Our Love Story: Part I
In honor of Valentine's Day I thought it would be fun to type out our love story. 6 years and three kids later and I'm already forgetting a lot of the details so I want to get it written down before I forget everything.
I always kind of dread when people ask us how we met because it is a long and kind of weird story ha. We were dating back before the age of Tinder and before social media got really big, so we usually just say we were set up by mutual friend and leave it at that. Here is the long version of the story.
It was January 2012 and I had just finished my first semester of school at BYU. I was loving it and was having a blast living with my roommates. My roommates knew that I had never had a real boyfriend before so they were always joking (or so I thought) about finding someone for me.
After we got back from Christmas break, my roommate, Nannette, kept telling us all about the guy she had started dating during the break. His name was Alex and he was in her singles ward in Texas. He had an older brother, Leland, who she wanted to set me up with. They were planning to come to Utah for a visit during spring break.
She (and Alex) suggested we should start texting so it wouldn't be awkward when we met in person. All I knew about Leland were the things Nannette had told me and what I gathered from his Facebook ha. So not very much at all. One thing that stuck out was that he had never kissed a girl. I had also never kissed anyone, so I really wanted my first kiss to be with someone who hadn't kissed anyone either. Looking back this is kind of stupid, but I was 18 and it was super important to me at the time ha.
I also knew Leland was 5 years older than me. It seemed like a big age gap at the time and I was pretty sure he would think I was too young for him. At BYU there were a lot of guys who refused to date freshman so I had that in the back of my mind. I figured we would text a few times and then it would fizzle out but I did it just to appease my roommates.
Anyways, finally we texted for the first time. It was a little awkward but fun. We exchanged Office jokes and got to know each other. The next day we immediately texted again and started texting everyday. One thing that was great about our relationship was that right from the beginning there were no games. We never waited days to text so we wouldn't look desperate or anything. We both just knew what we wanted and knew that we liked each other right away so we just went for it.
I think it was probably a week after we started texting that we talked on the phone for the first time. It was never really awkward, it just felt normal and nice to talk without texting. This is going to sound cheesy, but I have always told Leland I loved his voice and I vividly remember thinking his voice was so hot the first time I heard it ha.
Soon after we set up our first Skype date. Skype is awkward no matter who you are talking to and with 6 roommates there was zero privacy in our apartment. I remember I set up my laptop in the living room (because it had the best lighting :) ) and all my roommates listening in from the kitchen out of sight. Needless to say it was pretty uncomfortable ha, but I still liked him and Skyping became more normal for us as time went on.
I think it was around the end of January that all of us (me and Leland, Nannette and Alex) decided we didn't want to wait until spring break to see each other. We started planning for Nannette and I to fly to Texas when we had a long weekend in February for President's Day. I was so nervous to ask my parents if I could go, and for the money for the plane ticket, but miraculously they said yes! I would be staying with Nannette at her parent's house so it isn't as sketchy as it sounds.
Leland and I were counting down the days until we could see each other in person. We hadn't said "I love you" yet just because that's not really the kind of thing you text ha. But we were pretty much there. I think a week or so before the trip we had decided to be "exclusive" with each other.
Even before we met in person. It felt weird at the time but I think in today's world it is maybe more normal?
To be continued...
I always kind of dread when people ask us how we met because it is a long and kind of weird story ha. We were dating back before the age of Tinder and before social media got really big, so we usually just say we were set up by mutual friend and leave it at that. Here is the long version of the story.
It was January 2012 and I had just finished my first semester of school at BYU. I was loving it and was having a blast living with my roommates. My roommates knew that I had never had a real boyfriend before so they were always joking (or so I thought) about finding someone for me.
After we got back from Christmas break, my roommate, Nannette, kept telling us all about the guy she had started dating during the break. His name was Alex and he was in her singles ward in Texas. He had an older brother, Leland, who she wanted to set me up with. They were planning to come to Utah for a visit during spring break.
She (and Alex) suggested we should start texting so it wouldn't be awkward when we met in person. All I knew about Leland were the things Nannette had told me and what I gathered from his Facebook ha. So not very much at all. One thing that stuck out was that he had never kissed a girl. I had also never kissed anyone, so I really wanted my first kiss to be with someone who hadn't kissed anyone either. Looking back this is kind of stupid, but I was 18 and it was super important to me at the time ha.
I also knew Leland was 5 years older than me. It seemed like a big age gap at the time and I was pretty sure he would think I was too young for him. At BYU there were a lot of guys who refused to date freshman so I had that in the back of my mind. I figured we would text a few times and then it would fizzle out but I did it just to appease my roommates.
Anyways, finally we texted for the first time. It was a little awkward but fun. We exchanged Office jokes and got to know each other. The next day we immediately texted again and started texting everyday. One thing that was great about our relationship was that right from the beginning there were no games. We never waited days to text so we wouldn't look desperate or anything. We both just knew what we wanted and knew that we liked each other right away so we just went for it.
I think it was probably a week after we started texting that we talked on the phone for the first time. It was never really awkward, it just felt normal and nice to talk without texting. This is going to sound cheesy, but I have always told Leland I loved his voice and I vividly remember thinking his voice was so hot the first time I heard it ha.
Soon after we set up our first Skype date. Skype is awkward no matter who you are talking to and with 6 roommates there was zero privacy in our apartment. I remember I set up my laptop in the living room (because it had the best lighting :) ) and all my roommates listening in from the kitchen out of sight. Needless to say it was pretty uncomfortable ha, but I still liked him and Skyping became more normal for us as time went on.
I think it was around the end of January that all of us (me and Leland, Nannette and Alex) decided we didn't want to wait until spring break to see each other. We started planning for Nannette and I to fly to Texas when we had a long weekend in February for President's Day. I was so nervous to ask my parents if I could go, and for the money for the plane ticket, but miraculously they said yes! I would be staying with Nannette at her parent's house so it isn't as sketchy as it sounds.
Leland and I were counting down the days until we could see each other in person. We hadn't said "I love you" yet just because that's not really the kind of thing you text ha. But we were pretty much there. I think a week or so before the trip we had decided to be "exclusive" with each other.
Even before we met in person. It felt weird at the time but I think in today's world it is maybe more normal?
To be continued...
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