I got a text this morning a few minutes after Scott got to work.
It read: “Interesting anniversary for today. 10 years ago you posted on Facebook that we were seeing each other.”

I looked it up – and sure enough, March 22, 2013.


It’s not that we meant to hide our relationship, rather it was the first time in so long that I was dying to shout my happiness to the entire world. Scott and I had been exploring the relationship long distance for almost 4 months, and I think we both wanted some stability and certainty about our romance before we involved friends and family.

Facebook Official. laugh.

But I remember that weekend so well – his surprise arrival. Our whirlwind trip to Wegmans because I’m pretty sure my fridge was empty outside of a few rogue avocados. And isn’t it true – you feel more like a real couple when you grocery shop and make dinner together?

Sometime in the course of that evening, undoubtedly the effect of the bottle of Pinot, we determined we were sound enough to make public. Looking back on it, I knew the night we re-met (is that a word?) that he was more than a fleeting romance, but in a way I wanted to protect the safety I felt – the security blanket of anonymity, something our life on the Internet denies.

It’s funny to look back on the moment ten years ago that our relationship was finally made public, since the following decade has been spent entirely in the public eye. I remember moving home a few years ago, only to hear people in the aisles of the grocery store (in our very small town) murmur that we were that couple from the blog. We knew people at home might be reading our adventures in DC, but I don’t think I ever expected to be met with strangers who knew the intimacy of our entire story. I’m not sure if that is entirely what has kept me from writing unabashedly, but I know it plays a small part.

All that to say -10 years later and I’m still happy to scream to the world that this man has not stopped sweeping me off my feet for a decade. He is my favorite part of every day – he and Roux. 10 years of loving, 10 years of crazy adventures, and what I truly believe to be the start of a brand new chapter of life together. The best is yet to come.