clairon13
ok, i'll give in, too, now that i finally have some time to write a mini-bio. my name is misty, and i am 25, and fh is rickey, and he is 30. we were absolutely meant for each other. but our story almost didn't happen if either of us in the past had had things work out differently (i know that that sounds rhetorical, but it just makes me appreciate having him in my life so much more). rickey and i are christians, so we credit much of who we are and how our lives have turned out to that, but i'll leave out the mushy spiritual stuff!! lol.. when rickey was younger, he dated a girl who he felt was THE ONE for him. they were both about 22 and ready to settle. but she got very sick, and despite all his feelings to the effect of her getting better, she didn't and she died. he basically went ape-crap after that and lived the next several years pretty wildly and angry at life. he decided after going through that kind of pain he would never attempt to settle down w/ anyone ever again. i never even dated anyone til college--first kiss at like 19, the whole sheltered 9 yards kind of thing. w/ my first boyfriend, i knew it was puppy love and not going to amount to anything, and then when i was a senior in college, i met and fell in love w/ another guy. we became engaged, and i moved to his family in another state b/cs my folks essentially kicked me out due to some complicated issues. i lived w/ them for two years and in that time he and i also broke up (tho, yes, i did still live w/ his parents--they have become my spiritual parents and i love them more than anyone in the world). the breakup was messy and painful, and i vowed to never love that way again. (ahh, girls--so extreme!!)
so, after deciding it was FINALLY time for me to pick up the pieces and get out on my own and basically get away from my ex (i wasn't still pining for him, b/cs a year had already passed, but i just needed to get away), i decided to move back to my hometown, b/cs i at least had friends and my sisters there. i took a job working at a coffee shop that i had worked at before. i did my same 630-230 gig every day, w/ no changes. until one random wednesday evening i got a call from my boss and he asked if i could do a catering gig instead of working at the shop. sounding fun for a change, i agreed (heck i got to sleep in that morning!!), and lo and behold, it was rickey's company that had hired us to do teh catering job. we got to talking that day and it was literally.... not love at first sight, but i went home that day and told everyone that i had met my future husband b/c of how similar we were, and how there was something different about him, b/cs up til him NO guy even remotely tempted me to get into a relationship..... so, we exchanged email/phone numbers, and i made up a lame-ass excuse to write him, and then we clicked even more b/cs we're both writers, and it's been non-stop communication ever since. i think we brought up marriage after like 3 months of being together, and even tho we dated much longer than that, we both just knew that we knew that we were to be together.
our proposal itself wasn't unique or special, just a follow-up to the commitment we already felt. i'm having a blast planning a wedding, and he is sick to death of it!!! ok, so there is our story!
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mama to two wonderful boys: Shea Emrich 7/18/06
Connor Haddon 12/12/07
wife to Rickey, the most amazing husband ever!
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