It is a basic highschool rom-com setup: the soccer star and the artsy theater child.

However one lady has gone viral for proving that, in her case, this love story would have by no means occurred—regardless of her husband’s insistence in any other case. In an Instagram reel, Caila Quinn Burrello, 33, revealed highschool pictures to show her level that she and her husband could not have been extra totally different.

She spoke to Newsweek about her relationship, and what reflecting on this time has proven her.

“My husband says we might’ve dated in highschool,” Quinn Burrello captioned the video. “He performed soccer and wore Abercrombie and Fitch. I performed witches in musicals and wore ties over tank tops like Avril Lavigne.”

As a self-proclaimed Warped Tour-loving theater woman who dressed just like the punk princess, Quinn Burrello mentioned she could not think about courting somebody like her husband, a soccer staff captain who later went on to play at Harvard.

“I believe I laughed so exhausting that I nearly choked on my espresso when my husband mentioned he thought we might have dated in highschool!” she mentioned. “I nonetheless to at the present time suppose he’s simply being good, however that’s my candy Midwestern man for you—letting me imagine in an alternate universe that our love story might have been a Disney Channel film from the early 2000s.”

That did not cease her from imagining what might have been.

“I might have positively had a crush on him from afar,” she admitted. “However again in these days, I assumed solely cheerleaders might date soccer gamers, as a result of that is what all of the ’90s motion pictures taught me.”

Whereas she doubts their paths would have ever crossed in a romantic approach, she did entertain one risk.

“I might need mustered up the braveness to ask him out senior yr earlier than promenade, as a result of I had nothing to lose, however I suppose we’ll by no means know,” she mentioned.

Opposites Nonetheless Appeal to

Regardless of their wildly totally different highschool personas, the couple—who now reside in Austin, Texas, with their two youngsters—have discovered that their previous selves nonetheless affect their relationship.

“Although many years have handed, the ‘All-American athlete’ in Nick and the ‘fun-loving theater woman’ in me nonetheless come out in our 30s every now and then,” Quinn Burrello mentioned. “At any time when we meet up with mates to be social, Nick is at all times constructive, encouraging, and heat like he can be along with his teammates again in highschool.

“I at all times inform Nick that I ‘deliver the colour’ and enjoyable into his life—planning spontaneous journeys all over the world, bringing him to exhibits on Broadway, and blasting music in our kitchen with our two youngsters to make on a regular basis life at residence a blast.”

So, whereas their highschool selves would possibly by no means have been a pair, their grownup selves show that ultimately, opposites actually do entice.