We met online on a popular dating site. After many failed attempts to stay in contact by text. I finally texted him "Message Denied: This user does not accept excessive text messages. Refer to your phone manual, it has a call button" lol. That obviously made him call and lead to multiple nights and countless hours of talking about life and our online dating horror stories. We finally made plans for our first date after a couple weeks and have been inseparable ever since.
We headed out for a day at one of our favorite places, Naples. As we were ending an impromptu trip to a botanical garden, Joel decided it would be nice to sit on a bench with some privacy from the crowd. When he started his speech and started getting emotional, I thought "could it be, is he really about to ask?' As he started bending down on his knee, I hardly let him get the question out before I jumped up and hugged him YES!