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Well I didn't see a recent thread on this, and I am in the mood to read other people's posts so...tell me about how you met the person that you are dating right now. Were you out of a relationship for a long time? How did you meet this person? Did it start off with short chats and then a date or? Where did you meeet this person? Was there ever an "asking out" question?

:D Just curious...:D
 

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I could write a huge wall of text, but i need to go to bed soon lol!
Anyway, a little over three years ago, my girlfriend became a member at my church. a month or so later, we became friends in the youth group and hit it off, we both had common interests and very compatible personalities. after about 9 months of being just good friends, who both liked each other but were afraid to say it, she finally asked me out (yes, she was the brave one. i was VERY shy). this was on June 21st, 2006. by that time, we were pretty much already best friends. My first true relationship - but I've done so much observing that I can confidently say that we have the real deal - she's my best friend. We've been dating ever since then, taking it very slow. It was months before we said "I love you", it was over a year and a half of dating before we even kissed. Of course, I was nearly 15 and she had just turned 16 when we started dating. Now, I'm still 17 and she's 18. She's in college, I'm still in high school, but even though we're hours apart, our relationship continues to grow stronger, which is totally awesome - it's truly a blessing from God. So, we've been good friends for over 3 years, and dating for nearly 2 and a half years.

I know I'm kind of young for this, but I've prayed about it a LOT. I've come to the conclusion that if a girl is honestly your best friend, you can talk to her about literally anything,you would trust her with your life, you are attracted to her in every way, you can pray with her and share the common goal of serving God, and she is absolutely amazing...
yep, she is definitely the one for me.

Sorry for going on and on, there's probably like 10 runon sentences in there, but yeah...that's pretty much our story in a nutshell. As far as I'm concerned, this is just a synopsis of the prologue/1st chapter to our very long story that God's writing. :)
 
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We've been together since we were sixteen. We were friends first, and fell in love. We agreed to apply to college, and not tell the other our choice until all paperwork had been settled. This put us going to school five hours apart, but we did it. We were married this past May. Together we have faced a lot, but always came through it stronger. We're both in school now, and while it isn't always the easiest things, we support each other in pursuing our dreams. High school relationships don't always work, nor do long distance, but we are very happy together.
 
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I am kinda down so I'll write something beautiful to make me smile.:)

I divorced my ex 2006.

Oct. 11, 2007 - about this time, Mike emailed me for the first time on a dating site we both were members. He was a paying member, I wasn't.:D So I invited him to email me on my alternate email. I particularly remember his email...

Mike :If you are okay with my height (5'1) and my age (55) then maybe we can chat.

Me: *thinks* hmmm...*talking to myself* the height is fine but he is olddddddd....:DThirteen years older than me.

We were supposed to meet a week after but he couldn't wait to see me so he went to see me at my church. I couldn't say no for who would say no to somebody who wants to go to church. :p

I rejected him, but God had other plans. He kept on going to our church. I saw how my daughter began to like him. My church family likes him so after a few more weeks I said maybe we can start all over again.

And the rest is history. On my birthday which is November, he proposed, although he proposed to me everyday until I said yes on my birthday.

Thanksgiving, he asked for my hand in marriage to my eldest brother and sisters. And...

December 22, we got married. It has been great since then...

God bless....:wave:
 
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I met her at a youth event and she looked sad so I went over to her and asked her if she wanted to talk. She said yes and for the next hour I just listened. After that I gave her my number, in all honesty I was just trying to help her through some things. She called one day and then another and another. Eventually our relationship became closer, there was no asking each other out we just knew. She enrolled in a college in the city and to make things easier financially she moved into the spare room. Sadly this relationship is on the downward spiral, together for six years married for two she decided she no longer wants to try. Its been two and a half months Ive moved back in with my parents and am seeking the lord with avengeance.
 
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I met my fiance through a friend of the guy I was dating at the time- the friend was Bryan's roommate. I ended up spending a lot of time with Bryan and his roommate, since the guy I was dating lived in the same dormitory they did and he'd often leave me in his room while he went to play video games with his friends (I'd get bored and go downstairs to watch Futurama with Bryan and Kenny). We drifted apart after I moved off campus, but Bryan was always very friendly to me- he'd wave to me whenever he saw me on campus. At the time he was dating one of my friends, so while I liked him, I never thought anything would come of it.

