How did you first meet your "inmate"??

[William'sBaby]

This might be fun. We can tell the story of how and when we met our "inmate".

I met William in October of 2000. I was with a friend and we were going to the club that night. We made a stop to pick up two of her friends. One of the friends was William. Now, I am not lying when I tell you this, believe it or not, when we first made eye contact, time felt like it was going in slow motion, and I felt like I just found a long lost love! I can't even describe what I was feeling. Anyway, all four of us drove together to the club. I had a lot of fun with him that night. He was so different and interesting. He kissed me for the first time and I almost fainted! Ever since that night we have been very close. We were like best friends (but much more) for four years and then we moved in together. We only lived together for 7 months when he was taken away from me. I pray he gets to come home in 2008 so we can start our life together! I love my man!

Laura, William's Baby

[MS.LIFE]

ME N MY LUV BUG STARTED CORRESPONDING MARCH 2005. OUT OF THE BLUE I GOT A LETTER FROM HIMONE DAY IN MARCH TELLIN ME THAT I AM THE WOMAN HE BEEN LOOKING FOR. I GUESS YOU WONDERING HOW HE EVEN GOT MY INFO. WELL ITS KINDA KRAZY HE GOT IT FROM MY EX WHO WAS DOING A BID WITH HIM. ANYWAYS IT WILL BE A YEAR SOON AND I AM LOVING HIM TO DEATH

[missy1234]

My ex husband cheated with my current husbands ex-wife. Then a couple of years later My husband and I went out on a date and from there he became not only my husband but my best friend.

[Tepee]

I met my fiance when we were 14-15 (he was 14, I was 15) he became my first boyfriend. We ended up breaking up and going our seperate ways, which was kind of hard to do considering his brother is my best friend. So between his mom and his brother we always knew what the other was doing and going through. Well about six years ago Jon got locked up (I knew this of course), I got married and an occasional "hi" was sent between us through his mom or his brother. Well about four years ago I got divorced his brother told him about it and Jon wrote me a letter sending his apologize on how my marriage didn't work out, and every since our relationship has just grown.

[JMWifey]

Well..he went to a high school near by mine...saw me everyday...got my phone number..called me lol. umm pretty simple story..but he just wouldnt give up on me! Finally I gave him a chance..and we've been together since!

[MsSchema]

My man asked a friend of his if his girlfriend had any one he could write too. Wow, the rest is history. We have been writing and seeing one another on visits since around August of 2005. He is a wonderful person who has made some mistakes...me too....welcome too the real world huh???? I love him very much. Wendy

[chrsdan]

We met in high school, going way back, saw each other a little aftfer high school, but didn't seriously get together until 2000. Currently we aren't together, but we have a son together that i'm trying to remain positive for!!!!

[LeBeau]

I'll take this as a moment to give everyone the whole silly story.... Mine is a sort of tangled story... I first met My Whateverheis nearly 22 years ago, when I was 15 and dating a friend of his, I fell in lust at first sight then grew genuinely fond of him as the weeks passed, then one day, I heard him laugh out loud for the first time and that was that, I lost a piece of my soul to this reckless, untamed, redheaded James Dean reincarnate....and couldn't do a damn thing about it (His brother had already taken away my boyfriend's former fiancee....) but we landed in bed one Halloween (Wrong, wrong, wrong but......) and I haven't been the same since.... Boyfriend and I broke up, partly over that, mostly over other things....My redhead and I crossed paths now and then for the next few years and I was terrified that he might realize I took him seriously and vanish from my life in a cloud of dust...his taste in women always ran to dramatic, high maintainence party dolls and I'm a reserved, intellectually driven, serious minded bookworm...figured I had no chance at all to hold his interest as anything more than a pal and playmate... it was not what I wanted but a lot more than I was willing to risk losing.
Life, as it tends to do, went on....I never quite got over him but moved along.... got married, got divorced,went to college.....All the while thinking of him often and everytime I ran into him, spent a while mourning what might have been.....7 years ago, I met my second husband, a couple of years ago, we moved to Montana.....last January, word finally reached me that my Whateverheis was about to be tried for 1st degree murder....I stewed a week or so, then wrote him at the County jail... a short, cautious note with a picture enclosed because I was not positive he'd recall my name without a face to go with it....He wrote back immediately, a letter that began.... "Oh, Girl, it is so good to hear from you! You must have caught my vibe one of those times I was thinking of you..."
In my next letter, I wrote that I didn't know if he ever knew it, but that he'd always mattered to me a great deal, that I'd never said anything for fear of his vanishing in the aforementioned cloud of dust.... the response to that was a simple and heartbreaking "Yes, I always cared for you, and I still do..." backed up by a stunning collection of little memories I'd carried for 20+ years and never dreamed he'd held them as well..... He was convicted before I could get to California to see him, but I was there before sentencing in March, as soon as I laid eyes on him again, I knew nothing had changed or dulled with time....I had to be the one to tell his mom that he'd been moved out of county and was headed for reception... and have been writing, visiting every chance I get, keeping in touch with his appellate lawyers, etc ....I don't know what the future holds but I'll never let him out of my life again, come what may, he's stuck with me....and my husband, bless his generous heart, accepts it.

[haswtch]

wow LeBeau! sweeeeet! I always wondered what a whateverheis was and now I get it...
Eric was a fugitive being noisily and clumsily hunted with helicopters and SWAT teams. I was (am) a local reporter who got curious. He came to me to keep him safe as he surrendered, never asked more than that. BAM he had my heart and my soul.

[LeBeau]

I always wondered what a whateverheis was and now I get it...

When I first came here, I had no idea how to explain what my relationship with this guy is...he's not my boyfriend, or fiance, or "my man", or husband...and I don't feel butterflies over, write steamy letters or send racy pictures to my "Friends", so I had to coin a new term... I've been tickled to death to see it adopted by others whose situations don't quite fit into any of the more usual boxes

[JMWifey]

Whoa LeBeau, thats the best story I've heard!! Thats amazing that you visit & keep in touch with him when hes not "your man". Thats great He must really appriciate you.

[Sol78]

Well i met my man/baby daddy...whatever u want to call him..lol 11 yrs ago when he dated my best friend(or shall i say ex best friend) our sr yr of h.s. for a few months, we couldnt stand the sight of each other i mean we would literally want to throw up at the sight of one anotherm then one night a lil while after there "relationship" ended he called me to join him to go work out and that was all she wrote...Been in love with the asshole ever since.Granted he has been incarcerated EVERYWHERE it seems like( he's been to San Quentin, Duel,Chino and i think some other place) he's been locked up for 7 out of the 10 yrs we have beeen on and off ....its just been one hell of a crazy decade with him...But when he gets out in July i am truly looking forward to a life with him and our beautiful 8 yr old daughter......with no more drama