October 7, 2000 – Moving on Ahead

October 7, 2000 – Moving on Ahead

I remember the night being really long. I was anxious to hear what Rob had decided and felt several times like calling and asking how it went. Rob and I had to get together that day for something, I don’t remember what (he might have just been going somewhere and I followed him out the door and walked him to his car or something). But I remember we were walking out of the apartment and were in the space between his door and the outside door when we talked. He told me that he had decided to pursue the relationship to see where it went. He didn’t know if that meant marriage, but he was willing to see the relationship through. I told him I felt the same way. We both felt that maybe we were moving toward marriage, but we weren’t sure yet.

I was so happy! I remember telling him, “Good. Because if you had come back and said you’d decided on AO, I would have been so ticked off.”

So again, our relationship was given the green light.

By this point in my life I had started telling people that it was my new goal in life to marry Rob Thacker. I couldn’t stop thinking about him or talking about him and I’m sure my friends were very annoyed.

written Spring 2006