A friend, my former fraternity brother, OAS AAS LLS, introduced me to my current girlfriend, and she’s one of the most amazing people I’ve ever met; her faults included. I’ve stuttered for as long as I can remember, I’m 23 now so it’s been a long time, but I’ve become very acutely aware of every single disfluency I have. Meeting women for me has been hard in the past due to a number of reasons; you’ve all seen movies about nerds, you can put some of it together. But she never acknowledged my stutter until I did. She never brought it up unless I did. She didn’t finish my sentences, she didn’t predict my words, and she didn’t stop me from being frustrated with myself when I couldn’t get a word out. She let me be me and experience my experiences the way I needed to. And I absolutely fell in love with her. Once we started dating and had established a deep sense of care for one another she would tell me that “it’s okay” when I restarted a word or phrase, and as she observed me for long periods of time she saw the physical signs of my frustration and has helped me kind of work through allowing myself to take my time when talking to people because my words are valuable even if they take a while to get out. My advice for you. Don’t change anything about yourself. She genuinely loves me for who I am, and she doesn’t let my stutter affect our relationship because it’s just apart of who I am. Someone will see something in you that they love, and they won’t let a physical trait of yours get in the way of loving you.