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<p>Unlike bookstore meet-cutes and dramatic runs through the airport, marriage pacts are something that don&#39;t just exist in romantic comedies.</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="Not THAT kind of pact." data-attribution="Fox" data-attribution-url="" height="837" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/danny-if-were-still-single-in-five-years-and-we-61158570-wIEwRN.jpg" width="500" /></div> <figcaption>Not THAT kind of pact.</figcaption> <div class="image-attribution">Fox</div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>A <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/eoss5j/who_here_has_actually_married_their_lets_get/">Reddit thread</a> asked, &quot;Who here has actually married their &#39;Let&rsquo;s get married if we&rsquo;re still single by 40&#39; person, and what&rsquo;s the story?&quot;</p><p>Whether a marriage of convenience or a rekindled romance, a pinky-promise of a pact is an interesting path to a Happily Ever After, even if the theme of the wedding is &quot;settling.&quot;</p><h2>1. Like every great love story, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Kdj2j2/">Kdj2j2</a>&#39;s proposal was over Instant Messenger:</h2><blockquote> <p>The age was 30. Friends through high school and went to college apart. Using IM one night (yes almost 20 years ago), we were chatting. She&rsquo;d just had a bad break up and I was striking out. I said let&rsquo;s get married if we&rsquo;re single at thirty.</p> <p>She posted on Facebook that she&rsquo;s single one week after her birthday. My birthday was a week later and I sent, &ldquo;Gee, we&rsquo;re supposed to get married soon. We better go in a date.&rdquo; Married seven years and one kid so far.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><hr /><h2>2. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/shorthomology/" style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">shorthomology</a> has the added benefit of marrying for love.</h2><blockquote> <p>A friend made this proposition to me several years ago. I said, &quot;No, even if I&#39;m still alone I will only marry for love.&quot; About a decade later we got married. Things are good and we didn&#39;t even have to wait until we turned 40.</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>3. Movie buddies make the best life partners, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/shadattack/">shadattack</a>.</h2><blockquote> <p>My wife and I went to high school together and never dated. We were movie buddies and I had a little crush on her, we did make out one time at a party. I was a year ahead of her, and right before I graduated we made a pact to marry each other if we were single in the distant future, can&#39;t remember what that date was, but... Fast forward 20 years. We reconnected on social media and 2 years later we were married. About 5 years later we were going through some boxes and I found a &quot;cheesecake&quot; photo of her from 1987 with a note written on the back saying how she can&#39;t wait until our wedding day. We had both forgotten about the pact until we found the picture, Then about six months ago, my parents cleaned out their attic and gave me a box full of stuff they saved. Inside was a note from my ex in high school and in the ramblings of teenage angst she mentioned that she had a vision of &quot;my now wife&quot; and I together. Odd for an ex to say but we had a good laugh about that. Tomorrow is our 12th anniversary. Thanks for letting us walk down memory lane for our anniversary.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><hr /><h2>4. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/sblade77/" style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">sblade77</a> and her husband got their act together thanks to geography.</h2><blockquote> <p>I had this agreement with a good friend who lived across the country (be each other&#39;s fall back plan when I turned 30). Whenever we were both single, we would be on the phone basically all day. However, when one or both of us was dating someone we would fall out of close contact. This went on for a few years.</p> <p>After a bad breakup for me, he said that he was coming to my part of the country for Christmas to visit family and that maybe we should not date other people between now (September) and then. After that, there was no question of not being together even before he actually arrived at Christmas. That was almost 15 years ago. This year is our tenth wedding anniversary and we have two boys.</p> </blockquote><hr /><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/skeletaldecay/">skeletaldecay</a> got her happy ending, and video games are included.</h2><blockquote> <p>We&#39;re not married yet! (Mainly because of financial reasons.) But we agreed to get married when we turned 30. Both of us weren&#39;t in the best place and feeling hopeless and lonely.</p> <p>It got us talking about our relationship, at the time just friends, in a serious context, and helped a lot with the blues we had been feeling. Turns out we really enjoy each other&#39;s company. We spent a lot of time on Skype while playing video games and texting while at work since we lived 12 hours apart at the time. He told me he loved me one day and I decided I loved him. Long distance for something like 8 months, living together nearly 4 years, and expecting our first child in June! Honestly, I would say our favorite thing is still hanging out together and playing video games, but on the couch together with our pets.</p> </blockquote><hr /><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mattymattmatt77/">mattymattmatt77</a>&#39;s story has a few (well, one) twists and turns.</h2><blockquote> <p>Made this pact with my dear friend when we were pre-30. The attraction was always there it was just timing on why we never got together. I moved away and got married, then divorced (now 37). Four years later we take a road trip and fall in love. Not married, not sure if that&rsquo;s what we want, but it&rsquo;s the strongest bond I&rsquo;ve ever had with someone.</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>7. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MorphoFan/">MorphoFan</a>&#39;s story is the least romantic of the bunch.</h2><blockquote> <p>We met when I was 35 and he was about to turn 37. We got engaged after three months, broke it off, got re-engaged and finally got married the literal day before his 40th birthday, so he could say he got married before he turned 40. :-D</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

7 people who made marriage pacts and then actually married that person share their stories.

