In May 2021, I signed up for an expensive year long eHarmony dating profile. A week and half later I matched with a beautiful redhead named Stephanie. She told me she lived in Yuma and that she was in nursing school. She told me she would be in the valley a week later camping and she that she would like to meet up with me. We set a date to meet up, and when the day came there was radio silence. A few days after her trip she reached out and said she had been too busy and couldn’t make it work. We then started to communicate a little bit more and had a four hour phone call a day or two later. From that point forward we started to talk and Facetime nightly. I invited her to a friend’s summer party in Gilbert, but she had to work that day and said it was unlikely she would be able to come. I was at the party when I got a call around 6:30pm saying she was driving and would be there in about three hours. I asked, “don’t you have to work in the morning?” Her reply was, “yes, but I want to meet you! I’m on my way”. When she walked in around 10:15pm, I was greeted with a hug from a short, beautiful, redhead in all blue scrubs. We left the party shortly after and ended up talking in person until 3am at my house. As we talked, I had two thoughts; first, I am in trouble, and second, can I get a refund on my annual subscription to eHarmony? Eventually, she got a couple hours of sleep in before she woke up at 5:30am to drive back to get to work by 9am. ‘v We’ve dated off and on since that first in-person meeting, but have never gone more than a couple weeks without communicating. We’ve made it through dating long distance for two years, her finishing nursing school, countless adventures together, and learning to love each other in the right way. In October 2024, we decided we should get serious about whether we both wanted this to be for the rest of our lives. On Memorial Day weekend 2025, I proposed to her and she said yes. Late July we picked the date and it’s been a fast and furious sprint to getting married in October.