Ocean Size Love

How I met my amazing hubby.

*I want to share this story to show that long distance relationships can work. No matter how hard it is, love will conquer all!! I also want to show that, (although I was sceptical at first) that Internet relationships can also work. With saying that, I would urge anyone to be extra vigilant with who they are talking too and if they feel any way uncomfortable or unsure then to discontinue it. This is just my story*

It all started with.......

MYSPACE!! Believe it or not!

Back in July of 2006 my sister was talking to this guy on the social network Myspace.

He was in the US Military and was based in Germany at this time. Over the next few

months they texted, emailed and talked every single day. In November 2006, after

careful consideration, she travelled over to him for the first time. When she arrived,

she met his room-mate, aka: my hubby. They all headed out that night for a few drinks,

and got chatting to my hubby. Over the course of their conversation, she learned that he

was a country boy from Illinois and before he joined the Military, being a Cowboy, he competed in rodeos and was a bull rider. Bear in mind, when I was growing up I always had this thing for cowboys, and considering my Dad was born and Raised in America, I always told myself that I was going to travel to America and find myself a nice sexy cowboy and live on a farm and have loads of babies :)

So with this on my sisters mind, she got this awesome idea to try and set us up. A little

tipsy and excited from seeing her new love after months of talking, she start telling

my hubby just about how much I love cowboys and how she was going to get us

together and how much he would love me and how perfect we would be together. When she asked my hubby if she could forward me on a picture of him, he, of course agreed.

So, on that night I was sitting at home, just chilling out, when my phone beeped.

I opened it up to see a text message from my sister, stating that she has found

me "MY" cowboy and that I was going to love him and telling me how cute

he was and she was going to send me a picture. I just laughed it off and said whatever!

I knew she was drunk and that she would wake up in the morning and all

would be forgotten about......

The next morning, I received a text message from a number

that I did not recognise. I opened it up to see it was from my hubby. Again, I laughed

it off and thought my sister was messing around. My sister and I are really close, so I

knew that she wouldn't just give my number out to some crazy random person. I knew

that if there were a crowded room full of guys, my sister would pick out Mr right

for me....

....And she did! 

So I thought to myself, what the heck, there is no harm in just texting this guy. I

thought that a few text messages here and there would be nothing and we would just

forget about each other.... I was totally wrong. I realised my sister knew me more than

I knew myself. Over the next few weeks, the first thing I would do in the morning, was

text my hubby to say good morning. He was the first thing I thought of in the morning and

last thing at night. I don't know why but I was falling for a guy that I never met, nor

had I even spoke with him. What was wrong with me? Why did I want to get into

something, that was so silly to start off with? But I couldn't help falling more for this

guy. A guy hiding behind text messages! A guy who could have been deployed to Afghanistan at any time. A guy who I knew nothing about. Why would I want to go through with that heartache. All these thoughts ran through my head every single day. All these questions. Would he even like me when and if we ever met eventually? But my fingers couldn't help it and they continued to text him. My mind wouldn't stop and it continued to think of him. My heart would pound if he didn't bother to text me and my stomach would turn and fill with butterflies when he did text me. All this amazed me.

New years eve 2006.... That was the first time I spoke to him and first time I heard his voice. I remember the first thing he ever said to me. "Hi sweetheart". Oh my gosh, I totally loved his voice. I couldn't even talk to him, I was that excited and nervous. He told me he felt the same. I thought, ya right! Want kind of guy would feel like this. When that phone call ended, I was on cloud 9. I was on a buzz for the whole day and I thought. I am ringing in this new year with positive thoughts and just hope for the best.

We continued to talk every day. Myself and my sister had arranged to travel over in February 2007. She was still seeing her guy. The day before I travelled, my hubby texted me a text which said "Ti Amo". I was gobsmacked! He tried to tell me it meant "I like you" but I knew what it really meant. Yeah, us Irish people know Spanish words too.

I eventually texted "Je'taime" back to him. I knew I loved him before I met him so there was no harm in putting my feelings out there. After all, he had laid his feelings out for me.

February 8th 2007 @ roughly 7.00pm.....My sister and I boarded our flight to Germany.
I felt so sick to my stomach. It just kept doing flips. Ya know when the plane suddenly drops down and you get those crazy tingling feelings in your belly? Well I was getting those as soon as I stepped on to the plane. I don't even think I spoke much on the way over because I was so nervous and every time I taught of it, I felt like throwing up. But, that is all in a good way. I was just way too nervous and excited. They are not a good combo :) We landed about 1 hour and 50 minutes later. After departing, we headed on down to get our bags. The baggage claim belt that our bags were on, was right beside the door. As we stood waiting for the bags, the sliding doors opened and I could see him standing there. He came to pick us up with my sisters guy and a buddy of theirs. Oh my goodness. I couldn't believe it! I was literally about 100feet away from him. I had to run into the toilet. I forgot my bag. I didn't care. I had to check I looked OK after the flight. Sprayed a little deodorant on and put some lip gloss on. When we got our bags, I was so excited that I nearly trampled my sister to get out through the doors. I walked as fast as I could. I would have ran but I had to keep my cool in some way :)
We threw our arms around each other. I don't even think we said a word to each other. But we just hugged and kissed. Awwww!! It felt amazing. I only ever thought that "love at first sight" only existed in movies or fairy tales but it was happening to me right now. I was living my own little fairytale. I knew right there and then, that this was the man that I was going to spend the rest of my life with. I did not want to let him go!

Once we managed to pry ourselves away from each other, I introduced myself to his buddy, which turns out to be my sisters fiance now, but that's a whole other story in itself. Turns out the guy she was seeing was a total jerk but her now fiance captured and rebuild her heart :)

The first night back, we couldn't stop looking at each other. We sat and talked, and kissed, and kissed some more. :)  The rest of the night is a mystery?? lol! I loved waking up to him the next morning. It was the best feeling ever. I didn't have to wake up to just some text message beeping through. It was awesome! The rest of the weekend was great. We had a ton of fun together. I hated the fact that I was only there for 3 days.


....to be continued....