We were each dating other people, friends who shared a rental house, and met each other at one of their parties. After several years of casual acquaintance, other relationships having come and gone, we each happened to find ourselves single, and went out on a date. It was a great success; years later, we have a nice house and a little family, and we are quite contentedly in it together for the rest of our lives.
On the other hand... when I was just a couple years older than you are, I went to a Halloween rave at an abandoned school; after a couple hours' dancing, I sat down for a breather, struck up a conversation with the woman who happened to be next to me, lost track of time, fell madly and more or less instantly in love, and spent the next several years struggling through a whirlwind of high drama and occasionally-violent chaos culminating in a devastating divorce. ::shrug::
On the other hand... when I was just a couple years older than you are, I went to a Halloween rave at an abandoned school; after a couple hours' dancing, I sat down for a breather, struck up a conversation with the woman who happened to be next to me, lost track of time, fell madly and more or less instantly in love, and spent the next several years struggling through a whirlwind of high drama and occasionally-violent chaos culminating in a devastating divorce. ::shrug::