Fast forward two years, and Bryan and I run into each other again in a rather unlikely place- one of the bars downtown. :ahem:An old friend of mine came to visit and he and my girl friends dragged me to the bar, and Bryan was there treating his best friend to a night out before he went to serve in Afghanistan. Our eyes met from across the room, and while we hardly talked that night, we talked a lot in the following days. I was still seeing the jerk who played way too many video games, and treated me like dirt in general, but Bryan waited for me, and when I finally worked up the nerve to tell the other guy to take a hike, Bryan was still waiting. And he waited until I was totally ready for a relationship again to ask me out.

And now here we are, engaged, and planning for a wedding! I still can't believe we're together- he's amazingly sweet, very patient, kind and helpful to everyone he meets, and just overall a wonderful man. (He once drove two and a half hours just to take my mom to the grocery store!) :love: If there's one man out there who is "the one" for me, Bryan is him.
 
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Like the first person who posted on here, (I think it was Morning Glory) I tend to also be criticized and judged for my story, so please take time to get to know me before you judge my story. Here is goes.. :sigh:

My First ever love of my life was named Kieth Fitzpatrick. We dated from Fourth grade until 10th grade, where his parents decided that because he and I wanted to become intimate, and they did not agree with that, and called me some not so nice names, that he and I split up. I still wonder about him from time to time, but oh well.

April 2006: I met this guy online, that was a Sergeant in the US Army, and significantly older than me, who had been through a divorce and had three kids. His name was Scott Repetto. We had common interests, and he had been answering some questions for me about Fort Bragg, because I was going there for an Army training.

June 2006: Scott and I meet for the first time, and things were well, at the lease awkward, but I felt uncomfortable, but still cared about him. We do the online dating thing for a few months, and then he got word of deployment over to Iraq. I regret the last words out of my mouth to him were "I never loved you" because he was killed in action about a week later in Talil, Iraq. (August 2006)

August 2006: I had been heart broken, and started to give up hope. I felt like Scott's death was my fault. I had came across a forum called Warrior Cadet Forum, which was simular to Grunts Cadet Forum. I joined, and one day I recieved an e-mail from a guy named Carson Glass, who ran WCF. I sent him one back, but accidently sent it to StormCrow, and that was how I met Jason. Jason was the guy that charmed females. He seemed amazing at first, but he was in a relationship with another female named Brandy. We got to talking on the phone, and he started to fall in love with me. He and I dated for a week, but then I told him, well if your going to be with me, you have to break it off with her, because I do not work that way, and so he did.

September 2006: Jason proposed to me, and I stupidly and foolishly accepted.

October 2006 to May 2007: Jason and I did the online dating thing, and it totally stunk, 100%. I loved him, and he got me the things that I needed or wanted. I would never wish the long distance thing on anyone, and trust me, we had quite a rough road along the way because of the long distance thing, but some how we managed to make it work.

May 22ed 2008: Jason and I meet in person for the real time. He had gotten two weeks unpaid leave from McDonalds just to be there with me for my high school prom. In these two weeks, he had to also prove to my friends and family that he would not hurt me. We had a rocky few weeks. From May 22ed to June 11th 2007, we had fights, arguments and disagreements. Prom was amazing. I lost my virginity on prom night, thinking that he was going to be the person I'd spend forever with.

June 16th 2007: I leave from Manchester, NH to go to Miami, FL to live with Jason. A big step for me, and while I have some regrets, I am glad that I made that decision, otherwise I'd still be home in NH living with my mother. I lived in Miami from June until October. September 26th 2007 was my 18th birthday, and I sort of realized how creul the world really was on that day.

October 2007: Jason and I move to Cocoa, FL in our own apartment. We had some great times in this apartment. We had furniture through Rent A Center, we had our arguments, and disagreements, but we managed. We had all bills paid on time, and just barely made it. I started college for my Bachelors in Criminal Justice and he started his Bachelors in Business through Kaplan University.

December 2007: I got Jason Amiago, our black lab for Christmas. It was my first Christmas without any gifts, due to our struggles with finances.

February 2008: We got evicted from our apartment due to the Dog, Donald living there with us, and plumbing problems. We had tax money, ($100+ combined) and decided to pack it up and leave. Our destination was to Orlando, Florida, but when we got there, we were denied a place to live due to lack of employment. We stayed in a hotel, and went to Universal Studios for the first time in my life, where we saw Blueman Group. It was the most amazing, stressful, but fun time of our lives. Then from there we decide to go to Pennsylvania, where we were screwed over by someone we thought was a friend. She took our money and left. Homeless, and clueless, we decide to pack u[p what we have and take a trip back to Florida, and if it was not for the people that helped us with Gas, we would not have made it.

