“There was no denying that I was completely and madly in love with Bobby!”

Bobby and Jennifer

I sought out Yahoo! Personals out of anger after being dumped. I didn't know how to meet other people.

As a 30-year-old divorced mother of two, I had no idea how to get back into the dating world. After being repeatedly stood up by the person I was dating, I decided to put fire to the wind and logged onto Yahoo! in July 2002 and started reading profiles.

One posting in particular caught my interest. His first line was, "My children come first!" Wow! You can't be more direct than that! I knew from the beginning that this man and I had the same priority in our lives. I hesitated about contacting him because his profile said he was separated, not divorced.

Nevertheless, I signed up and sent him an email telling him about me and asking him for more details about his personal life. I also sent emails to four other men because I didn't want to get my hopes up on just one "maybe." It didn't take him long to reply. We chatted for several weeks through emails before I finally got up the courage to give him my phone number. Even through emails, there was a distinct tone and connection that I had never before experienced.

An initial setback

Bobby called within the next few days, but much to my surprise and GREAT disappointment, he told me he just wanted to call to let me know that he and his estranged wife were going to try to work things out. Ouch!

Meanwhile, I was talking to two of the other men I had sent emails to. After several weeks, I met one of them, and we dated for about six months.

Suddenly one day while I was sitting at my computer at work, this THING pops up on the screen! I had never chatted with Messenger before, so imagine my surprise when this IM is staring back at me. It's Bobby! He said he and his wife were not able to work things out and that he had been trying to get up the courage to contact me for months! He said he was shocked that I remembered him.

From then on, we talked every day keeping things light and on a friendly level since I was already in a relationship. As more time went on, I realized that Bobby was the man I was always intended to be with.

Destined to be together

In March 2003 Bobby and I met for dinner. We were both extremely nervous but entranced at the same time. We saw each other several times over the next few months, always together with our children and at family events to keep things on a platonic level.

Our children all got along extremely well. We both have a boy and girl from our previous marriages -- another thing we had in common! In my mind, it was OK to spend time with Bobby if we weren't alone.

Meanwhile I was still dating another man I had met on Yahoo!. But I couldn't keep on denying that the relationship with that man was not the right one for me. I didn't want to hurt him, but there I was completely and madly in love with Bobby! In July 2003 I finally broke things off with the "other" man and haven't spent a day apart from Bobby since. By September we were engaged, and by May 2004 we were happily married in a beautiful outdoor wedding.

Since then we have discovered that as teenagers we had been at the same places, at the same times, but had never met! We believe that it has always been God's intention for us to be together, but not until later in our lives. Our children are the biggest reason, but we also joke that we had to learn what NOT to do in a marriage first, so when finally met and married, we'd know how to do it right. Well, these soul mates have finally met up at last, and all thanks to Yahoo! and a big help from up above!

Success tips from Jennifer:

• Always be honest with your answers and profile information.
• Try to get to know people before agreeing to meet them in person. If they are the right one, it will be worth the wait anyway!
• If you are not comfortable giving your full name or phone number right away, then keep that information private until you are ready to divulge it.
• First date: We met at a sports bar and grill.

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