This guy actually met his wife while selling the Big Issue! It took him many months though of befriending her before finally getting a date with her and then a long term relationship with her! Read his amazing true story here because it is too big to post here. It must shows what is possible. I read about this back in April 2013. And he says it was 11 years ago. That means it happened from 2001 to 2002.
https://www.bigissue.org.uk/vendor/peters-story/