Ryan and Caitlin met the old fashioned way...on tinder. When Ryan and Caitlin matched, Ryan did not reach out with a standard pick up line but instead simply said, "Go Irish" after seeing a photo of Caitlin at a Notre Dame football game. After weeks of talking Caitlin agreed to go on a date with Ryan only to end up canceling the day of, claiming that something had come up. Ryan saw right through Caitlin and called her out saying, "if you didn't want to go, you didn't have to make something up". While Ryan was 100% accurate that Caitlin didn't have anything come up, and actually just wanted to sit at home and read, she couldn't let him win. So out of shear stubbornness Caitlin arranged a second first date to prove to Ryan she wasn't lying. This would be Ryan's first exposure to Caitlin's stubbornness. On the date Caitlin told Ryan that they were just hanging out as friends and nothing more to which Ryan responded, "We'll see, I'm good at getting what I want". From then on out Caitlin knew she met her match. Almost seven years later Ryan and Caitlin are more in love with each other each day, and are looking forward to many more days to come.