- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I met the man I'm going to marry through Halo 2.
Back in 2005, I found myself involved in various online gaming communities. Eventually, the one that I found myself constantly returning to consisted of some amazing people who eventually became a part of my everyday life. At the time, I only knew of him by his tag, xTheBadFishx, and I never even really paid him much mind to him when he posted on the forums. I had no clue as to what he looked or sounded like and as he never really posted that much.
It wasn't until I finally got an Xbox that I hopped on Xbox Live, Halo 2 being my first game, and started playing with a lot of the members from that community. xTheBadFishx being one of them. When I first heard him talk, I sorta laughed. He had this really deep southern draw...and he cursed. A lot. I did notice, however, that he was an excellent Halo player and I did enjoy playing with him whenever the two of us happened to be in the same room. It's been a while so I can't remember any specific conversations he and I may have had, but Halo 2 was our gateway into talking to one another.
Things kind of stayed mutual for a good year and a half...maybe more (time escapes me!). I never thought of him in more ways than just a Halo 2 buddy and I'm pretty sure he thought the same of me. In the later part of 2006, it was discussed that our online gaming community should have some type of giant LAN party in which the majority of us would meet up for one weekend in the summer and just game and enjoy each others company outside of Live. So, the last weekend in April of 2007, all of us would get together and have our LAN in Virginia Beach, VA. Since I was only in Baltimore, Maryland I decided instead of paying for a plane flight to VA, I would just drive the 6 hours there. Badfish and our other friend, SwP, had made the decision to fly in and drive down to the LAN with me. Thus, BadFish and I started talking a little bit more every day: talking about what we wanted to do for that weekend and just getting our schedule information on the same path. Throughout all this, the two of us were learning a little bit more about each other. Things we had no clue about because the two of us had never had a reason to talk like that before. Eventually, he and I became pretty good friends. At the time, I had been in a relationship with another individual so most of my time was spent talking with him. That relationship ended up taking a downhill direction so I was never in a happy mood...and then I had BadFish... there were quite a few times when he and I butted heads (arguing in Halo...hilarious!)...to the point in which one of us wouldn't talk to the other for days. Our childish antics got so bad that we didn't speak for a month...and it wasn't till a week before the LAN party that he apologized to me and everything was ok. The LAN party came and went. Overall it was an AWESOME weekend. Badfish and I had at one point talked about the issues we had with each other and I think that had made a huge difference in the friendship we had.
After I had broken off with my then boyfriend, I vowed that I wasn't going to get into another relationship for quite some time. Welllllll, that didn't happen and eventually the friendship I had with Badfish (his name is Mike, btw) became something much more. There was one big problem: He lived in Louisiana and I still lived in Maryland. He ended up getting an internship in VA for the summer of 07 so that made our relationship much easier to deal with, however, he eventually had to return to Louisiana for school. He was still my Halo buddy, though. The two of us spent our time bonding while beating Halo 3 on Legendary...and honestly, playing Halo with each other actually made us bond even more....I guess it has to do with the whole teamwork and the communication thing!
As we all know, long distance relationships suck and I wanted nothing more than to be with him. In the beginng of December, he asked me to marry him...so I packed up my bags and moved to Monroe, Louisiana....and now here I am, two years later...with the guy I knew as xTheBadFishx....my future husband to be! The man I first started talking to in a game of Halo 2. :)
Thank you, Bungie <3
Wow...I sure did write a lot....
Moe
PS: Here is a happy picture of us being happy!