We technically met years before we ever really met. For a long time, we worked at the same company, passing each other in meetings and sharing the same space without realizing we were standing next to our future person. Different departments, different routines, no idea what would quietly unfold. When our teams began working closely together, conversation came easily. Small talk turned into longer conversations, and longer conversations turned into something we both looked forward to. Somewhere along the way, coworkers became friends. Before long, we started sneaking away on lunch breaks to a quiet nature trail just up the street. What may have looked mildly scandalous to some, was really just two people talking, laughing, and slowly falling in love. We bonded over poetry, shared thoughts we didn’t say out loud anywhere else, and found something special in those stolen moments. What began as simply coworkers slowly became something more, and eventually, forever. Years later, that same trail where we once escaped the workday became the place we got engaged. Our story is proof that love doesn’t always make a grand entrance. Sometimes it starts quietly, grows unexpectedly, and maybe bends a few workplace rules along the way.