How I Met My Husband

A simple, yet lovely tale

Given that I’m called “The Joyful Wife” and wifely things are a part of my niche, I thought it may be fun to do a more in depth post on how I met my husband and our story.

We met, but never talked

The year 2020 was a hard year for a lot of people, my family included. Several years before, we had launched a successful business and suddenly, the market where we sold our goods announced it was closed “Until further notice”. You can imagine our shock and panic of suddenly being out of business. The company was run by my father, mother and I. My father was able to get a job quickly while my mother and I did what we could to revive our website sales.

After 3 months of trying, nothing was working. My sibs and I applied for new jobs and thankfully, I was able to get the one I really wanted.

I met my husband on the first day of my job. He and a few other employees were tasked with giving me a company tour. He seemed nice, but to be honest, I didn’t think much about him (or anyone really). I mainly kept to myself during the first few months. I’m naturally introverted and the masks / ”social distancing” rule didn’t help.

It wasn’t until the following year that my now husband and I started talking more. He discovered I liked rock music and he would come up to me at random times recommending different bands. Over the following months, he started to talk to me more and more. Because I’m amazingly observant, I was able to tell he liked me from the start (I’m just kidding, in all honesty, I had no idea!).

The start of something wonderful

After we had been talking at work for a while, he asked me out to lunch. I almost blew it right there because my first reply was “Sure. Not like a date, right?”. He casually answered “No”. I didn’t have feelings for him at that time (or at least, I didn’t think so) and I didn’t want to lead him on.

When we went to lunch that weekend, we talked for nearly 6 hours! It turned out that we had quite a bit in common. He was a Christian (I knew that already), he was homeschooled, and he wanted to work his way into management. We would get together nearly once a week until after two months, he asked me out on a proper date. Naturally, I said yes because I knew I wanted to marry him one day.

Years later, after we got married, I asked him what he thought when he first asked me to lunch and I instantly wanted to clarify that it was not a date. He told me he was a bit freaked out because he had had to work up a lot of courage to even ask me to lunch that day, but he knew that he really wanted to get to know me, so he decided it was worth the risk of being friendzoned. He also told me was thankful that things worked out as well as they did.

On our first date, he talked about wanting to marry me. It sounds crazy, but considering we had been “unofficially dating” for a few months, it made sense. From that date on, he began saving up for an engagement ring.

We got engaged two months later at a beautiful park when we went on a day trip to visit family. It was one of the happiest moments of my life. I actually had a feeling he was going to propose that day so I had a surprise of my own for him: his own engagement ring. It’s a silly tradition my aunt came up with when she got engaged. She wanted the other college girls to know her man was taken so she bought him a ring after they got engaged. I thought it was a fun tradition and I carried the same sentiment, especially because other girls at work were getting a little too interested in destroying our personal lives.

We got married that following Spring and the rest, as they say, is history! We have a truly beautiful life together. There have been struggles, of course, but there have also been such incredible blessings! Three years later and we are parents to the absolutely sweetest little boys. I look forward to seeing what the Lord has in store for us over the next several years.

Thank you for taking the time to read this post! I would love to hear how you met your spouse, so please comment below.

Have a blessed day, friends!