No Vanessa Vega romance is complete without a spectacular fight. She will push you away. She will claim she is "not good for you." The best romantic paths embrace this conflict. It is during these screaming matches that she finally confesses: “I’m terrified of losing you, so I pretend I don't need you.”

After Marco came a series of "almost relationships" in college. There was the intellectual—a philosophy major who compared our love to Plato’s Symposium (boring). Then there was the athlete—a soccer player who was great with his feet but not so great with his words. None of them stuck. I was searching for a feeling, a lightning-in-a-bottle moment that I had only ever seen in movies. Little did I know, that moment was coming, and it would nearly destroy me.

. She famously caused significant friction between Nathan and his girlfriend at the time, Lexi Lovett. Minority Report