How and where did you meet your Catholic spouse?

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We met on myspace believe it or not. It’s really weird, too, because I used to not even read the messages from guys I didn’t know, but due to something in my life I started to. We myspaced for awhile. Then we started texting. A few weeks later we met.
 
While serving in the Army I was inspecting rooms for the morning or evening. One of the soldiers told me, Sergeant ____ I met a girl… He knew I was preparing to go to the seminary to become a priest. He continued on “she’s your kind of girl…comes form a real Christian family”. I said "how do you know what my kind of girl is. First I’m going to be a priest, second she’s not Catholic and third I’m not interested.

That was about May 1988. I went to PLDC [think of it as sergeant school] really hard core soldier. Howitzers. I was considering becoming a chaplain. I met her after school while my soldier tried to set me up. We were friends too, homeboys as they say from Texas. One night in October 1988 I get a call from a woman I don’t know. At least I didn’t think I knew anyone. The CQ yelled out my name through the hall. I jumped all over him telling him to knock on my door next time and not to yell out my name like that or I’ll take care of him and teach him proper edicate. Like I said, I was really hard core. I was super soldier, really played the part. I wasn’t a kid either, I was 27 by this time. Hadn’t dated in years, or at least I had just gone on one date at the request of my brothers friend. I thought well I’ll check it out. She was very pretty and acted civil. But turned out to be one of those girls looking for the next fling, chocking em up as she went…she was a wasp that like to date exotic guys. I turned her completely off when I told her I was planning on going to the seminary. Killed her plan…made it easy for me and off the hook with my brother and his girlfriend. Mom and brother were non-practicing Christians.

Well this woman that called me said my soldier had a music book that he borrowed and never got it back. In an effort to keep him out of trouble I went to his room located the book and took it immediately to her… She met me on the front door while she was leaving to class. She never made it to class. We tallked about 2 hours. She never even made it off the top of the steps. I told her about the date. Talked about my friend and his mentality. I discovered that he wasn’t “getting it” and that was why he supposedly dumped her. Well, they never were really a thing and she wasn’t that kind of girl it turns out. We laughed about it.

For some reason I called her out of the blue. I just kept thinking about her. In January, I just called her. Talked to her on the phone for an hour or two and discovered she was coming to the end of mono. She was miserable. She invited me over after finally shivering to the bone in the cold icy snow. Oklahoma winters are brutal on the plains with the wind chill on post. Fort Sill. Next thing I know it I’m talking to her every day. I tried to make a break later because I knew this would never work. Her daddy was an elder in the church of Christ. I was a very Catholic man bent on serving God as a priest. Long story without the best part, I was baptized on June 11 into her faith, proselytizing and very convincing, married in her church and moved to Texas. When I got baptized, I said for some reason at the time as if the Holy Spirit was talking through me “maybe in 17 years if this doesn’t work we’ll try Catholicism”…she laughed and scoffed at me. We had 3 children…then October 2006 we experienced a major conversion experience discovering the ancient church fathers and desperate for peace. Churches of Christ are not peaceful. It was like somebody just knocked me over the head and miraculously convinced her that the Catholic Church was really the true Church. She was convinced and convinced me explaining what she had learned from the Catechism. It all started popping back like a vortex. Voila…here we are, all 5 of us, Catholic. And hopefully a priest on the way. Our oldest son. We hope.
 
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While serving in the Army I was inspecting rooms for the morning or evening. One of the soldiers told me, Sergeant ____ I met a girl… He knew I was preparing to go to the seminary to become a priest. He continued on “she’s your kind of girl…comes form a real Christian family”. I said "how do you know what my kind of girl is. First I’m going to be a priest, second she’s not Catholic and third I’m not interested.

That was about May 1988. I went to PLDC [think of it as sergeant school] really hard core soldier. Howitzers. I was considering becoming a chaplain. I met her after school while my soldier tried to set me up. We were friends too, homeboys as they say from Texas. One night in October 1988 I get a call from a woman I don’t know. At least I didn’t think I knew anyone. The CQ yelled out my name through the hall. I jumped all over him telling him to knock on my door next time and not to yell out my name like that or I’ll take care of him and teach him proper edicate. Like I said, I was really hard core. I was super soldier, really played the part. I wasn’t a kid either, I was 27 by this time. Hadn’t dated in years, or at least I had just gone on one date at the request of my brothers friend. I thought well I’ll check it out. She was very pretty and acted civil. But turned out to be one of those girls looking for the next fling, chocking em up as she went…she was a wasp that like to date exotic guys. I turned her completely off when I told her I was planning on going to the seminary. Killed her plan…made it easy for me and off the hook with my brother and his girlfriend. Mom and brother were non-practicing Christians.

Well this woman that called me said my soldier had a music book that he borrowed and never got it back. In an effort to keep him out of trouble I went to his room located the book and took it immediately to her… She met me on the front door while she was leaving to class. She never made it to class. We tallked about 2 hours. She never even made it off the top of the steps. I told her about the date. Talked about my friend and his mentality. I discovered that he wasn’t “getting it” and that was why he supposedly dumped her. Well, they never were really a thing and she wasn’t that kind of girl it turns out. We laughed about it.

