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Cross Border Love During A Pandemic Happy Life
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Cross Border Love During a Pandemic
[Show Opens]
Myrtle Alegado: With today's technology the world doesn't seem so large, and we can easily connect with friends and family. It has even made it easier to find a romantic love interest across borders, or even across the world, and stay in a long-distance relationship. We'll discuss more about this in our episode today.
Welcome to Happy Life, a podcast brought to you by INC Media Audio that aims to help newlyweds navigate through the first years of marriage. I'm your host, Myrtle Alegado, and I've been married to my husband, Paul, since 1999. And later, we'll hear some Bible-based advice through Brother Felmar Serreno, a minister of the gospel in the Church Of Christ.
[Show Catchphrase]
Inspiration to make your marriage thrive, you're listening to Happy Life.
Myrtle: Our newlyweds, for this Happy Life episode, are a long-distance, cross border, transnational love story success! Zachary is originally from Toronto, Canada, and Isabelle is from the Bay Area of Northern California.
Thanks for agreeing to chat with us today on Happy Life, Zach and Isabelle.
Zachary Sese: Hello, Myrtle. Hello, everyone. Thank you.
Isabelle Sese: Hi, Myrtle. Thank you for having us.
Myrtle: So how was your day today?
Zachary: Not bad. We're here traveling towards an area in Wyoming, a long drive.
Isabelle: Yeah, it was a long drive. This is our seventh state in the past seven days.
Zachary: We've traveled seven states in seven days, yeah.
Myrtle: Wow! Well, we appreciate that you're joining us today, despite your traveling, and despite all the distance that you've logged on your car probably.
So we've had a lot of previous Happy Life guests who were also in long-distance relationships before marriage, but we haven't really discussed, in depth, the challenges of being in one. Why don't you two share how you met, and how you got engaged, and of course eventually married.
Zachary: Before we were married, we were actually both District KADIWA presidents. It's an organization in the Church Of Christ for the youth that's aged 18 and up who aren’t married. In 2018, we had a KadCon. This is a conference for those members within that organization. I was actually District KADIWA vice president at the time. Part of this activity is that we recorded something with KADIWA officers all across North America, and these videos would be shown to every local [congregation] across the world.
Through these videos, that's where I actually noticed Isabelle in one of the videos. I guess she definitely caught my eye. I started to like her from those videos. So, I guess you could say I was a fan of her, but I mentioned to a friend of mine that I thought she was cute, she was pretty. And it turned out that Isabelle had actually visited Toronto recently to attend a wedding, and the friend that I mentioned to had actually met Isabelle. So yes, it was actually interesting. We actually had mutual friends already.
Myrtle: That's so cool.
Isabelle: Yeah, so two months after that KadCon, late 2018 so probably late December and even early January 2019, the friend that Zach told that I was cute, shout out to Chryselle, she actually messaged me.
Cross Border Love During a Pandemic
[Show Opens]
Myrtle Alegado: With today's technology the world doesn't seem so large, and we can easily connect with friends and family. It has even made it easier to find a romantic love interest across borders, or even across the world, and stay in a long-distance relationship. We'll discuss more about this in our episode today.
Welcome to Happy Life, a podcast brought to you by INC Media Audio that aims to help newlyweds navigate through the first years of marriage. I'm your host, Myrtle Alegado, and I've been married to my husband, Paul, since 1999. And later, we'll hear some Bible-based advice through Brother Felmar Serreno, a minister of the gospel in the Church Of Christ.
[Show Catchphrase]
Inspiration to make your marriage thrive, you're listening to Happy Life.
Myrtle: Our newlyweds, for this Happy Life episode, are a long-distance, cross border, transnational love story success! Zachary is originally from Toronto, Canada, and Isabelle is from the Bay Area of Northern California.
Thanks for agreeing to chat with us today on Happy Life, Zach and Isabelle.
Zachary Sese: Hello, Myrtle. Hello, everyone. Thank you.
Isabelle Sese: Hi, Myrtle. Thank you for having us.
Myrtle: So how was your day today?
Zachary: Not bad. We're here traveling towards an area in Wyoming, a long drive.
Isabelle: Yeah, it was a long drive. This is our seventh state in the past seven days.
Zachary: We've traveled seven states in seven days, yeah.
Myrtle: Wow! Well, we appreciate that you're joining us today, despite your traveling, and despite all the distance that you've logged on your car probably.
So we've had a lot of previous Happy Life guests who were also in long-distance relationships before marriage, but we haven't really discussed, in depth, the challenges of being in one. Why don't you two share how you met, and how you got engaged, and of course eventually married.
Zachary: Before we were married, we were actually both District KADIWA presidents. It's an organization in the Church Of Christ for the youth that's aged 18 and up who aren’t married. In 2018, we had a KadCon. This is a conference for those members within that organization. I was actually District KADIWA vice president at the time. Part of this activity is that we recorded something with KADIWA officers all across North America, and these videos would be shown to every local [congregation] across the world.
Through these videos, that's where I actually noticed Isabelle in one of the videos. I guess she definitely caught my eye. I started to like her from those videos. So, I guess you could say I was a fan of her, but I mentioned to a friend of mine that I thought she was cute, she was pretty. And it turned out that Isabelle had actually visited Toronto recently to attend a wedding, and the friend that I mentioned to had actually met Isabelle. So yes, it was actually interesting. We actually had mutual friends already.
Myrtle: That's so cool.
Isabelle: Yeah, so two months after that KadCon, late 2018 so probably late December and even early January 2019, the friend that Zach told that I was cute, shout out to Chryselle, she actually messaged me.
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