Hi everybody it's Emily and Clark on sailing vessel temperature and today we're gonna answer another one of your questions. Today's question comes from Kalea Martin who asks how do we meet? This is a question we get a lot and I don't know if it's because we're so perfect for each other or our age gap which prompts a lot of questions all the time but we do get this question a lot so how do we meet? We met online like you do when you're busy and it's hot and you don't feel like going out and it's also a convenient way to meet people when you have very specific criteria you're looking for. If you go to a bar or a public place it's hard to talk about things that composting toilets and retiring early and all these adventurous things so it's a good way to weed people out. Emily was a tiny house person so she in the back of her mind or in front of her mind was looking for someone in her life that would live in a tiny house because that was very important her. I for years have been looking for the perfect woman that would come sailing and they are rare so both of us thought we had a long search ahead. You're a little tiny Venn diagram. Yeah our circles were small and she put an add-up on plenty of fish I believe. I think so yeah. Yeah not a good sight if you ask me if you're single you's okay. But anyway she put on plenty of fish and I saw it and I want extra credit there was no photograph it was just text and it was just saying I want to retire young I want to see the world I want to live in a tiny house I'm a minimalist these kind of things. It's basically all the reasons why you wouldn't want to date me. You got to the bottom and you were still reading. Uh-huh. Send me a message. So he sent me a message and the weird thing about it is that I got a notification that I had a message but I couldn't read the message for some reason and it turns out the software we were using thought that if he was more than 15 years older than me that we shouldn't be communicating or at least he shouldn't be able to communicate with me. So I logged out and logged back in with a different account and sent him a message because I was getting ready to shut down my dating profile anyway I kind of did it for a week and decided I didn't want to do it anymore but there was this outstanding message so I wanted to be able to get on with my life and not wonder what about that message that I never read. So I found you I sent you a message and I said would you please copy and paste your message to me so I can get on with my life. So I did and since it was some bit of interest I put a little cover letter saying if you want to chat about it here's my phone number but the body of it wasn't hey babe it was go girl you know what you're doing is a way to live your life. It's how I lived my life when I was your age and I highly recommend it. So well we had that phone call. Yeah we talked a little bit online just about finances and retirement and lifestyle and simplifying things and then we ended up talking on the phone and then we were for a long time and then we got together in person to talk a little bit and everything just fit everything. Yeah I wasn't looking for someone her age and I'm sure she wasn't looking for someone my age but we're the same kind of crazy. Yeah. We wanted the same kind of life so I just made sense and we hit it off immediately and within six months we decided you know we were gonna be married and we started sailing and the rest is history. And to answer it once and for all on video this is my wife not my daughter. Yes. We get that a lot. I have learned I can't wear college sweatshirts anymore and certain things because of the age gap and people get confused but anyway thanks for asking if you have questions about us oh there's a bird. A few questions further questions about how we met or our relationship or anything like that. Feel free to leave them in the comments below and we'll try to answer all of them. Bye.