by Priscila Araujo

Created on: May 14, 2008   Last Updated: October 31, 2008

I met my husband in a very common way nowadays called "Internet dating". I really never thought I would meet the man of my life through Internet. I was not even looking for anyone by that time. in fact I was still in a relationship with someone else, a very frustrating relationship. So, let me tell you how it happened. I had just moved to my new family house. I used to work as an au pair, and I was living with this family to take care of their children. I had plenty of time available as the kids were at school. I used to spend some of my free time on the computer. I had a profile in some dating websites, not really to meet a boyfriend but just to learn English. It was fun though, I met a couple of guys just as friends, and I was perfectly fine with that. I really didn't believe someone could find another person over the Internet and start dating and marry each other. Most of my relationship was with guys that were already my friends. But one day I received this e-mail from this cute, and Christian guy. I was very disappointed in my relationship with this other man that I mentioned before. He was older than me, and he was the first one that I had sex with. He told me that he couldn't love me, that I was just a little girl. I was born in a Christian home and learn that sex is just after marriage (I totally agree with that), so I was already feeling guilt, and hear him saying that he couldn't love me while having sex with me just caused a huge pain. I was, though, trying to convince he was wrong, that I was a great girl and bla bla bla. The truth is I just thought we had to be together because of what happened. My heart was broken. I didn't want another relationship. When I received the e-mail from my future husband, I decided to reply just to be nice. He was handsome in the picture, but I really didn't think he would like me or I could fall in love with someone at that point. He wrote me back and then we started exchanging e-mails frequently. I was always very careful in my previous relationships of not show all of me, my failures and things like that, maybe trying to be what I was not. But with this one it was different. I was not afraid he wouldn't like me because I was not expecting him to do so. After many many emails we decided to exchange phone numbers (I would never call for sure), I put him as my contact in my phone so when he called I would not answer. I don't really like to talk on the phone. You know, that blank times when you or him don't know what

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