How One Kiss Turned Years of Friendship into Something Unexpected.

I never thought my heart would open up again — here’s chapter one of the whirlwind that has been the last 2 months.

I don’t even remember meeting him, but apparently we met when he was working at the butcher shop in Granville Island Market back in 2011 or 2012. I was shopping with my boyfriend at the time, and they knew each other from back in high school.

They spoke for a few minutes, I was introduced, and that was that. Or so I thought.

Nearly two years later, I received a message on Facebook from this guy (let’s call him Sean), stating who he was, mentioning how we met a while ago, and that he was getting his real estate license and would love to connect for my advice on how to get started in the industry.

I had already been a realtor for a couple of years and was always happy to sit down with newcomers and help them, so despite my not remembering him, I agreed (likely due to many mutual Facebook friends).

I was happily in a new relationship at that point, so it was going to be a completely innocent business meeting — and that it was. We went for coffee, I gave him advice and told him he could shadow me any time.

And shadow me, he did.

He did all my open houses with me and we became good friends, quickly. It was always platonic with him, he would talk about other women…