We met up as friends through OkCupid. We both presented ourselves as nice and engaging individuals online, but both of us were not thinking much of each other as romantic interests at the time. In fact, we almost didn't meet at all due to the apps settings. We had also simultaneously gone through a serious break-up with our past partners 6 months before, and had been enjoying being single and finding out more about ourselves. #singlelife But there we were about to meet up at Sizzle Pie. Fate has a way of having the last laugh though, and we had both forgotten each others real names. #onlinedating. Rachel, fortunately arrived early enough at Sizzle Pie and scrolled fast and furiously through their chat history. Alex had also done the same, but in his own words, "I totally forgot everything as soon as I saw her." So the first words ever spoken between the couple were, "Are you...antleredpandacat?" As hokey as it sounds, something just came to attention in Rachel. She noticed something was different about Alex. It was as if her internal psyche woke up and thought, "Why, hello there. You might be a potential soulmate! How'd you do?" So though they met as friends, it was very clear by the end of their unintentional 5-hour date that they wanted to be more than just friends. Whenever Rachel asks Alex how she got so lucky to have him, he just replies, "You messaged me back." And the rest is history.