doblepat

Sparkler:

I'm completly agree with your post.

2Pat

jules1971

Good Evening,

My husband and I met online. We met on MPlayer (now GameSpy), we actually talked for over a year before we met in person.

I have never been so excited in my life as the day I flew here to meet him in person. Then he was late!! He was supposed to meet me at immigration (pre 9/11) and he finally found me retrieving my luggage. We felt totally at ease with each other and our first kiss was a knee trembler.

We have been married since April 2001 and life has never been better.

doblepat

Hi Jules:

I think all of us felt the same

2Pat

ruthann1212

Sunny and I met online in March of 2002. We met through ChristianCafe.com. After about $2000.00 in phone bills I flew to Nigeria in September with the plan to marry him once I arrived. I arrived on the 18th and we were married on the 20th!

I agree that months of chatting, mailing and phone conversation makes the initial meeting a breeze.

One of the main strengths of our marriage is communication. I give much of the credit to our "online" status. When you aren't there to read body language, see facial expressions, hear tones of voice, verbal and written communication skills are crucial.

I was married for 13 years to a great guy, but our communication skills were awful and ultimately led to the breakdown of our marriage.

I truly believe that the way Sunny and I met and communicated with each other in the beginning will be the foundation that sustains us through the "rough waters" that marriage brings.

Ruthann

ncbluesdude

Ioana and I met in a chat room in Oct. of 2002. We have done all the e-mails, instant messages, web cams, postal service and since about July of 2003 daily on the telephone. We feel that we know more about each other than people that have been together for years. Anyway, on Monday January 12th, I will board the airplane for the 14+ hour trip to finally meet in person.
We are so excited. (even though many people think that we are crazy and that it will never work.........because of meeting on the internet)
I think that there are more internet started relationships than people know.

sparkler

I also think there are more internet started relationships nowadays. Perverts have given the internet such a bad name and people who have met on the internet tend to receive mixed reactions because of this minority.

All the best to you on your first visit. I remember mine and I did not feel as awkward as I had imagined because we got to know each other so well on the internet beforehand.

sparkler.

sparkler

Doblepat: Thanks. You have such a happy photo.
Wishing you all the best. sparkler.

Derrick Williams

Winston Castro <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>. ..
    > I did, just curious if there are any others out there...

I met my wife online, but only indirectly. I responded to a personal
ad on one of the online matchmaking services (it was specialized,
catering to individuals with a disability I have). I met one person,
who was in Minsk. She was very beautiful and I thought "why not?". I
wasn't actually too thrilled at the prospect of a long distance
relationship, but to my utter surprise she actually responded to my
first letter. She had very good English and was so witty and clever,
it made my day to receive e-mail from her. I liked these letters so
much, and wrote for several months. She asked if she could meet me,
and I flew to St. Petersburg (Russia) to meet her and her sister there
on a trip. It turns out that her nerdy, shy sister had been writing
all these letters for her. This nerdy, shy sister is now my wife.

I might have been a bit upset, but the whole time I did suspect maybe
exactly this was happening, even though my future wife was trying very
hard to 'stay behind the scenes'. She had much better English than her
sister, and was going beyond merely translating the one or two
sentences her sister would write. When I arrived, we just clicked like
Legos and now I am very glad she did this!

My sister-in-law is actually every bit as pretty as her picture was,
but sadly has a throughly rotten personality and I can't stand her at
all. Who knew?

-Derrick

ChiMiigwech

Yes I did. It's not something uncommon today. Even at my AOS interview the interviewer said that he has interviewed lots of couples who met online lately.

Leslie

Have you read Cyrano de Bergerac?

utopiacowboy

You're right. Before our wedding we had to meet with the priest and my wife told me not to lie but not to volunteer that we originally became acquainted on the Internet. She said if he found this out, there would be a much more intense investigation and he might possibly refuse to celebrate our wedding.

Hypertweeky

Why?????

Hypertweeky

Awwww!!!

Leslie

Because perverts have given the internet a bad name.

Hypertweeky

That sucks..