Over the next few months, I stayed in my childhood bedroom at their house in a daze. How could this happen to me? I was sure things like this only happened on daytime talk shows, to other people, from afar. He met someone online - a man - and realized that he was gay. He proposed to me in New Orleans and a year later we had a beautiful wedding. He had just enlisted in the military, so our entire courtship was long-distance, except for the handful of times he took some leave and we’d meet in fun cities for long weekends.
Shortly after college graduation, I met my first husband through a mutual friend. Essentially, I was a hopeless romantic with no romance in my life. I never dated or had a boyfriend until I was in college.
