Parents, did you meet your spouse in college?

Not me, but 4 of the 7 women from my jr and sr living suites married classmates (two right away, two delayed a couple of years). And one woman from the doubles on each side of my freshman dorm room also married classmates right out of school.

I met my husband the first day of my first job. He had started working two weeks before me, along with several other new graduates with whom we hung around. After 2-3 years, couples started pairing off, with at least 2 marriages besides mine resulting from the group.

A really interesting book that explores how pairing up has changed between our parents’ generations and our kids’ generation is Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari and a sociology prof. It’s funny, too.