Jonathan's Perspective:

Of course it was love at first sight!!! (Don't laugh…) Okay, here's the real story. Landry Young, long time college homie (and childhood best friend to Emily), hosted Emily in Austin in 2019. We briefly met that weekend and ended up sitting together for church. My immediate reaction was she was a “too mature” goodie two shoes that had her life together. Post grad Jonathan was in shambles and someone with their life together was intimidating at best. We went along our separate ways for another year. One fateful spring day in 2020, I slid into Emilys DMs on Instagram to recommend Austin coffee shops to check out because she had recently moved to Austin for a couple months.

Although I had moved to Jacksonville Florida we hit off over text and started daily calls, voice memos, facetimes, and practically every other form of communication. We carried a constant string of communication over the course of 2 years while I was in PA school. She quickly became my best friend and even though her “put togetherness” scared the living hell out of me she kept me sane in PA school.

We upped the ante and started visiting each other, staying for several days at a time. The whole time I kept telling myself that “surely shes JUST a friend”. (Yes, I was delusional and detached from reality. My bad.) Collectively we ended up traveling from Florida to Denver 7 times in 2 years to hang out. (I plead the 5th for any other details…. Just ask me later if I missed anything important.) The rest is history! We separately moved back to Austin and after a dangerously flirty Christmas work party that Emily invited me to, we officially started dating.

She's been my best friend since 2020 and is the love of my life. We’re two peas in a pod and I can't imagine life without her.