For some reason I called her out of the blue. I just kept thinking about her. In January, I just called her. Talked to her on the phone for an hour or two and discovered she was coming to the end of mono. She was miserable. She invited me over after finally shivering to the bone in the cold icy snow. Oklahoma winters are brutal on the plains with the wind chill on post. Fort Sill. Next thing I know it I’m talking to her every day. I tried to make a break later because I knew this would never work. Her daddy was an elder in the church of Christ. I was a very Catholic man bent on serving God as a priest. Long story without the best part, I was baptized on June 11 into her faith, proselytizing and very convincing, married in her church and moved to Texas. When I got baptized, I said for some reason at the time as if the Holy Spirit was talking through me “maybe in 17 years if this doesn’t work we’ll try Catholicism”…she laughed and scoffed at me. We had 3 children…then October 2006 we experienced a major conversion experience discovering the ancient church fathers and desperate for peace. Churches of Christ are not peaceful. It was like somebody just knocked me over the head and miraculously convinced her that the Catholic Church was really the true Church. She was convinced and convinced me explaining what she had learned from the Catechism. It all started popping back like a vortex. Voila…here we are, all 5 of us, Catholic. And hopefully a priest on the way. Our oldest son. We hope.
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I loved your story, welcome back to the faith and i do pray your son really becomes a priest. I am hoping my too will.
 
My Mom introduced us. Seriously.

It’s great b/c she can never complain about my wife; I’ll just say “You picked her”

God Bless
 
These stories are so fun to read…especially the ones that show how spouses help each other get to heaven 🙂

I met my fiancee (we’re getting married in October) on and online journalling site in 2004. It was unintentional; I’d been on the site a few years, and had a boyfriend I’d been with for quite awhile. I was a junior in college, in Michigan. Meanwhile, he was a senior in college in Minnesota, and he had just joined the site. He was looking through profiles and saw that I was his age, Catholic and insterested in some of the same things (Star Wars, Wheel of Time, etc) and thought my name looked interesting. So, he noted me and told me I sounded like an awesome person and he hoped we could be friends.

This is pretty standard on these sites so of course neither of us thought anything of it (although the funny thing is my then boyfriend would tease me about him all the time, and even I could recognize that if I weren’t already seeing somebody, he was the kind of guy I might go for). But at the time my bf and I were really serious and even considering marrying after I graduated. So, we continued a very nice online friendship for a year and a half-ish. I did meet Joe (my fiancee) in person when I went to Minnesota for a grad school interview, but it was just friendly.

I had plans to move to Wisconsin for grad school for fall 2005. Meanwhile, he’d had some trouble finding a job and getting into grad school and spent a year living at home and trying to better his chances. He got accepted in a special one year program meant to help give him more research experience - at the same school I was going to! So, we were excited about that. I ended up breaking up with my boyfriend (for unrelated reasons; we’re still good friends) before I graduated - but I still didn’t have dating him on my mind.

Long story short, we both arrived in Madison and he took me to Church and showed me around. It became a tradition for us to go to Mass, lunch and ice cream, and watch Star Wars (or some other geeky movie) afterwards. I got him involved in the Catholic student group at our Church, and we also joined an outdoors club together. EVERYBODY thought we were a couple, or soon would be, but I vehemently denied it. I had a lot of other issues going on and did not want to date him and to be honest, I didn’t always treat him very well. Despite that he was always my best friend and so kind to me. He even told me he had feelings for me, but I told him I only felt friendly towards him, and even though it seemed logical we should be together, I wasn’t going to try and force it. And so our friendship continued for a few more months.

But…love won out. He was always so patient and giving and eventually I was able to get over all these issues and really be in a position where I could love somebody…and I basically woke up one morning and realized that I was in love with him, and he was the man I would marry. So, I took him to the pier we launched canoes from, and told him how I had overcome all these issues and wasn’t scared to let him in anymore and that I was so glad he failed in all his initial plans after college, because it meant we were together in Madison. And then I kissed him and we said we loved each other. We knew from the start we were heading towards marriage and we got engaged in September 2007, about a month before our one year anniversary.

In the end, we’re both glad we waited as long as we did to start dating. We have an amazing friendship, and we both had some struggles we really had to work through before we were ‘fit’ for each other.
 
My husband started going out with other ladies and showed me cold love, on several occasions he threatens to divorce me if I dare question him about his affair with other women, I was totally devastated and confused until a friend told me about a spiritualist named Dr Mack who help people with their relationship and marriage problem by the powers of love spells, at first I doubted if such thing ever exists but decided to give it a try, when I contact him and told him my problem, he helped me cast a love spell and after 24hours my husband came back to me and started apologizing and ever since, he has stopped going out with ladies and he is with me for good and for real. Contact Dr Mack for relationship help or marriage problem at E-mail:dr.mac @ yahoo . com…
Victoria King, USA
 
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