My fìance asked me to write our story. So here we go. I do want to preface this with there is hope for those stuck in the scary, sucky, and dark place known as the friendzone.

I’m going to take you back to middle school, more specifically 8th grade (2014) Where I met my best friend and soon to be wife. Our relationship began with me (Josh) thinking that this girl is kinda cute and developing a crush on her which unknowingly to me at that time was reciprocated towards me. Now I wasn’t the best talker back then so how I got her to notice me is a mystery to me. That’s besides the point. The point is that in between church services I would seek Gabby out to talk to her and we became good friends at that time but then I found out that she was going to move to California at the end of that summer. I did get her kik before she left and was able to continue to stay connected for a bit. Gabby and I would reconnect every now and then for the next couple of years when she was in town and I would develop that little crush again every time.

Fast forward 4 years. Gabby has moved to Atlanta and me and my mom were raising puppies. Then one day I got a text from her asking if she could come over and see the puppies. And so the day came and we met up at my place for the first time in a long time. We talked for about 4 hours and it only seemed like 10-15 minutes. I was so happy. This time I actually made an effort to stay in contact and get to know her more. I did that by doing what I called “the random question of the day!” This is where I would pick out a question that sometimes was random, sometimes not random and used them as ice breakers to start conversations. We actually became really close in a short amount of time by talking through Snapchat videos. All of this went on for a while then a day came that I have deemed as the “strictly friends day.” On this day I was at work and snapping back and forth with gabby. Now I don’t remember how it was brought up but she had brought up that she went on a date with some other guy the night before. I’m freaking out at this point and start asking questions to get more information on this date. I ended up getting jealous and telling her that I liked her. She said, “we’ll talk later about this”. The conversation we had that night was not a fun conversation to say the least. I don’t remember much of our talk but I do remember Gabby saying that we are not going to be dating and that we are going to just be “strictly friends''. She said nothing else while I’m on the phone crying.

Thank you, for helping us start our lives together. We truly appreciate it. ❤️