March 2008: We settle in a trailer park in North Fort Myers, Florida. This was where the abuse and troubles started. I am unsure when, but somewhere from the time I got pregnant with Kalleigh, and the time that we were homeless, Jason snapped. He started to hit me, and we were always arguing. It did not help any that Jason always wanted sex and I did not. We both start to go back to church at Gods Pocket.

April 2008: Jason gets laid off from work at McDonalds, and we struggle financially. The abuse gets worst. Our car gets reposessed. We have nothing, and are truly living in the slumps now. Jason decided that he wants to become a pastor under the teachings of Troy Scaldone.

May 2008: I get hired at McDonalds, then fired. I get molested by Jasons father John. I get hired by Ameriplan and then scrwed over by them.

June 2008: We fall behind the trailer payments, and the rent for the lot. Jason gets hired at Panara Bread, but gets minimal hours. I end up giving birth three months early to a still born Kalleigh Abigayle. Jasons dad is forgiven and moves back in to help out (Because God helped me forgive him)

August 2008: Jasons father kicks us out. We have a week to find a place to live. We get approved for an apartment, by the Grace of God, and our pastor Troy helping us out, and Charlie and Betty. We are okay to start over.

September 2008: The problems happen again. Donald screws us over, my bipolar starts to act up, and I'm at my wits end with Jasons abuse. He thinks that I am the problem, but we were both the problem. I split things off, and try to focus on myself. Three weeks go by, and I'm ready to kill myself, then Dustin comes around. Dustin and I met on Grunts Cadet Forum, spoke a few times, and then we really got to know each other. We had some sort of connection immidiatly, and we think God had played a roll in it. I get hired through Cloud 10 Corp, and am eager and excited with life. I love my job, and now have a new focus. Dustin. He makes me whole. On September 24th 2008, when Jason hit me, I go to him and cry to him. He makes me smile. He decides to tell me that when I'm in my angry mood, he just wants to kiss me. I tell him whats that spose to mean, and he says check your facebook. He requested a relationship with me. It was so cute. We've been dating ever since. My plan is to move up to Greeneville, NC to live with him, but first will obviously go to visit and see how things are. He makes me feel loved for once.


And thats the story right now. I'll update this when I meet Dustin in real life and see how things go. 47 more days. Woohoo!
 
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We've been together since we were sixteen. We were friends first, and fell in love. We agreed to apply to college, and not tell the other our choice until all paperwork had been settled. This put us going to school five hours apart, but we did it. We were married this past May. Together we have faced a lot, but always came through it stronger. We're both in school now, and while it isn't always the easiest things, we support each other in pursuing our dreams. High school relationships don't always work, nor do long distance, but we are very happy together.
that's awesome! that sounds a lot like us, we were friends first and then fell in love, she was sixteen and i was nearly fifteen when we started dating, right now she's 3 hours away, and then when I go to college, we'll be six hours apart. that's going to be a tough three years, but it's definitely worth it.

even though we're confident, it's encouraging to hear that other couples have gone through the same thing and that it's worked out great for them. :)
 
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I tend to get criticized for my story :( But here it is anyway. I urge people to kinda keep an open mind, and just... not be so quick to judge anyone else for their choices in life.

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And that? That is the story of how I've been living with my husband since BEFORE we were even dating :p


anyone who would be mean about that story is a total dbag
 
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anyone who would be mean about that story is a total dbag

And yet it happens :( lol.

I suppose you gotta remember where we are, and then put that together with "divorce" / "dating while separated" / "casual dating" / "living together before marriage" and many other themes.... SHUN! :doh: :D

The last time I posted the story (some time last year, and it was shorter since we had just started dating), I got (and I kid you not) HATE MAIL in my PM box. As if people have nothing better to do.
 
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And yet it happens :( lol.

I suppose you gotta remember where we are, and then put that together with "divorce" / "dating while separated" / "casual dating" / "living together before marriage" and many other themes.... SHUN! :doh: :D

The last time I posted the story (some time last year, and it was shorter since we had just started dating), I got (and I kid you not) HATE MAIL in my PM box. As if people have nothing better to do.

