How Did You Find the One?

Data on how couples meet each other went re-viral this week:

My generation’s aversion to in-person meetings is dismal, but not all is lost.

A 22-year-old friend of mine got married last week. She and her now-husband met at a fraternity party in college. When she saw this man across the room in a sticky-floored frat house, she just knew. My girl walked right up to him and the rest is, blissfully, history. They’re not the first of my friends to get married — at Hillsdale College, the marriages are plenty and the babies are plenty more — but they’re not “trad-ists,” either. They were just two kids who fell miraculously in love.

This anecdote is rare. But the good, albeit rare, stories inspire much-needed hope. Hope for a real-life love story, after all, might be what makes 83 percent of Gen-Z and Millennials admit they want to get married someday.

Online apps can and do work on occasion. For the most part, though, young people fail miserably at meeting new partners. The avenues by which couples used to meet in person (work, through colleagues, at church, at bars) are now either closed off or less socially acceptable than they once were.

For those of you who achieved successful marriages, please share your stories with us youngsters. The world in which you all met and courted your now-spouses (i.e., the world of in-person interaction) is foreign to us.

So, readers, etc., if you care to indulge me, because it’s Christmas, and Christmas is the time for love: How’d you find the one?