J. Rose Online

Ten years ago, I took a chance on someone. I replied to an email which at first I thought was spam.

subject: hello....just finished admiring your homepage
date: 01/27/2000 3:05:53 PM pacific standard time
from: LGN508
to: MsjUmPyOnE

Hello my name is matt, you dont know me, but by accident fell upon your homepage, and just to let you know, you made my heart drop, seeing how hard your struggling, and everything. I cannot say for myself how hard it is for yourself, but I would like to be their to talk to you when your feeling lonely or your just a friend to talk to, im sorry i dont want to come off as some psycho person trying to hate mail you or anything, i just really admire your courage and determination to get yourself through this hard time. Just to give you some background on myself , my name is Matt, I live in L.A los angeles, and im 21, oh and im thai. But maybe, that is a maybe, its up to you, i would like to get together with you and just talk, nothing more, im not a perve anything, just a guy whos willing to talk. Sorry for taking up a lot of your time, im just blabbering everything out that is in my mind right now, sorry if anything i wrote here dont make any sense, well you have my email address lgn508@aol.com, email me back , and we can chat, sorry i dont have any of my pictures scanned so you can see whos writing this letter to you, but im very warm hearted. Take care of your son, and yourself. Bye. Matt

Want to hear more? Then continue on...

Mr. Man has never asked me to be his girlfriend. We just sort of fell into the relationship. Before we got married, we celebrated January 27th as our anniversary. It's the anniversary of the day we met.....

ONLINE

Yup, Mr. Man and I met online. It was that fated email that brought us together. Imagine had I deleted that email even before I read it.... I don't even want to think about it.

A few days after that email, he took that 3 hour drive to come and see me and it was basically almost instant attraction. I mean by the time it was Valentine's Day we were already saying "I Love You". By March of that same very year, I packed up a U-Haul and my 3 month old baby and I moved in with him and here we are today. Married with 3 kids.

Anyways, today marks a decade that we have been together. We met and got together at a very young age, him being 21 and myself at 19. Do we regret committing ourselves to a relationship at a very young age? Not at all. The reason I'm thankful for what I have now and do not regret it is because I see so many people, whether it be friends, acquaintances or even strangers still struggling to find the right person and settle down and have a family.

We watched each other grow up and learned so much about life and each other through the roller coaster ride of our relationship. As with any relationship, there are ups and downs, good and bad times and because of all of that, it made us who we are today. Stronger and better and that much more in love with each other.

But don't get me wrong, he still gets on my nerves almost on a daily basis as I'm sure I annoy the crap out of him, but we can do a complete 180 and be all mushy and lovey dovey =).

So to celebrate a decade, we are taking the boys with us to have dinner at Joe's Crab Shack. For some of you that may know, Mr. Man doesn't eat seafood so him taking me there may come off as a surprise. Fortunately, he checked their menu and they serve burgers and steaks. LOL.

I told him I wanted the boys with us to celebrate because A) my oldest loves to try new foods and he's been wanting to eat crab legs and B) our kids are a big part of who we are. They definitely tested our relationship time and again and because of them we managed to work so many things out all the while learning any important lessons and values of the married family life.

So to my hunniebuns, here's to 10 years and many many many more to come. I Love You, Hun!

You may say "AWWWWWWWWWWW, How Sweet" now. =P

this picture was taken in April 2000. this was our very first picture we had taken together.