I met Kaleb nine days before my twenty-first birthday two days after I joined Tinder with my MOH, Natalia, to help her through a breakup. Four days later we made it official and we have been attached at the hip since.

There was an instant connection between us. He made me nervous but also made me feel like we could talk for hours. The first night we met he was telling me a story, got sidetracked and stopped himself saying ‘we have plenty of time for me to tell you that story’ and I knew from there he felt the same way I did. This was also the first thing I told my mom about him when I was fangirling to her about him.

Through the years we have grown together, hitting different milestones and being together through different phases of life. He has always been there to make me feel better, he sends me memes when I’m crying about math, he makes me laugh, he makes sure to kiss me before he eats cinnamon, he brings me peanut m&m’s and flowers often ‘just because’, he claims he would love me even if I was a worm (I wouldn’t hold him to that because worms are icky).

He is my biggest encourager, my best friend, and I know that throughout this life we will be okay because we are together.

I met Jessica during Covid a week after my 21st birthday. Our first meeting was to watch Star Wars Episode 1 and from that moment I was hooked. We watched the remaining 5 films in a row over the next week enjoying all of them and having discussions the whole time like nerds, getting to know each other through mutual interests. As many know, I love to talk about niche topics of interest so there was endless things for me to talk about with Jess.

Fast forward two weeks and the winter event that came to be known as Snovid occurred and there was whiteout conditions in College Station, school canceled, power going out, roads iced over. My trusty Jeep meant I could do as I pleased and my apartment had power and heat so I decided to rescue Jess and her roommates. However, when I arrived, disaster was in progress. The pipes above her room had burst and water was flooding from the ceiling ruining much. I sprung into action immediately and rescued what we could but great loss ensued. My first interaction with her father was actually listening to him over the phone try and console Jess while she tried to remain calm. Our first official date out in public was a trek to try and find food in the snow. I was doing my best to keep her morale up but we kept passing closed signs everywhere. The funniest part of it all was her reaction to my antics… threatening to stab me if I was nice to her one more time! We finally got food after a long while of searching at a Mooyah, and after eating she was back to her affectionate and happy self.

We’ve shared many happy times and shared our fair bit of loss together but through it all we’ve grown these past years deeper in love with each other. I’m so thankful God put her in my life, to love and cherish forever.