how we all met

[ScottThuy 140]

Met at work...

[felb 0]

we met at myspace in april 2007, he thought i was someone he knew. we became online friends and he even paid me $100 just to help him do a report in one of his classes. as we became closer we moved on to friendster, then emails, then he began calling. we became an official couple when we met in person in aug 2007. by feb 2008, he filed a k1 petition. we married almost 1 1/2 yr after our first meeting.

[antda 13]

(note: I posted this in another vj message thread before, but I'll re-post it here for this general "how we met" poll too here...)

Hi Everyone,

What an interesting poll and post topic, indeed! Thanks for sharing all of your meeting stories, to those who have posted already. And to those who have yet to post, feel free to share your story and vote in the poll, too.

Now here is our (Ant and D's story), as told through my (Ant's) presepctive:

Our story begins about 10 years ago (2000), where we met each other online in a "writing group" on yahoo groups . The funny thing is that this group doesn't exist anymore, so as to the exact name of the online group where we met, who knows...(or at least I can't remember at the moment)...

Besides our common interest in writing, during that time, we also found out that we had similar medical conditions, so privately, we talked more about that, through yahoo messenger, e-mails, and heck, even through my online diary (by the way, that doesn't exist anymore either). We understood each other, and remained good online friends. So you would think that we would meet in-person then, right? But....

I was under-aged at the time and my husband was over-aged by many years...And that would be a legal no-no...

So we parted our separate ways, as he focused on his life and I focused on mine...

Ok, jump ahead 4 years later (2004), and at this time, we were both legal adults, and had both hit a low point in our lives. I was cleaning out my yahoo messenger list and found his name still on the list. And likewise, he was cleaning out his list, and found my name on the list too. Weird, that we would have each other's name on our lists, but deleted everyone else from it...So we continued from where we left off, and chatted through yahoo messenger and by e-mail as friends, but after awhile decided that we were more than just friends and decided to be boyfriend/girlfriend instead...

It wasn't until several months later, that we decided to meet each other in-person. It turns out that we only lived 300 miles/600 km from each other close to the border, with me being in Ontario, Canada and he being in NYS, USA. So we decided to meet in Canada (as I felt safer meeting where I was), and he drove all the way up to meet me then. Lol...that first meeting was very awkward socially for the both of us (aren't all first meetings awkward anways?), but we still had a good time together. So we decided to meet again and felt more comfortable with each other as we met with each other more often in Canada. Eventually we ended up living with each other part-time for several weeks at a time this way. We continued meeting each other this way for several years, since I had other obligations and could not visit and/or move the USA right away to see him.

Ok, jump ahead another 2 years later (2006), and we joked around the idea about getting married. But....

There was one catch: I had to visit him in the USA...

So several months later, as also mentioned in my VJ timeline:

Chapter 1 "Visited": Ant travelled from Canada to see long-term boyfriend D in the USA. Ant and D being harassed at the USA/Canada border (POE: Rainbow Bridge, Niagara Falls) for 2 hours was 'not a picnic in the park' for them. The Immigration Officer then made Ant get a B2 Visitor's Visa Passport Stamp and I-94 Arrival-Departure Card to visit for two weeks, even though Canadians are exempt from such requirements. However, what originally was a short visit was instead a 'rainbow crossing over' into a 'lifelong visit' for Ant and D in the USA.

Chapter 2 "Married": Ant and D had a small garden/park spontaneous elopement in the Niagara County Region NYS USA on 2006-04-28. A memorable and lovely occasion, on the eve of D's milestone birthday. D and Ant, as Husband and Wife, happily married and living in the USA. Together Forever!

Now jump ahead another 3 years (2009), and here is where I am now, as also mentioned in my VJ timeline:

Chapter 4/5 "Expected": Ant's Pregnant! AntandD are hoping for a healthy Baby!

Baby's Estimated Due Date (9 months waiting): July 2009

The Journey Continues, Our Story Continues.....

Anyways, thanks for reading our "How did Ant and D meet?" story! Hope you all liked it and found it entertaining....

Ant (The Journey Continues, Our Story Continues...)

[Susita 175]

We also met online, also not on a dating site.

Do tell

Me & Luis met in August because my spanish composition professor made us all get e-mail penpals (even if we really knew how to write in Spanish) and his english teacher made them get American penpals.

