David and I met my freshman year of college. The freedom of traveling off to a university allowed me to dive into exploring my sexuality and actually pursuing relationships so I had all the internet profiles. Even Hot or Not, I was that classy.
We met online and chatted daily. We hung out once (apparently it was a date, I didn't even know). Some deliciously greasy food and extensive walking made me unfortunately sick. I like to joke the first time we met David made me violently ill.
Over the course of the year we chatted daily while going through separate relationships and experiences. It didn't occur to me for quite some time that chatting with a guy online being the highlight of my day was probably a sign of something.
Sophomore year I discovered he didn't have spring break plans. My plans constituted camping for a week and going nowhere with some friends. It felt natural to invite David along to join us. We'd seen each other maybe 2-3 times total at this point. It never occurred to me I was potentially inviting a creepy stalking ax-murder into the woods. Either love works in mysterious ways or in college I was a young man of poor judgment. Take your pick.
Kismet, is that the word? That camping trip was the kickoff of our relationship. We've spent years growing together and traveling through life - finishing college, starting careers, discovering ourselves, and now starting a family.
We're both big fans of science fiction and fantasy. I'm a CPA (more on that later) and David is a high school science teacher (maybe more on that later too?). We share our values of friends and family and some of our best adventures together simply involve a night on the couch with some booze and giggles.
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