Our Story

Long story short, we matched on Coffee Meets Bagel from completely opposite sides of the Earth—Sandy, swiping for love; and I, shaving my head to become a monk. We’ll skip those details, but I returned to find that I was unmatched!

Fast forward several months and we found each other again on a different app. We decided to grab some coffee and go for a walk—perfect, as I walk my best friend and fluffy confidant, Soma, every morning anyhow. He’s a great judge of character.

We met up at Intelligentsia Coffee and Sandy instantly fell for Soma. It wouldn’t be long before she fell for me, either. We walked right past other coffee shops (despite meeting at one!) and straight to the lake before we had realized it. I’d suppose conversation went well—so well, she believes me to still be yapping to this day.

When Aaron says our story began with coffee, he’s leaving out a few important details.

We first matched on Coffee Meets Bagel, where, instead of a simple “Hi,” I got an entire novel about why he was on a mountain in Laos, shaving his head to become a monk. Naturally, I thought, “This guy is crazy.” So… I unmatched him.

A year later he found me again on a different app, and I figured a coffee date couldn’t hurt. He showed up looking like he’d rolled straight out of bed, and I drove home sure there’d be no second date—until his fluffy wingman, Soma, now my beloved stepson, came to the rescue. If I’m being honest, I liked Soma more than Aaron that first day.

Somehow he talked me into a second date, and somewhere between his endless stories and terrible jokes, the “crazy monk guy” turned out to be the funniest, kindest, most genuine person I’d ever met. Best decision I ever made—and now, here we are, getting ready to spend forever together.