It started with conflict

Well, I may as well start at the beginning.

Richard and I met in 2006 when we took a conflict resolution class together at Kwantlen University College (now known as Kwantlen Polytechnic University.) Technically he'll tell you that we met in the other class we took together on the same day, but we didn't speak to each other so I maintain that doesn't count.

We ended up paired together for a conflict exercise, and ended up playing opposing patients at a hospital who were fighting with each other. We ended up in tears laughing so hard, and we were friends from then on. As time went on he would often give me a ride home as he lived a few blocks from me, and we had a lot of good conversations.

After the semester ended, we kept in touch and talked every so often online. At the beginning of 2008 we reconnected and went out for a dinner that lasted for three hours. A couple weeks later he took me snowboarding, and despite falling several times, I had a great time. A week later we went for dinner, skating and a movie, and the rest is history.