10 Stories That Prove Love Can Be a Little Spicy Sometimes

When a guy bothers you, your friends will likely give you the same answer, “He just likes you.” And, that could be true. Some guys find the best form of attention is through a little heat. That tension can eventually evolve to romance, and things can get more interesting from there. Well, that was the case for these people sharing their spicy love stories.

1.

I used to work at this company where everyone tiptoed around Mark. He was blunt, annoyingly smart, and had zero filter. First week on the job, he “jokingly” called my workflow inefficient in front of the team.

I reported him to HR. He got “a talk.” I got a death stare across meetings for months. Then, company restructuring happened. Guess who became my project partner? Yep. HR karma.

At first, it was torture. We’d argue about font choices. But then came the late nights. One time, I was stuck on a bug for 3 hours. He silently slid over Thai food and said, “You’re angry and dumb right now. Eat first.”

Rude. But...effective. Somewhere between version 17 of our presentation and a fire drill where he literally carried my laptop and coffee, I started noticing... things. Like how he never let anyone take credit for my ideas. Or how he knew my coffee order better than I did.

Long story short: project ended. We didn’t. He moved in last month. He still critiques my slide decks. I still threaten HR. But now he makes me pancakes shaped like hearts.

2.

My husband and I did not get along when we first met each other. We were 15 years old and we both took marching band class. He was a huge flirt with my friends, dated a lot of girls.

When I broke up with my ex, I was shocked to see him, while I was crying, sit down and ask me what was wrong. My friends had walked away from me to give me some alone time, but it made me feel worse. Told him the details and had expected more teasing, but he was really kind and supportive.

Afterwards, he would come by after band class to ask about how I was doing. After a year of friendship, I then asked for his number just to talk and text during the week about band practice (lies!) and pretty soon I asked him out to go to the movies.

He was thrilled and even gave me some light teasing about me asking him out, but I didn’t care since he was worth it. We became a couple after our first date, got engaged after high school, and married after college. I am so glad I let my guard down and gave him a chance to be my everything :) © relshira / Reddit

3.

My husband and I were coworkers and absolutely could not stand each other the first couple of years we knew one another! I thought he was obnoxious, immature, and a player who was all too well aware of how good-looking he was and his effect on women. He thought I was cold and uptight.

Neither of these assumptions were true. When we met, he was just coming out of a long term relationship with his high school sweetheart who cheated on him and broke his heart, and I avoided him like the plague because I was a little attracted to him physically and had no interest in being a bed post scratch!

I transferred departments after a few years, and the staff I had been working with threw me a goodbye party, and we got to talking, and by the time the night was over, we were friends. I was in a relationship at the time, and we stayed friendly.

When my then boyfriend and I broke up, we happened to be out with our group a few days later. And he point-blank, very directly told me that he had been waiting for my relationship to bust up, and was going to give me a few months to move on. He had no interest in being my rebound, but he planned to be “my last first date”. And he was. © magslou79 / Reddit

4.

I was already dating someone, John, at the time, and I always fought with his friend, Caleb. He would tease me and used to always pick on me and joke about my stories with the kids I teach. John wasn’t the best. He wasn’t giving me the love I wanted, he always said it was hard for him to love, even though he had no trouble loving all his exes.

When I confronted Caleb about it, I expected him to joke around the topic. But, he wasn’t too happy to hear about it, telling me I don’t deserve this. Eventually, I couldn’t take it anymore, since it felt like my relationship with John was dragging along to nothing. Caleb was by my side.

As you can expect, I ended up falling for Caleb because John wasn’t giving me what I needed. But to my shock, when I confessed my feelings to him, he smiled, not with warmth, but pity. “I needed you to leave him,” he said, “Not for love—just closure.”

I couldn’t believe someone could be so cold. I decided to step off the dating pool for a bit and just as I did that, I found my future husband. Lesson? Don’t try so hard to be loved, it’ll find you when it’s the right time.

5.

My husband and I. We knew each other in high school. I dated his close friend.

We couldn’t stand each other. We couldn’t even be in the same room without fights erupting. The guy I was dating got so fed up with us all the time. Eventually that guy and I went our separate ways and my now husband and I moved to different states and kind of lost touch.

Ten years later, we reconnected on Facebook. We had both grown up a lot. It worked. We’ve been together for eight years now and have a baby. © CallieCatsup / Reddit

6.

