Well, here's my take on it: My husband and I met online and exchanged emails, did loads of chatting via IM, spoke on the phone constantly, wrote letters, sent "care" packages.........and we knew there was major chemistry from the get. We just did. When we finally met in person nearly two years after we'd met online, it was only more so. We had not even an hour of awkwardness, before we felt as though we had never been apart. We were together in person for one week. That's all, one week. He had asked me to marry him multiple times over the phone, and each time I said yes; we just knew, somehow, that we had found each other. He asked me to marry him in person, of course, during our week together. It was the most amazing week I had ever experienced, and when he left to go home, both of us were crushed. We realized that our being together was a necessity. Life paled when we were apart to when we were together. He came back the following August, and it was not even one week until we were married. It's always been as though we have known each other always; there has never been a time where we felt like strangers to each other. That I can't explain, but it is true, and was always very, very real. The very first night we spoke, we felt it. I woke the next morning and couldn't get him off my mind. The chemistry was there from that very first night we spoke. It was something intangible but entirely real. I suppose you could say that it was simply meant to be. It was every bit a heartfelt connection from the beginning, even though we met online. Meeting online had no difference in our connection. When our wedding day came, there was nothing wrong about it; we knew that it was the absolute most wonderful thing that we could do, and I tell ya, I cried so much during our vows, so may tears of joy. Even though we met in an unconventional way, a way that some people won't understand and some people won't accept as being comparable to a meeting in person, we are as close as two people could be, closer ever day, and only getting closer. I would never have left my family to be with someone I wasn't absolutely sure was "that other half of me". So I have to say, wholeheartedly, YES you can fall in love through letters. People have done it for hundreds of years, and this beautiful love that my husband and I share sprang partially from learning about each other, experiencing each other, growing together, in letters, among other things.
