History ChildhoodFriendRomance / RealLife

* UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter was a family friend and [[LiterallyLovingThyNeighbor neighbor]] of his future wife, Rosalynn Smith. His mother, a nurse, had actually delivered Rosalynn as a baby. Rosalynn later grew attracted to Jimmy at age 18, after [[GoodLookingPrivates seeing him in his naval uniform for the first time]], and the two of them fell in love and were married only one year later. They remained HappilyMarried for the rest of their lives.

* UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter was a family friend and [[LiterallyLovingThyNeighbor neighbor]] of his future wife, Rosalynn Smith. His mother, a nurse, had actually delivered Rosalynn as a baby. Rosalynn later grew attracted to Jimmy at age 18, after [[GoodLookingPrivates seeing him in his naval uniform for the first time]], and the two of them fell in love and were married only one year later.

* UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter was a family friend of his future wife, Rosalynn Smith. His mother, a nurse, had actually delivered Rosalynn as a baby. Rosalynn later grew attracted to Jimmy at age 18, after [[GoodLookingPrivates seeing him in his naval uniform for the first time]], and the two of them fell in love and were married only one year later.

* UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter was a family friend of his future wife, Rosalynn Carter (née Smith). His mother, a nurse, had actually delivered Rosalynn as a baby. Rosalynn later grew attracted to Jimmy at age 18, after [[GoodLookingPrivates seeing him in his naval uniform for the first time]], and the two of them fell in love and were married only one year later.

* Two background actors from ''Film/SchoolRock'' [[https://www.instagram.com/p/CwAq6d3Rl60/ are now married]].

* UsefulNotes/HarryTruman. He first met his future wife, Bess Wallace, when they were ''five'' in Sunday School. From fifth grade through high school, they were in the same class. She turned him down the first time he proposed (in 1911); after time in various jobs, plus a stint as an artillery captain on [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI the Western Front]], she finally accepted in 1919 (shortly after he opened a promising haberdashery).

* "[[https://thethiefandtheairbender.tumblr.com/post/122770072789/needlepointcursewords-blonde-cher#notes From 8th grade to our wedding day...]]

* David Eisenhower and Julie Nixon understandably got to be good friends as children in the late [[UsefulNotes/TheFifties Fifties]], seeing as [[UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower his grandpa]] was President and [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon her dad]] was Vice President for eight whole years (their first meeting was at the 1956 Republican National Convention when they were eight). They married just under a month before her father was sworn in as President.

* Saint Elisabeth of Hungary and her husband Louis IV of Thuringia. They double as PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: they were engaged by their parents as kids, Elisabeth went to live with Louis's family as a little girl, and they fell in love as they grew up. [[DownerEnding He died few years later, though]], and RebelliousPrincess Elisabeth went to great lengths to not be forced into an ArrangedMarriage (even threatening to disfigure herself).
* Dorothea Hurley married her high school sweetheart [[Music/BonJovi Jon Bon Jovi]] at the height of the band's popularity, when thousands of girls were throwing themselves at him. They're [[HappilyMarried together to this day]].

* David Eisenhower and Julie Nixon understandably got to be good friends as children in the late [[UsefulNotes/TheFifties Fifties]], seeing as [[UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower his grandpa]] was President and [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon her dad]] was Vice President for eight whole years (their first meeting was at the 1956 Republican National Convention, when they were eight). They married just under a month before her father was sworn in as President.

* Say what you will about Luis Suárez's "teeth", but his own story is pretty incredible. Born and raised in abject poverty, he met a girl and started dating her, only to watch helplessly as her family moved to Spain. Suárez then began to seriously train in earnest, and eventually became a world class player, and went to play in Europe just to find and marry this girl.
* Wrestling/NatalyaNeidhart and her husband, TJ Wilson (aka WWE's Tyson Kidd), have known each other since childhood, and had been dating for over a ''decade'' before they finally tied the knot. TJ was also childhood friends with Nattie's cousins Harry Smith (son of "The British Bulldog" Wrestling/DaveyBoySmith) and Ted Annis (aka Teddy Hart).

* Popular UK ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate Smash Ultimate]]'' player Afro Smash made a whacky poll directed at male Smashers about whether or not they..."nut before tournaments". [[https://twitter.com/DDLC_MC_kun/status/1153667764520980481 A female gamer RPing as a character responded to the poll confused and not realizing he only was referring to male Smashers]]. This led to a misunderstanding that ultimately had another role playing account owned by her childhood, best friend stepping in to try and clear things up. And the exchange that ensued from here ultimately led to one of most heartwarming {{Love Confession}}s you can find on the Internet. You can more easily see the full exchange [[https://imgur.com/a/MifEQ7u here]].

* Popular UK Smash Ultimate player Afro Smash made a whacky poll directed at male Smashers about whether or not they..."nut before tournaments". [[https://twitter.com/DDLC_MC_kun/status/1153667764520980481 A female gamer RPing as a character responded to the poll confused and not realizing he only was referring to male Smashers]]. This led to a misunderstanding that ultimately had another role playing account owned by her childhood, best friend stepping in to try and clear things up. And the exchange that ensued from here ultimately led to one of most heartwarming {{Love Confession}}s you can find on the Internet. You can more easily see the full exchange [[https://imgur.com/a/MifEQ7u here]].

* William Petersen (of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' fame) first met his current wife, Gina, when she was a small girl and he was a teenager working on a project with her filmmaker father. Fast forward a few decades to after Petersen's divorce from his first wife, and they got better acquainted, got married, and now have twin girls together.

* Surprisingly, this trope is rare in real-life, because close proximity causes the "Westermarck effect," a psychological process that is designed to prevent incest but gets applied to anyone you spend enough time with as a child, regardless if you're related or not.

* Former German [[TheChancellorsOfGermany federal chancellor Helmut Schmidt]] and Hannelore "Loki" Glaser first met in 1929 when they were both ten years old; they were happily married from 1942 until her death on 21 October 2010.

* Also, UsefulNotes/HarryTruman. He first met his future wife, Bess Wallace, when they were ''five'' in Sunday School. From fifth grade through high school, they were in the same class. She turned him down the first time he proposed (in 1911); after time in various jobs, plus a stint as an artillery captain on [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI the Western Front]], she finally accepted in 1919 (shortly after he opened a promising haberdashery).