So I had been on a few dating websites with no luck at all. All the guys who I was matching with were not interested in anything serious. At that point I was starting to give up. Until I gave Bumble a try! Well, Brennan and I matched and at first I was like "Eh he's kinda cute but I'm not sure". So I waited a day or two before messaging him "hey how are you?" He responded and, not gonna lie, our conversations were kind of dull (haha). We did the basic Hellos, how's you're day going, what we were doing, how work was, things like that. I wasn't too interested at first because he wasn't giving me a reason or wow'ing me. After probably a week of messaging through the app I decided to give him my Snapchat to talk through. I went to work like usual that night and I remember starting my shift and was sitting with a patient that night. He told me he was going shopping for an AC unit for his room. So I settled in at work and sent me a selfie of himself. I thought "Oh okay, your a lot cuter than the pictures on Bumble" so now I'm feeling him way more than before. So we keep chatting & were getting to know each other more but my phone starts dying so he says "I don't want to stop chatting with you I'll bring you a charger". So he drives to the hospital, I meet him downstairs in the parking garage and I see him pull up & think "Ok he drives a nice car that means he has a good job, can pay his own way, that's brownie points and he's cute, more brownie points". So he rolls his window down, I lean on the window sill and see him in person for the first time. It was like butterflies and everything. Literal love at first sight. We talked for a few minutes but I had to get back to my unit and he understood so as we said our goodbyes I surprised him and asked him if I could kiss him. He said yes, I leaned in and gave him a kiss. Instant sparks! I knew in my heart that night I was going to spend the rest of my life with him. I floated back to the unit after that!

I was having Zero Luck finding "The one" as I am back home with my mother, about to give up and cut my losses. I used dating apps rarely most of my interactions were met in person, but with work beating down on my back moving to home based work and increasing work load. I had no time to go out anymore, I went to Bumble and found Melissa almost immediately. I matched with her and bided my time waiting for an answer, since bumble requires the lady to speak first. I waited diligently for a reply to my match and finally she reaches out to me through the app. Trying to be engaging to get to know her and not come off like every other original guy on the app. I tried to get to know her more and more with each passing message I knew she really made me smile. She had much better pictures than I did, given I'm not good at selfies. Time spent messaging back and forth we finally move to a more comfortable platform of talking, Snapchat. This was a better time to show off my "selfie" abilities. Finally we started to talk more, having more involved conversations. My heart smiling for each message that came up with her name. Time skip forward a couple more conversations, she is working night shift at the hospital. I don't want to leave our conversation stand where it is with me holding on to every word. Her phone is dying, I have to make sure she has a way to call me if she gets into trouble on her way home in the morning. Late night drive, windows down, music blasting. I pull into the parking garage, I see this stunning girl walk out to where I was to meet Melissa. I smile, she smiles back. I hand her the charger cable, we talk for a few moments. I'm nervous palms sweaty, knees weak unable to hold a conversation let alone think. We start to say our good-byes still smiling end to end and finally she leans back in and asks for a kiss. WE KISS! Fireworks explode at that moment I knew my feelings were assured and I knew I loved her.