My husband and I will be celebrating our fifth anniversary this July. We met in San Francisco on January 27th, 2000, and immediately fell head over heels for each other. I was a 21 year old student from Sydney, Australia, who had been traveling the States with friends for over two months and was due to go home on February 5th. He told me on the night that I was due to fly home that he was in love with me and wanted to spend his life with me. I was so confused as I felt everything was happening so quickly (we had only known each other for a week and I might never see him again). On Valentines Day in Sydney, more than a week after I left him at the airport in San Francisco, the door bell rang. I opened the door to find him standing there with a dozen red roses. We married 5 months later and 6 months after that I joined him in San Francisco.