How We Got Together

Here's our story for those of you who are interested.

Aaron and Marcy met at work. Aaron worked in the casting department of Consolidated Metco (ConMet) in Clackamas when Marcy was chosen as the MECOP (multiple engineering co-operative program) intern for the machining department.

Because of the age difference (7 years), the fact that they worked on opposite sides of the shop (although their cubicles shared a wall), and their disparate social lives (as in Aaron had one), they didn't pay much attention to each other at first.

Marcy spent the first two weeks at ConMet working in each section of the plant, so during her second week, Aaron got to show her process control, or how hard it is to make 518 aluminum headlamp pods in a machine that's not quite big enough. She had to wear a hat for this because drops of molten aluminum shot out of the top of the machine each cycle.

At first, Marcy was shocked and amazed by Aaron's self-confidence and bravado, and her natural response was to bring him down a notch any chance she got. This made her quite popular with the rest of the engineering team, who had endured Aaron's charming nature for almost four years.

When Marcy's mentor Steve, who was in the hospital at the time, asked Aaron to bring his laptop to him, Aaron took Marcy along. After the third (or thirteenth) argument on the short drive there, Aaron commented, "You know, you're like the little sister I never wanted."

So how did this turn into a relationship? Well, the engineering manager told Aaron not to date the intern. In additon to this incentive, Marcy lived with her sister just 1 mile from Aaron's house and they began to carpool. The short commute provided opportunity to get to know one another. Considering how similar their personalities are, this didn't really take long. Chatting turned to flirting, and one day, Aaron took Marcy out to dinner. They ended up in a serious conversation about exes, Marcy teared up, and that was that. Aaron couldn't resist giving a comforting hug.

They dated (in secret - the boss said not to after all) for three months before Marcy left for a year in France. They continued a long distance relationship, and when she was ready to come home, Aaron flew to Lyon to spend a week there before bringing her home. (The official didn't think it was cute when he tried to declare his girlfriend at customs).

Aaron proposed to Marcy two years later, on March 4th, at home.