Unlike bookstore meet-cutes and dramatic runs through the airport, marriage pacts are something that don&#39;t just exist in romantic comedies. Not THAT kind of pact. FoxA Reddit thread asked, &quot;Who here has actually married their &#39;Let&rsquo;s get married if we&rsquo;re still single by 40&#39; person, and what&rsquo;s the story?&quot;Whether a marriage of convenience or a rekindled romance, a pinky-promise of a pact is an interesting path to a Happily Ever After, even if the theme of the wedding is &quot;settling.&quot;1. Like every great love story, Kdj2j2&#39;s proposal was over Instant Messenger: The age was 30. Friends through high school and went to college apart. Using IM one night (yes almost 20 years ago), we were chatting. She&rsquo;d just had a bad break up and I was striking out. I said let&rsquo;s get married if we&rsquo;re single at thirty. She posted on Facebook that she&rsquo;s single one week after her birthday. My birthday was a week later and I sent, &ldquo;Gee, we&rsquo;re supposed to get married soon. We better go in a date.&rdquo; Married seven years and one kid so far. 2. shorthomology has the added benefit of marrying for love. A friend made this proposition to me several years ago. I said, &quot;No, even if I&#39;m still alone I will only marry for love.&quot; About a decade later we got married. Things are good and we didn&#39;t even have to wait until we turned 40. 3. Movie buddies make the best life partners, shadattack. My wife and I went to high school together and never dated. We were movie buddies and I had a little crush on her, we did make out one time at a party. I was a year ahead of her, and right before I graduated we made a pact to marry each other if we were single in the distant future, can&#39;t remember what that date was, but... Fast forward 20 years. We reconnected on social media and 2 years later we were married. About 5 years later we were going through some boxes and I found a &quot;cheesecake&quot; photo of her from 1987 with a note written on the back saying how she can&#39;t wait until our wedding day. We had both forgotten about the pact until we found the picture, Then about six months ago, my parents cleaned out their attic and gave me a box full of stuff they saved. Inside was a note from my ex in high school and in the ramblings of teenage angst she mentioned that she had a vision of &quot;my now wife&quot; and I together. Odd for an ex to say but we had a good laugh about that. Tomorrow is our 12th anniversary. Thanks for letting us walk down memory lane for our anniversary. 4. sblade77 and her husband got their act together thanks to geography. I had this agreement with a good friend who lived across the country (be each other&#39;s fall back plan when I turned 30). Whenever we were both single, we would be on the phone basically all day. However, when one or both of us was dating someone we would fall out of close contact. This went on for a few years. After a bad breakup for me, he said that he was coming to my part of the country for Christmas to visit family and that maybe we should not date other people between now (September) and then. After that, there was no question of not being together even before he actually arrived at Christmas. That was almost 15 years ago. This year is our tenth wedding anniversary and we have two boys. 5. skeletaldecay got her happy ending, and video games are included. We&#39;re not married yet! (Mainly because of financial reasons.) But we agreed to get married when we turned 30. Both of us weren&#39;t in the best place and feeling hopeless and lonely. It got us talking about our relationship, at the time just friends, in a serious context, and helped a lot with the blues we had been feeling. Turns out we really enjoy each other&#39;s company. We spent a lot of time on Skype while playing video games and texting while at work since we lived 12 hours apart at the time. He told me he loved me one day and I decided I loved him. Long distance for something like 8 months, living together nearly 4 years, and expecting our first child in June! Honestly, I would say our favorite thing is still hanging out together and playing video games, but on the couch together with our pets. 6. mattymattmatt77&#39;s story has a few (well, one) twists and turns. Made this pact with my dear friend when we were pre-30. The attraction was always there it was just timing on why we never got together. I moved away and got married, then divorced (now 37). Four years later we take a road trip and fall in love. Not married, not sure if that&rsquo;s what we want, but it&rsquo;s the strongest bond I&rsquo;ve ever had with someone. 7. MorphoFan&#39;s story is the least romantic of the bunch. We met when I was 35 and he was about to turn 37. We got engaged after three months, broke it off, got re-engaged and finally got married the literal day before his 40th birthday, so he could say he got married before he turned 40. :-D 

Unlike bookstore meet-cutes and dramatic runs through the airport, marriage pacts are something that don&#39;t just exist in romantic comedies.   Not THAT kind of pact.   A Reddit thread asked, &quot;Who here has actually married their...