I met my future wife online. We were texting for a while before our first date, and there was chemistry, so we decided to do a fancy dinner as a first date instead of coffee. I dressed up and wore a tie which was very uncharacteristic of me. She showed up in her Gears of War t-shirt, which was a pretty strong signal we'd get along

My folks met in a bar. They were flirting and dad was teasing mom, so mom flicked a mostly empty glass at him to throw some ice at him. But the glass slipped out of her hand and she threw it straight at his buddy's head. Dad's friend got three stitches, and now they've been together for 35 years.

My great-grandmother grew up in the depression, and she wanted to get into this clique of mean girls. At the time, she had to prove she was stone cold, so they challenged her to steal a chicken out of some guy's yard. My great grandfather was working out of sight and watched her wander around the yard for a minute before she snatches a bird and shoves it in her coat.

So he walks up all casual and starts talking to her and she's playing it cool like she didn't just steal his bird. They're chatting for a while when the chicken starts freaking out and trying to get free. So she's like "excuse me a moment," pulls out the bird by the neck and kills it by swinging it around her head (that sounds wild to me, but I guess it was a pretty normal method at the time). She maintained that she brought that one from home. They were together for like 70 years.

My grandparents and I don't have a dating story that involves violence. I guess it skips a generation.