where did you first meet? online vs in person

[apricot 0]

We met online too (AOL). We both have a passion for photography, which is why my hubs instant messaged me. I was in South Africa, he was in the US. Long story short, we got to know each other for six months, I visited for three weeks, and we started the process for me to move here. Wasn't always easy, but it was the best decision I've ever made!

[anxiouslywaiting 0]

First off I just want to say how absolutely wonderful the internet really is bringing so many people together. My and my fiance actually met in person. We met camping in Wasaga Beach, ON. He was actually living in Toronto during that time and was camping with his friends. I always tell people fate brought us together (I know cheezzzy!!!) however my girlfriend and I set off on a weekend adventure, we were supposed to stay inSable Beach, ON but didn't like the area at all so we drove around until we found a motel to stay at. While we were at the motel we ran into a bunch of people who were on their way to Wasaga Beach for Blue Light Motel Concert that was taking place that weekend. I told my girlfriend we should try out Wasaga and if it doesn't work out we will just leave. Well we ended up at this rinky dink campsite in Wasaga Beach and the first group of people we started talking to were my fiance and his friends. I must say it wasn't love at first sight (he was wearing a cowboy hat and I absolutely detested cowboys hats at the time soI didn't pay much attention to him) however later that night we met up going into the same bar at the same time and from there on in it was history. We spent all night talking and have been talking every first. It has been 4 years for us now and hopefully we will be together by the end of July, my interview is July 15!!!

[Marilyn. 340]

my hubby is kind of embarrassed that we met on the internet and hates it when I tell people that we did

I always tell him thought that if it hadn't been for the internet we would have never met....

[kaya541 1]

We met on EHarmony in Feb 2006, we commuted via email and phone for just a week and then met on the beach near my home for coffee, there was an instant connection! We were engaged in Oct 2006 and got married in June 2007.

Because I am just 5 minutes from the U.S. border and just a 1/2 hour drive from my husband, we have been able to see each other every weekend and usually a "date" night during the week since we met. We have been blessed that way. On July 21st, I will finally be going for my interview in Montreal.....3 weeks today.....can't wait!

We also met on eHarmony in Spring of '07. I joined the same month his membership was ending - thank goodness he nudged me to respond to his questions or we might have missed our chance. We traded a couple emails, chatted for 2-3 weeks, then traded phone numbers - he called the very next day and came down to Oregon to visit two weeks later. Now I've moved up to Bellingham, WA to be closer to him so we can see each other more often than a weekend every 4 weeks - he's just across the border outside Vancouver, BC. It's been the best!

[Dr. Obvious 49]

my hubby is kind of embarrassed that we met on the internet and hates it when I tell people that we did

People are still embarassed about that?

I met my husband on ICQ. We maybe had 10-15 conversations in 2.5 years. Then I went to Germany because I wanted to get to Lithuania, but I couldn't afford it unless I could get my uni to pay for it. The only way that happened was that I had to take a summer course in Germany that was only a few km from where my husband lived. We only met in person because that summer program set me up to live with this insane elderly woman and I needed to be resuced fast because the program wasn't going to move me on Saturday night. I liked when the program's coordinator said I didn't understand German culture when I didn't want to stay in the room of this woman's dead son or wash my hands before going from any room to the next or ask for the room with the phone in it to be unlocked...

[Marilyn. 340]

yeah I really don't understand why he is embarrassed....

I think he doesn't want to be thought of as geeky.. that he picked up his wife through a computer...

[LindaB 0]

We met on EHarmony in Feb 2006, we commuted via email and phone for just a week and then met on the beach near my home for coffee, there was an instant connection! We were engaged in Oct 2006 and got married in June 2007.

Because I am just 5 minutes from the U.S. border and just a 1/2 hour drive from my husband, we have been able to see each other every weekend and usually a "date" night during the week since we met. We have been blessed that way. On July 21st, I will finally be going for my interview in Montreal.....3 weeks today.....can't wait!

We also met on eHarmony in Spring of '07. I joined the same month his membership was ending - thank goodness he nudged me to respond to his questions or we might have missed our chance. We traded a couple emails, chatted for 2-3 weeks, then traded phone numbers - he called the very next day and came down to Oregon to visit two weeks later. Now I've moved up to Bellingham, WA to be closer to him so we can see each other more often than a weekend every 4 weeks - he's just across the border outside Vancouver, BC. It's been the best!

