1) The First Spark
Me and jack aren’t really a big romantic, big gesture type of couple and I think it’s shown in what I would consider our first spark (or at least a very early moment I always remember) and it’s just something really small, where we were on a night out, after a few drinks our friend was getting cash out and me & jack just looked at each other and realised we were holding hands like almost subconsciously. We didn’t have to say anything but it was like when we both realised we first liked each other.
 
2) Falling for him 
I think the first time I realised I really liked Jack would’ve been when I would check our rota and always check first if we were on shift together. I was just really drawn to his positive energy and sense of humour
 
3) The Moment I Knew He was the One
 I can’t really go into too much detail but all I’ll say is it was really early on in our relationship, we were in an embarrassing set of circumstances for me and he just immediately asked how he could help, was so nonjudgmental and was really reassuring. So just then I knew the type of person he was and that it would be a good idea to keep him around 
 
4) The Proposal Build-Up
I think we’d been together 7 years by this point, had been living together for almost as long as that, and had started the process of buying our own home together. We’d booked a holiday to New York and I didn’t think anything of it in a proposal type way. Apparently everyone knew about it, he’d asked my dad’s permission, bless him, and we visited family just before we left and they were all really excited for us to go on this holiday - in hindsight I know why now  but I was totally oblivious to it to be honest so it was a nice surprise when it happened.
 
5) The Proposal
We went on this holiday to New York, first morning in the apartment & I was just in bed scrolling on my phone and he comes in the room saying “Antonia there’s just no good way to do this”  maybe I was getting dumped? But then he carried on, small box in his hand, lying on the bed, telling me all the ways he thought of doing “this” (I still wasn’t clear what “this” was), and all the reasons why he decided against them - Central Park, too public, a nice meal out, underwhelming maybe. really carrying on with himself until I just interrupted him asking him to get to the point  and to be honest it was just the perfect way to ask for me, because he’s right I wouldn’t have liked anything fussy or public and then we were able just spend a nice lazy morning in our happy little bubble 
 
6) Closing Thoughts
I think I mentioned earlier that our type of love isn’t super romantic or full of huge gestures but it’s built up of loads of small everyday acts that create a place where we know we can just both be ourselves and know we’re loved for it. I can’t think of a better person to be doing the rest of life with