Let's get married

The exact day we met was May 5, 2018. It was 4 months into my new job at CBS This Morning and my first night out with the other Broadcast Associates on our show, most of whom I hadn't met yet. While taking a photo, Tien appeared out of nowhere and photobombed it. He introduced himself and pompously said, "Oh yeah, I've heard about you." I decided I hated him. For the next 18 months, we begrudgingly coexisted in the basement of 524 West 57th Street, forced to overlap for an entire 60 Minutes™ across our respective shifts at 3AM: the first hour of Tien's and the last hour of mine. Unbothered and in my lane (outwardly), I was always up to something new— making grilled cheese sandwiches with a Hello Kitty panini press in an edit room (OSHA investigations are still ongoing) or filming a new unsanctioned short-form CBS reality show on my Instagram Stories (successfully avoided IP violations). For someone just waking up to start work, Tien did not appreciate any of these shenanigans. So he decided he hated me too. We continued to begrudgingly coexist outside of work. At my birthday party, at his birthday party, at our friends' birthday parties. We were forced to verbalize to each other at one in the summer of 2019, and to my surprise, he was kind of normal. I decided I tolerated him. I think he did too. At this point, I had changed shifts to dayside that (good news) finally gave Tien the peace and quiet he deserved but (bad news) still required him to have to talk to me every day for work related reasons. He was fun and easy to talk to and our conversations were surprisingly filled with back and forth banter. It was then that I decided I liked him. This terrified Tien. In his words: "Suzanne was like the most popular person in the office so if this didn't work out, I know I would have had to leave the industry." But by February 2020, he finally decided he liked me, too. It took us a year and a half to decide we liked each other, and a pandemic to confirm we really meant it. In November 2024, he decided to propose. I decided to say yes. And he got to maintain his job security.