Welcome To Our Happily Ever After

We recently revisited our story of how we met and began our relationship with our counselor who is walking through pre-marital counseling with us before we get married. That being said, this is very fresh on my mind and brings a smile to my face every time I stop and think about the likelihood of us being where we are today....how close we came (on many different occasions) to never coming together. To never being "us". We met in church. We were apart of our churches' single parent group called SEEN. The group met weekly and also did activities outside the church like events for all our single parent families as well as service projects our families were able to do together. Brian and I were in the group for a year and a half together with no intention of dating or having a relationship of that kind at all. We were just group members. Because of this, our children got the opportunity to know each other as well and build a bond since they spent a consistent amount of time together.....one day, after a nudge from a mutual friend of ours, I asked Brian on a date he didn't realize was a date (which Brian told me later he almost said no to because he's terrible at trivia) we went to a Thursday Trivia Night at a bar and grill. Our trivia name was (and still is any time we go to trivia) Beauty and the Bad Guesses. Brian came up with this one, which I thought was super clever so we went with it. We had never interacted outside of the group so in this atmosphere we got to know each other in a different way. By the end of the night we had a second date already set up and we both knew this connection was something different. Our second date was exactly two days later and Brian made us brunch at his house. We talked for hours and those hours went by so fast I wished time travel was a thing so I could slow down time itself, since I had to leave at a certain time that day. I think it was this second date that really was the turning point for us both. It solidified the fact that this....whatever "this" was, was something real and we no longer looked at each other as just group members that had known each other on a surface level type way for over a year. We wanted to be together and God was opening that door for us right before our eyes....... The rest, as they say, is history. It's now a year and a half later and we're getting married....I don't ever have to wish for time to slow down so I don't have to leave so soon -- because we get to have a life together starting on June 7, 2025 and then we will never have to say good-bye ever again......