Okay, I’m bad about continuing blog posts. Sorry, charlie.
When Steven wrote me back after I winked at him, I felt a connection that I hadn’t with anyone previously. There was just something about how he phrased things and his word usage (I know…I am weird.) We talked, and talked…AND talked so more. He matched me in so many ways and it didn’t hurt that he was absolutely adorably cute. Haha. He was at the same school I was, about to graduate, had been in the band, and loved the same football team as I did. AND he was a Christian.
One of the things that put my mind at ease about the whole “online dating” thing was the fact that he was pretty good friends with one of my casual friends and, in fact, it is pretty amazing that we hadn’t meet before meeting online.
After emailing for about a month and a week, Steven asked me if I wanted to meet up. Uh, of COURSE, I wanted to. But unbeknownest to him, I was trying to play it coy and nonchalalent (sp?) I didn’t want him to know how much I really liked him (which of course is pretty stupid) but I have had a tendency to get carried away by a guy so I wanted to play it cool.
I showed up to the coffee shop so incredibly nervous. I was afraid he wouldn’t like me. Since I had already friended him on Facebook, I knew he wasn’t a mass serial killer because everything he had told me from our emails were legit and matched up with everything that was published on his Facebook.
When I first saw him in person, I nearly melted. He had such a kind face and, yeah, I thought he was really hot. We talked for a long time and it was just easy. After about two hours, I had to leave and he walked me to my car.
I still wasn’t put much stock into this relationship because I had been duped so many times. But after two more dates and many more emails/texts/phone calls later, God just told me that this guy was different and Steven became my boyfriend.
Over the course of Christmas break (Steven graduated and was scheduled to start his job on Jan. 4), we spent almost every single day together. We saw each other in many different situations and we saw each other in both good and bad settings. With each encounter and conflict that we faced, I only saw positive results. He is the perfect complement to me and I can read him like no other.
Since then, we have fallen in love and discovered more and more about each other. I never knew that I could feel the way that I do or that someone would reach through my “crazy” and discover the person that I have tried to hide for a long time.
There’s more that I want to say right now but to everything there is a time and place. One day, I will reveal more but for now it is suffice to say that I love Steven Edward.
