While we spent a little time introducing the site, my wife and I haven’t had a chance to introduce our own love story which ended up being the driving factor in creating Kiss You Back. While our story may not be as dramatic as your normal made for Hollywood movie, we tend to think it’s a smashing success! That’s all that really matters in the end, right?
My wife and I met online back in 2003 in a Yahoo! chat room. At the time we were both living the single life, going out a lot and dating casually. At first we were basically chat friends that would message each other on occasion, usually whenever we were home just bored for the evening. Back then we actually lived in two different cities (about 70 miles apart), and I think that actually worked to our advantage. Neither one of us really thought of being anything more than friends since we lived in different cities and we both doing our own thing. That platonic vibe allowed us to just relax and be ourselves (even if it was just over IM) without any pressure.
Over time we grew a little closer, chatting with each other more often and even sharing a few phone calls. Our personalities really went well together since we both joke around a lot and have a silly sense of humor. As time went on we started to talk regularly and even discussed meeting each other. At that point we were both thinking that there could be something more to our relationship and maybe we should think about trying to go out with each other. I had some very close friends that lived in her town, so I would go down to visit the area every once in a while, but still we never actually met in person.
I had been experiencing a lot of stress at my job and my personal life, and I was trying to come up with a plan to move down to her city. Not because of her (as we had never even met at that point), but because of the close friends and greater job opportunities that I had down there. As fate would have it, about a month later I got laid off of my job and it turned out to be one of the biggest blessings in my life.
After I moved, we decided to finally meet each other after about 6 months of chatting and talking on the phone. Talk about being nervous! If you think you get nervous when you meet a stranger on a blind date, imagine meeting someone for the first time when you’ve actually been talking and getting to know them for 6 months. Well, obviously our first meeting went really great, and the fact that we were able to connect on a personal level for months before meeting in other in person, it really gave us a great chemistry with each other. We already knew so much about each other that all that was left to find out was if we were attracted to each other. We most definitely were, and it all started from there.
Our relationship blossomed very quickly, most likely due to the fact that we started so slow (making up for lost time, you know). We spent an increasing amount of time together and about 11 months later, we were engaged. Although 11 months isn’t a lot of time, we both felt it was right, and in the end it turned out to be. We remained engaged for a little longer than normal (almost 2 years), just to make sure we were able to handle all the type of normal stresses that people go through as they adjust to merging their lives together.
So, that’s it. It doesn’t necessarily sound like movie material on paper, but when you fall in love and find your special someone, it seems like everything seems to fall into place just right. It’s funny how things work that way. Anyway, since my wife and I met online we decided that we’d love to help other people as well. The internet can bring people closer together in ways that were never available before, and Kiss You Back is our attempt to help others. We hope that through our own experiences and those of our friends and family we can help you build more positive relationships in your life and maybe even find your special someone.
