The Short Version:

Ed and I went to FDU together and that's where we met. We were friends throughout college and dated other people before realizing that we were meant to be together as a couple and not just friends and decided to date and then get engaged. That's the short version. There's a ton of story in between if you'd care to read on...

The Long Version:

We went to FDU together and were lucky enough to be placed in the same building together, Hamilton Twombly Dorms. He lived on the 4th floor and I lived on the 2nd. I think the first miracle that brought us together was that we both decided to go to FDU. The second was that we were in the same building. The 3rd was that I made friends with a guy named Brian who lived on Ed's floor, so that's how I started to hang out up there and met Ed. I remember first seeing Ed when he held the door open for me and my roommate. My first thoughts were that he was really cute and nice and I hoped he thought I was good looking too. I think I saw him on the 4th floor and remembered him and we started talking and realized how similar we were. We both had a goofy sense of humor and loved being silly together. I can't really remember a time when we weren't friends in college so I think we hit it off immediately. The only problem was, we were both in relationships. But that soon changed once my high school boyfriend broke up with me. I was pretty devastated but luckily I had a friend like Ed to help me through it. Whenever I was sad about it, or saw a picture of my ex and his new girlfriend on myspace (yes, back in the day there was myspace before facebook), or had recently talked to him on AIM (yes, I know I'm dating myself again) I would go to Ed who would cheer me up. We hung out all the time and did everything together. I quickly fell in love with him, but we could only be friends because he had a girlfriend which was pretty sad for me. But I was still happy to be his BFF (Best Friend Forever) in the friend zone because I would rather have been his friend than not, even though I thought he didn't love me like I loved him. We had a lot of good times just hanging out in the dorms, going sledding and ice roading in the winter, and making food together in the cafeteria. And then one day during our second semester, Ed introduced me to a guy named Shane and we started dating in our sophomore year. 

Ed and I grew apart after our freshman year. I was dating someone else and Ed was living off campus. We would still try to keep in touch and would get together about 2-3 times a year during college to hang out or catch up. Whenever we hung out, it was like time never passed and we were our old silly selves again. Some of the things we did were double dates, Ed coming to swim in my parents pool (and trying to dive), Greek life mixers, visiting him at his apartment, Ed coming to some of my house parties, and taking our dogs to the dog beach. I had accepted that I was forever friend zoned but that was ok because I was with someone else. Long story short, my ex and I grew apart and I was not happy with him anymore. I knew we were on the rocks and even after several months of trying to work on our relationship, we couldn't rekindle it. I was really sad living out in Pennsylvania but decided to have a house warming party to cheer me up and bring my friends over. Ed was one of these friends and I consider my invitation, and his decision to come another miracle that helped us find each other. Again, our friendship rekindled and he helped me feel better when I was lonely out in Pennsylvania.

After a couple months, I had finally decided to end things with my boyfriend and move back to NJ. As soon as Ed found out I was single, he told me that he had loved me this whole time and the reason why he didn't want to date me freshman year was because he was worried about ruining any chance we might have had as a long lasting couple because he thought he wasn't ready for a long term relationship yet. I was shocked but my feelings for him quickly came back in about a week and I fell in love with him all over again. We both knew fairly quickly that we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together, but I wanted some time to heal from my break up so Ed and I remained friends for a few more months afterwards and then on March 1, 2014, Ed took me out to dinner at Beyond Sushi in NYC and then to Central Park where he said, "Will you just go out with me already." It was so cute and romantic and of course I said yes!