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A beautiful Zoosk success story: Julia and Jaysen’s Texas-sized love

January 19, 2010 at 6:22 pm Juliette T. 4 comments

Texans say that everything is bigger in their state. We don’t know if that’s true, but we’ll admit Texas is home to some pretty big hair, big belt buckles, and Big-with-a-capital-B love stories, like this love story between Julia and Jaysen, two Zooskers from the Lone Star State who met and fell in love on Zoosk.

Julia and Jaysen both took time to write letters to Zoosk that described their experience using our site to find one another. We were so moved by their incredibly romantic story.  We used to think Giant was the most romantic love story to come out of Texas, but now that we’ve heard from Julia and Jaysen, we think they blow Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson out of the water. You’ve got to read this.

First, we hear from Julia.

Dear Zoosk,

My name is Jules and I have found the love of my life on Zoosk. We had our first date 5 ½ months ago and have been together almost every day since. We had a immediate, unbelievable, and undeniable connection from the absolute moment we met. He is a wonderful man unlike any I have ever met in my life. I have found my soul mate and the love of my life. We are now planning the rest of our lives together and are the happiest that either of us have ever been in our lives.

I was 1 day old to signing up to Zoosk when Jaysen winked at me. I checked out his profile and sent him a message back with just a wink. Jaysen responded back with “Hey beautiful!” and from that moment on we started planning our first date.

We went out for the first time 3 days after we messaged each other. On our first date, we decided to meet in Grapevine half way between the 2 of us. At the time we started dating, I was living in Frisco, Texas and Jaysen was in Grand Prairie, Texas. We started texting each other back and forth a couple of hours before we were to meet. And there was a lot of flirting going on in our texts. It was fun and he was cracking me up with the jokes. When we spoke on the phone his voice gave me butterflies, and I knew immediately that something crazy was happening.

We met at a restaurant in downtown Grapevine to have a drink and dinner. We sat and talked and got to know each other for hours. Then as it was getting later, we took a walk down the street and sat on a park bench and talked for several more hours. We decided it was getting pretty late and we decided to head back to our cars to head home. While walking to our cars, we passed another seating area and ended up sitting again and talking for several more hours. We almost talked all night …. And before we knew it (which neither one of us EVER do) we were sharing our first kiss together and it was amazing!

Jaysen and I had a instant connection to each other from the very beginning, and I know that we were meant for each other. We were brought together now for a reason. He is a truly amazing man and I am so blessed to have him in my life, to love him and to have him love me.

I knew that I felt very strong emotions for this man a week after I knew him… We both talked about it and he told me he was feeling the same way, that he felt he had known and been with me already for his entire life and that he knew he was meant to be with me. And in 2 weeks after our dating we were both sure we were undeniably and utterly 100% head-over-heels in love with each other.

Now we know we are going to have a life together and are planning our futures together. Thank you Zoosk for helping me find the man that I was meant to be with for the rest of my life. Without your site we may have never met or found each other!

Sincerely,
Julia
Grand Prairie, Texas

We were thrilled to receive Julia’s big-hearted and inspiring letter, which quite frankly made us verklempt. We were all set to share her letter with our Zoosk community as inspiration that online dating really works and that love happens when you least expect it, when, out of the blue, Jaysen’s letter came the next day! It was like we’d had our birthday two days in a row. Here’s Jason’s letter to Zoosk (you might want to pause and grab the tissues):

Dear Zoosk,

Julia told me about your email, and I was pleasantly surprised. I thought that you would want my side of the story!

I am 38 years old and have failed more times than I can count with love. I have a certain “old school” personality when it comes to love, and usually that is taken advantage of. After my last divorce, a very hard one, my heart was bruised and my ego shaken, and after 10 years, had to figure out how to date again. I don’t do the bar scene, was working a lot, and time out was scarce. I tried several sites such as Match.com and Singles.net, and the dates I went on from those sites were always hit and miss. The sites themselves were full of scams and garbage.

Zoosk was different. It was simple, personal, and easy. And the integration with Facebook is also great.

When I saw Julia, read her profile, it struck a chord inside. Don’t know why she seemed so familiar at that time, and don’t know why it was so easy to contact her. After winking at each other, and exchanging a few emails, texts, and phone calls, we finally decided to meet. She lived all the way up in Frisco, Texas, and I was in Grand Prairie, about 60 miles away. That didn’t seem to matter. She found a place in Grapevine, Texas that was in the middle, and knowing that I loved live bands, she found a restaurant that was having a great Stevie Ray Vaughn “cover band”.

When I saw her, I was floored. Not only did she seem familiar, but she was beautiful, intelligent, and wonderfully funny. She had this personality that drew you in, kept you captured. She, herself, had been hurt, and she was a broken angel. I found myself wanting to know everything about her. Although the band was wonderful, I hardly noticed because I could not look away from her. We talked for hours without awkwardness or nervousness, she put me right at ease. I held her hand, unnatural for both of us! I could feel the electricity from her touch, and the warmness from her stare.

Dinner was wonderful, but too short. We went for a walk instead of calling it a night, and talked and laughed, and sat on a street bench and talked and laughed some more. It was so easy to talk to her, so easy to lower my guard and I could tell it was the same for her as well. It was as if we had know each other for years and were “catching up”! It was natural, wonderful, and meant to be. When we decided it was time to call it a night, we walked back to the cars and ended up sitting for longer, still talking, still laughing, it was if neither one of us wanted to be away from each other.

We had our first kiss that night, soft and wonderful. It was that night I knew I would fall for this woman every day for the rest of my life. And I continue to fall in love with her every morning, and love her more than the day before every night. We were meant to be together. And now almost 6 months later we are still falling in love, sharing more than I ever thought possible, and realizing this is where I was meant to be, this is who I was meant to be with, and this is where I will be for the rest of my life.

Without Zoosk, our paths would have never crossed. We were two people looking for each other, and without Zoosk, we would have spent our life still looking. I thank you for so much more than mere words can explain. And I hope all that come to the site have the same thing happen as did to me – they find their soulmate.

Best,
Jaysen Towers
Grand Prairie, Texas

P.S. Love you Julia!!

This story made us smile for days. We wish Julia and Jaysen all the best and thank them for sending us their inspirational letters of love.

If you have your own Zoosk success story to share, send it to us with a photo of you and your loved one and we’ll send you an Amazon (or other online retailer of your choice) gift card as a token of our congratulations.

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