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That Time I Got Engaged and Married During a Pandemic
A positive highlight to a seriously bizarre year
Here’s an understatement: 2020 is not at all what anyone expected.
Back in December, we were hearing motivational speeches, sermons, and posts about how 2020 is going to be the year of ‘perfect vision’. When you really think about it, they weren’t entirely wrong. It may not be in the passion-filled package that we believed it to be, but 2020 has definitely been an eye-opener if nothing else.
I’ve been busy with a lot of things since the pandemic started, one happened to be a huge life change.
Dating — 2019
In the span of 13 months my now husband and I met, dated, and got engaged. Followed by that short engagement (3.5 months) we were married.
I didn’t realize how unique our situation was until I started talking about our relationship with other people. We met virtually through a networking app (February 2019), and our friendship developed from there. In April, we finally met each other in person and we were able to have face to face conversation over a meal. We went from communicating a couple of times a week to texting/calling each other every single day. It kind of donned on me that we had feelings for each other when we almost went an…
