We both were no strangers to online dating. If you're familiar with how dating apps like Hinge work, then you'll know how they ask you prompts that show up on your profile as conversation starters. Also, Hinge gives you a limited number of free likes plus one free premium-like (a "rose"). It just so happened that Chris was all out of free likes when he found my profile and decided to use his one free rose. This bumped his profile to the top of my matches, and I decided to do some browsing. It was then that I saw this prompt: "My Love Language is..." where he answered: "I dunno, English I guess..." I busted out laughing and knew I had to give this clever man my like. From there, we bonded over mutual interests and set-up our first date at a local Dave & Buster's arcade. We both went into the date with zero expectations, thinking it would just be another first Hinge date scenario. But after an hour of talking and laughing over dinner, followed by a night full of arcade games and rubber duckies, we eventually ended up at a nearby Waffle House where we talked about our faith in Jesus Christ and our other shared values. I remember leaving that night thinking "I just met someone really great." We kept texting and seeing each other the rest of the week. Our first date was on Monday, December 12, 2022. By Saturday, December 17, 2022, we were boyfriend and girlfriend. The rest was history.