You may want to know a little about us.
About Me:
I was born in Miami, Florida and lived there for most of life, with the exception of ages 2 through 10, when I lived in Georgia with my family. My sisters were born there, and though they only lived there for 5 years, we all consider ourselves to be Georgia Peaches (with two Cuban parents!). Throughout middle and high school I was always the 'best friend' of the guys that I was interested in, and that carried over into adulthood. Before meeting my fiance I had a total of TWO boyfriends.
About Him:
TBA**
How it started:
One New Years Day I was sick and tired of not having someone to kiss at the strike of midnight, so I made a drastic move - I signed up for an online dating website, you may have heard of it, eHarmony. I signed up for a three months membership and while I met a few interesting people online, I only had interest in meeting one. That meeting went so terribly that I decided eHarmony would not work for me and I canceled my membership after the first three months.
When we 'met':
Fast forward about six months. Throughout the months I continued to receive emails from eHarmony and I would delete them almost immediately. Over Labor Day weekend however, one caught my eye. It was an email stating that someone had requested to communicate with me. On it's own this was not a strange email at all, since that was usually the content of all the emails I had received, however this person had the same first name as one of my prior boyfriends. I thought it would be incredibly funny if it was said ex, so I signed on and checked it out. It wasn't, however while I was there I decided to look around and see who had been wanting to communicate with me over the last six months. There was a ton of duds, however one seemed to have potential. Then my heart dropped. I noticed that communication had been requested three months earlier, in June. I knew in my heart of hearts that this man would not still be available - surely someone had scooped him up by now. I took a risk and contacted him.
Imagine my surprise when just a few hours later I received a response. He was not attached to anyone and was still interested. We swapped communications into the evening, and we decided that I would text him the next day when I was done with a project for a class I was taking. I was giddy.
The next day, Labor Day, I sent him a text when I was done with my project and he called me almost immediately. It was early afternoon. I don't believe we hung up the phone until the early hours of the morning.
Meeting in person:
We continued this way for almost two weeks, until we decided to meet in person for dinner. The day was September 11, 2008. We immediately clicked, more so than on the phone, and the next day we were officially together.
How we ended up in Oregon:
We saw each other often, almost daily, and in May of 2009 I moved in. It was rough living with someone for the first time, but we really got to know each other much better after that. I'd always wanted to move out of Miami, so had he, so in 2010 we made the decision to move to Oregon, where I could still stay with my company. We started making plans, and saving money. In March 2011 we moved in my with family to help save some money on bills and in June we left on a cross country adventure (a.k.a the big move). We've been living in Oregon since the lat week in June 2011 and we absolutely love it. We love it so much that this is where we are going to get married, instead of back in Miami. This has been a difficult decision for us, because most of our family members do not understand, however we want to start our married life in the place where we feel that we are at home, regardless of what others think.
How did you and your significant other meet? Did you ever try online dating?
**I'll add more info (his side) when he gives it.
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