I don’t think (especially after writing my “Shake Hands with a Hero” post) I have ever shared exactly how Military Man and I met.

Today I will. It’s a true ‘modern-day’ love affair *wink*

So I can clearly remember the day my parents got internet. Dial-up of course! I was about 12 I think.

The idea that I could type in something and find the answer was just awesome to me!

I played games, searched for papers and school work and sent my Grandmother e-mails but that was about it.

I was b-i-g into Spice Girls when I was 13 and one day I realized (because I read the paper insert in the CD I had bought) that I could look them up on the great big wide internet-so I did (shhh don’t tell my parents I think that might have been against the rules!) and I ended up finding a fan site with a

CHAT ROOM!

woot woot!

I was hooked!

Eventually I found the Yahoo! Chat rooms and ended up there because it was a lot of chat rooms to choose from!

So I met Military Man in one of those chat rooms one day (I can still remember his ‘handle’) and we talked for a bit and he was funny. Then he private messaged me and asked where I lived. I almost didn’t respond because my parents had instilled the fear of the online predator into me. But I told him I was from Maine. He told me what town he was from and it was a few weeks and many many more  Yahoo! chats after that I finally admitted I only lived 20 minutes away from him.

We started e-mailing (with an e-mail account I still have to this day-15+ years later) and I knew I really liked him. He just had this personality that I was drawn to. Plus there was that mysterious quality about the fact that I only really ‘knew’ him through the internet and typed words.

Then we progressed to phone calls and I was even more smitten.

I was 13 and he was almost 14. I was getting ready to ‘graduate’ from 8th grade and he was ending his freshman year in high school.

His mom drove him to my ‘graduation’ and that is where we met in real life. The plan was that he would come to my graduation, listen for my name and when I walked across the stage he would know who I was and would introduce himself after. I can remember being more nervous about that then the 4+ inch high heels I had on (a la my beloved Spice Girls) and the walking across stage in front of all those people.

I can remember telling all my friends about it before hand, nervously waiting for my name to be called and then trying so super hard to ‘play it cool’ and pretend I didn’t know he was looking at me right that second.

After we had all received our diplomas we had to ‘march’ out down the center isle and I swear to you it was like a scene from a movie- I was walking down the aisle with my assigned partner and since we had marched in according to height when we marched out it was backwards and the people in front of me were taller so I couldn’t see anything directly in front of me. When we got to the end of the aisle we turned left and were to march out into the hall to meet our families. Well the two taller people in front of me turned and there he was at the end of the aisle.

Big ol’ smiles all around.

We exchanged more e-mails and fell in puppy love. (It turned it out later that it was more than puppy love since we ended up married)

We dated for a year before going our separate ways for the rest of our high school and my college years.

Military Man was my first love and in many ways my true “high-school sweetheart”

I saved many of those e-mails and while they aren’t handwritten love notes like from a different era, they are precious and I love them and they are right at my fingertips no matter where in the world I am and if I need a reassurance or a pick me up when we are apart (which as you know-he is in the Military and that happens) I just click open my Yahoo! e-mail account and can re-read those sweet young love e-mails and I feel better. I am taken back to a simpler time in my life when my biggest worry was what this boy thought of me.

Tell me-How did you meet your hubby? and did e-mail/the internet have any part in it? Did you use e-mail to get back together with your sweetheart? Please leave me a comment telling me your e-mail love story!

Have a happy day,

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