TRO/TD

Found Love, Lost Closet Space

I am 41 and have never been married and this is what I really want. November 10 is the BIG DAY for us. I can't wait it just seems like we are more and more in love each day.

I've just never met anyone I had so much in common with. We have the same dry sense of humor, and sarcastic, too. Both of our families are like that. It's fun doing things with them. I went with her family on a big annual camping trip. It is just so comfortable. It felt right. We both have strong family ties.

She and her sister-in-law have birthdays within three days of each other. Her brother and I took them out to a steak house for their birthdays. They all expected me to do it then. I had the ring, but I didn't want to interfere in that celebration. Actually, the next day, out on the deck, I gave her a card and dropped to one knee. And she said yes.

It's interesting how many times we say the same things or are thinking the same things. We just have a similar outlook on life.

She has moved in now. And I have no more closet space. There are so many more things in the house now. She's been steadily putting stuff up. I used to have empty closets, now they're overstuffed. I am amazed at how many more items there are in the house now.

I'm just not going to think about how much that stuff probably cost. You can't put a price tag on happiness. This is what I want.

Jon T.

Of Paramount Importance

Jason & Jamie

Jamie:
I would always tell parents: I will never get married. I will  never find someone. But I did! What Jason and I have is true love. It is not settling and not for convenience. I’ve been in those relationships, where it’s “Oh, we get along… so maybe it will work…”  What we have is really special. Jason has brought me so much happiness. It has changed our lives. I am so grateful to The Right One. A lot of good has already come from this relationship.

Jason was my third referral and I was his third. I received the letter first and I called first. After we talked, he said he was happy his letter was on the way. We talked on Tuesday and then we talked throughout the week about every night. We talked until we had made plans for Good Friday.

We debated,  should we or shouldn’t we email pictures? You are supposed to wait! Well, he sent me these horrible pictures!I was thinking, o no! I wasn’t very interested at all. But I said to myself, keep an open mind, give it a shot, get to know the person. Meanwhile, he loved my pictures and was intimidated by them. He was thinking, “She is too good for me.”

He came to my house with a beautiful bouquet of flowers. He was a lot cuter in person than the picture!
He drove me around to a couple of different restaurants and had a hard time as it was Good Friday. We settled on the Paramount, an upscale restaurant. By Monday, we had both emailed The Right One to put us on hold.

(Jason:  It was such a good conversation, we spent together eight or nine hours. We went to church together. I knew she was planning on it and I wasn’t as it was so far into the day. But I went just to stay with her a little bit longer. Now I have joined her church. It’s Lutheran, but I am not doing it just to please her.)

I am pretty religious. We are both originally Catholic. Now we are both members of the church I was attending.

I knew right away that Jason was the one. How did I know ? Jason has the most beautiful, kind-hearted soul. His spirit and his aura are something you don’t find very often. He is unbelievably caring and he puts others ahead of himself. I have been treated very well and very badly in the past. But I have never been treated like Jason treats me.  He is everything I was looking for and more.

And romantic. For the proposal, he recreated our first date. He brought me the same bouquet of flowers. We went back to the Paramount. We sat at the same table. He ordered champagne. And he got on one knee and proposed in front of the whole restaurant!

That was two months after we started dating. We have been inseparable.  I moved in probably shortly after we got engaged and we have been extremely happy ever since.

(Jason: I have never been in a relationship before where we were best friends. We have a great time together.)

We adore each other. It is a beautiful great relationship.  I am 110 percent pleased with The Right One.
I didn’t expect it to happen so fast though! I am so grateful. I am very, very happy I met my best friend.

All of the people I met at The Right One were quality people. They were there for the right reason and were kind-hearted. Hard-working people. The people I met on the Internet seemed to be out just to get as many girls as they could without having relationships.  As a female, I appreciated the national background check and the security of it.

Of all of the people I have dated, Jason is the best. He called my Dad and asked permission before he proposed. He is the first boyfriend my Dad ever approved. And his approval is important to me. It’s a big deal. He says it is because of how well we get along. I am 25 and Jason is 31, neither of us has ever been married and the fact that our families get along so well means a lot to us.

We have so much in common. We went camping in the cold and even had a blast. We had Archie, a basset beagle mix with us. Let’s just say, Archie is a snuggler. He is part of my family, with Jason.

We are getting married next year, September 9. I have my dress and everything.  We are going to have our reception at the Paramount! Won’t that be cute?

Pipeline to Engagement

Margaret Ferreira:

Michael was my last referral and I was his first. We hit it off right away. When he first called me, we talked for three and a half hours! We started out talking a bit about ourselves and our backgrounds. I tried to tell him who I was and what I did, but when I got to the part about my Dad being a plumber, that was it! His father is a plumber and he's a plumber who works with his Dad. He gets his master's license in plumbing this year. Since then, it has been a never ending story.

Still, I was a little nervous on our first date. We met at TGI Fridays and it was a rainy night. He was such a gentleman. He paid for dinner and opened my door when we went to the movies. We had a great conversation at dinner. We just hit it off.

In less than a month, we were having dinner with our families. Our Dad's love each other! Two plumbers together, what can I say! It was a nice warm feeling. My nieces and nephews love him to death. He is such a family-oriented guy; it is just wonderful.

I come from a huge family, I am the youngest of six. He is the youngest of two. That's a big difference, but we all get along very well. It was Father's Day 2006 when he met the whole, entire family. Ever since, whenever my little niece sees me, it's "Where's Mike?" We have all come together so nicely.

Even our engagement August 31, was a family affair. He called my Dad for permission, which is so romantic and old-fashioned. Then, we went to a restaurant with eight of his family members. He went down on his knee and asked me in front of his family!

We are getting married Nov. 7 of next year and it is going to be big!

I felt like The Right One knew me better than I knew myself. I could have never found someone this great on my own. I work such a busy life in a hospital in patient access. I am 30 and Michael is 31, we are eight months apart, and we have so much in common. He understands me so well. The Right One brought me to Michael and I knew he was the right one to take care of me.

I wanted a safe way to meet someone. My previous fiancé had died suddenly of heart failure. It took me a year to really say, "I need to do something." I don't like to be alone and I believe he would have wanted me to move on. That is why I joined The Right One. That is part of my life, and a phase of my life. I had to be honest with Michael about it and I said "I am not trying to scare you, I just want you to know." Michael totally understands.

I felt very safe with The Right One. I don't trust the online with what this world is now. It is just horrible and I am not taking any chances. I felt comfortable with the people at The Right One and they made me feel better about who I was dating. You can't judge a book by its cover , when you meet people, so it was nice to have them screen for me. Every guy I met there was very nice, just no chemistry, until Michael. I am still good friends with some of the guys I dated and keep in touch. It is a great way to meet people.

What is funny is --- I worked with his cousin for three years. It is such a small world! Yet, she is his first cousin and never introduced us. We laid it on her head because we had to pay to meet each other!