We met in August, I went to Lima in May, 10 months later.

This year is 3 years we're together

[attaya_girl 1]

Poll flawed. Middle question does that give option of "met in person".

I put less than 3 months since we met in person while working at the same restaurant in London....but really we met in person at the same time we met in person, so that makes no sense...but anyway........

Met in person, by chance. We were both working at the same club in London. Knew each other for about 9 months before we started dating, dated for 1 year before we got engaged, we've been engaged about a year (waiting on his divorce decree which he originally filed for in 2005!)

Ditto. Met while I was studying abroad in Senegal. Been together almost year now. Wedding will be in the 1-2 year mark--assuming that processing goes well.

[Nagishkaw 510]

He walked out of my dreams

and into my arms

now he's my angel divine

He's my babydoll,

he's beautiful

and he's mine, oh mine, mine, mine.

[TimandJoyce 1]

We met by chance. It was in Hawaii in June of 2006, and we met on the second to last day of the trip.(We were on the same tour). We only had 3 conversations, and there were no sparks to say the least. I wasn't looking for a relationship!

I put meeting in person as 6 months to a year, because after we got home from the trip we emailed each other a couple times, (still with no thought it would lead anywhere), that turned to MSN and Yahoo, turned to phone calls, and I went to SC to spend time with him 8 months after we first met. We wanted to see if we clicked.

Well, the clicking certainly took place! He proposed in Oct. 2008, and we will be married Sept. 19,2009!! So 3 years after meeting. ( On a trip that showed no indication of where this would go!!) Just goes to show, sometimes you don't have to go "looking" for love...it just finds you!

[trinket 30]

Met on Yahoo chat room. Met in person after around 1.5 years, married on the first trip.

And we are married for around 5 years now

[Dr. Obvious 49]

We met on ICQ 8.5 years ago, shortly after I changed my profile to include German as a language I supposedly spoke.

We met in person after a series of odd coincidences and unforeseen disasters on the evening of July 19, 2003 in Oldenburg. We were married about two weeks before Trinket and her husband.

Edited July 2, 2009 by Wacken

[amberdima 6]

met on a plane from paris to JFK. i was heading home from studying in europe. he was connecting flights from belarus to the states on a college summer work program. we were drunk. we made out in the plane's bathroom and then in the stewardess quarters. we married 11 months and 2 wks later.

[trinket 30]

We met on ICQ 8.5 years ago, shortly after I changed my profile to include German as a language I supposedly spoke.

We met in person after a series of odd coincidences and unforeseen disasters on the evening of July 19, 2003 in Oldenburg. We were married about two weeks before Trinket and her husband.

And you guys live in Indiana too

[Dr. Obvious 49]

We met on ICQ 8.5 years ago, shortly after I changed my profile to include German as a language I supposedly spoke.

We met in person after a series of odd coincidences and unforeseen disasters on the evening of July 19, 2003 in Oldenburg. We were married about two weeks before Trinket and her husband.

And you guys live in Indiana too

I know right? I have to drag my azz down to Evansville soon because that is where the party is at apparently.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Met online in a mutual interest forum with a chat room in 2001. In 2003 I had a computer issue so IMed him as I knew he worked with computers. He helped resolve my computer issue, we started talking, fell 'in love' and decided to meet in person to see if in person agreed with on line. Met in person in April 2003, became engaged May 2003, applied for K-1 June 2003. Married June 2004.

[scandal 951]

met on a plane from paris to JFK. i was heading home from studying in europe. he was connecting flights from belarus to the states on a college summer work program. we were drunk. we made out in the plane's bathroom and then in the stewardess quarters. we married 11 months and 2 wks later.

Mile High Club :dance:

Love it!!

[~PalmTreeGurl~ 154]

Met in Oct 2005 in a Yahoo Chat Room, only chatted for 30 minutes or so. Found out a day or two later that he left me some offline Hello messages, when I got back online and he was online that was the 7th yr anniversary of my fathers passing away from cancer, and his father had just been in a car accident so we prayed together and asked for a healing for his father in memory of my fathers passing.

5 months later my grandparents went on vacation to Egypt and met him for me. 4 months later, I met him in person and we married at the end of my 12 day stay.

July 22nd will be our 3rd yr wedding anniversary!