Hysun and Kimberly

On a chilly day in February 2015, I (Kimberly) saw Hysun’s name pop up on an online dating site. I was balancing being a full-time college student, homeschool teacher, single mother, and caregiver for my ill mother. I felt ready to start dating so looking online made sense. I knew as soon as I saw him that I was going to end up marrying him, and I did 5 months later.

I (Hysun) came across a TedTalk describing the unique matching algorithms used for a specific dating site. I was intrigued, so I made an account to see how it worked. The dating site brought up Kimberly’s page - we had a 99% match! After talking back and forth, we quickly hit it off. It didn’t take long for us to fall in love. Two months later, I dressed up as Kim’s favorite doctor (the ninth) from Doctor Who and proposed. I made sure to include a quote from the show that this “would be the trip of a lifetime together.” We had a small wedding with our kids, Caitlyn and Samuel, beside us. It was perfect. Kimberly had Caitlyn and Sam from her previous marriage, but Hysun and the kids have always gotten along like they’ve known each other all their lives. We’ve been a family for eight years, and since then, we’ve both obtained degrees in computer science, co-parent our teenage children, and built a lifestyle that suits our needs! Hysun was right, marriage has been the trip of a lifetime! We go on weekly dinner dates and intentionally take time to go on walks, browse the local bookstore, or talk over coffee together. The life we have built is one of our greatest accomplishments, and we desire to keep building our family through adoption.