Kissing Frogs
My dating life was pretty simple - after going through middle school...and then high school...and then 2.5 years of college without a boyfriend or really any substantial flings, I met him at the one sports bar I had spent the bulk of my Saturday nights at in college.
I watched a lot of my friends talk about boyfriends, go on dates, talk about drama surrounding boys, and watched break ups but it never really happened to me. Part of me always felt I was missing out on something, but then the other part was content with my "simple" life as I got to spend time with girl friends and not deal with any drama!
After going to a Florida Georgia Line concert that night with two friends (looking back on it, they were even more random than meeting my now fiancé at a bar), I met him upstairs at Boylan! I actually was feeling pretty gross and had a stomach ache after the concert because I drank one too many budlights there. Budlights + Florida Georgia Line = not a typical night for me. But, since everyone else was going out, I went too.
I remember telling myself I would go for 30 mins and then leave. Jack told his friend that he thought I was cute. I guess Jack was too shy to go up to me, so his friend helped him out and started to make small talk with me while I waited for my drink. Then Jack smoothly jumped into the conversation and his friend took the back seat. Fast forward, and the 30 min night out turned into about a 5 hour night out and here we are now planning a wedding 5 years later!!!
While I always heard you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince, that didn't happen to me at all. When our relationship started to get more serious sometimes the thought crossed my mind that I may have missed out on "life" by not really experiencing dating and all the ups and downs that comes with it. I think people learn a lot from those relationships and experiences, but I am SO lucky that I found someone that has grown with me and challenged me and loved me through it all.
I really believe that everything happens for a reason, and there was a reason that I met Jack that very random night in 2015 and there is a reason that some people meet "the one" when they are 16 and others meet the one when they are 55. I also don't think there is anything wrong with never getting married. Jack has given me more happiness than anything but I think there are other ways to find that type of happiness.