That is so unfortunate. :sigh: I really hope that no one does that for mine. I understand where your coming from since I have been through a simular trial and tribulation :hug: but only God judges our heart and knows we mean well. Have you read my story yet?
 
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gonna read it after supper, gotta make some food before my stomach implodes :D I do know you've been through quite a bit, I've read a thread or two from you before I think. I'll be back to read it

Yes, I think we have crossed paths somewhere before, not too sure where though :confused: But we shall talk. Do you have any IM Screen names?
 
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Yes, I think we have crossed paths somewhere before, not too sure where though :confused: But we shall talk. Do you have any IM Screen names?

I added my msn screen name to my profile, you should be able to find it there, I also have facebook, myspace, the usual social utilities.

I remember where we met, not sure you want to know ;) I had my user account deleted because I was being stalked, but I used to be ~Lynn~, you and I met in your other thread when you were talking about being pregnant and abused by Jason, and I was a strong hard-core advocate that you NOT marry him and get the heck away from him.

Regardless of how it ended up happening in the end, it's good that you are NOT going to be with that creep. I'm sorry you lost the baby.

You can PM me if you like or add me to whatever you can find me on, lol.
 
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My friend has a birthday party, and one of our mutual friends invites him. We meet and he sits across from me during dinner. He tells some funny stories and we talk a little bit. When he hears where I work, he informs me that he did an install for our sound system and met me in the office, but I don't remember him. Over the next week or so, we talk a bit over MySpace and find we have quite a bit in common. He is interested in me but I am still trying to get over an ex, and not attracted to him in the least.

Over the course of the next eight months, he tries to get to know me better, but I put up some walls for fear of giving the wrong impression. We get to be friends in a group setting. I think that he's somewhat fun to talk to, but overall I'm unimpressed and am very standoffish. Unfortunately, I make a lot of assumptions about him that are unfounded.

June, 2007
I make a point to get over my ex, and I move on. However, I'm still unimpressed with this guy and uninterested.

October 12-14, 2007

A group of us goes camping, and he and I have a fun time hiking, climbing, skipping rocks, spelunking, and just hanging out together. I decide that I misjudged him and that overall he is a good guy that cares about helping others. At the end of the weekend, I say to my sister and a couple of friends, "You know, J.C. really is a pretty cool guy!" I decide that I would like to be better friends with him, but nothing more, but I'm afraid to let my guards down because I don't want to lead him on. At this time I am talking to another guy and planning on going on a date with him soon, and am uninterested in considering anyone else romantically.

Over the next seven months, he continues to try to get to know me better. We chat back and forth a little, but I keep my guard up.

May 25, 2008
We are chatting one night, and the conversation gets serious and he asks if he can call me. A couple of weeks prior, my very close guy friend had admitted that he had feelings for me that he'd hidden, and since then I'd been especially determined that wouldn't happen with anyone else if I could help it at all. I freak out thinking the situation is about to be repeated with J.C., and after I reject him, he will be upset and blame me for leading him on, and will probably immediately go out and find some other girl because I assume that he just wants a girlfriend and he only wanted me because I was a challenge. So I tell him I'd rather he not call, and ask him point blank if I'd done anything to give him the impression that I was interested in more than friendship. He says no, and I say, "Good." Basically I shoot him down, and he admits that he has feelings for me but hasn't acted on them because he knew they weren't reciprocated. His response is totally different than I expected and what I'd gotten from other guys. He is humble and understanding. He continues to treat me as a friend, and doesn't go right out and start chasing another girl. I figure that since he knows where I stand, I can let my guard down a little, so I do and we begin talking without all the pressure that had been there before.

June 20, 2008
Our good friend invites some of us over to watch a movie. I wonder ahead of time if J.C. will be there. Then I ask myself why I care, and I blow it off.

June 28, 2008
Our social group has two different parties planned. The second one is a birthday party for me and two other girls. J.C. is at the first one, and it's my understanding that he'll come to the birthday party. I ask his friend on our way over there if he is coming and she says yes. Time passes and he doesn't show up. I ask her again if he is coming, and she says she thinks so. The party ends and I leave, wondering why he never showed up. I get back to the house where the first party was to pick up my car, and run into him in the driveway, where he talks to me for a minute and nonchalantly mentions that he's sorry he never made it over to the birthday party. I ask myself why I am so bothered that he didn't make a point to come.

