This is a sweet story for sure, and all along we IQ'ers have been so happy for you!

And it IS possible to manifest a relationship; even if you do not know who it will be with. How do I know? I did it myself! My story is here on IQ elsewhere, although I cannot find it at the moment.

Some years ago now, after my divorce and being on my own for a few years (and I made the best of this time, I should add....really enjoyed it!) I decided I would like to be married again to the right person. I began visualizing through the Silva method and kept at it. In the physical realm, I prepared too in ways that I will not go into here and now. I didn't do anything extraorinary though, other than the visualizing and the preparing in my mind of being married again. I dated for a few months, and met some nice people, but not the right one. After about four months, I met a guy at work. (We didn't work for the same company, but had daily contact.) We started talking, hanging out, then dating, then after about a year I moved in with him and we got married. He was the right person for me! We both love dogs, baseball games and much more. But we are also opposites in many ways which is awesome. I tend to be in my own head a lot and am too introverted if I don't work at it....he is a person of action and has a million friends. So we balance each other out and like each other's traits. Just my opinion, but I think it's a mistake to rule out people who aren't just like you!

We've been married for almost four years and together for about six. Valentine's Day just passed and he surprised me with cards, money on my iTunes account, flowers and chocolate. I love and appreciate him all the time and he's a great guy. And I take good care of him too. We are a good pair!

When visualizing, I didn't see anyone specific since I wanted my options to be open. I was dating someone else at the time, but wasn't sure if he was "the one" or not. He wasn't, and visualzing just him would have been a mistake. I saw myself as happy, doing things together with the right person and having fun. I felt the ring on my finger and the "whole nine yards" as we say here in the U.S. I just didn't imagine the specific face I was with.

Once I decided that I wanted to marry again (and this would work for simply "a good relationship" as well, not just marriage) and worked at manifesting it, it only took a few months for the right person to come along. I was well into my 40's at the time, when many give up on finding love, or finding it again!

Sorry, this is not an answer but I can't help to post...

This is the most awesome thread here in IQ. It vibrates with love and it lifted my spirit.

Admin/moderator may delete this if they want and I am fine with that.

In 1998 I was coming out of a bad marriage. People asked me what happened. I replied that when I was young a next door neighbor had a dog that would bite you when you stopped petting her. Sometimes I had to say this a few times before it sunk in.

Both she and I were not happy. She often complained that I only did what I wanted to do, i.e., what made me happy. I was recognizing the futility of trying to please her and others.

She chose to leave. We divorced. I began attending executive singles parties and met some interesting, powerful women. An heiress to a patent system that gave her a substantial income and the freedom to involve herself in politics and philanthropies. A woman who owned over a hundred acres of cementaries. She often said that people were dying to meet her and that she was the last person to let you down! A Brazilian princess and Consul based in Atlanta.

I had decided that I would probably marry one of them, or someone like them. So, I was making the rounds. One of the reasons for dating several women at the same time was that they were all led very busy lives and could only go out on rare occaisions.

Somehow this was not very fulfilling to me (lopsided grin). I had made a list of the vital characteristics I wanted in a wife. I had a good friend, a psychiatrist, a surgeon and a Biblical scholar, retired. One of the most brilliant people I ever knew. He wrote articles that were published in major scientific journals and even the Encyclopedia Britannica.

The women I was dating had many of these qualifications. I showed him my list. He looked at me, smiled and said, "Bill, the women who have these characteristics will not be able to have a relationship with you, or anyone else!"

Well, I kept looking, anyway. Many were good for a short fling, but did not work out in the long run. So I had a lot of unfulfilling "fun."

My home was large, over a hundred years old, in Atlanta. In the lower terrace level there was an apartment originally built as servant's quarters. I rented it out. When it went vacant, I would put a small poster on a telephone pole in front and had it filled very quickly.

A young woman and a man came to rent it. Turned out they were getting divorced and her soon-to-be ex-husband was helping her relocate because he was keeping their home.

She was a sweet, unassuming person with a great sense of humor. I thought she was very nice, though she had few of the "qualifications." I liked her, but did not consider her marriage material, so I tried to help her find a boyfriend among my friends.

This did not interest her very much. Being in such close proximity was nice, but I was still looking. I did not think it prudent to form a relationship with someone renting my apartment. Just too close, and if it turned difficult, it could get sticky.

Her positive outlook and great sense of humor gradually turned her into a good friend. I remember her helping me get ready for the "Cemetery Woman" who was having a "Blue Party" in her 12,000 square foot home. I was wearing a tail coat tux, blue cummerbund, blue socks, blue studs and cuff links.

Though she (Cemetery Woman) seemed very interested in having me stay afterward, I felt myself wanting to return home to "Anne from Down Under" as she called herself and her terrace level apartment. Anne was more fun, and she had time to spend with me!

She and her husband were drawing up papers. He told her he would give her $5,000 settlement, but they did not have to put it on paper. Ho! Thought I, yeah, right, I redrew the paperwork and after an asset search decided that $20,000 was more appropriate!

He was eager to begin another relationship and grudgingly agreed.

Anne had a passionate desire to "buy houses." I had a good income from my rental properties and did not want any more. But her enthusiasm swept me away. Gradually I quit going to parties because I was having more fun with Anne.

I showed her now to buy, renovate, and rent properties. I was liking real estate better due to her enthusiasm. It brought back the fun that was missing when I was doing it alone.

One day we were building a koi pond in my enclosed front porch. She was handing me tools, we were laughing, and it hit me hard. I was in love with Anne from DownUnder. I told her and she said that she felt the same way. Three months later we got married, after attending Christian marriage counseling. We consciously made God a part of our marriage, and the three of us talk often.

It was fun! I introduced her to my psychiatrist friend, after talking with him a while, he smiled, and laughed. "You made a good choice, Bill!" My "list" was forgotten.

That was about 14 years ago. Together she and I grew our business, expanding beyond our expectations. Our relationship, based on friendship, fun, common goals - has also blossomed far beyond our expectations.

I am not an easy person to be in a relationship, but our love has weathered and matured. We have never discussed divorce. She evolved from "Anne from Down Under", to Saint Anne, my partner, my love, my wife, my very best friend!

We lost some weight since then