Our story. How my wife and I met ♡

My wife and I have been together now for over 7 years, married for 6. Sounds rather U-Haul of us to get married within the first year, but when you know, you know. We actually met back in high school. Back at that time I was not out yet, but we knew each other from mutual classes and even hung out a couple times. Though, the times we did hang out were accompanied by other people who just so happened to be her girlfriend at the time and a friend who I personally had a mini situationship going on with under the table. Again, I still wasn’t out, but this was when I was coming to the realization that I liked girls, so it was fairly new to me.

Fast forward past high school, we go our own ways until a few years pass. I run into her a few times at parties, but that’s about it. She was always playing beer pong and I never failed to spot her in a crowd. After those few encounters, we don’t actually meet face to face again until I stop for gas one day at Safeway where she just so happened to be working. We started talking and catching up about how we had been and the mutual interest in hiking somehow came up leading to us exchanging snapchats. Yes snapchat, you read that right. Anyways, I don’t remember if it was that same day or not, but I was at a friend’s house spending the night when I received a message from my wife. From there we started messaging, which led to texting, which led to planning a hangout, where a mutual friend of ours accompanied us. They came over to my house at the time where we had drinks in the backyard and played card games. Now, I was attracted back to my wife in high school, and even more now considering I was single and interested, but had no idea how to approach another girl. Therefore, throughout our hang out I dropped maybe not so subtle hints about my interest in dating a girl and when my wife went to the bathroom, I seized the opportunity and expressed my interest in her to our friend. Rejection was not my strong suit and maybe that information being relayed to her by someone else would ease the pain if the interest was not reciprocated. Low and behold though my wife asked me to hang out again by inviting me to her brother’s upcoming birthday party at her house. That was the night that changed the dynamic of everything for me.

The day of the party, I go over and we’re hanging out having a good time, having drinks and flirting. A while later we had to go to the CVS up the street to get another bottle of booze, but we decided to stay in the car while our friend went in for the bottle. In the car the flirting continued, and the mood abruptly changed when she looked me in the eyes and asked me if I wanted to kiss her. Right at that moment I just about had a mini heart attack and couldn’t even get out any words. I just nodded innocently and rather quickly at the offer, because HELLO would you say no when the person giving you constant butterflies asks for permission to kiss your lips? I think not. That kiss set off an explosion in both my heart and stomach and in that moment, I just knew she was what I had been waiting for. This exact feeling in this moment was what I had been wanting, yearning for in all past relationships. The night continued with us being inseparable and resulted in us falling asleep in each other’s arms on the trampoline in the back yard. Yes, the trampoline. Under the stars. Cute huh? After the prior evening’s events she asked me on an official date that involved hiking and dinner. The hike did not quite go as planned considering that turned into a failure when the trail led to a section covered in spider webs. You understand. Right? Even though the hike did not go as planned, we still had a dinner to look forward to. After getting my version of all dolled up for our date, we had a nice dinner together that involved my favorite food, pasta! The spot where we went to eat was super cute and romantic and set the entire mood for the rest of the night. Later that night at my house, laying down talking and spending time falling into each other led to her asking me to be her official girlfriend. Yes, this all happened in the matter of 1 week, let us live. To add to it, we actually both proposed to each other the same day after 7 months together. We both had no idea! We moved in together shortly after and then married on our 1 year anniversary and since then, the rest has been history.

Falling for my wife opened my eyes to so many things about myself, including the realization that I am a lesbian. I mean, looking back there were plenty of signs, but it took me actually coming to terms with myself and breaking away from the idea that I had to be with a man. I only dated men in the past, but there were some serious signs along the way, I was just blind to them at the time. Now, even after all of these years together, I still fall in love with her more and more every single day. She is my whole world and through trial and error we have worked on both ourselves and our relationship only to strengthen what we have together today. Love is not easy; it is hard work, and it is unexpected. It’s not something you can fight. When your heart is leading, following it is the best thing you could ever do for yourself. I can’t even put into words for you how much I love my wife. All I can really say, is that when I think of her, my heart overwhelms with so much emotion that my eyes can’t help but fill with tears from that immense feeling. I can’t imagine my life without her, and I wouldn’t dream of a life without her by my side. She is the person I want to grow old with. The person I want to build a home and family with. She is truly the best thing to have ever happened to me and I couldn’t imagine my life any other way. She is the one person that I feel I can truly be myself with and know that she loves me unconditionally despite my flaws. My heart aches when she is away from me. She is everything to me. She is my home. It never fails to amaze me how we started to where we are now. I love her more than anything in this word and absolutely no one and nothing could ever change that. As a hopeless romantic, I love romance movies, novels, and to hear other’s love stories, but our love story will forever be my favorite.

I would love to hear the story about how you and your other half met! Share your love story in the comments. ♡