Awesome thread!!!

Let's see......my family and Mark's family go way back, in fact my parents stopped at his house for a meal on their honey moon and Mark was less than 1 year old. They lived in Vermont, and we lived on Long Island, but I saw him about once a year.

In 1991, my parents went overseas, and we kids stayed in Vermont while they were gone with 2 different families. I saw a lot of Mark and this was when I started to get a crush on him. I was 15 and he was 22. He had this personal space bubble the size of Africa and you couldn't get close to him. I knew, I just knew that somewhere deep inside there was a real person and I was determined to find it.

It was a very long 5 years, and I was getting discouraged that it would ever go anywhere. My oldest brother moved to Vermont in 1994, and became close friends with Mark, and that enabled me to see him lots more often. I was getting a tad discouraged that he would EVER notice me, but at a picnic in 1996 we finally, finally, had a real conversation. He started sending me email shortly afterwards, and finally in August, he let me know his real feelings.

Turns out that ever since 1991, he had a crush on me too. I had NO idea, he never showed it, and never let on.

We got married in 1997, and we have been very happy ever since. We have a very deep connection, and he is my best friend in this whole world.