#meetcute

I honestly can not remember when I met Eric. We have racked our brains of if there was an exact moment that we met, but for the life of us we can not remember, I guess that's what happens when you meet the person you're going to spend the rest of your life with when you're 14. We attended Bristol Plymouth, the local vocational school and back in 2001, when I was a freshman and he a junior, I would hang out with our circle of friends playing Magic: The Gathering in the cafeteria before school. From these games in the morning, our friendship grew over the years. When he left for college, we kept in touch, and our friendship started to become deeper.

Then my freshman year of college, a snow storm changed everything. I was flying back to Wisconsin from Christmas break, and when I got into Detroit, my flight was cancelled. I was too young to get a hotel room, but could not get out until the next morning. I panicked and pulled out my laptop and logged onto AIM (yes it was that long ago) looking to talk to anyone. There was Eric, online at the same time, and I reached out, looking for any kind of distraction for a long night ahead. We chatted online for hours, he kept me sane in a nerve racking time, and from then on I started to look at him in a different light.

Fast forward to the end of my sophomore year, I start getting calls just about every weekend, and its Eric asking every weekend if I can come to a party. One problem was I was a 27 hour drive away and did not have a license. I would always reassure him that I was coming back at the end of April. I would come up that weekend to Boston to visit.

When I returned home, I kept my promise and went into Boston for a night. I brought along a friend and she kept asking if Eric was a potential romance or just a friend. I swore to her, he was just a friend, and we were just going to have some fun. Well that night, Eric and I found ourselves on a couch in his dorm, and he turned to me and kissed my cheek saying “ I have waited 6 years to kiss you” I smiled and in my typical sarcastic tone replied “ What took you so long?”

From that night back in 2007 we have been together. In 2010 on a cold December night, under the Christmas tree in the Boston Common, he got down on one knee and proposed. Two years later we married, and this upcoming may we will have been married 14 years and dating for 20 years.

I get asked sometimes how we have stayed together so long? My answer is always the same, marry your best friend, that friendship is the strong foundation of your love, that no matter what happens, we are always friends, and can confide and build each other up.

Here’s to a lifetime of laughter, love and friendship!