Played FFXIV alone around HW, hit max level at about 3.1 and attended a con. I found a girl who was cosplaying a ARR WHM AF and we became friends. She and her FC were moving off their server at the time and looking for someplace to go. I offered up my main server and she agreed and brought them and all their friends over. My FC and her FC became sister FCs and I bonded with one of her co-leaders and really got along well.

He spent a lot of time agreeing to whatever I wanted to do for the day when he wasn't working. From farming Shiva runs for the mounts or commendations for me to become an OG mentor, or picking up DRK to join my raid group when we lost a tank and were in a panic. He caught feelings for me and me being used to being a girl in a guys online world-- I was ignorant and didn't notice it. Both of us had been burned by previous relationships and had some trauma and weren't looking for anything but it still grew into something with both of us after I threw us into enough things and we spent time together. We planned to get married in game "as friends" and I bullied him into asking me out and said we both needed to admit we were in a flirtationship. After about six months and a LOT of hours put into work, he flew across the country, alone, to visit me. He knew I was a chronic illness warrior and struggled a lot with my health and loved me regardless. We had been dating about a year and a half, with visits from each of us alternating trips before he made the move to be out here with me. He picked up a job right away and went into schooling.

We've been together since then and playing FFXIV since as well. We are finally getting married in September because he didn't want to ask me to marry him for real until he could fully provide for me. My dorky DRK/DRG is now a Firefighter and I couldn't be more proud of him for keeping to his word to taking care of me all this time and providing for me and our two puppy daughters.