We met through a mutual family friend. Monte is Barry's childhood best friend. For two years Monte wanted to introduce us but I was not ready lol. Monte came to me one day after church and informed me that he had given Barry my contact info, and that I was to go on Facebook and accept his friend request. It took me a day or two to do so, and then when I did accept his request he immediately messaged me, " Hello, beautiful." I was so nervous and trepidatious it took me two days to answer him. Eventually I did and we would converse often in the beginning. I work two jobs and he would call me while I was out late driving for my second job to check on me and make sure I was safe. We really began to get to know each other and would sometimes talk into the wee hours of the morning even though we knew we had to get up for work the next morning. He told me he wanted to be in a relationship after only knowing me for a week and that he wanted to be my husband in less than a month of us talking. He lives in Georgia, so we are in a long distance relationship. We met in February 2024 and in July of 2024 we officially started to court. He would drive down or I would meet up with him every two or so months. He came to visit me for Christmas and proposed on Christmas day in front of all of my family, and I said YES!