Stu and I met in the autumn of 2006 on Match.com. We sent a few emails back and forth, but with Stu living in Portland and me living in Eugene, we didn’t have the opportunity to meet in person right away. Fortunately, toward the end of October, my work sent me to Portland for a conference that was to last several days. I arranged to go up a day early to meet Stu and have dinner. We met at a lovely little french restaurant in downtown Portland (le Bouchon), where we had a perfect dinner and split a creme brulee. We were having such a good time, we decided to go around the corner for bellinis at Touche, and, as they say, the rest is history! We pretty much both knew on that first date that we wanted to be together in a more permananent sense. A few weeks later, we decided to take a big leap and move in together, since our phone bills were getting outrageous. I quit my job and moved up to Portland to be with Stu, and we haven’t looked back!
