Ah, first love.

Unfortunately, I can't think of anything remotely like what you just described ever happening to me. At least nothing that I could say was reciprocated. I know there were girls I liked, but who knows if they ever liked me beyond being friends. Not until I met my wife to be. And there, I wasn't tongue-tied at all! If anything, she untied it.

Funny thing is, we don't necessarily have a whole lot in common. Outside of a desire to have and raise a family, and then the love we have for that family, and traveling, and eating her Mexican food, we're pretty different. And yet, it still works somehow. Twenty-nine years later and counting.