I met my hubby Joe when I was 12 and he was 14. Back when starter jackets were cool. If you can remember that, then I feel better. :) We met when I moved into the neighborhood. What I failed to know then and later learned is that Joe went to daycare on the same street as my grandma (who watched us often) did. We went to the same church (all of this was in a different city) He also played in the yard attached to my grandmothers. I'm getting off topic.
We met and he was very quiet. But he has these BEAUTIFUL blue eyes and gorgeous black hair and is my "type" Which is tall, eyes and hair mentioned above and big. By big I mean that I feel safe and protected by him. Not that I can break him in half. He's 6'4' 300 lbs and size 15 shoe. Big teddy bear of a guy. Again... off topic.
We met and fell in love as much as you can at that tender age. Lots of talking on the phone and a little kissing... We "dated" on an off again for the next 5 years and broke up for reasons that most high school makes want and I wasn't willing to give. Joe met someone else (who didn't want us to remain friends) and they then dated for the next 5 years and became engaged. I would hear about him and occasionally run into him from time to time but never really talke
d to him. I met someone else and thought he was the "one". Oh how wrong I was.Joe became engaged in the fall of 2000 at the end of Oct. By the beginning of Dec. he was told the engagement was off due to Joe not being religious enough. ( I laugh at this because she had been cheating on him the whole time they dated on and off and is now married to a pastor. She married him 6 months after ending the engagement to Joe)Amy... stay on topic.
Joe went looking for me in Dec. to (his words not mine) "see how I was since when we dated so long ago we got along well and I treated him good" You must understand he was my first love. I had never forgotten him but was hurt by the way things ended way back then. Now 5 years had past and on day in the July following his engagement ending... I had moved back home from working at Disney and was slowly ending my relationship from there. Joe had a dream about me and wondered if he's ever bump into me. 2 weeks to the day of the dream he was standing outside his parents home in our old neighborhood and I drove by in a car. ( I need to state that our old neighborhood is a big c
ircle) I was with a friend and had spotted him and went to see if I could see if he married that person... we drove by for a look but I was so busy looking at his finger I missed his face so we went down the block to turn around where he wouldn't see us and when we went to drive back by he was gone. He had gone the other way to "catch" me and say hi. So I laughed at this. I went out with friends and upon driving home I decided to drive past his house and see if he was living at home. I did and there he was walking out to his truck in the street. I pulled up and asked is he remembered me. He laughed and said he did. **My mom predicted right then that we would get together againWe became good friends again and about 2 months later began to date. Joe later told me that he knew from that first night he wanted to date me again and within a week he knew I was "the one" but didn't want to scare me. We were engaged 9 month
s after we met and married 1.5 years later. We wanted to wait because his sister was getting married also. These past 8 years together (5 married) have been the best ones of my life. We have had our ups and downs but through it all we have been laughing, holding hands and I'm more in love with that man then I was the day we met 17 years ago.I love you Joe.
*****The images included here are of Joe and My mom when she started chemo for her ovarian cancer. She's fine now but my beloved hubby shaved his head too to be "bald buddies" with her. These are the before and afters. **Second ones were of my pregnant with Lj and Joe at work where his emploees got to dress him up.... I love it and he was a great sport about it.************
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