so this will be long, but basically i met my partner on an online chatting app !! i have social anxiety and hate speaking to people with my voice, and was dragged onto it by an extroverted friend against my will practically

i refused to speak and kept my mic muted for the longest time, until i felt comfortable making my own lives to chat with people in !! and there was this one mysterious person who always came to my lives and made me giggle with their witty jokes and comments, but they never joined my voice chat for some reason, and that made me insanely curious

they never missed my lives and gave me lots of in-app gifts, so i wanted to know more about them and to hopefully befriend and thank this mysterious person

but then, one fateful day, they started their own very first live !!

when i got the notification, i was so excited to finally hear their voice and to get to know them. i never tapped so fast.

the moment i entered the chatroom, i was the only other person, and they noticed me. in a drowsy, soft voice they murmured something along the lines of "hi, welcome to my live, (insert my name here)" and i swear i melted and fell head over heels instantly.

from there, my aforementioned friend joined the chat and the mystery person hit on me immediately.

much to the chagrin of my friend, who shot them down for me. in my naivety, i said "i'm sure they didn't mean it like that", because social cues are hard and i didn't think they were flirting

my normally shy butt decided to give them some of my socials for some reason, and we were officially dating after only a week of flirting (it worked for us, but please don't do this lmfao)

6 months later, they came from the other side of the country to move in with me. we hadn't even met yet face to face and i was terrified. but anyways, we met and moved in together on the same day into my apartment, and it was like we'd known one another our whole lives.

we've been dating for almost 3 and a half years now and it's like a fairytale !!
... that was quite long indeed, my apologies !! thank you for coming to my tedtalk !!