'The accidental couple': College student confesses feelings for crush via message, only to realize he’d sent it to the wrong "Emily," she invites him for coffee to laugh it off, but their love blossoms instead, leading to them marrying three years later

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  • College student texting and smiling
  • I accidentally confessed to the wrong girl. Three years later, she's my wife

    This happened back in 2019, and even now I sometimes look at her and think, "How the hell did we get here?" So here's how it went down: I was hopelessly in love with this girl from my university.
  • Let's call her "Emily." We shared a few classes, exchanged laughs over group projects, and even had a flirty kind of friendship.
  • I thought I had a shot my friends hyped me up, saying, "Dude, she likes you back, just say it." So one evening, after overthinking it for weeks, I finally decided to confess.
  • I wrote this long heartfelt message not too cheesy, but just enough to let her know I was serious.
  • My hands were literally shaking while typing it. I hit send. A few seconds later... I realized I sent it to the wrong Emily.
  • Man texting at his desk
  • Yep. Turns out I had two Emily's in my contacts one from my psychology class (my crush), and another from a random campus event I barely remembered attending.
  • Guess which one I sent it to? | panicked. Thought about unsending it, but she'd already seen it.
  • She replied a minute later with something like: Wow. I wasn't expecting that... but do you maybe wanna grab coffee and laugh about this accidental confession?" I almost ghosted her, not gonna lie.
  • But I figured I already embarrassed myself, might as well own it. So I went. We did laugh.
  • A lot. She turned out to be the most sarcastic, weirdly insightful, and unexpectedly kind person I'd ever met.
  • Couple having a date at a bakery
  • We started hanging out more as a joke at first. "The accidental couple," we called ourselves.
  • But feelings started growing. And this time, I wasn't confused or anxious about whether she liked me back.
  • It was just... effortless. Fast forward to 2022, I proposed to her. On purpose this time.
  • We got married last year, and I still joke that I confessed to the wrong girl, but ended up with the right one.
  • TL;DR: Accidentally confessed love to the wrong girl in college. She asked me out for coffee as a joke.
  • Now she's my wife. Love is weird and kinda awesome.
  • Couple engaged with beautiful backdrop of snowy mountains.
  • Hungry-Ratio-6326 Sounds like it was meant to be her all along! NOT a mistake! Fate had other plans for you, in the best way!..& just 'maybe', the first Emily couldv'e turned out to be the 'wrong' Emily!
  • OP Specialist_Mango_999 Yes I also think that in the first place!
  • BurtCaramel Always good to hedge a bet. Good thinking.
  • Mediocre RapMusic Similar event, but in my case they were friends, turns out the girl I liked (let's call her A) had a boy and wanted to keep me as a bestfriend( didn't really like me and also didn't want me to go, isn't that diabolical?) Started talking to her friend who knew I liked A and things started to hit off pretty well. We started dating(A was pretty cool with it). Later, my girl caught feelings for another guy and we had a constructional breakup...
  • OP Specialist_Mango_999 Maybe Those Friend Are Betrayals?
  • Think-Disaster5724 Well if you ever get divorced you can just re-forward that email to the right Emily.
  • Bendy Turtle Clearly it was not the "wrong" Emily. What a sweet story and a great way to begin a life together. May you have many chapters filled with enough laughter and joy to outweigh the difficult times.

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