TL;DR I could've met my now boyfriend probably five years earlier than I did and we just missed each other on many many occasions.
Long Version
I am a professional dancer and have been training intensely since I was about nine years old (I'm now twenty-two). It is typical to go to summer training programs for two to six weeks and then eventually go to specialized schools where you train all day and do school work online. I moved out when I was 14 to go to a boarding school for this and stayed there up until the end of junior year. There's a lot more details but this is the simplified gist of it.
June of 2014 - I'm at a two week program at the beginning of the summer. The program was small but still had around 100 people. It's a choreographic workshop so we all get separated into small groups. I meet this boy for the first time who happens to be in my group of 6. We get to talking and turns out we both are going to the same program in another state that starts the following week. The chances of that were weird but nothing too crazy since the dance world is small at times in that way.
August of 2014 - I get my first semi professional job with this company I just spent the summer with, (comparable to an internship) leave the boarding school, and move. The boy I met also got a job, one rank above me, and stays as well. We become really good friends. He liked me but I did not see him romantically.
August of 2015 - I dated around casually for the whole past year but nothing too serious. I was really trying to finish my senior year of high school on top of working 6 days a week, seven hours a day. A lot of our mutual friends were always bugging me to give this boy a chance as well as my family. We spent a lot of time together that summer and my heart finally came around. That month we started dating. One day we get to talking about the places we had trained and where we went for summer programs growing up. Turns out we had both almost decided on the same program but then changed our minds. This was evident for multiple years and some we actually flipped the years we went to a specific program. At one point he was even considering attending the full time school I was at but didn't follow through.
We'll be together four years this September with five years of friendship. We've moved twice since then for different job opportunities. It's really hard to get a job in ballet and usually impossible to get one in the same place as a couple. But somehow we lucked out not once, but twice! When I think about it I get really freaked out. We grew up on opposite sides of the country and missed meeting each other for years. Going to all these schools you meet a lot of people. Most friendships don't even stick long term since everyone is constantly on the move. I feel lucky to have met so many people from all over the world since I was a kid. It's just bizarre to me that he's the one that stuck. Good thing I like him a lot!