Anna & Jesse met on the dating app Bumble in 2016. Anna was recently out of a long term relationship and starting her new role at Google, while Jesse was still acclimating back to civilian life from serving 7 years in the Military (he got out in 2013, but it takes a long time to acclimate). After a very successful first couple of dates, Anna invited Jesse to a talk at the New York Public Library at the last minute to see Mya Lin speak. Although it was a last minute invite, Jesse agreed, and they met up. The talk was fantastic, and they had a great time chatting about what they learned afterwards. And then, Anna realized that she really actually kind of liked this guy, and that scared the beejesus out of her. The next day, Jesse texted Anna and waited for a response. Nothing. He waited a little while longer...and still, nothing. Jesse realized then, that perhaps he had been, what they call, ghosted...and he left it at that. One year later, Jesse decided to get on Tinder after several of his friends suggested that he might meet a nice girl there (for a short period of time). He joined, logged on, and lo and behold....there he saw her. It was Anna. "Hmmmm. What should I do?" He thought to himself. "She ghosted me....but she's also been liking all of my Instagram posts over the past year, which is SUPER CONFUSING." (Sidebar: Yes. I did that. I not only ghosted him, I liked all his IG photos. I am literally the epitome of a 'bad dater' according to every internet article I have ever read about dating online.). After a brief internal debate, he swiped right (which means "like" in online dating speak). "MATCHED" appeared before him. Jesse: Fancy meeting you here Anna: Hi! I am SO sorry for disappearing. I wanted to reach out but didn't know how. Jesse: That's ok. The timing just wasn't right. Maybe it is now. Do you want to meet up again and find out? Anna: I would love that! And the rest is history!