Have you ever tried long distance dating? Yeah me either. One day after endlessly browsing dating apps, I come across a profile. I go through the motions and end up swiping right and send a message to this person. After some banter through this dating app, this person and I end up meeting. Before, he had asked me “can you do my laundry?” And the type of person I am I responded and agreed (kind of as a joke).
Just as some back story this person was in my area attending drill because he was in the Army. So for context, we met in upstate New York where I lived, and he is from Pennsylvania.
So we meet up and here’s this man holding a sack of laundry. And yes I end up doing his laundry. I ended up cycling the washer two times because I’m having such a nice time with this man. At one point he even asked me, “Is the washer done yet? It takes an awful long time.”
That was almost four years ago now. And this person, Nate, is now my fiancé and we are set to get married in 2026. After a couple months we realized we couldn’t be apart from each other and I ended up moving with him to Pennsylvania. A couple years after that, we were visiting my family in New York. For our anniversary we decided to stay in a hotel in Niagara Falls. He takes me out to this gorgeous lookout over the falls and asks me “what did you wish for earlier?” (Earlier in the day we had taken coins and made wishes to throw over horseshoe falls). Superstitious me replies “I can’t tell you or else it won’t come true!” I then ask what he wished for since he asked me and he then replies, “ I can just show you.” As I turn around I see him down on one knee and speak the words “Will you marry me?” Shocked with joy I didn’t believe it was real, and to this day it still feels like a dream. No amount of distance (not even five hours) could ever come in between me finding my true love. The universe worked so hard to help us find each other, and so many stars had to align to allow us to be right where we were on that dating app while he was in New York for those couple weeks. That day in 2021, I found my forever home. I never thought it existed, but it turns out it does. And I can’t wait for the moment I say, “I do.”
