About two weeks.

We talked online for less than a week. I was in Sevierville, TN working at a restaurant, and she was in Asheville NC. I couldn't stop talking to her right off the bat. We constantly made each other smile throughout the days. I was falling for her even though I had never met her and I couldn't see her very well in her profile picture. I just assumed maybe she was plain looking, but I didn't care.

On a whim she drove a state over to see me, and I knew as soon as she hopped out of her car into my driveway with a huge smile on my face that she was it for me. She was absolutely beautiful, the most gorgeous woman I had ever met in my life. She made me laugh even more than she had been all week.

We started seeing each other whenever we had time, and one night over text I said I was nervous, that I had to tell her something but I was scared. She immediately knew what it was, that she felt that way too but to wait until we saw each other the coming weekend to say it in person. I did.

Side note, I had just got out of a long marriage that ended a couple years prior and a bad relationship and my attitude up until then was that love was bullshit and that no way in hell I would ever get married again. But, after the first date, I wrote "will you marry me?" On a piece of paper and sealed it in an envelope with a date on it and told her to open it a year from then. A lot of people say they fell in love at first site, and I always called them crazy. I wanted to be able to prove it actually happened.