June 29, 2008
A group of us goes out to eat after church, and I get stuck at the guys table. I sit across from J.C. and we talk the entire time. I leave thinking about what a fun time it had been, and mention to our mutual friend that I'd had such a good time talking with him. Around this time, our mutual friend mentions things about J.C. that really impress me. She does it unintentionally, but I take notice and am intrigued, but I still won't admit it to myself.

July 12, 2008

I had recently admitted to myself that the reason I was not dating anyone was simply because I was afraid. I had decided to let go of my fears and be willing to try dating. On this Saturday night, I go out to dinner with a guy I met online. He is nice, but we have nothing in common, and I feel uncomfortable. While we are there eating, I catch myself thinking, "I wish I was here with J.C. right now." Then I wonder where the heck that thought had come from, and I brush it off. At the end of the night, my date asks me what qualities I am looking for in someone, and as I go through them, I realize I am describing someone I already know. I get home that night and chat with him, tell him about the date, and we talk about our ideas about relationships and find that they are the same. When I go to bed that night I finally admit to myself that I like him.

July 14
I go to his house because he offered to help me with a problem with my car. After he's done, he asks if I would like to hang out, and I agree. He is afraid to suggest taking me out to dinner, so instead he grills us some chicken and we sit around talking and eating. We get into a deeper discussion about our friendship and why I was so standoffish for so long. At the end of the night, he gives me a hug, and I linger before I pull away. He doesn't want to pull away, so I realize that he is still interested. As I pull out of his driveway, I see that he is practically skipping on his way back into his house. Still I am afraid to proceed with a relationship because I feel badly about changing my mind so dramatically in the course of two months. Over the next week, we talk regularly and I flirt enough to let him know that I'm interested.

July 19, 2008
A group of us goes out to eat and to see The Dark Knight for his birthday. I sit by him in the movie, and we grin at each other at all the good parts like idiots. About halfway through, he pulls the pinky scout. We ease into holding hands. Our friend notices and drills him on the way home, and he admits that he's not exactly sure what happened. So afterward, we talk and establish the fact that we are officially a couple.

Sorry this is so long, but that's my honest to goodness modern day Pride and Prejudice story for ya. :)
 
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I remember the exact day I was living with this guy and we were engaged and I had dropped everything in my life. My friends, my family, and my school, and I moved over 700 miles away from my home. To be with him. Well it was on a Saturday night and I had been sick all day. I woke up and I heard him telling his mother, who had come over to help with the laundry and pick up her dog, that he was going to leave me and go back to ex. I called my best friend immediately and told him I am coming home. I wasn't even giving him a second chance.

I get home on Monday and I am so depressed because I had let everything that mattered to me go. And I had let everyone who cared about me down. And the worst part was I was pregnant. I went into a spiral downward. I couldn't even get out of bed I was depressed and sick all of the time. I went to the doctor one time and she immediately told me I needed to put on anti-depressants. I told her I couldn't because I was pregnant. But anyways. It was bad.

November 1, 2007

I finally get on my myspace and was trying to talk to some of my old friends, and get together with them. When I suddenly got a friend request. It was from a guy named Tillman and I thought what a strange name, I thought at first it was a joke. I went to his profile and looked and he lived in the same town as me just a few miles away and was a mechanic and a christian. So I thought well maybe I can at least talk with this guy and I won't be totally isolated. So I accpeted. He messaged me a little later telling me thanks and wondering if I would like to chat on myspaceIM. So I said sure. We started chatting and just hit it off

Decemeber 2007

We have been talking regularly for about a month and talking on the phone for about 2 weeks or so. We then got hit by that huge Ice storm and we talked everynight and would tell each other all kinds of stories and jokes to keep our minds off of the cold and help keep us warm. We would always make sure that we both were safe and warm. On the second night of the ice storm I had to go outside and get a huge limb off of my car because it fell and busted 3 of my windows and I had to get it off of the car so I could put a tarp on it. Well I slipped and fell I am lucky I didn't break a bone or hit my head but I fell on my stomach and landed on the branch and it caused me to have a miscarriage. I was very very sad. Because I had already told myself I wouldn't get an abortion. I had to go to the hospital just in case something was wrong because I felt like I had sprained by spine or something because I couldn't straighten my back. And they told me I had had a miscarriage. On Dec. 31st. I decided to make the big step we had been talking for almost 2 months and I decided since it was New Year's Eve I am going to hopefully start this year out right. I went to see him at his shop. We met I gave him some brownies that I had made, we were both going to parties. And we hit it off, we were both really shy at first then we started telling funny jokes we had meant to tell each other during the ice storm.

