Today marks ten years since I met the man who would one day become my husband and the father of my children. Wow! Ten years is such a long time. That’s 3653 days (including three leap years in there!), but sometimes, it seems like hardly any time has passed at all. I certainly don’t feel like I’m turning 37 this year!
I found this picture of us way back then. Weren’t we cute? (Sorry about the quality of the scan. It just wasn’t a great resolution photo to begin with.)
We met on a dating website. Back then, online dating wasn’t anywhere near as common as it is now, and I was a bit embarrassed to tell people that’s how we met. But like a lot of women in their mid twenties, I didn’t have a lot of avenues to meet new people. I’d finished school, I knew better than to date a co-worker, and once you’ve been in a relationship with one or two people in your circle of friends, you really have to move on. That’s my free dating tip for you!
After instant messaging and emailing for a while, Chris and I started talking daily on the phone. We discovered we both had degrees in psychology from the same university, and when we compared notes we realized we’d even had a couple of classes in common. What a missed opportunity! But you know, I don’t wish we’d met earlier. I don’t think I was ready to meet him yet. I had to do the seemingly mandatory round of bad boyfriends and poor choices before I was ready to meet him.
So it was ten years ago that I met Chris for the first time. We met up at a nearby Starbucks and ordered hot chocolates. Once I’d decided he wasn’t an axe murderer, I agreed to go out for Thai food with him. We had such a good time talking and getting to know each other, we ended up hanging out at Denny’s until 1:30 in the morning drinking coffee and talking.
I didn’t really think I’d meet anyone serious through a dating website, but I did. And now we have two beautiful little girls, a mortgage, a home, and a family. Not bad for ten years!
I love you, Chris! Here’s to another wonderful ten years!
Did you or anyone you know meet their spouse through a dating website? Or do you have a funny/sad/happy story about online dating you’d like to share? I’d love to hear about it!
Congrats on 10 years! Nice to see an old pic.
Cheers.
Thank you, Dreena!
Congrats and happy thanksgiving!!!!
Thank you, and happy Thanksgiving to you too!
Congratulations on ten years! I have a few friends who’ve met online but that’s too funny you also went to university together (that’s where my hubby and I met). 🙂
Someone I met at our play group told me she met her hubby online. I was surprised and not, all at the same time.
Congrats on 10 years (even tho I’m a bit late)!
My partner and I have been together happily UNmarried for 19 yrs now, this past June 5. Two kids (16yrs & 22months). Boy has time flown by us….
Thanks and congrats on 19 years! That’s a lot of history!