Their story

In Her Words...

In all technicality, we met over Twitter.  I got to be Twitter-friends with his best friend Amber, who lives in Chicago, and she introduced me to Chris, who (according to him) read my Burkina blog, thought I was pretty funny, and asked me about football.  I felt like a guy who thinks I'm funny and simultaneously loves gaming AND football can't be all bad, which of course turned out to be the truth.  We love watching Netflix (which is why our registry is chock-full of TV shows we're dying to watch but AREN'T on Netflix yet! /shakes fist) and of course gaming together.  While he beats me in most everything, I can proudly say I can and have kicked his tail in chess.  He's also never played me in Trivial Pursuit, which is probably for the best.  We learned the hard way just what a difficult thing LDRs are, and it's forged our relationship into a thing made of silk-wrapped titanium. A long-distance relationship isn't for the faint of heart, but what it DOES do for you is boil off all the superficial nonsense and get right down to the bedrock of relationships - communication.  Within three weeks I knew Chris better than I know many people I have known for years, even decades.  We talked about everything, and I mean everything - prior relationships, past mistakes, regrets, personal hangups, money issues, bad habits, good habits, dreams and wishes and future plans.  With as much talking as we've done, you would think we would have run out of things to say to each other.  Fortunately, that has yet to be the case and I'm pretty sure never will be.  After all, people are an ever-changing phenomenon.  I can't wait to see how Chris and I change, both individually and as a couple, as we grow old together.  I can't wait to meet the man that he will be and to introduce him to the woman I will be in twenty years, thirty years, sixty years.  It is so exciting to know that our best years are still shining ahead of us, and I am so happy to be walking toward them holding Chris's hand.

In His Words...

So, I was asked to say a few things about how Liz and I met and stuff like that, but I think Liz actually covered that pretty well, so instead I wanted to talk about why she's so important to me. So, I guess, here goes.

Before I met Liz, I was trapped in a cycle of just not doing anything. Liz has really helped to make me a better person, in every way. I just *feel* better with her around, and knowing she's in my life. I'm sure she's seen the change that she's had on my life externally, but I don't know if she'll ever be able to comprehend just how much she's helped me grow as a person on the inside as well. I would like to think that I have made her life better by being in it as well, but there's really no way I can repay her for everything she's done for me. She is the best thing in my life, and I will be forever grateful to her for being a part of it.