katieandalex
06-28-2006, 10:53 PM
We originally met online. I was just entering into high school, and I didn't have many friends in junior high, so I started searching for people on AOL that were in high school so I could maybe connect with a few people. Alex was one of them. We talked a bit and he gave me his phone number and told me to call him sometime. Well, I ended up calling him once but no one answered, and I didn't want to leave a message. I got online and looked at his profile and say that it said he was dating someone...so I threw his number away and forgot about him. Later that school year (May 2000) I was in a music festival with my school and the other school in my town (which Alex attended). He ended up being at the festival as well (I played flute and he played trumpet). We hung out with the same group of people during the whole 2 day festival but didn't really talk much....but by the end I figured out who he was. Here, after we started dating, he told me he wanted to ask me out then but he thought I was going to think he was a freak.
Anyways, then in September 2000, I just happened to remember his screen name and I put it back on my buddy list. He was online....we talked for like 4 hours or something online....he asked me to my school homecoming (yeah, thats kind of strange but his homecoming was that coming weekend).He picked me up from school that follow Friday and we ended up going shoe shopping the next day we had off school....and the rest is kind of history.
After a year of dating, his parents thought that we were getting too serious and told him that he had to break up with me....well he told them that he broke up with me, but we stayed dating secretly for the next....umm probably 4 years. LOL! His parents are very controlling.....ugh, don't even get me started.
Alex was a year ahead of me at school, so my senior year he went away to college about 4 hours away. It was really hard for us to be apart because we were always together....we fought a lot, but we made it through. I then graduated in June 2003 and decided to go to the same college as him. We moved in together in August 2003 (umm and his parents still didn't know that we were dating and had no idea we were living together.....)
After moving in together, we both decided not to go to college. He decided he was wasting his time because it wasn't what he wanted to do...and I just had no idea what I wanted to do. So we just lived there for about 9 months working. It was really difficult for us to live together. We had a hard time adjusting to it and fought constantly....we are so glad that we lived together before we decided to get married.
In December 2003, Alex decided that he would propose to me. He was kind of sneaking around with doing it....but I ended up catching on to all of it with my great spying abilities. For example, the one night we went to the mall "Christmas shopping for each other" so we split up. He said that I need to stay on one end of the mall and then he would come and let me know when we could switch. The mall was getting ready to close and he wasn't answering his phone...so I started walking around looking for him....I didn't find him, so I just went out to the car. He ended up telling me that he couldn't believe I didn't see him because I was standing right next to the store looking right at him....So the next day, I went out to the mall, without him, and retraced my foot steps and figured out he was in the jeweler store.
On December 12, 2003, we went out Christmas shopping with another couple and that was the night he ordered my engagement ring. We came home and ended up getting into a huge fight because he wouldn't tell me what he bought me for Christmas. He didn't like me to be upset with him....and especially after I told him that whatever it was I didn't want it, so take it back....he decided to propose that night. He didn't have the ring, so he proposed with a picture of the ring he printed off the internet. He had me wait in the bedroom and then he started playing Shania Twain's :Forever And For Always" and proposed to me in our living room at our apartment.
His plan was to take me out to dinner the following week and have the restuarant play the song over the PA system and then propose to me in the restuarant...which I would have hated!!! When the ring came in, he ended up proposing to me again in my car in the mall parking lot...how romantic.
Since then, we have done a lot of moving around. In May 2004 we moved to another town for me to attend college. In August 2005 Alex moved back to our hometown while I stayed in the other town for finish up my schooling on the campus....until December 2005 that I moved back to our hometown with him again to do my internship. I just finished my internship and we just recently moved again....and will be moving again within another year. So by the time we hit 4 years of living together, we will have lived in 5 towns and moved 6 times!!!!!
I think that about covers it....since not many people on this site know about our story! :) Feel free to ask questions.
Anyways, then in September 2000, I just happened to remember his screen name and I put it back on my buddy list. He was online....we talked for like 4 hours or something online....he asked me to my school homecoming (yeah, thats kind of strange but his homecoming was that coming weekend).He picked me up from school that follow Friday and we ended up going shoe shopping the next day we had off school....and the rest is kind of history.
After a year of dating, his parents thought that we were getting too serious and told him that he had to break up with me....well he told them that he broke up with me, but we stayed dating secretly for the next....umm probably 4 years. LOL! His parents are very controlling.....ugh, don't even get me started.
Alex was a year ahead of me at school, so my senior year he went away to college about 4 hours away. It was really hard for us to be apart because we were always together....we fought a lot, but we made it through. I then graduated in June 2003 and decided to go to the same college as him. We moved in together in August 2003 (umm and his parents still didn't know that we were dating and had no idea we were living together.....)
After moving in together, we both decided not to go to college. He decided he was wasting his time because it wasn't what he wanted to do...and I just had no idea what I wanted to do. So we just lived there for about 9 months working. It was really difficult for us to live together. We had a hard time adjusting to it and fought constantly....we are so glad that we lived together before we decided to get married.
In December 2003, Alex decided that he would propose to me. He was kind of sneaking around with doing it....but I ended up catching on to all of it with my great spying abilities. For example, the one night we went to the mall "Christmas shopping for each other" so we split up. He said that I need to stay on one end of the mall and then he would come and let me know when we could switch. The mall was getting ready to close and he wasn't answering his phone...so I started walking around looking for him....I didn't find him, so I just went out to the car. He ended up telling me that he couldn't believe I didn't see him because I was standing right next to the store looking right at him....So the next day, I went out to the mall, without him, and retraced my foot steps and figured out he was in the jeweler store.
On December 12, 2003, we went out Christmas shopping with another couple and that was the night he ordered my engagement ring. We came home and ended up getting into a huge fight because he wouldn't tell me what he bought me for Christmas. He didn't like me to be upset with him....and especially after I told him that whatever it was I didn't want it, so take it back....he decided to propose that night. He didn't have the ring, so he proposed with a picture of the ring he printed off the internet. He had me wait in the bedroom and then he started playing Shania Twain's :Forever And For Always" and proposed to me in our living room at our apartment.
His plan was to take me out to dinner the following week and have the restuarant play the song over the PA system and then propose to me in the restuarant...which I would have hated!!! When the ring came in, he ended up proposing to me again in my car in the mall parking lot...how romantic.
Since then, we have done a lot of moving around. In May 2004 we moved to another town for me to attend college. In August 2005 Alex moved back to our hometown while I stayed in the other town for finish up my schooling on the campus....until December 2005 that I moved back to our hometown with him again to do my internship. I just finished my internship and we just recently moved again....and will be moving again within another year. So by the time we hit 4 years of living together, we will have lived in 5 towns and moved 6 times!!!!!
I think that about covers it....since not many people on this site know about our story! :) Feel free to ask questions.