They say you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you meet your prince. Let's just say, I met a lot of frogs!! While having a girls' weekend, involving our usual silliness, my 2 friends took my phone. I was clueless as they sat whispering across the room. Later, they showed me pictures of Darryl and proclaimed, " We like him!!" I grabbed my phone, reading through the 30 minutes of conversation, on a dating app, between Darryl, TJ, & Mary. OMG!!! What had they done?! Look at this clown they were chatting with!! I told them to ask if he liked flats or rounds (chicken wings). He replied that he liked the rounds. I only like the flats. Could he be my perfect match? HHMMM...... I soon took over the texting- he and I texted until 5 am & all day long for the next week. We decided to keep our first date casual. Since Darryl's favorite food is pizza, I suggested Colony Pizza (he had no idea what he was in for... I mean the pizza, of course). We had dinner and chatted about many things. He asked what had made me message him. "I messaged you first?", I asked. "UUhh, yeah.", he replied. Oh boy! I thought...I think I have a confession to make. I confessed to Darryl about the girls, and he actually laughed. I assured him that it was ME all week long! HE LAUGHED!! We wrote a quick note to TJ & Mary, on a paper plate, took a selfie, and sent it to them. Darryl later confessed his own little secret....it's still a secret....LOL! Anyway, we went out again the next night and I guess you could say the rest is history! It has not been an easy road for us. Having children and blending families is never easy but we love each other and we keep our lines of communication open and we compromise when we can. We accept each other's parenting styles and try our best to embrace our differences, what we can from them. We have grown tremendously in our four year relationship. Darryl proposed to me on our 3 year anniversary, at the same table where we had our first date.