January 2008

Very big month!! I was seeing Tim about 3 or 4 times a week and we were really beginning to fall for each other. On the 13th he asked me out! And then about a week and a half later he met my mom. And she fell in love with him! And told me that she thought we were meant for each other.

Febuary 2008

First sunday of every month my entire family gets together on my mother's side and we have lunch just so we can keep up with each other. Tim comes and my family just falls in love with him!! Also on that same day I finally get to meet his family!! And they loved me!!

Ever since then we've been madly in love with each other.

As of right now He proposed to me a little over a month ago! But right now I am in Choctaw and he lives in Tulsa. Which is about 120 miles away from each other. So it is really hard but I am living at our house that we are renting I am going to school and he is going to school! And we should be reunited in about 2 or 3 months! W e can't wait!!
 
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I met my girlfriend, Katie, at college in Sept. 2002. We both lived on the same floor in the freshman dorms and met through a mutual enemy, of all things. A couple of weeks after meeting her and her friends, they approached me to go see a movie. I was very hesitant since I'm not the most social person, but talked myself out of it. My thinking was, "Hey, you're in college now, time to get out of your comfort zone and meet people." So I did. I ended up sitting next to Katie and we spoke throughout the entire movie. In fact the movie was Die Another Day, on opening weekend. Nov. 22, 2002. After that we began to hang out more and more. Our friendship grew quickly and steadily. Even when I first met her it felt as though I had known her my entire life. She was so easy to speak with and such a great listener. We also had the same sense of humor, so that made things even easier. By Christmas break we were hanging out together every single day, every time we could. Since we began simply as friends, we didn't really know when we became a couple, so threw a dart at a calendar and came up with Jan. 30th. We didn't even have a real date until that following Summer.

Six years later and she is still my absolute best friend. We managed to maintain a healthy long distance relationship for about a year and a half, and we are now living 30 minutes from each other, still trying to get our feet on the ground to get married.

So, that, basically, is how I met my best friend and the greatest love of my life. :)
 
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here's my story :):

December 2001

I met Bob on an online forum (not this one) we were both members for several months but didn't pay much attention to each other. It was around this time when he started flirting with me and we started chatting on IM. I was in PA and he was in WI. I was 28 at the time and he was 52 (yes a long distance and an age gap relationship begins! ;))

February 2002

we were still only chatting at this point, but this is when he first told me that he loved me. I returned the words, although I honestly loved him more as a friend at this point. I did care for him very much, though.

April 2002

Our very first phone call. It was actually me that wanted to wait 4 months to start talking. Quite honestly, I was very anxious at the thought of talking on the phone with him. Bob was very patient and waited until I was ready. After the initial nervousness, I relaxed and had a wonderful time. After that we called each other at least 4 times a week and talked about 4-6 hours.

May 2002, August 2002, October 2002

These were the times when Bob attempted to drive out to Pittsburgh to see me, but obstacles always came up. We continued our online and phone call relationship, but I began to get suspicious that something was up.

March 2003

After I suggested that maybe I fly out to him for my birthday in May (and he seemingly happily agreed), I could feel him pull away emotionally from me. It frustrated me because he wouldn't talk to me.

April 2003
Bob suggested that we take a "break" from each other maybe permanently. I was very hurt and angry. After trying to contact him several times, I decided to respect his wishes and I left him alone, praying that if it was God's will that He would bring us back togeter

June 2003-October 2003
During this period, Bob and I slowly repaired our relationship. He revealed to me the reason why he "ended" things was that he was terrified of our age gap. I assured him that I loved him and I didn't give our age difference a second thought. It was October when we started talking on the phone again.

June 2004
Bob drove to Pittsburgh and we finally met in person for the first time. After almost two years of chatting and talking on the phone there was absolutely no awkwardness on our first face to face date. We eased into this new chapter of our lives with such comfortableness.

February 2005
My first visit to Bob in Wisconisn

after that we saw each other every 6-8 weeks for a couple years.

