Some love stories begin with a chance meeting across a crowded room. Jesse and Joline Moore’s began in a way that instantly places their story in another era of the internet: with a message on MySpace.
Nearly two decades later, they are still together.
Their relationship has traveled through online conversations, a first meeting, an unforgettable Easter proposal, marriage, Jesse coming out as transgender, and the changes that followed.
But underneath all those chapters is something remarkably consistent: two people who continued choosing each other.
It Started With a Message on MySpace
Long before dating apps became an everyday part of finding love, MySpace was bringing strangers into one another’s lives.
That is where Jesse and Joline met around 20 years ago.
Joline made the first move. She sent Jesse a message and told him she thought he was cute.
What began online soon became something much more personal.
The two spent weeks getting to know one another through online chats, AOL video calls and conversations on the phone before deciding to meet face-to-face.
It is a wonderfully nostalgic beginning to a relationship that would eventually span almost two decades.
There were no sophisticated matching algorithms deciding they belonged together. There was simply an unexpected message, conversation and enough curiosity about each other to see where it might lead.
And it led somewhere neither could have fully predicted.
An Easter Egg With a Life-Changing Question
As Jesse and Joline's relationship became serious, marriage was not a complete surprise.
They had already talked about getting married and knew it was something they wanted.
Jesse still found a memorable way to ask.
While coloring Easter eggs with his family, he used one of the crayons intended for decorating the eggs to write a marriage proposal.
“Will you marry me?”
Joline's answer was yes.
It was simple, personal and connected to an ordinary family moment—the kind of proposal that becomes more meaningful with every passing year because of the life that follows it.
The Easter egg became one small moment at the beginning of a much larger commitment.
Years Into Their Relationship, Jesse Shared Something Important
Several years later, their marriage entered another chapter.
Jesse came out as transgender.
Although Jesse had long presented in a masculine way, he said Joline had not known that he was transgender.
Telling her was frightening.
Jesse worried about what his transition could mean for their relationship and how members of Joline's family might respond.
For a married couple, transition can involve questions that do not have instant answers. One partner is finally expressing something deeply important about who they are, while the other may also need time to understand what that means for the relationship they have built together.
Joline was surprised.
But surprise did not become rejection.
Instead, she explained that her attraction had always been centered on the person she loved rather than simply that person's sex.
For Jesse, her response affirmed something much larger.
She loved him for who he was.
Their Marriage Continued Through Transition
Jesse's transition changed part of how the world saw him, but it did not erase the years Jesse and Joline had already spent building a life together.
Joline continued supporting her husband.
She has since spoken about being able to see Jesse as the man he was meant to be.
That does not mean every relationship involving transition follows the same path. Every couple has its own circumstances, identities and decisions.
Jesse and Joline can only tell their own story.
And theirs is a story in which the relationship continued.
The person Joline had laughed with, talked with, married and built a home with was still the person beside her.
“Jesse Is My Home”
After almost two decades together, Joline used a particularly simple description of what her husband means to her.
Jesse is her home.
It is difficult to find a better description of a long relationship.
Home is not necessarily a place where nothing ever changes.
People grow older. Bodies change. Careers change. Families change. Dreams change. Sometimes people discover parts of themselves they were previously unable to express.
A lasting relationship is therefore not about freezing two people at the moment when they first meet.
For Jesse and Joline, their relationship has had multiple chapters.
There was the MySpace chapter.
The long conversations and video calls.
The first meeting.
The Easter egg.
Marriage.
Coming out.
Transition.
And then all of the ordinary days that make nearly 20 years together possible.
Sharing Their Love Story Publicly
Jesse and Joline eventually decided that their relationship could mean something beyond their own home.
They attended a Trans Day of Visibility celebration together in Wisconsin, and Jesse shared a photograph from the event.
For him, visibility mattered.
He wanted other LGBTQ+ people—particularly those who may be afraid that being themselves will make love impossible—to see a relationship in which a transgender person is supported by their partner.
Joline expressed a similar hope: that seeing their story might help others feel more confident about being themselves.
Their message was not that every difficult conversation will have a perfect ending.
It was that relationships like theirs exist.
Transgender people date.
They fall in love.
They propose.
They marry.
They build homes and histories with another person.
And sometimes the person who loved them before transition continues walking beside them afterward.
Nearly 20 Years After MySpace
When Jesse and Joline shared their story publicly in June 2026, they said they had been together for almost 20 years.
Think about how much the world changed during that time.
MySpace largely disappeared from everyday life. AOL video calls became a relic of an earlier internet. Smartphones transformed communication. Social media changed how relationships begin and how people share their lives.
Their relationship changed, too.
Jesse changed.
Joline undoubtedly changed in her own ways.
Yet the couple who once spent weeks talking through screens before finally meeting were still together nearly two decades later.
That may be the most meaningful part of Jesse and Joline Moore's love story.
It isn't a story about avoiding change.
It is about continuing to recognize the person you love while life changes around you.
From a MySpace message to an Easter egg proposal, from marriage through transition and into nearly two decades together, Jesse and Joline have accumulated the chapters that turn an early romance into a shared life.
And after all those chapters, Joline's description of Jesse remains beautifully uncomplicated:
He is home.
Where Are Jesse and Joline Moore Now?
As of their June 2026 interview with LGBTQ Nation, Jesse and Joline Moore were still married and approaching 20 years together.
The couple lives in Wisconsin and publicly shared their story after attending a Trans Day of Visibility event together. They said they hoped their experience could give other LGBTQ+ people confidence to live authentically and see that loving, supportive relationships are possible.
Relationship status last verified: June 3, 2026.
Sources & Further Reading
This article is based primarily on Jesse and Joline Moore's own comments published in LGBTQ Nation's June 3, 2026 profile, “She loves me for me”: This small town trans man proposed to his wife at an Easter egg hunt.
Love Stories Blog independently retells publicly documented love stories in original editorial form. Relationship status reflects the most recent reliable public information available at the time of publication.