Today is our 5th Wedding Anniversary! Exactly five years ago today, on a frigid winter day, I walked down the aisle in a small country church in Texas to get the official title of “wife” to my best friend and husband. I didn’t even have to load him up with alcohol or prescription medications to get him to marry me! The cast-iron frying pan I was holding over his head may have had something to do with it. 
As some of you may know, I met my hubby online at Matchmaker.com in August 2001, just weeks before the infamous terrorist attacks our nation suffered. I had been divorced for ten long years, focusing my time and attention on raising my children alone, before finally meeting the love of my life. I remember thinking how funny it was that on my online profile I had mentioned my wish to meet someone Tall, since my husband is thirteen inches taller than I am! Wow! You can bet I pulled out my high heels when we went out on dates! 
I’m proof that you really can find true love online, despite having met some real nut cases along the way. Since meeting my husband and best friend, I’ve been blessed with so much joy just being in his presence. I snagged me a Keeper out of the fish pond! Bring on the wedding toasts…er…I mean anniversary toasts!
Coming up with gifts for anniversaries wasn’t much of a challenge for me, especially since my hubby and I are both very romantic souls. Even though we’ve only been married for five years so far, we do look forward to one day celebrating our 25th anniversary of marital bliss.
Happy Anniversary Baby! I Love You!
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Great googly-ooglies! I thought there was something missing until I continued to scroll down and saw the videos. Something is amiss.
Anyway, that’s not why I’m here. I’m here to wish you and your beloved a happy and joyous 5th wedding anniversary. Here’s to many more [toast].
RT, I’m not sure I understand what you mean by “something is amiss”. Is the post not loading properly for you? I’ve seen it from two different computers and it looks alright from both. ?
Thank you, and Happy Anniversary to you and your wife as well.
It looks fine in Internet Explorer, but looks broken in Firefox. I just ran the URL through http://validator.w3.org/ and there were a lot of markup errors and I think the first one, a missing closing a tag or an open/close div is the culprit. Usually it only takes one error to generate a bunch more on that site.
Er, I meant “fine”. Oops, the edit thing showed up. Nevermind
Thanks RT! I’ve deleted the videos ’cause I couldn’t find anything missing in the codes. Oh well!
Happy Anniversary! It’s great to be able to tell the world, isn’t it?
Thanks HM! He’s such a sweetie pie, I couldn’t help but blast it all over the world.
Happy Anniversary!
This is a good story for my children. Now marriage is not so important as the time I got married.
H.I.M, thanks! There are some great online dating services available, so it was purely by accident that I happened upon Matchmaker before hearing about the others.
Happy Anniversary! May your special day together be filled with love, laughter and light!
(On videos, here is a good plugin to create better markup in your posts)
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Happy anniversary! What a sweet story. I married my best friend, too – but I’ve known him since I was 12. My brother met his wife online, and I know a few other very happily married couples who met online. Isn’t the Internet great?
My mother met her new husband online as well and they are still in marital bliss!
Happy Anniversary to you! I am about to hit the two year mark myself.
Thanks Heidi for that link. It really bugs me that the two videos I had for this post messed everything up. They were really good videos too!
Hi Anna! If it weren’t for the internet, there is no way I would have ever met my wonderful giant. His 6’9″ frame towers over my piddly 5’8″.
Thanks Kango! Ain’t love grand?!
Whoohoooo the video works now! Yippeeee!!! It’s the song I walked down the aisle to, on my boss’ arm!
Yay!
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Happy Anniversary!!
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Hey Lin,
I’ll add my congratulations too.
My wife and I met online too – we lied about our respective heights – she took off an inch or two and I added one – the first time we met at the airport we had to laugh.
I think people hear far too many horror stories about online relationships going wrong, so it’s good to hear about those that succeed. We’d never have met were it not for the internet and Lord knows where I’d be had I not had the good fortune to find her
Anyway – hope you had a wonderful anniversary!
Hi Maurice! I was just over on your site checking out the latest and greatest posts. Wow, you run an article directory for writers? Where DO you find the time?
CONGRATULATIONS! Glad that you found a keeper. It is always nice when you find a keeper, I have had mine for 15 years now.
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Just hopping or dropping by via entrecard and thought I would say Happy Anniversary
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Happy Anniversary to you.
You know, I met my girlfriend online too. Through friendster. We are getting married this April. I can really agree with you on that – we can find true love online.
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Hi Lin,
It’s a full time job
The directory is only just over a month old – I’m always looking for quality articles 500 words and up so please feel free to spread the word.
If anyone has favorite blog posts they want to share with a wider audience for example, or articles on any subject they are welcomed.
Took the liberty of linking – hope you don’t mind.
Hi Lin,
I hope you had a great day. Congrats on finding your true love. I met my wife on an online dating site as well. lol, maybe if we’d had the Internet when I was 23, I wouldn’t have chosen so badly the first time.
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Maurice, that’s really cool, I was checking it out. I certainly have no problem with you linking to it. I sometimes submit stuff to article directories myself, but only sometimes.
Todd, I know exactly what you mean! Been there done that!
wow, i’ve never seen this many people that found love online in one place. congrats
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Happy Anniversary!!
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Congratulations & Happy Anniversary! Hope you have a wonderful day!
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Congratulation! Happy anniversary.Be romantic and have a dinner by candle light.
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Awww, that’s so sweet… you waded through a gauntlet of stalkers until you found Mr Right.
Congrats…
Sam
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I hope you had a happy day! Can I ask where do I subscribe? I ahve looked everywhere (or so I think I ahve) and can’t find it. I need an easy way to visit your blog here!
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Hi Kristin, if you look up on the top left of my blog you’ll see a great big Green button just under the word “subscribe”. Click on that green button and you will then be able to decide if you want to subscribe by email or by RSS feed. Thank you in advance!
Wow! That’s sweet! Happy anniversary to the both of you! We just celebrated our sixth a month ago. It does get sweeter by the year.
Best regards!
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happy belated anniversary!! i met my husband online, too! on a jewish dating site called j-date! we’ve been together 7 years…married for almost 6!!
so many people i know have met their spouses from the internet! it’s truly an amazing tool, internet dating…but, you have to use extreme caution!
xoxo
I know that’s right! I’ve written about some of my dating experiences, and how I had to punch out a guy, along with a few other tips.