December 2007
I moved to Wisconsin to be with him

Currently I'm dividing my time between McFarland and Pittsburgh, living part time with Bob and part time with my family. I hope to someday soon be with Bob for good. We have talked about marriage but due to some circumstances out of our control we have to put it on the back burner at the moment. Even though he hasn't actually proposed yet and given me an engagement ring, I honestly consider this time with him our "engagement'. I honestly have no desire to have a wedding. I want it to be the quickest transition to marriage as possible: him: "will you marry me" me:"yes!" then off to the courthouse we go, elope, and be married by the end of the day. :)
 
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I met my husband on a Pagan networking site in May of 2004. There were only five listings for my city. Four women and one man. I contacted every person in my town hoping to find a local metaphysical shop. Jim was the only person who responded to me. I had assumed that after he sent me that e-mail with the name of the shop and directions that it would end there. I was wrong. He sent me an e-mail the next day that said, "this may sound forward, but perhaps we could go to the shop together sometime?"

Having been through some bad experiences, I was very cautious. We exchanged instant messages and e-mails for about three weeks before I worked up the nerve to give him my phone number. Here is what is so funny about it, though. I was really impressed that when we conversed via IM he didn't use "chatspeak". All words were spelled out, spelled correctly and proper grammar and punctuation were used. So, when he called and his name came up on my caller ID and I answer and this most backwards, redneck, country voice confidently said, "hey, it's Jim!" I was floored. I nearly panicked. I thought, there is no way that voice belongs to those words typed on that screen!

Come to find out, Jim and I grew up in the same town. He was sixteen years my senior. And he only lived three and a half miles from me. I look back and think of all those times we could have been at the grocery store at the same time and had never given each other a passing glance. Although, he does pick on me that he's convinced I was the punk kid who threw a french fry at him in the mall food court some fifteen years ago.

We met at Starbucks. I was so nervous. I was very heavy at the time, but we had exchanged pictures. When he pulled up and walked across the parking lot I knew I loved him. I still remember him wearing blue jeans, a black ribbed t-shirt, his sunglasses and black combat boots. He had a labret piercing at the time and he kept his head shaved. I assumed he would be like all the others - see me at the weight I was at and politely cut the date short and never call me back. I began to worry when I noticed his latte was getting low. I braced myself for the inevitable let-down.

Much to my pleasant surprise he asked me if I would like to go with him to the metaphysical shop he had told me about. The date wasn't over yet! I got in the car with him and we drove to the store, but it was closed, so he took me to the closest Barnes & Noble where we had another round of coffees. I remember how cute I thought it was he asked my permission to put his hand on the small of my back when we waited in line to order coffee. He blushed and said, "I'm a very affectionate man. I hope you don't mind."

On our first date he took me to meet his mother, who lived with him due to her having Alzheimer's Disease. After he dropped me off at Starbucks I was worried I still wouldn't hear from him again. Not ten minutes after I walked in the door to my apartment, my phone rang. It was Jim. He said, "I really enjoy being around you and...um, I miss you already. Want to come over here and watch a movie?" So he came and picked me up and me, him and his mother watched a movie together.

We saw each other every night for a few months. He wanted to be serious. Then I got scared, so I ran. I didn't speak to him for a few weeks. We met up and I told him I had changed my mind and I was ready to commit. As payback for my initially rejecting him, he rejected me and I didn't speak to him for about four months. Then, one day, I was at work and he popped into my mind. I just knew I needed to contact him. When my e-mail bounced back to me as undeliverable my heart sank. So, I went to where I had first found him and he had a new e-mail address. I sent the e-mail preparing myself for the worst - him telling me to bug off or that he was involved with someone.

I didn't get an e-mail response, so I assumed he wasn't interested in speaking with me. Three days later (4th of July) he called me. He had gone down to Florida to pick up his son so that they could spend the week together. He wanted to take me to the park with them. When he got to my apartment he wrapped his arms around me and said, "I'm never letting go. We fall away and then get back together too much."

Both Jim and I had children from previous marriages. He had a bad first marriage as did I. In the beginning, we were both adamant that marriage was never in the cards for us. Sure, we may live together, but we'd never get married. Well, in September of 2005 I was spending the night at his place and he rolled over around three in the morning and said, "I'm going to say something that applies to you, and only you forever. I could see myself marrying you. I want to marry you." I yawned and said, "you want to marry me?" He yawned and said, "of course. I wouldn't have asked if I didn't want to." I laughed and said, "only you didn't ask." he said, "sorry. Jennifer? Will you marry me?" And that was it. In October I moved in. I lived with he and his mother for eight months and we got married on June 2, 2006.
 
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