I thought it was a reference to your new man. Oops. Do tell us more if you're inclined. How did you meet him? What does he do? Does he have kids? Was it scary at first or was it Bingo. You knew he was the one?
Well, I met him on Match.com of all places. A girlfriend and I had a bit too much wine one night and were playing around on the computer. To tell you the truth, I wasn't even sure what I wrote in my bio the next morning!
When I read it, I just laughed. I had written the normal "I enjoy the outdoors and getting to know new people" blah blah blah. I wrote that I enjoyed playing golf but usually ended up as the entertainment because I'm so bad at it. But I had also written, "I have not one, not two, but THREE kids."
I figured, no one's going to answer this! Well, much to my surprise, I had quite a few responses. It did my self-esteem fine, but I didn't really respond to anything because I wasn't really comfortable and felt funny.
Then I got Steve's email. His picture was cute...and he included a picture of his puppy...a beagle. Not fair and I later learned it was part of his internet dating lure. He looked really young but his email wasn't full of all the normal crap.
He just asked me how bad I was at golf.
I answered that one. Turns out that he lives on a golf course but I didn't find that out for a couple of weeks! From that night on we emailed back and forth for awhile. Then he gave me is IM address and we did that for awhile.
After I did an internet background check on him, I gave him my phone number.
He was the only person I ever talked to from Match.com. I knew after our first date (which I was horribly sick on, by the way) that I liked him. I knew after a few dates that I really liked him. It wasn't long before I knew I was falling in love.
He mentioned marriage though and I had a full blown anxiety attack while driving down the freeway.
Obviously, I got over that one. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
Steve just turned 30 in August, one day before my 33rd birthday. He doesn't have any children and is divorced.
I swore I would never again date, let alone marry, a younger man. I shouldn't swear.
I have rarely met someone with such a level head and true, honest to goodness sense of right and wrong. He doesn't open up to many people, but he opened his heart, home and self to me...and my children. That one surprised me. I felt fairly confident I could find someone to love and who would love me. But to find someone who would open themselves so completely and lovingly to 3 kids? I wasn't so sure about that.
This is the song we played at our wedding... Steve isn't exactly an overly emotional guy and certainly not a country music fan. But when we happened to hear this song (okay.. I made him listen to it one day), he said it summed up how he felt. I so agree with him!
Bless the Broken Road by Rascal Flatts
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I set out on a narrow way many years ago
Hoping I would find true love along the broken road
But I got lost a time or two
Wiped my brow and kept pushing through
I couldn't see how every sign pointed straight to you
Chorus:
Every long lost dream led me to where you are
Others who broke my heart they were like northern stars
Pointing me on my way into your loving arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you
I think about the years I spent just passing through
I'd like to have the time I lost and give it back to you
But you just smile and take my hand
You've been there you understand
It's all part of a grander plan that is coming true
Chorus:
Every long lost dream led me to where you are
Others who broke my heart they were like northern stars
Pointing me on my way into your loving arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you
Now I’m just rollin’ home into my lover's arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road that led me straight to you
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