Jenny’s Story

I had just started a new job at a public relations firm when I decided to join match.com. Online dating was not something I would normally try, but I was working really long hours and pretty much lived in my car. As you can imagine, it was hard to meet anyone with that kind of work schedule. So, I joined match to try this new online dating thing.

Out of all the local men, and I use “men” lightly, I soon found there were slim pickin’s for the type of man I was looking for. But I still stayed with it … just in case, right? Date after date turned out not to be what I was looking for, so I decided to sign on for the last time to cancel my account. And there he was! A funny, interesting, intelligent man that captured my attetion, and we were from the same city, looking for the same things. I mentioned to him that I was going to cancel my account and that he could email me at my personal email address for awhile, and then maybe we could meet sometime, if we “clicked.”

HAHA… we “clicked” alright. We met one week later on a Friday night at his house. I felt safe because I was in control of driving over there and could leave when I wanted, plus he didn’t know where I lived, so why not? With both of us being dog lovers, he invited my dog to come along with me. I loaded up my newly adopted, unruly hound dog, and off we went to visit this mystery man. I was kind of glad to have Tucker (my dog) with me that night. He just sat in the backseat staring at me adn turning his head sideways, like he was really listening and understanding what I was saying to him. HAHA… but it made me feel better as I was rattling off about how nervous I was. Well, ten minutes later we drove up into his driveway, and there he was.

And the rest, my friends, is history. It began with a “hello” and will soon be joined by an “I Do.”

Sean’s Story

One night after work I was sitting at home in front of the computer. Browsing the internet, paying bills, playing games, whatever… I don’t really remember what I was doing, but my friend Emily started chatting with me.

“How are ya? What’s new? How’s life??” The same question any friend asks that you haven’t talked to in a while. After catching up we started talking about our dating lives. It’s always good to have a female friend to go to for advice. She was raving about her experiences on Match.com. Having been on there before I wasn’t to thrilled about the prospect of putting a profile back online. I think it’s a very different experience for men than it is for women. However, after talking to her off and on for a couple weeks, listening to her stories of all her dating experiences, I finally gave in and decided to put my profile up again.

The good news was that Match still had my profile saved from the last time. I hadn’t changed much, so it didn’t take long to update the profile and add a couple recent pictures. Once that was done, I started browsing. When I say I started browsing, what really happened was this: I clicked search, clicked on the first profile that caught my eye, and I was done.

Seriously! It was this supercute girl standing in front of Sanford stadium that caught my eye. Short brown hair, red shirt, Dawgs fan, cute. All good reasons for me to email her. So I did.

I got a response from her a couple days later. She told me that she’s the type of person to only date one person at a time, and had just committed to meeting someone else.

“…if you don’t mind, can I keep your profile in my favorites, and email you if this ends up going nowhere??”

I told her I was the same way, so I completely understand and appreciated the honesty.

It may sound a bit strange, but somehow I knew that I’d hear back from her. Just based on what we had written in our profiles, we had a quite a bit in common. Sure enough… three days later she sent me another email.

“So, I’m emailing you 3 days later….. hahaha. Very humorous to you perhaps, but can I just say the dating scene is not my cup of tea this year… hahaha.”

Turns out the dating scene worked out just fine for her! hah! After that we talked on the phone every night for a week. But that wasn’t good enough. After we hung up, we both got online so we could chat some more.

Finally, after what seemed like an eternity - the longest week EVER - we met for dinner, and yes… I cooked.

Now, after only four short months, we are as happy as a couple can be. A few saturdays ago, Jenny and I went on a sunrise hike at Cloudland Canyon. After making Jenny walk for about a mile and a half, I asked her to marry me. Surprisingly, she said yes! Hahah! Ok, it wasn’t that surprising…

It’s funny how things work out… I’ve been in a handful of long relationships and a handful of short relationships. None of them ever made me think that I’d believe in “love at first sight” until the day I met Jenny.