Committed To Living A Healthy Life

Our love story...

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Our first encounter with each other was at a party. It was back when all I seemed to know how to do was party. I was double fisting beer and he was being lame and not drinking because he had to work in the morning (woah responsibility and at the time I didn't get it at all. I was also the girl who was hung over for 1/2 of the week). At the time I didn't think anything of the enounter and continued on partying throughout the night. 
 

Naturally, the next day I received a friend request on Facebook from him that I did accept. I have always loved making new friends so for me this was nothing out of the ordinary.  In fact, I had tried making friends on Plenty of Fish but quickly realized the 'friends' option on that site didn't ever really mean friends. However, I have met some pretty decent guys off that site. For every 1 decent man you will find 100 not so decent men. On Facebook, we had a few messages back and forth and I did invite him out a few times with friends (as friends) but he never showed up. At the time all I wanted from him was to be friends. In fact, he was not my usual type at all (nope not at all!). 

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Eventually, he asked me out for ice cream and to this day I believe this was an intentional date and he will deny it saying he just thought it would be nice to get ice cream together. One of my best friends had to convince me to go on this 'date' because I had seriously wanted absolutely nothing to do with this guy. In my opinion, it was a date because he asked only me out AND he ended up paying for my ice cream while I stood in line waiting to pay for my ice cream (talk about feeling like a fool). Anyway, I basically talked his head off about my life story (I like to talk...a lot...about anything and everything) probably hoping that I would scare him off but it actually helped him open up and talk to me about himself. Turns out, I actually liked some of the things he had to say. By the end of the night, my opinion completely changed about him and all of a sudden he was a potential candidate for my exciting dating life (which was not exciting at all).    

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Days passed and he would show up to events that I was at and continued to make interaction with me. He eventually started to ask me out but I still wasn't 100% sure about him and what he wanted (I was never and am still not a wham bam thank you ma'am kinda gal) plus I was still keeping my options open because I was actually kinda liking single life. I figured if he was interested in me enough he would stay interested until I was ready to officially date him which honestly was only 1 - 2 months and in my opinion isn't long at all but if you ask him he would tell you otherwise. 

I finally said 'yes' to dating him and so the love story begun. He treated me better than most men I had ever been with and actually cared for me. We have recently purchased a house together and a few years ago committed to a cat (don't laugh, that was a huge commitment for both of us and it goes to show how much we really do care about animals). We still date each other and work on having a healthy relationship. We don't always see 'eye to eye' but we work through our issues in a reasonable way. We also both have terrible memories so if either of us gets upset we forget about it very quickly and move on! See, there are benefits to having a poor memory. 

That decision to go on that one date ended up being one of the best decisions I ever made. 

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...is my favourite!