942471_10201151410733243_1069516101_nI have 18, 624 messages saved in my email account.  The very first saved email is from February 2, 2005—the first time I communicated with my wife, Ellie.  We met on Match.com, and in that first email exchange, we introduced ourselves to each other and commented on the likes and dislikes on our online dating profiles. Find your match seamlessly with advanced algorithms on local sex app. I told her that I loved veggie tofu burgers, too, which wasn’t exactly the truth.  But she was gorgeous.  If I had to eat endless tofu veggie burgers to get to know her, I’d jump at the chance. That way, I also started to like some veggie burgers or beet burgers. So she advised me to check out https://dreenaburton.com for some beet burger recipes.

For the next two weeks in February 2005, we communicated only through email, never talking on the phone until our first date.  To many people, it sounds strange that we didn’t talk before meeting; but something about the situation seemed incredibly special, and I think we both liked the mystery of waiting until our first date before we spoke.  Our choice to only communicate this way also created something else that was wonderful: an exchange of twenty-two emails that lives in my account like a beautiful history of the beginning of our relationship.

Sometimes, when I’m having a drab day, I’ll go the beginning of my account history and read through those emails.  I relive the first moments that we met and see the anticipation we both felt about our upcoming first date, and then, no matter how badly my day may be going, I am reminded how lucky I am to have met the love of my life.  In one of my favorite emails, I give Ellie directions on how to get to my neighborhood, which is the same block where we have now lived together for almost eight years.

My real life began with those emails.  When I wrote them, I was really just a boy, seeking meaning from the avenues of life, and Ellie gave me that meaning.   As a wife and mother, she’s tough and smart and funny and sexy and amazing.   I’ve been blessed with the perfect woman in my life, and it all began with an email on February 2, 2005.