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Hey, its Lydia ! In May 2017, I was preparing to move to Lynchburg, Virginia for a job. The thought of online dating scared me because of the scary stories you hear! Nevertheless, our family had a few friends who met their spouses online so I thought I might as well give it a try! Rob messaged me one of my first days on Match.com but I was cheap and did not want to pay for a subscription! I thought I would wait a while and see if I could get a better offer! About a month later, I got an email that had a deal I could not resist ! I messaged him back and we started hanging out here and there! I did not feel like a relationship would work out between us at the time so i told him that and we stopped talking and agreed to just be friends. Fast forward 2 1/2 years later and I posted a picture on my instagram about my Microbiolgy class #nerdalert ! He messaged me and we started talking and hanging out again! During a Star Wars marathan at my house about a month later he asked me to be his girlfriend. April 1,2020 he told me he loved me and October 16, 2020 he proposed!!

Hey it’s Rob, from as long as I can remember or at from when I first attended college I’ve been searching for the one that I would one day marry. I’ve met several very nice women over the years but it just never worked out. At the time it was discouraging and then I realize now that it was a blessing in disguise. I was nervous at first doing online dating but I decided to give it a try. I used match! I found Lydia’s profile and sent her a message but it took her a awhile to respond cause she was too cheap to pay for an actual subscription at the time 😉. She eventually paid for one and then she messaged me back and things went from there. I couldn’t understand it at the time but I felt like there’s was something special about her from out of many other women that I’ve met. A few weeks later she moved up to VA for her new job at the time and we started hanging out for a bit. And I began to develop strong feelings for her. Unfortunately things didn’t work out the way I wanted it to. I didn’t know it at the time, but I really wasn’t in a place in my life to be in a relationship at the time. I needed to go finish school and get started on a career. Luckily we still kept in contact and we stayed friends. Eventually we started seeing different people and after one of us (her) got in a new relationship we stopped talking to each other for awhile.. (To Be Continued)

Almost 2 years have passed and I’d finished school and got a job in welding a year prior. We both dated other people in that time frame. I had just recently went through a breakup and one Monday while I was at work, God kept putting thoughts in my head about messaging Lydia to catch up with her again. And Tuesday night, I found an opportunity to message her again. She posted something on her Instagram story and I wanted to know more about it. We messaged each other for a bit and we agreed to go get coffee and catch up. We’d been messaging & hanging out for a couple of months and then on December 21st 2019 she invited me over to her house for a Star Wars marathon. In the middle of the marathon I asked her to be my girlfriend and she surprisingly said yes. The 2 1/2 years of waiting was worth it. I’d never been with a woman that is as amazing as she is. 3 months in our relationship on April 1st 2020 I told her for the first time that I love her (don’t worry that wasn’t an April fools joke) on October 16th 2020 I went with Lydia on a walk at black water creek. I pretended to tie my shoes and then I got on one knee and I said “A year ago I never thought I’d ever talk to you again, and now I can’t imagine my life without you” and then I asked her to marry me. She is “The One” that I’ve been looking for. From the 2 years me and Lydia weren’t talking to each other, I was honestly trying to look for a woman that had the qualities that Lydia had but I could never find that kind of woman, no one in my eyes can be as great as she is. she is one of a kind! I’m so grateful that God had brought us together again. I can’t wait for the day I can call her my wife. I love you soon to be Mrs. Bambara!