My husband is also in Bellingham and I am in White Rock now. By the end of the month I will be living in Bellingham too!

[thetreble 19]

I met my husband on ICQ.

ICQ was the first big messaging program that all my friends got into when we were in highschool. You HAD to have it. All I can remember is the annoying UH OH noise it used to make when someone messaged you.

[HannahP 119]

We meet at Aerospace Camp (in ND) when we were fourteen/fifteen.

This one time, at band camp...

[pegbert64 0]

I met my husband on ICQ.

ICQ was the first big messaging program that all my friends got into when we were in highschool. You HAD to have it. All I can remember is the annoying UH OH noise it used to make when someone messaged you.

Oh wow..... ICQ.... that takes me back! I sheepishly admit that I spent WAY too many hours on mIRC! And it had it's own very annoying alerts and wavs. Those were the days

[Marilyn. 340]

I usually used MSN messenger...

I changed the sounds because they annoyed me.. I used a toilet flushing sound for something.. can't remember what now.. I think when somebody signed on

[Carlawarla 1]

Gene and I met in AT&T chat. I'd been chatting for years, and Gene was a newbie. He got a computer, internet, and AT&T chat was on his homepage so he stopped in one day... We both weren't looking for any romantic relationships. We chatted for 18 months before meeting. Forgot to mention this was in 2002. We delighted in telling people we met on the internet and not on a dating site either! Will admit people were very very cautioius, although they asked lots of questions, but that never stopped us from telling people. We believe it was fate.

[mrsartis 10]

This may have been done before but I didn't know what search would come up with this if so. If it's a repeat, hopefully it wasn't too recent so that maybe most people haven't seen it before.

We technically became slightly familiar with each other on a forum site, but I only posted there a couple of times before we met in person for the first time. I think we both were kinda intrigued by each other from our posts before we met, but it was when we first laid eyes on each other that there were definitely sparks so to speak. So really, I would have to say some of each.

Dammit! This was supposed to be a poll... I had the choices entered and everything. No idea where I went wrong but I will try to fix it!

I like this thread.. my fiance and my aunt are colleagues.. He then saw my picture in my aunt's desk and decided to go to the PHilippines...

[Dr. Obvious 49]

I met my husband on ICQ.

ICQ was the first big messaging program that all my friends got into when we were in highschool. You HAD to have it. All I can remember is the annoying UH OH noise it used to make when someone messaged you.

My sister wanted me to use it because that was what she used to talk to her waste of space ex-boyfriend way back at the end of 2000. She was in high school although I already graduated. Maybe that also had something to do with it.

I think the reason why my husband and I met on it was that I changed my language settings to include German for a first year German class I was taking. I figured it couldn't hurt to speak to some native speakers. Let me tell you, I got so many Germans trying to talk to me, it was ridiculous. One of them ended up being my husband. He was drunk and bored after a party, not ready to go to bed yet, so he got on his friend's computer and started looking for random chat buddies. I came up. Then 2.5 years later, alcohol was at it again as the first real thing we did together after he picked me up and took me home was go out to a town festival and get shitfaced, and that was what pushed the issue. Alcohol, crazy old bats, ICQ, folk culture festivals near the Belarussian border in Lithuania. Yep, that's how we met.

Before ICQ, I used AIM a lot. Now I don't use messengers too much except to talk to family. I mostly reserve my blah and internet time wasting on forums.

yeah I really don't understand why he is embarrassed....

I think he doesn't want to be thought of as geeky.. that he picked up his wife through a computer...

Tell him to come to VJ and be a geek like around 70% of the rest of us.

Edited July 8, 2008 by Wacken

[SonoranSongbird 3]

We met in person, but it was at a meet-up for a travel site I post on. The poster who organized it was his best friend of about 30 years, and she brought him along. That was in 2003, and there was a bit of mutual attraction that neither of us acted on (or realized was mutual) until last year. He did register a handle on the site right after I went home, though, which is how we stayed in touch with each other for the intervening years.