We’ve got another lovely success story to share with you today. Melanie and Toby got in touch to let us know all about how they met on the site.
“I was nervous but also excited about joining up to the site,” says Melanie. “I was widowed two years previously and felt nervous about meeting someone and then introducing them to my son. My son was only three so very young. Being a single parent makes it more complicated meeting anyone/dating and having a relationship. I felt though that this was a good way to ‘vet’ someone. I didn’t feel pressure to meet initially or give my personal details as we were able to message through MySingleFriend. It felt safer. I think online dating is a great way for busy people to meet people that they may never have met otherwise. That was definitely the case for us.
“Our first date (11 years ago) was two weeks after we first started ‘chatting’. We met for dinner at a restaurant. I was quite nervous but he soon put me at ease and made me laugh. He’d remembered my favourite movie was The Goonies and brought me the DVD wrapped in wallpaper that looked like it was 40 years old. He did admit he didn’t have any wrapping paper and found it under the stairs! We discovered on that first date that we may have inadvertently met years before when we were students at university. Toby had tried to gatecrash one of our parties in the halls where I was doing my nurse training.
“We got engaged on a deserted beach in Barbados in 2011. We had our daughter by then (she was 8 months old) and we were away with her and my son. By this point he had been calling Toby ‘daddy’ for a while and our daughter had completed our family. Toby has been acting a bit weirdly the day we got engaged. He was kind of on edge and I thought something was wrong! He went for a walk with our daughter, and then gestured to my son and I to come over. He then got down on one knee with her and had written in the sand ‘Will you marry me?’ but said ‘Will you marry us’! It was a very special moment, just the four of us in the beach. There were a few tears!
“We got married a year later in 2012 at Parley Manor in Dorset. It was such a special day with friends and family and with our children. Our son did a reading and presented the rings. We had a last minute getaway honeymoon, but with two children in tow it was not your typical honeymoon!! We had a lovely week together but we are hoping to go away and have a ‘real’ honeymoon on our 10 year wedding anniversary, just the two of us!
“It’s been a busy 11 years since we met.! A few months after we married we moved house to a village where Toby grew up. We wanted to have a more ‘country’ lifestyle and for our children to have the opportunity to go to a village school. We feel so privileged to have met each other and have had a wonderful life to date. We have made so many memories on holidays in this country and abroad. Most importantly we’ve enjoyed the life that we have made for ourselves in our home which we have renovated over the past 8 years. Now the children are older (Jack is now 14 at secondary school and Jessica is 10) I work full time again as a lung cancer specialist nurse and life is pretty busy!”
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