This little story started with a down day for me at work. I complained to a friend/ coworker, Chad Adams, about the dating scene. As I often complain, he didn’t seem to be paying much attention. He returned to his building, and the next thing I knew, he sent me a name to check out on Facebook and asked me what I thought. I said he was cute, so he asked if he could tell him about me. Sure, what could it hurt? Chad talked about him before, and he seemed like a good guy.

My very good friend Chad was just chatting one day about if I was dating or been on any dates of late. I recall thinking that, nope, I sure haven't, and I am not too sure I even want to dip a toe into that pond! He questioned me about online dating just as a way to meet new people, and to be honest the online dating was looking like a bigger waste of time. Hearing horror stories all the time or even reading about them while scrolling FB or IG. One day just out of nowhere Chad tells me that he knows of someone that could be of interest to me. At first, I took it with a grain of salt, really wondered if I was being pranked or the butt of a joke which could be difficult to tell sometimes coming from Chad. I remember hearing him talk of Storm just in passing conversation with what all was going on at his work. I know when he told me that her name was Storm I recall thinking, that is a very interesting name. He told me that he thought we would get along very well because we were both active people, wanted to live healthy, and enjoyed working out to name a few things. He told me that he talked to her about me and that she thought I was cute (which I hardly believed because I figured he was messing with me) and I should send her a FB request to be friends while also to reach out to her to start conversation. At that time in my life, I was the complete opposite of being social! I did look through some of her pictures on FB and I also thought she was very beautiful but certainly didn't want to seem too overbearing, so I just causally went on with life as usual. Really actually testing if she was interested or not. At least, that is what I thought I was doing..

I will tell you, this guy was so elusive I started to think Chad didn’t tell him. I asked Chad if he talked to him, and he said he was going to send you a friend request so we could talk. This guy didn’t send anything, so if you know me, I am not patient, so I sent him a request. He accepts, and still nothing, no words, no page creeping. This is a little odd, and I am starting to wonder if he’s just not interested. I decided to bite the bullet and message him anyways. And of course, he was playing disc with Chad, so I am sure he got picked on a little bit for texting while playing. We started talking and basically never stopped. It was a couple/ few weeks of nonstop talking and again I have to steer him in my direction. Hey guy, what's up? Do you want to actually meet in person? He agrees we should meet. We met at Dolese, and I walked the course while he played. It was weird cause he made me go first, ladies first, and I had no idea where I was going. It took another nudge from me to meet up for our first actual date and from that point on we were never apart. He rarely went to his house in Moore but when he did, I went there too.

Fast forward a couple of weeks and I still hadn't reached out via FB nor sent a friend request. That was all really because I didn't believe any of it to be true. Then one day I noticed I had a new friend request from none other than Storm. I believed then that it was probably more real than I had previously thought but did I accept right away..? No I didn't LoL I think I waited like 2 or 3 days before accepting. We are now FB friends and you probably think that I then sent a DM to start a conversation..? Nope. Didn't do that either. I think she finally got tired of me not being pursuant, so she sent me a message! I will say that is the day that forever changed my life before I even knew it. What began as small talk, turned into long, late night conversations like we were both 16 all over again. We finally met up after a few weeks of great conversation and questions about each other. We went to Dolese disc golf course in hopes that maybe I wouldn't be the shy person life was turning me into. We again made very good conversation and it was just easy to talk to Storm and she was so beautiful in person I tried not to be or act like a fool, which I can do very easily! After that, it was another couple of weeks before we went out on a date for sushi which again took her to have to be the aggressor and put the question in my court. Fear of rejection or something close to that prevented me from actually asking her first but when she asked me, I immediately was onboard with going out on a date. That first date has now led us here, planning our wedding and joining our lives together with the people that mean the most to each of us. It has been a stellar rollercoaster of a ride and the best is yet to come!!