Christian Local Couple Finds True Love Online

It was all those e-mails, phone calls, and miles apart that actually brought this couple closer together.

This farmer from Oregon would say that love is like an egg. On the outside, sure, they can be all kinds of different colors. But what he wants is on the inside.

Tom Dumont says, "When you're dating, especially long distance, you don't have the physical part that can distract you. you're forced to get to know each other on the phone."

Dumont decided to give online dating a try. He says he went through a few bad eggs closer to home. And even when he started trading e-mails with Erin, a farmer's daughter from Illinois, his search might have been over, but it definitely wasn't easy.

He says, "Both my brothers thought I had gone off the deep end. I might as well have bought a Russian bride. Erin's family was the same. Her sister send me an e-mail with about 100 questions."

Some would say their love story got off to a late start. Erin and Tom have both gone through tough marriages and when they met in San Francisco for their first date her flight landed five hours late.

Erin says, "It was just agony to wait five minutes more. I waited 43 years to get this man. He was worth waiting the extra five hours for."

Tom adds, "We had one date and to be honest with you I wanted to marry her right then."

But Tom says Erin is the more rational one. She wanted to wait a little longer to start their fairy tale. But sort of like the song, this story reads "the farmer takes a wife"--five months later.

Tom says, "Gosh, I feel like I'm cheating. We haven't disagreed and if we have we talked and it was over. We have a relationship that I would say is extraordinary."

The pair still exchanges their share of letters, but now as a family, playing scrabble, and under the same roof.

Timing was perfect for Erin and Tom. They met on a Christian dating site called "Love and Seek". After their love connection that site shut down. They say knowing they shared the same values was the perfect starting point to their relationship. And it has kept them together for five years.

source: ktvl.com