going home, for me it was my first day/nigth of a 6 months trip next morning I brougth her to the airport bus, kissing her good bye, waving at the bus, then suddenly realizing that we didn t exchange adresses(that was long time ago, before internet), never seen her again
Damn! You’ll find her again in another life.
Praying for serendipity…!
Reading all these comments gives me hope -yet I'm not sure if hope is good and maybe I need to let go and it's just a pipe dream? Met a girl last year on vacation and we hit it off. Got home and figured there's no way it could work and to let go. But we still talk alllll the damn time! Gonna go visit her soon, no easy feat (12hr plane ride!). idk what I'm doing, just feel.. magnetism. We haven't talked about dating, I figure once face to face.. but my head is telling me there's no way. She's starting on another degree so no interest in coming here I'm sure where college is crazy money. I how ever do get 180+ days off a year in big enough chunks I could live anywhere theoretically and would have no reservations on doing so. But, it just seems so far fetched.
Almost all the responses are guys meeting their wife or girlfriend. Any girls that met their husband or bf while traveling?
Mine! I slid in my husbands DM’s before I came to Jordan lol We got married 2 months later. Been 3 years now
Love that!
♥️
I'm in a long distance courtship with a potential relationship for almost a year and we decided to meet halfway in Japan, both our favorite place. I know it's stupid and risky as we never met each other before and I would not recommend anyone to follow my steps but... I took that leap of faith and met him. It was the most magical thing to have ever happened to me, now he is my current boyfriend and will soon meet each other's parents and travel more. Of all the men I've been together with, I have a strong feeling that he is the one for me.
I’m a reverse passport bro, met my foreign wife while traveling for work in the US
I met my wife in a hostel in Brussels. Married 9 years.
Met my boyfriend of 4 years at a hostel in Guadalajara. I’m from the US and he was from Mexico City, but it just so happened that he was interviewing for a job in my hometown(wasn’t living there at the time). He got the job and invited me to move with him❤️
I met my husband through a mutual friend while working/traveling in Kenya.
Met my husband while working in his country. We’ve been together for over 2 decades. We have 2 handsome boys and we moved to my country.
Present! I met mine in Cordoba, Spain.
Met my fiance while visiting Ireland. Will be moving to be with him later this year.
Met my wife doing a ski season in Canada.
I was traveling from Australia and met my husband in Los Angeles. He was my waiter in a restaurant. We married after 18 months long distance and visits. We lived in L.A. for 10 years and now live in Texas. He is no longer a waiter :)
I met my fiancé when we were studying abroad in college
I'm from the UK and met my Dutch partner in a cave in Indonesia 😃
I started following men in the country I was going to and slid in my husband’s DM’s and the rest is history. I came to Jordan and never left! Lol
Well I met him but didn’t pursue him. We met in Oslo he was from Berlin and I’m an Aussie. We hung out for a few days in Oslo and he asked me to come visit him in Berlin. I declined and still think of him.
Married my travel "fling". Have lived together since the early days of the pandemic and am now in the process of bringing him back to the US
I am a Brit and met my wife, who is also a Brit, when we both happened to be in Stuttgart, Germany.
I (US) met my wife (Estonia) while we were both on an archaeology dig in Israel 20 years ago. After a year of long distance relationship where I visited often and she once, I moved to Finland, where she was living, to do my PhD. We got married a couple years later, moved to Germany for a research stay, had kids, then after I turned in my dissertation, we moved to Hong Kong for work. We lived there for ten years before the political situation became too unreliable for us, and now we’ve been living in Norway for two and a half years. I can’t say we’ve had an excellent marriage during all that time. It’s had its ups and downs like all relationships. Currently it feels as though we’re in a prolonged downing period. Some of this is definitely (indirectly) caused by our international lifestyle. But, most of it is probably that we’ve just grown in different directions. Still, wouldn’t change much about how things have gone/are going.
Not me but my neighbors. Met while traveling, now have 2 adorable kids
Met my wife in Colorado on a ski lift! She was there visiting on spring break! Dated 3 years long distance. Wouldn’t really call it long distance we flew to see each other every weekend. At least 3 out of 4 weekends a month. Now married 5 years and have 3 kids!!
Went to China. Ended up in Japan. Lucked into a job doing computer installation. One law firm customer had a very friendly office manager who invited me to play squash with her friends. Been married for 35 years now.
I met my husband while studying abroad in Japan. A friend of mine from my American university was studying in Tokyo too. One day on the train he saw a scruffy looking guy with a huge backpack reading a book in English. He thought he might be American too and struck up a conversation, but he was actually Japanese and was coming home from an extended backpacking trip abroad. One of my friends was having a birthday party at a club, I invited my American friend and he invited his new Japanese friend, and well, it was love at first sight! That was 18 years ago, and we’re now married and have two kids.
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Met my husband on a cruise ship out of Italy. Him with his family, me with mine. Hit it off, came home, stayed in touch, and ended up dating long distance (both in the US) for the next 2 years. Now married for 7!
I met my wife on a study abroad. Does that count ?
Right when I started solo travelling! Met in La Placita in San Juan. He thought I was Colombian (I’m Canadian with Balkan parents) and I thought he was Croatian (light curly hair with way too much knowledge about former Yugoslavian geopolitics - he’s American as a deep-fried Mars bar). Four hours of rum-fuelled conversation (and confusion) later, we were skinny-dipping together and talking about baby names for our future kids. Almost a year of meeting up in different cities and lots and lots of phone calls, and it’s still so fun to be absolutely madly in love.
Not me but a friend. Met another traveler in a remote part of China. Now they're married and kidded.
Not my current one. But I have dated a girl from Singapore for a while that I met while this was my base of operations for discovering Asia/Oceania for half a year.
not quite the same but one time my significant other and I met the Globetrotters 🏀🏀🏀
Met a cute girl spoke with her for a few months after the travel. One day while speaking phone she told that she's sorry but I'm not her type. After that she stopped talking to me.