Amy Grant and Joe Lee were worlds separated for the first time.
Joe was on leave on the Germabig block for a deployment in Iraq in November 2008 when he saw his record at Christian Café, an online dating site. He didn’t leave a message, but the site shaped Amy’s visit.
“I looked at his engraving and the concept seemed interesting,” says Amy, who lived in Dalton, Georgia, at the time.
Amy divorced and had four young teens at the time, which is transparent in her brief online profile. Until then, Joe had leaked to women who had teenagers, and he can’t say for sure why he deviated from that plan.
Amy sent him a two-line message, and he with a two-line message.
“I don’t know exactly what I sent, but it was enough for her to send me two pages of information,” Joe says. “It was refreshing. I’m a type A driver, I’m very analytical and aware of the details, and I don’t play. If you play, you’re not my best friend. So when I chose two pages of information, I said, “Oh, okay, somebody wants to communicate.”
They talked for a while on the site, then replaced the nonpublic touch data so that they can also continue their conversations via Skype and email.
“We were probably exchanging one and a big apple the other day,” he said. “I had to do it at 4:30 in the morning just to talk to him.”
“For me, it’s probably 10 o’s at night,” Amy says.
He says he knew in 30 days that they were meant to be together.
“I knew very, very, in a very short time that I was going to have to somehow talk to convince her that he was the right guy,” he said.
They met face-to-face in April 2009, after Joe’s deployment ended.
Joe describes himself as “pretty systematic” and says he sought to satisfy Amy’s circle of relatives and see where he lived before he specialized in an individual relationship with her. He had found a position that he met his teenage sons, aged five to ten at the time, one online in their video conversations, about 3 months when they met.
“After being there for over an hour, [we had] our first kiss,” he said. “She said, ‘I didn’t know how long you were going to wait for me again.'”
Joe was a component of a reserve unit that planned to be deployed in the Balkans in January 2010.
He proposed while going to melting pot in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for October 18, 2009.
He left the next morning to go to a two-month, component military school.
“It’s incredibly difficult,” he said. “I couldn’t talk to him. When I spoke to him, he wasn’t nice. I opened the score for an hour, an hour and a sleep component at night, and I did it for months. And then, when I came back, I had less than 30 days before I redeployed to Kosovo in the Balkans.”
They made a direct decision to make a variety a counterattack where they can also meet to marry while he was on leave.
“I did a variety of online studies to rule out a position to get married in the blink of an eye and there’s only been one counterattack that would, and that was Denmark,” Joe says. “All other countries sought you to live there for 6 months, six weeks or two weeks. The Germabig apple had tons of rules, and we couldn’t go to a military base and get married because it wasn’t parked there.”
Joe hired a marriage planner for the most important things and he and Amy met in Frankfurt, Germany, before the wedding. They had to take a ferry to the island where they were going to get married, but they slept too much and arrived just in time to see him glide into the water.
“I’m in real panic because this is the only day we can do this since the scorridor, because the next day they are closed and have given us flight accessories to Greece for our honeymoon,” Joe says.
She arrived at her wedding planner, and she arranged for everything to be kept on hold for more than an hour so that they could also take the next ferry to the island. Everything worked and they were able to expose their votes on July 6, 2011, after all.
Amy and Joe moved from Daltdirectly to Benton in 2012. He’s a music specialist at Hurricane Creek Elementary. Joe is a holistic fitness and wellness trainer and is recently pursuing a master’s degree in alternate-local medicine.
The two are glad they’ve discovered the opposite ends of the world.
“We don’t have the absolute highest productive wedding. Sometimes it bothers me, and I annoy him,” she says. “However, we decided to like it and forgive an alterlocal one and the other day. I am grateful that God has united us, and I can confidently say that He continues to write our love story.
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The first time I saw my spouse in the long run:
She said: “After all, I was very happy to meet him because for me she was going to seal the deal. I knew everything he had told me, but I had to see it with my own eyes.
He said: “I can also make her laugh on Skype and she would bow her head and take her hair behind her right ear. I knew if I could make her laugh like that, it would be things I’d do. “
In our day:
She said, “I was relieved that, after all, we could find the right position and get married that day.”
He recalls: “I’m frustrated because I may also have waited in the parking lot instead of spending coins to get a room and sleep for an hour and a component and then we’re not late.”
My recommendation for failed marriage:
She says: “There is no seamless marriage, so handle your affairs with others. If you don’t focus on it, chances are you won’t recanote and there’s a wonderful option that gets worse.”
He says, “Your wife is never there to make you laugh and to laugh.”