I talked to Anna over the phone one warm day last summer. Right at the start, Anna introduces me to both herself and her boyfriend, who she’s living with.

> **Anna:** _He’s in the back of the house — I’ll just give you his intro. I’m Anna. I’m gonna be a junior next year. And my boyfriend’s name is Dorian._

I ask her to tell me the story of how they met, about a year before they took the Marriage Pact.

> **Anna:** _We started dating during my gap year. We had met in our freshman dorm — I was good friends with his roommate, so we saw each other a lot. I always thought he was cute, but I had a boyfriend from high school. So it wasn’t even an option, you know?_
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> _During my gap year, I was hanging out with one of my friends on campus. I was trying to call an Uber, but the driver wanted me to do a whole-ass 0.5 mile walk away from where I was. So I was like busting my ass to get there. And randomly, Dorian was standing there — he yelled my name, so I turned around to say hi, and was like, damn — he fine. Then he texted me, and I texted him, and we started dating. There were just a lot of circumstances that kind of went right._

Major shoutout to that Uber driver and his lack of directional sense. Anna and Dorian had dated for close to a year when the annual Stanford Marriage Pact rolled around.

> **Anna:** _We filled out the Marriage Pact independently. I don’t think we had each other in mind when we filled it out. I do the Pact every year and always meet crazy people. I’ve always DM’d them or gone out to coffee with them. They’re always like, total weirdos and I love it!_

That’s the spirit, Anna.

> **Anna:** _But then when we got our results this year, it was just like…each other. And we freaked out for a little bit. I was like you gotta be kidding me — this is ridiculous. Honestly, we have very different political views and things like that, so it’s interesting that we got matched. I think we both prioritize family and lifestyle a lot._

I ask Anna the million-dollar question: Do you think you’re compatible?

> **Anna:** _I think we’re compatible._

She turns to her boyfriend — I can hear the phone rustling.

> **Anna:** _What do you think, do you think we’re compatible?_  
A brief pause.

> **Dorian:** _Nah._

They both laugh. Anna tells me more.

> **Anna:** _In terms of personality, we’re pretty much opposite. I’m super extroverted and he’s super introverted. He’s an INTJ and I’m an ENFP, so opposite on everything except for the second letter — which is apparently the one you have to be aligned on. We approach things very differently: I’m crazy, and he’s very grounded._

Dorian chimes in:

> **Dorian:** _I think we share a lot of the same views on life. Our personalities are different, but everything else…it just works._

Anna and Dorian’s is a sweet story, from frosh year to uber-ordained romance to algorithmic justification. As far as the Marriage Pact’s take—we’re pretty proud of our work on this one, y’all.

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Tara is a writer for the Marriage Pact. She can be reached at tara ‘at’ marriagepact.com.