We met in the fall of 2008 when I transferred to Clemson where Chris was already attending college. I was assigned to on-campus housing right next door to Chris, so we met and became friends right away! We both dated other people and never had any interest in one another romantically, so it gave us the chance to get to know each other as friends with no hidden agendas and no trying to impress one another. This is one of my favorite things about our story, because it made our transition into dating SO fast and easy. We had know idea that one short year later we would fall in love so quickly. We were both recovering from over-the-summer breakups, and we had already decided during the previous year to sign up to be neighbors again (collectively, with our roommates!) As the new school year began, we found ourselves bonding over conversations we had never really talked about before; conversations about relationships, and subsequently, conversations about what we both desired in a future spouse.