My partner’s mum and dad met when they were in their early teens. It was at a dance. Dad saw her and turned to his friend and said, “I’m going to marry her.” He asked her to dance, and she turned him down. The excuse was that she had seen him dance and thought that he couldn’t.
Dad took up dance lessons. About a year later he spotted her again. The lessons must have worked, as she accepted the offer to go to the movies.
Mum was the illigimant child of a single woman and a married man. The mother died either during or shortly after childbirth. Mum was brought up by her aunt, her mother’s sister.
When the movie date was over, Dad escorted Mum home. They found a suitcase on the doorstep filled with Mum’s clothes. Someone had spotted Mum out with a boy and reported it to the uber strict, Christian aunt, who was furious.
Dad took her home and told his parents the story. They immediately took her in, despite already having eight children. Once they were old enough, they married.