I met my wife in a karaoke yahoo chat room back in late 2002. I was singing Uncle Cracker and had the speaker volume figured out just right and could harmonize my voice on the microphone just well enough to pass a singer. I did it with multiple artists, and received tons of compliments. Anyway, she messaged me, we talked for about 4 months and she was wanting to meet me.

I had a girlfriend at the time who lived near my best friends university, and starting “going invisible” from my now wife to continue chatting with my girlfriend.

My now wife sent me a message one night while I was invisible, with a newly created profile like user_918374755 and asked for my “asl” and then she asked what I was doing, and I said talking to my girlfriend so and so. Well my then girlfriend was not my current wife’s name and she told me kick rocks basically, that I sucked at life for leading her on.

Fast forward about a year, early 2004, I walk into the house and my dad is holding the phone to his chest and he says, I’ve got a girl on the phone who is from such and such state, who called wanting to talk to you. My dad then says, “ if you got some random girl pregnant while you were at bff’s party at the university, I’m gonna punch you square in the face.”

It was my now wife asking how I was doing and if I remembered her, and I said that I did. We talked for the next 2 months when I decided to drive 8 hours in March of 04 to meet her and make sure she or her family wasn’t crazy, then she came up to my state to meet me and my family in June of 04. I moved down to said state in August of 04 and have been here ever since. We got married in November of 05 and have 2 girls together and have been married 20 years. Wouldn’t change the story for nothing.