Marrying My High School Sweetheart

This is my version of our little story. I think one day I am going to have him write his version, love to see things through a man’s eyes.

Matt and I have been together since 2012, we were both seniors in high school. We had the same group of friends for quite a while, and this group of friends are still our best friends to this day! Matt and I had been texting back and forth for quite some time and I was pretty obsessed with him. My three girlfriends and I had a facebook group and I posted screenshots of conversations with him and we would all examine if he was flirting with me. So that kind of obsession which I am going to tell myself that for a high schooler is totally normal. 

Along comes October of 2012, we were at a friend's birthday party, not a friend that we were close with so I am not sure how we were invited to this birthday party, I’ll say it was fate we were both there. We just hung out all night with all of our friends and the same friend was driving us both home. At this point in our “talking” I was so annoyed he wouldn’t kiss me, he kept saying he was just nervous, so I figured this was my chance to just pull the trigger and initiate it myself. We were all walking to the car and I kind of pulled behind so all of our friends were ahead of us and we were behind and I kissed him. I was so nervous and giddy, as you are, lol. But, in my head I was like “nailed it, you go girl” and the whole ride home we held hands. For the next month or so, we started talking even more and on December 4th, 2012, he finally asked me to be his girlfriend OVER TEXT MESSAGE. Very millennial high schoolers move right there.  And at this point you would think I would’ve jumped right on it and shouted yes. But I didn’t, I wasn’t sure, so I ignored him and called my best friend and questioned what I should do. She told me to of course say yes, so after a few hours of ignoring him, I finally responded and here we are! 

Since we were seniors in high school, I was going away to college and he was not. So, we figured we would just stay together and see where things take us. There were times that were really tough and a lot of learning for both of us. We had known each other for years, and we really did grow up and become adults together, so i think this was just another piece of that puzzle. And if we could make it months without seeing each other, for three years, we knew there was something there. I graduated in May of 2016 and I moved back to my hometown and we decided we wanted to move out of our parents house and move in together, but our other friend was looking to move too, so the three of us moved in together. This wasn’t stange for us at all, and actually was a pretty decent roommate situation (I hope our friend feels the same way!) We signed a lease on an apartment and a few days later we went on vacation. 

We went to St. Croix with Matt’s entire family, it was tons of fun and nice little we graduated and we moved out celebration for us! It was the last day of our vacation and I did not feel well at all, so I was laying in bed complaining, and Matt came to my side of the bed and asked me to marry him! It was such a funny moment and very us, just the two of us and nothing too fancy. Of course, I said yes!

We decided to wait a little while to get married to save up some money and make it the wedding we truly wanted. So we got married March 29, 2019 on Long Island, New York. It was the absolute best day in the world, and so much fun. Everyone still talks about the wedding and boy was it a crazy night, I wouldn’t change it for the world. 

In October of 2019, we decided to move out of state and headed over to Tampa, Florida where we currently reside. A month after we moved here we got pregnant with our sweet baby girl, Norah and she was born July 2020, in the height of the pandemic. 

I’ve heard so many people say that marrying your highschool sweetheart is a crazy thing to do, but there is never a moment that I don’t think it was the right thing to do. He is the best human and deals with me, which is a whole lot. He is calm and level headed, when I am not, and now seeing him become a dad has been the greatest gift. I feel lucky everyday to feel loved, and sure no relationship is perfect, but I would not trade this for the world!