![]() In fact, when I put a call out on Twitter for couples with these kinds of introductions, I learned that some of the least romantic “how we met” tales have spawned some of the best love stories I’ve ever heard. There’s something appealing about the idea that an extraordinary love can be born out of the plain ordinary, or even downright unromantic. A friendship that had no chemistry until one day, for some reason, it does. A string of weird dates and ghost attempts that somehow turn around. They’re a bad one-night-stand that blossoms into a full-blown relationship. But more often they’re nothing like a romcom. A fortuitous combination of chance, spark, and timing, like Kate Beckinsale and John Cusack reaching for the same glove, or Zooey Deschanel singing The Smiths to an immediately lovestruck Joseph Gordon-Levitt. ![]() Sometimes the resulting story sounds like a Hallmark commercial. ![]() Whatever the cause, I’m always the first to lean across the table at a dinner party, wide-eyed as I address a couple that I’ve only just met, and ask: “So, how did you meet?” Maybe it’s the idealist in me, or my world-weariness vis-à-vis our current swipe-happy dating landscape, or my childhood obsession with watching Pride and Prejudice on repeat. But it’s hard to forget your lobster.I love a “how we met” story. As a wise man once said, “Some people hold candles.” Ross always held a candle for Rachel, and his crazy ass kept it lit.Ĭould Rachel have done better than Ross? Probably. You’ve got to be a little crazy to do it, but there are people out there who are just the right amount of crazy. Some people know who they want, and that’s it. Even though lobsters don’t exactly mate for life, some people do. “Lobsters fall in love and mate for life,” Phoebe says, explaining her seemingly random reassuring reference, and while we may not see them walking around, holding claws, she’s right - you know, in that Phoebe way where she’s wrong but her point holds up. It can make Ross a little crazy, even after he and Rachel become more than friends. Rachel has always been Ross’ dream girl, and for a nerdy science kid to grow up and become friends with her, well, that alone is hard for him to get his head around. “She’s your lobster,” Phoebe Buffay tells Ross Geller during a stressful time in the lead-up to his relationship with Rachel Green. It’s a kind of love that doesn’t always get highlighted in this way - as writers and performers, these two are well-equipped to foster it onto the screen. That they’ve stuck by each other and learned to forgive without expunging each other’s guilt is a strangely unique thing on TV. One of the funniest shows on TV has become the most raw because that discovery has changed from cute anecdotes to the things that each of them would rather stay hidden. Now that the series has extended well past their anticipated one-night stand, these are two married people who know more about each other because they choose to know. In the early going of their unlikely, unplanned partnership, the show drew a real sense of glee from watching these two learn how to fall in love, enhancing each others’ genuine qualities and bad habits in equal measure. For Sharon and Rob on three seasons of “Catastrophe,” that’s been a double-edged sword. It often indicates a user profile.Īt its basic form, coupledom is about the ways you enable each other. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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