It’s true… 😅
It was December 2018 and I was scrolling through collective on ifunny, which for those who don’t know is basically a general “recently posted” section that isn’t necessarily popular, just new. I came across some post about Ohio and I got excited, I commented “hey I’m from Ohio too!”. From there, we kept commenting back and forth. It was so unlike both of us - it must have been an act of God. He ran a political themed profile and mine was religious (from my Baptist/pentecostal era… yikes). Truthfully, we really shouldn’t have met this way. Neither of us were looking for “companionship” from any online platform, and at first we didn’t exactly click. We exchanged phone numbers and texted for a few weeks but honestly I was annoyed by his persistence. I almost blocked his number! After a while though he began to grow on me. We FaceTimed nightly and shared so many memories together. We didn’t get to meet until 7 months into talking because we lived 3 hours apart and I didn’t have my license yet. Flash forward to 2024 and we have a 1.5 year old daughter together and have been married for about two years. When I think back about how we met, I’m caught up in many emotions. Embarrassment, amazement, bewilderment… it really shouldn’t have happened this way, but it did! And I wouldn’t change it. Buuuut… I wish I could change the story when people ask how we met 😂
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Don’t feel embarrassed! Initially I met my ex that way, it was on a different app called secrets or something. Also from ohio & he was literally 15 minutes away at the time, we didn’t work out for alot of reasons, but were together & married a total of 3 years. From 2014-2017. We told people our bffs introduced us.