Our story

Mark and I, both 30 something, are each divorced and have children. He has a son and I have my two girls. My oldest and his son are only a month apart and two peas in a pod. Ironically, we have known each other since middle school! Funny how peoples paths can cross after so many years. I think we even "went around" haha. That consisted of maybe holding hands for a day. Anyways, we went to HS together, were in band together and even worked at a water park together. Never did I think we'd end up here. 13 years after graduating HS, we became fb friends. One night at my best friends house a group of us were reminiscing about our water park days. Mark came up so I decided to message him to see how he was doing. At this point I knew he was in the AF but didn't even know if he was back in TX. It was a friendly, hey how are you, it looks like we have kids the same age. The next day he responded and says, hey were you at target yesterday? Totally didn't expect that, to this day I tease him that he was stalking me.  Turns out not only was he stationed back in our hometown, we live 10 minutes from each other. The first few times we got together, it was so the kids could play. Then one night we went out on a date and things just fell into place. I was the typical girl, worried he wouldn't call me. Turns out the next day, he met me for dinner before I headed in to work the night shift. He told me right away he was deploying in November but it didn't really sink in until the time got closer. I'm new to the military life and even with Mark gone I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. We started dating early July and became serious about October. In all honesty, I knew right away I wanted to be with him. However he is the voice of reason in the relationship and suggested we take it slow. My head completely agreed with him, we've both been divorced and hurt before, my heart however was throwing me head over heels for him. Things were falling into place and it felt like we were becoming a family, he helped me stand my ground when the girls (mostly Lily) were being difficult and helped me be a better mom. Then his deployment hit me like a ton of bricks. It's back to being a single mom and I'm trying to figure out how to cope with the distance. I'm smothering him with care packages and counting down the months until my honey comes home. Until then, we are lucky enough to email and FaceTime on a pretty regular basis. I love him so much and I'm in it for the long haul, I couldn't think of a better man to wait for.