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 queenelizabeth143
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Age: 39
Looking for: Friendship
Country: Philippines
State, City: Quezon City
Posts: 118
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 4:48 pm
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Congratulations to both of you!!! I'm so happy to witness how you express your love for each other. You're a PERFECT MATCH!!!    
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:17 pm
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Congratulations M&M... thanks for sharing your happiness and good luck in your future together.
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 billyHill
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Age: 48
Looking for: Friendship
Country: United States
State, City: Los Angeles, California
Posts: 250
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 11:02 pm
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M&M.... that sounds like a sweet couple 
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Say what you mean and do what you feel,
because those that mind don't matter,
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garfield2012
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Age: 42
Looking for: Serious Relationship
Country: China
State, City: Beijing
Posts: 4
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 1:18 am
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The whole story is really inspiring. COngratulations. Although I am new here, I already love this site, and love people here, you are so postive and so encouraging. Best for everyone.
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stratocasterman
The glass is half full, not half empty!
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Age: 55
Looking for: Friendship
Country: United States
State, City: North Little Rock, Arkansas
Posts: 10
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 5:31 am
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| Just as Maybelle said...Effortless! |
Effortless, adj. Calling for, requiring, or showing little or no effort. Thesaurus, Posing no difficulty: easy, simple, smooth. Idioms: easy as ABC, easy as falling off a log, easy as one-two-three, easy as pie, like taking candy from a baby, nothing to it. Maybelle just loves my little idioms and stupid off the wall sayings…thank goodness! Hehe!
Well now you know, the cat is out of the bag, but only for a few of you I'm sure! A "wonderful blessing", (bel3ms, affectionately known as Maybelle) is the only way I know how to describe the awesome woman, best friend, confidant, partner and lover I have found with God's divine help on this website!
At that "just what the doctor ordered" precise moment, upon entering the hotel room and looking behind the half opened door I had just walked past, I knew for absolute positive that something was now going to happen! Yes or No, Do or Die, twenty one (21) hours of flight, three (3) months of talking and texting, the time was at hand...literally!
My suitcase now in the room securely, I instinctively stuffed a $5 bill in the Bellman's pocket and pointed him in the EXIT direction aided by a polite shove in the back. All in one motion I shoved the door closed and grabbed the Princess, who to only her knowledge was partially vulnerable from the nearly empty red wine bottle on the nearby table!
I hugged and kissed her and stepped back and all at once we joined and locked hands together as was her prayer; that she would know through the touch of our hands together if I was THE one. It was a very surreal experience as we just seemed to have completely bonded in that sixty (60) seconds or so. Maybelle knew and Michael did too!
Per the Princess's "Effortless" post, I must completely agree to each and every word she wrote. I had told Maybelle several weeks after we had met online, and we were getting along so terrifically, that I had come to a major realization.
I knew I had been correct all along, but now there is NO doubt about the fact that she unknowingly had held a "characteristic" and missing piece of me that was the prayer of what I had searched for. As simple or as dumb as it may sound, I now have that missing element of my life back into my possession. That element is my purpose!
For the past eighteen (18) glorious days I have regained, re-energized and have fully realized that I have my purpose back again! Running or walking hand in hand on the beautiful, and I mean beautiful, shores of Boracay, floating and riding the waves there, on the mountain top at Tagaytay in the I Lust B&B room, dining and drinking with many very good friends (some from here, you know who you are!), atop the towers in the financial business district for after-hour cocktails with high powered executives, sitting in a small church praying together, examining history in a museum, having breakfast in bed, just sitting in an empty airport lounge during flight delays, fine dining at its best, her spoon feeding the sick boy chicken soup on the couch, Saturday at the open-air market, going shopping together (yes, read it and weep ladies), sitting in the theater watching an action packed kick ass dude movie, interrogation at MOM headquarters followed with a great lunch (narrowly missing the firing squad with apparently excellent answers), mid-morning 70's teenager ____ (fill in your own jokes there) and the look from across any room at any time when our eyes meet!
It's ALL there at each and every turn. Every moment, no matter what it may bring, is filled with a peace that defies understanding. A simple, yet overpowering sensation that never ever leaves you. It is effortless, and like a king size blanket, completely engulfs you and makes you to feel warm all over.
Call me crazy if you must and I am a bit, but realize I knew that God had a blessing for me if I was worthy, faithful and above all...willing to pay attention long enough until God was ready to reveal it to me. If you are not ready or not paying attention, forget it! You will aimlessly wander and that is OK. Just be ready to accept what does not happen for you.
