We met in 2019 through a mutual friend. I thought he was handsome but didn’t give it a second thought. He however, was pretty persistent. Fast foward a month later, we had our first date at Travis park checking out the Christmas tree. We spent the next 6-8 months in a long distance relationship because COVID hit and the national guard called. I can’t say it was easy but we made the most of it. Post covid, we moved in together and combined our families. In 2021, we purchased a home together and in June 2022 our baby boy was born and our family is complete. Although others may not know it, he is the sweetest and most loving man I’ve ever met. He is selfless and takes good care of his family. I have even turned him into a travel junkie in which we love to do with our children. We are now anxiously awaiting our special day in May!

We met online. I’m not going to say it was Tinder or anything like that, but she was an easy right swipe. She played hard to get, at first. Like really hard to get, almost never responded to me. After her 7th or 8th chance, I was just about to get the hint when she said something very vague and unconvincing. We conversed for a time and she told me about all the things I never asked her. Turned out to be a good bit of foreshadowing there, but she had my curiosity nonetheless. Then, one evening, before we had ever even met one another, I posted some harmless things on my social media, as free, single, and more specifically unencumbered men do. The outrage I received that night was relentless, unyielding, and disproportionate to my imagined crimes. Seems I was hers all along, I just hadn’t been made aware. My mistake. She was, but passionate and focused. So unwilling to reason and recklessly territorial, I looked away for just a moment and my heart was gone. It belongs to her now, ever since she demanded I surrender it that night. And I have never been happier. And more miserable. She seems to make the highs even higher, and the lows more frequent, and I love every bit of it. How can we have been at this for so long, and are only just beginning? I love you Amber Nicole Gomez. Enjoy that name, while it lasts.