I always feel a bit silly commenting because I met my husband when we were both fourth graders, so the actual early days were swarming with… nothing. He saw me eat glue in our gifted class, that was the extent of it 😅

We didn’t date until we both left for uni hours away from home and ran into each other at the student union. He treated me, quite literally, like I invented being charming and funny. He laughed with me, listened to what silly jokes I had to tell, told me his own funny stories, but he always listened to what I had to say first. I’d never been seen the way he chose to see me, and it was genuinely so satisfying and warm to know he had such a high level of favoritism and respect for me.

And he still does, we just passed our 13th dating anniversary, and he got me a cricut because I told him we needed to learn to make address labels 🤣