Thank each and every one of you for all that you do with hope, love and encouragement. Thanks for the suggestions and telling it like it is when it is needed. All of you collectively on this website make this a smaller and much better world. Pat yourself on the back too because the large majority of you know what you are talking about. You share it with enthusiasm, kindness and meaning.
To my Maybelle, Princess! Thank you for listening to me barking at you in the beginning with my blatant and gutsy statements in my pm to you. You listened to me and did a 180 degree turn around on me with an open heart and mind! You snatched me and captured me forever, steadfast in my tracks!
This success story is a work in progress and one I will write about and work at on a DAILY basis. My prayer is fulfilled and my purpose is restored! This is the REAL DEAL folks!
Uh...where is Little Rock, Arkansas? Just ask my ol'e buddy Bill Clinton (ladies, be extremely careful!) or Sam Walton. Probably half way between Chicago and New Orleans or Memphis and Dallas will get ya real close!
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bel3ms
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Age: 44
Looking for: Friendship
Country: Philippines
State, City: Makati, Metro Manila
Posts: 141
Status: Offline
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 5:55 am
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I love you Michael. I LOVE YOU!!!
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GG-AUS
Aussie
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Age: 43
Looking for: Friendship
Country: Australia
State, City: Sydney
Posts: 64
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 5:59 am
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Felicitaciones, Michael and Maybelle! I'm so happy for you.
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stratocasterman
The glass is half full, not half empty!
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Age: 55
Looking for: Friendship
Country: United States
State, City: North Little Rock, Arkansas
Posts: 10
Status: Offline
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 6:05 am
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| bel3ms wrote: | | I love you Michael. I LOVE YOU!!! |
You are adored and cherished my Princess!
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spectrumAU
Wizard of Oz
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Age: 62
Looking for: Serious Relationship
Country: Australia
State, City: New South Wales, Sydney
Posts: 1910
Status: Online
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 6:56 am
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Your new signatures...
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or is this Maybelle...
lol 
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bel3ms
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Age: 44
Looking for: Friendship
Country: Philippines
State, City: Makati, Metro Manila
Posts: 141
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:57 am
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| Now What ??? |
Thank you everyone for your greetings and well wishes. Now what? the hard work is in front of us.
And I begun to feel overwhelmed as families, careers, finances, immigration, friends and other factors enter the picture. I am sometimes choked with emotions that I have to pray hard for discernment to logically think of what to do and not be overwhelmed by the need to be with Michael at all cost.
I do have two sources of strength from all these overwhelming feelings that threaten me - Michael and prayers.
After three days together, I brought Michael to the American Battle Monuments to see the WWII memorial being American and all. Throughout that day, I kept worrying about our financial and career concerns (particularly mine) I have been financially independent and career driven for 20 years so the idea of losing this control and starting over was weighing on me heavily.
Can I do it? Do I have the strength and energy for it?
I was so bothered and decided on the way back to the hotel to bring Michael to a church over lunch period. I kept praying throughout that morning silently asking God to just tell me what to do and what to think. We went to Santuario de San Antonio which is on the way back to the hotel. When we entered the church, there were maroon banners mounted on both sides of the church stating two phrases (1) San Antonio de Padua and (2) Love above all.
I noticed the banners but did not immediately read the content until we managed to sit down to attend rosary and mass service. Then as the service was ongoing, my eyes gazed on the banners and it took a lot of effort for me to not get teary eyed. It dawned on me that I was fussing over something the Lord has already given an answer to. I was simply not listening or unaware that the answer was beside me holding my hand. LOVE ABOVE ALL.
I told Michael about this and what I thought was a possible divine answer. He smiled and said I liked those banners too.
Despite the church incident, I still struggled with this thought during his visit and in one of the evenings we were together I was crying like a baby as I told Michael "I am so afraid. What is the Lord trying to tell me?"
Then he wisely asked me are you afraid here (pointing to my heart) or here (pointing to my head)?
That question shut me up and shook me to the core. He is a wise man.
I am sharing this because its a real challenge that couples who get into LDR need to address. And if your someone like me who've been independent for so long. It requires a lot of quiet time, discernment and focus to figure out and address.
I pray for strength everyday as we move onto trying to be together. For now, the objectives are clear (1) GET TOGETHER in December, (2) seek a job offer for me in the US and (3) strengthen his business and fortiy his work situation.
To a large extent we are fortunate, that I have a visa enabling me to go stateside and we have the ability to visit each other despite the distance and costs. Lucky I sometime say but Michael does not believe in luck. We listen and focus on the purpose, that is what's important. He often says, we work at it, its not luck.
Maybelle.
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