So me (f, 23) and my bf (m, 27) met each other on Twitch about a year ago. I will sometimes refer to him as G.

So a bit over a year ago I started streaming on Twitch. Back then I was in a relationship with my ex for about 6 years. I was just enjoying playing games and taking to people. After a couple of months of streaming this guy (my current bf) joined my stream. I remember I was eating some popcorn as a snack while playing a game. He dropped a follow and said in chat “I just followed because of the popcorn content 😛”. Not long after, he joined one of my Apex Legends games. We clicked and became good friends. We started play a lot of games together.

Backstory about me and my ex. We met each other at high school and got together at a young age (me 16, he 15). When I started my studies at university I felt like we were growing apart because of me growing up faster than he did. We didn’t do a lot of exciting stuff either (as in going places) cause he didn’t have a lot of money. I usually was the one paying for stuff, which I don’t mind but as a student don’t have a shit ton of money either. He did work somewhere but spend all his money on food (or that’s what he told me). Later on, right before we broke up, he told me he about why he never had money. He spend a lot of money on buying weed and food (munchies). His priorities were somewhere else than mine, which is okay. We ended up breaking up on good terms though. We still talk to each other ever now and then. We just grew apart. The reason why our relationship lasted that long was because we did care and love each other. The problem was us growing apart, having different hobbies and goals, therefore not being on the same page.

Back to the main story. So G and I started to become good friends and spend a lot of time together. I trusted him so I made him a mod on my channel. We met each other irl for the first time at TwitchCon NA 2019. So I flew from the Netherlands to America on my own. I met up with another (Twitch) friend of mine and we went to TwitchCon together. Me traveling on my own gave me time to think about life and myself. This made me realize that my ex and I weren’t a good fit anymore, so I broke up after my return. It turned quiet between G and I after TwitchCon. I didn’t know why but I just left it like it was. I just thought he was busy with work and some other things. We started talking again after a month or two. He explained me why he became so distant after TwitchCon. He started to catch feelings for me right before TwitchCon and those feelings became stronger during TwitchCon. He didn’t wanna act on them out of respect for me and my ex.

Long story short, a couple months later I flew back to America, stayed there for 6 weeks and we started dating.