THE SHOOKS ORIGIN STORY

He took some time off of work and a buddy recommended checking out the dating app Plenty of Fish (PoF). Why not? I had tried other nerdy dating apps, and decided to give PoF a shot and was about to quit after too many of the type of messages you would expect from a dating app. We were both on for only one day. He was the only guy to ask me a nerdy question about the new Thor movie. The conversation flowed easily from there and turned into breakfast (My favorite breakfast by the way and without knowing!) and a date at the new King Kong movie.

Then there were more dates, and video games, and conventions, and about 40lbs gained by each of us over the first year. It’s been fun, effortless, and comfortable since day one. We get to be 100% our weird selves and love it. We game, cuddle, cosplay, explore, (maybe buy too much merch), and support each other. Our goals before and after meeting were to be good, healthy people and to treat others with kindness and respect. We both will lend a helping hand in a second. With a focus on being healthy in mind, spirit, and body (minus all the good eating we tend to do) there are no “holes” to fill with each other. We are complete on our own and even happier together.

He doesn’t like an audience, so the proposal was as comfy as our whole relationship. It happened in the first place we said “I love you” after a spicy chicken nugget dinner from Wendy’s. (They had just brought it back and we were so excited!) He had just got a big push from his aunt to “JUST DO IT NOW!” I stood there putting away clothes wondering why he was pacing in and out of the room. And then saw something shiny in his hand. “YES!” Five minutes later I get over the shock a bit and realize that I’m holding the EXACT ring I wanted from the Legend of Zelda.