I met my best friend [K] in 2007 when we were 19. About two or three weeks after we met the first time, K and I went out to get food at a diner, and he brought his high school best friend with him [B], without telling me. For some reason, this guy didn’t like me—he was super rude, barely talked.

I could not tolerate B and told my friend to not bring him around me anymore, which would have worked in a bigger town but didn’t work in ours. Ran into B throughout the summer, we had weird blistering chemistry. One night at a party, we both ended up kissing. Then we got in a fight and didn’t talk for a while.

Then we dated. Then we broke up. Then we dated. Then we broke up. Then we dated. Then finally we really truly broke up when I was 22ish, and I was devastated for months, and it took me forever to realize how badly unhealthy everything about that was.

Enemies to lovers in real life for me was a rollercoaster of emotions. In my opinion, it works 100% better as a book trope. © foxglove_farm / Reddit

7.

My old boss! My section was working a special project and my boss, “Joe”, and the other office’s boss, “Jane”, absolutely couldn’t stand each other. They were both acting as our boss, so we were kind of caught in the middle.

He would come in and tell us to do something, then she would tell us to do the opposite and pitch a fit when we told her that Joe had already given us a directive. Joe would come in and vent about her on a regular basis.

Fast-forward a year and the project is complete, and we’re back in our normal work center working for Joe. My coworker comes to me and says, “Joe is dating someone. Remember Jane? They’re together now.”

At first, I was happy for him. He’s a great guy and deserves to be happy. Then I remembered who Jane was and almost died laughing. They’re married now. © BlueBubbleGame / Reddit

8.

Had a guy that always wanted to pick a fight with me for no reason. I’d always be minding my own business just for him to come up to me, ask me a million questions, just anything to get under my skin.

Our school had 4 dances throughout the year. This was the 3rd one, I believe. The theme was for winter and everyone was dressed very nicely. I walked in, and he was the first person I noticed. Ugh!

But to my surprise, he walked up to me and said, “Wow, you look beautiful” and I responded he didn’t look too bad himself. We separated for a while. Later on, he found me sitting alone. We started having a normal conversation. Told me his date ditched him. I showed up without one to begin with.

Then, the slow song. He asked me to dance. We were now each other’s dates. Dated until I moved out of state and lost touch. It’s been I think close to 17 years and I still think about him. I hope he is doing well. ©_FuzzyKiwi_ / Reddit

9.

I had this co-worker, Katie, she was insufferable. She always complained about my “work ethic.” Anyway, at the time, I was married to the woman of my dreams.

Until Katie decided to tell me straight up, “Your wife is cheating on you.” She claimed to have seen my wife with another man at the mall and saw them kissing. I refused to believe her, thinking this is another one of her games, until my wife became lazy with hiding her traces and I eventually caught her.

I came to work defeated, expecting Katie to gloat, but instead, she looked sympathetic. “Why’d you tell me?” I asked her. She looked at me, “Because I didn’t like watching someone lie to you. Even if I can’t tolerate you a little.”

“You tolerate me now?” She paused. Smiled, slow and dangerous, “Not today.” And you can imagine how things went from there.

10.

In high school, my best friend grew close with another guy in our class. We couldn’t stand each other—he was a bossy, elitist “ladies man,” obsessed with getting into med school and the shiny car his dad bought for him.

I, on the other hand, was a goofy loudmouth who largely wore second-hand men’s button-down flannels, ripped jeans and Converse. I didn’t wear makeup or, in his words, didn’t “take care of [myself] like other girls do.”

His arrogance, insensitivity and superficiality got on my nerves again and again. We both loved our mutual friend, though. So we were always together. We made peace with that.

One afternoon, not long before graduation, we were alone, and we got into an argument. And at some point he just shook his head and said, “I swear to god, you constantly piss me off, but there are times I want to kiss you so hard. I have no idea why. But I do. I really do.” A week later, we locked ourselves in his bathroom and kissed. © standardizedbecca / Reddit

Some love stories start with sparks of tension, and those often turn out to be the juicier ones! Every love is unique and offers a lesson. In these cases, it’s to give it a chance and setting some differences aside. That said, these fairytale enemies to lovers stories are the perfect dose of drama, but if you’re looking for more traditional love stories, find them here.