This is the story of how my crush became my husband. Each Wednesday I’m sharing another piece of the puzzle. Need to catch up? Here is last week’s post: The Moment I Knew Recap from last week: Nate and I started dating the end of September and I was scheduled to leave in January for a semester long cross-cultural program.  We fell in love quickly, but were dreading my departure. Eventually our big goodbye came and our long distance relationship started.  It was time for my semester in Central America to begin while Nate stayed on campus to finish his senior year.  I’ll never forget the look of complete sadness that filled Nate’s eyes … [Read more...]

This is the story of how my crush became my husband. Each Wednesday I’m sharing another piece of the puzzle. Need to catch up? Here is last week’s post: The Bowling Alley Nate had a look to him.  With his earrings and long hair he gave off an impression that he had a bad boy edge.  We had just confessed our feelings for each other the night before, but if we were going to date I needed to know how bad was he. On a walk around campus I asked Nate some hard questions and was thankful to get back all the right answers.  Nate was exactly what I was looking for.  I decided to ask Nate one last question. “Do you really think this … [Read more...]

This is the story of how my crush became my husband. Each Wednesday I’m sharing another piece of the puzzle. Need to catch up? Here is last week’s post: Not Interested Again I found myself talking to Nate at the local bowling alley.  It was our college’s late night bowling event.  I was with my girlfriends.  He was with his guy friends.  Most of the night had already gone by before we stood face to face and started chatting. “So there is something I wanted to talk to you about,” he started. Oh no. My heart literally went into panic mode.  This was it.  He was finally going to acknowledge my crush and tell me that he doesn't feel … [Read more...]

This is the story of how my crush became my husband. Each Wednesday I’m sharing another piece of the puzzle. Need to catch up? Here is last week’s post: What Happend to Him? Here it was… The conversation I was dreading. I made a bold move and decided to visit Nate at his apartment. Usually we chatted around campus or if he happened to be in my dorm building, but this was the first time I stepped out of my comfort zone and sought him out. Nate was happy to see me and everything was going well until… “At least once a year I end up needing to tell a girl that I’m not interested in her. I talk to a lot of people. I try to be nice to … [Read more...]

This is the story of how my crush became my husband.  Each Wednesday I’m sharing another piece of the puzzle.  Need to catch up?  Here is last week’s post: IHOP. One night I walked into the main lounge of my all girls dorm to find Nate sitting at a table reading the newspaper. I freaked out. I freaked out in a silly school girl crush kind of way. Immediately I ran back to my room and announced with much giddiness to my roommate that, “NATE IS IN THE LOUNGE!!!!!!” So what is a silly freshman girl suppose to do when her crush is sitting in her lounge? Talk to him?  No, no…  That would make way too much sense. Instead I had … [Read more...]

This is the story of how my crush became my husband.  Each Wednesday I'm sharing another piece of the puzzle.  Need to catch up?  Here is last week's post: The Window. I climbed through Nate’s window at the very beginning of the school year, but Nate and I didn't have any more interactions until we shared a speech class the second semester.  He gave very serious speeches about political issues.  I gave a speech about the history of Crayola crayons.  We didn't seem to have a thing in common, but…  He was cute, nice, and extremely outgoing.  He was so stinking charming! I looked forward to Nate’s speeches and our sporadic small talk, … [Read more...]