Plum & YBU
I had been chatting for about 2 years and had been chased by countless men and perverts.I had also met some nice men but I wasn’t looking for love. One night I was in a chat room and I came across YBU. He seemed very intelligent and was extremely witty and full of charm. Then I looked at his profile pic and was very impressed. Of course, being chat, there was competition. There were a few women in there doing their best to get his attention but, thankfully, the majority of his attention stayed on me. We chatted there for a couple of hours, added each other as friends, then spoke for hours everyday using Yahoo Pager. We never cybered or even discussed sex for that matter, we just flirted lightly and told our stories to each other.
After a few days he decided he wanted to meet me. I was terrified! I had never met anyone from chat, even though I had known some for years, and here after only a few days this guy wanted to fly me out so we could meet. I tried to say no, but my heart kept telling me to say yes. Finally a close chat friend, who had been there when I met him, talked me into going. I was told I was crazy and making a mistake by most of my friends. It’s a good thing I’m stubborn and had already set my mind to it or their scare tactics would have worked.
Seven days after meeting YBU in chat, my plane landed in his city. I stepped off the plane and he was no where to be seen. I kept telling myself that no one would be crazy enough to pay for someone’s plane ticket and then stand them up. I waited 20 minutes and he still wasn’t there so I decided to wait at the airport entrance. As I was coming down the escalator I saw a man rushing toward the upside of the escalator and my heart stopped. There he was. He looked up at me and I saw recognition on his face. We spent 4 days together. I was head over heels in love on day two and admitted it to myself and him on day three. He had also fallen in love with me by then. Ten days later I had already gone back to where I lived, closed my life there, packed up my pets and my daughter and drove back to YBU to live with him. Three months after that we got married.
That was 11 yrs ago, and the dot com crash hit us hard. YBU was laid off from two jobs in one year and went through an entire year of being unable to find any work. It wasn’t easy but our love for each other grew through living a shared hell. We now live back in my home state and are doing pretty well financially and even better in the love department.
