by CanCan

Created on: August 28, 2008   Last Updated: September 02, 2008

My story begins around October 2001.
I was divorced and a single mother of two teenagers.
I was always on the internet, because I did not have any other means of communication with anyone, because after my divorce I had become some what isolated from the outside world.
I wanted friends desperately, and would go onto web sites where chatting was permitted.
I recall it all well when I was on one of these sites where you could sing and chat.

I enjoyed singing, and little did I know, that my future husband was in that same room that night.
I was first attracted to his strong accent, and he was also attracted to mine. We were able to hear each other over our mics in the room.
We began chatting, and swapped pictures, and we had a good time talking, but there was something missing.
We eventually got to the point of calling each other over the phone, sometimes talking over seven hours at a time, We used allot of calling cards back then.
My future husband was a divorcee just like me and he had no children.
The jealousy that arose in me at that time was unbearable, for me and I'm sure my soon to be husband.
When I would log on he would already be in a chat room talking and waiting for me to log on but I would cuss him out, accuse him of cheating on me with girls in the room and sign off, then he would call me to see what he had done, this was just a part of the frustration of him being so far away, and me having trust issues,from my previous relationships.It is also very hard to determine what people are feeling or thinking through words typed on a screen because you can't see their emotion.
Around a week before Christmas we had decided to meet, we knew we loved each other but meeting was the next step, even though plane fare was very costly we made it happen.
He lived on the West Coast, and was 2600 miles away from me, I was a country girl from the Southern states and we grew up so different but I believe that's what actually attracted us to one another.They say opposites attract, and we sure did.
He arrived and it was like fate, we meshed well together.
My children liked him, but my parents did not get to meet him, nor were they very eager too.They thought I had lost my mind, what if he's a murderer they ask? What if he's a pedophile? I reassured them that I knew where he worked, and had spoken to most his family over the phone, yes I could have been very wrong about him , but something in my gut and my heart told me other wise.
His visit was only for four days but well worth it,we

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