How did you meet your significant other?

Okay, my story sometimes feels like a cheesy chick flick/teen movie scenario, but anyway.

I’m currently 21, and my partner just turned 25. I’ve known my partner since I was 15- he was a friend of my sister, very geeky and shy. I thought he was a really nice guy, but I wasn’t interested in him in that way, because I hadn’t matured to the ‘I love boys!’ stage. He had a cycle accident when I was 18, and I couldn’t bring myself to see him in hospital, just because I didn’t want to see him in pain (he broke his skull in a few places, he was a bit of a mess). The next year, he moved into a flat with my sister and her partner, and I found myself going over there a lot just to talk to him about PC games. I developed a bit of a crush, but he was oblivious- he has been immersed in computers his whole life, so a girl being interested in him was unheard of in his head. Anyway, he jot offered a job overseas last year, and I started getting along with his 14 year old brother. The brother found out I had a crush, and calls up his older brother and says ‘Dude! She likes you! Do something, or you’ll be single forever!’ So, he took a 3 week holiday from his overseas job and flew back. He quit his job in the second week so he could give things a try with me. He proposed about 8 months down the track with my ring in a kinder surprise. Currently, we’ve been together just over 18 months, he’s just accepted a job at Google, we’ve just moved to Dublin, and are planning a wedding back home in New Zealand over Easter 2008.