41. College my sophomore year. I was on the men’s lacrosse team and she was on the women’s lacrosse team. It was the first week of school (I just transferred from another college) and I was sitting with a few people at lunch. She walked in and I asked my friends who she was and they let me know. I said “I’m going to end up marrying that girl.” She had a BF of 5 years (later found out that he was a dick) at the time and some guy that obviously liked her said “good luck trying to get that…” She eventually sat down at the same table as me and we chatted. Apparently one of the other girls on her team let her know what I said about marrying her later that day. I received a text a few hours later from a random number and it was her. That’s where it all started. We were very good friends for a while and she eventually ended things with her bf and we started dating a few months later. We have been together for 6 years and we are getting married next year.
42. She sat down next to me on the first day of grad school. We both were into Neil Gaiman and Modern Poetry. I let her borrow the first few trades of The Sandman.
After that we started hanging out more, I showed her around the city (she was from out of town). Bought her a train pass with $20 on it, but I was slow to make a move. If it wasn’t for her roommate saying, “Dude, guys don’t buy train passes for you if they don’t like you,” we might not be together.
Been together 7 years.
