Q&A

Over the last two weeks (well it'll be two weeks this Sunday when the information went public on Facebook), I've been getting hit with some of the same questions over and over again from various people. I thought it would be a good idea to just do a quick post and answer the main couple of questions I get asked about the new boyfriend.

Who is he? His name's Jack (pretty much everyone we both know remembers him as Elder Bartlett) and he's one of the greatest guys I have ever met.

How did you meet? The absolute first time we met, I only vaguely remember meeting him (he had to remind me that he was, in fact, there; he was so very quiet at the time that I kinda forgot about him until he said something recently). He was a missionary at the very beginning of his mission when his companion, Elder Jones, was to do my baptism interview to become a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He and both of my missionaries (Elders Cracroft and Strange) went off to play basketball or something while Elder Jones and I were in the interview. I didn't see him again after that because the area he was in was Lakewood and I was attending my home ward (Lake City) instead of the YSA branch in his area.  I started attending the branch the October after being baptized and, as luck would have it, Jack got transferred back into Lakewood the summer of 2010, where we got the chance to interact a bit more. I never saw him again after he was transferred back out of the area but because of the transfer that summer, I was able to recognize his name/face when he found me on Facebook in June of this year after he was released from his mission in May. I wall posted him the day I accepted his add with, "Oh my gosh! Bartlett! How are you?! I haven't heard from you in forever!" in the typical girl like fashion.

We talked a little bit after that on that wall post but stopped after that until the very beginning of September when, on one of those copy/paste fill in the name things that have been going around recently that Jack landed the "bestie in Kindergarten" spot, which got us talking again. At least on Facebook for a couple of weeks or so when he posted a status that piqued my interest but he wouldn't tell me what was going on over Facebook. He gave me his number and told me to text him. From there, we ended up talking on occasion through text. Maybe every couple of days or so.

Starting in the beginning to mid October, we were texting pretty much every day and were getting to the point where we were close enough friends that we were talking about dates and whatnot (the dates were his) when the realization struck me: Jack had quit talking about the dates going on. It took about a week or so for the why of why he wasn't doing so to sink in when I realized that he was flirting with me and I was flirting back. We pretty much together the day after that without either of us really asking the other out; we just kinda happened.

The first Sunday we were together, he pocket dialed me by accident at just before 8AM, effectively waking me up over an hour early before I wanted to be up to get ready for church. I texted him good morning (which by then was habit, although he was usually the one who texted it first [so I don't know how I was the one who texted him first that morning]) to let him know that I was awake. After about two texts, he tells me to go check my Facebook where I found out we were going public with the relationship. Which I was completely alright with.

When are you marrying him/Do you hear wedding bells? These two are the most common questions I get hit with. Everyone seems to want to know if we're getting married. Jack and I have discussed the future quite a bit and we know where we stand. Oddly enough, we're aligning on pretty much everything, which never happens to me. No one else has matched me this perfectly before. Whenever Jack and I get engaged is when we get engaged. It's up to him when we do. Until then, we're just going to enjoy being in a relationship with each other.