Found her husband through a dating app

Tinder can be such a horrific landscape of crotch shots and misspelled "compliments" about the way your breasts look in your profile pic that it's hard to believe anyone has actually met a life partner on there. But it happens. Cosmopolitan.com spoke with four women who found everything they were looking for in the place the last place they expected to find it: Tinder.

1. Carrie and Kurt: "He even quit his job to be closer to me."

"I still can't believe I met my future husband on an app, especially since I didn't even write a profile and just had a few photos up there. I'd always received a lot of matches, but it really took a lot of work to communicate with so many people all the time. Plus, I was 34 at the time and was tired of playing games. I was just ready to meet my person already. I'd gotten pretty good at weeding out men I knew I wouldn't like, but even then, I'd still go out with guys on dates where it just didn't seem like it was going anywhere or I'd have really high hopes for the guy and then it'd turn out to be a bust. At one point, I had a different date every night and Tinder almost started to feel like an addiction. Then Kurt messaged me. Kurt first wrote me in July 2014, saying, 'Hi there' with a smiley face. I didn't respond right away, so next morning he wrote again and said, 'Good morning!' About an hour later I responded with a 'Good morning' with a smiley face and we finally started chatting. 

"Our conversation felt so natural and like we'd already been friends for years. He gave me his number within a day and then we started texting. About a week later, we met in person and we've been together ever since. When I was on Tinder, I always put a lot of emphasis on how tall guys had to be in order to date me, but Kurt is actually shorter than I am! I was attracted to him immediately and I still am. In February of 2015, he moved in with me and even quit his job to be closer to me because he lived about 100 miles away from me. Then in December of 2015, he proposed and we're planning on buying a house. I still get excited when I hear his special ringtone for a text or call. We laugh all the time and have so much fun together. We really are the perfect match." —Carrie, 35

2. Katharine and Joe: "Neither of us had any intention of getting into a serious relationship through Tinder, but alas, fate had other plans."

"Both my husband and I had joined Tinder to get back into the dating scene after having just gotten out of long-term relationships. Neither of us had any intention of getting into a serious relationship through Tinder, but alas, fate had other plans. Before I met Joe, I had many guys swiping right and messaging me, but their messages of 'hey' or 'you're hot' weren't really cutting it for me, so I didn't end up going out with anyone. Something about Joe really struck me though, and part of that was because his first message to me was, 'Hey, do you want to grab coffee or a drink?' He was the first and only guy to cut straight to the chase. There's nothing I hated more about online dating than the guys who want to text or email for ages and never actually meet in person. Joe's wanting to meet right away hooked me and we met for drinks the next night. 

"When I finally walked in the bar for our date, I didn't even recognize him despite him being the one who opened the door for me. I just walked in and looked around the bar to search out my date and he just stood right next to me waiting until I noticed him. A year and half later, he asked me to marry him while we were stargazing next to a river in Washington and we got married six months later, this past November. I used to be shy about the way we met, but meeting someone on Tinder is the norm now so who cares?" —Katharine, 30

3. Alyssa and Josh: "I opened the app to deactivate and that's when I saw Josh's face."

"I was tired of the way guys from Tinder were treating me, so I decided to delete it. I opened the app to deactivate and that's when I saw Josh's face. Not only did I find the profile picture of him crawling through mud ruggedly handsome, but he was a nice Jewish boy from my hometown. I told my friends that I would give him 24 hours to chat me before I officially deleted the app. 

"We spent a few days texting each other before he asked me out on a date for that Friday. I already had plans with my roommates who had a serious rule about prioritizing friends over boys, so I sat them down and told them that my five-day texting streak with Josh was so promising that it called for a rain check on girls' night. 

"On our first date, he took me to a place where we got to paint while drinking wine. Conversation was so easy and time seemed to fly by. I asked the employee who was cleaning up if they were closing soon and she responded with, 'Sweetie, we've been closed for 45 minutes, but you two were clearly enjoying each other and I have plenty of cleaning up to do.' Josh discovered that I had never been to the local pizza joint that was famous around town, so we went there next. Our date lasted another two hours after that and the night ended with an amazing kiss. We spent each day for the next week finding every excuse we could to see each other. It turns out that my mom and his aunt had been friends for 26 years at the time. They even claim they'd tried to set us up a year before, but I turned down my mom's request without hesitation. Not only have I met my best friend, but an amazing extension of my loving family, since our families were already friends. Fast-forward two years later, and we are now engaged and moving in together." —Alyssa, 23 

4. Lauren and Kyle: "I figured I'd either hit the jackpot of catfishes, or I was about to catch a really handsome fish."

"Kyle and I met on Tinder in 2013. He was a Wildland Firefighter from Arizona, where I was going to journalism school nearby. One evening, my best friend talked me into creating a Tinder profile, thinking it'd be really funny if I got catfished by someone. After a few days of swiping left and right, I stumbled upon Kyle's profile. He was a very attractive man with 'firefighter' in his bio, so I figured I'd either hit the jackpot of catfishes, or I was about to catch a really handsome fish. 

"He said 'hey' and we started chatting and set up a date a few days later. He chose a really chic, healthy restaurant (which was a plus for me) and ice cream at a 1950s-style ice cream parlor afterward (another huge plus). We had a ton of the same interests but seemed so opposite, and it worked out perfectly. Within a few weeks, we were dating and crazy about each other. 

"When I graduated college in 2015, we moved in together. I began my career in PR and by then, our parents had met and I had become another extension of his family. My parents also absolutely adored him and figured we'd one day get married. We'd had 'the talk' a few times about where we saw ourselves in the future and we knew that we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together. But being only 22 years old at the time, we weren't in a rush. 

"In December 2015, my parents and sister were in town for Christmas, and while I was busy running errands, Kyle pulled my parents aside to ask for their blessing. On Christmas morning while we were unwrapping presents with the family, he handed me a very cheesy (and uncharacteristically random) gag gift: a piggy bank in the shape of a firefighting dog. While I was trying to talk it up and tell him how much I loved it and needed it to save my change in, he turned around and pulled out the most beautiful diamond ring. I sat there in silence with my eyes about to pop out of my head while my best friend asked me to be his wife. Of course, I said yes."  —Lauren, 22 

Follow Lane on Twitter and Instagram.