It’s not easy being a twentysomething in today’s culture, at least not when you want to live right and find someone who shares your values. That’s the problem 24-year-old Danielle was encountering. She was a youth minister in her local Catholic parish. “Every person I was meeting was in middle school, high school, or a parent,” she said. “It was becoming critical to meet people with like-minded values and beliefs.”
Someone who shared her convictions was Eric. The same age, Eric was also looking for someone committed to an upright life, and the first criteria he put out in his profile was basic—“must not do illegal substances.” It’s a great starting point, but the 24-year-old who was devoted to his faith, his family, his dog Squirt and preparing for Basic Military Training, deserved more than that. He was soon to find it.
It was August 2009 when Eric and Danielle connected with each other on CatholicMatch, and two days later they were on the phone. They both live in Texas, but with her in Houston and him in the west central part of the state, there were still five hundred miles of distance between them. Nonetheless, Danielle believed God’s will was unfolding, and by month’s end she and her family drove across the state so she could meet “some guy from online”.
Eric & Danielle's relationship got providential breaks, followed by testing challenges.
