Online couples - does everyone know how you met?

wench you have one of the sweetest stories to tell here.  At least in my opinion.  From the bits I've heard it's a keeper.  So friends if you haven't heard wench's story - get her to tell it.  You'll love it.

 

Yes we met online...and dear gods, everyone who's ever met me knows it.  I can yak on for ages and ages and ages about it.

   Welll come on then girly,tell your story again to the newbies here,and the ones that have forgot it .Like ummmmmm  Me!! LMAO 

Ah heck.

Y'all asked for it!  I'll try to keep it shortish. 

I met David in early 99, shortly after I left the military and after dumping a psycho I'd dated on and off for 3 years.

Now he has a totally different memory of our first conversation, but hel, I like mine better, and he's not on the site...

After leaving the military, I got a night stocking job at K-mart (oh, the glamour...), which meant I worked some pretty odd hours.  When I was home, I'd started surfing about, and through a friend had started using Multicity Chat rooms.  I was usually to be found in the Poetry or Pagan chats, but one night there wasn't anyone about in those, so I decided to explore the rooms listing...

Found a room called Chaos, which suited my mood, so I hopped in there.  Chaos turned out to be a comic book chat room.  Since I had pretensions of becoming a comic artist, and my father had owned several comic stores, I stuck around.  On one of my trips, I ended up chatting to velcro.  (Now this is how I remember it...) I was chatting to someone in the room and said "There need to be more long-haired men in the world."  Velcro announced that he had long hair, and so we commenced chatting (as friends).  We got along so well that we exchanged email addresses.

I got off the pc and thought "I love that guy!", promptly followed by "NO! You love *talking* to that guy....not LOVE that guy!". Anyway...

So he emailed me...and I emailed him, and we started meeting regularly to chat.  After awhile we were dating...than that summer he came by to see me!  (Had to get his passport lol, first time out of the country!)

We had a nice (very sweet and platonic) time...he went home...and I broke up with him. 

Because I was a freaking dork.

And because I was still a bit freaked out by how much I liked him, and was very very afraid of ending up with yet another psycho guy...so hard to judge these things long distance, blah blah blah, you get the picture.

I knew if we were ever around eachother that we would end up going out again.  But hey, he was in England, and I was in Florida.  For a few more months anyway...because then hey, my parents got divorced and we all upped sticks and moved to Iowa.

I still spoke with David (tho not as much) and considered him my best friend.  Everywhere I went, I saw things that I wished he could see with me...and by January 2000 I was missing him faaar too much, and asked him to move in with me in Iowa.  (Mua ha ha ha ha....I had a two bedroom apt, but was planning to neglect getting him a bed.... )  Sadly, I managed to call him the day after his father had died.       However, this got us chatting again, and me calling him. 

One day I called to ask him about getting a flat in the UK (oh such innocence lol) and maybe going to art school on his side of the pond...and his Mum answered the phone.  She said "David tells me you don't have a passport."  I confirmed this and she said "For god's sake woman, hurry up and get one and come over here!"  She even offered to pay for my plane ticket. 

Much paperwork gathering and saving for tickets commenced (mind you, I was still thinking of him as my best friend, bedroom tactics not withstanding, and was in *total* denial about being in love with him...ask elle lol...).  I planned to visit him for 5 months, before coming home for my friend's wedding...and then travelling to Georgia to attend Art School.

That was the plan anyway.

About a month before I flew over, it suddenly dawned on me that I was head over heels for David (heh, ask elle about that too lol, funny times...) and worried about that for a bit, before deciding not to make an issue of it until I'd been around him and made sure...

I flew over on 1st Nov 2000.  We were engaged by the 19th.

He'd been in love with me the whole time too...

(I was his first and only girlfriend, heh!)

We were married 9th Feb 2001.  I never did make it to my friend's wedding...or art school!

(I can't believe you guys are still reading this...)

Oh...and as a Twilight Zone side note...we met in a comic book chat room.  I only agreed to meet him IRL because my fav comic (Elfquest) had Wendy & Richard Pini...who met through chatting through the backs of comic books (the message section).  They started their comic (I could be wrong...but oh well) the year David and I were born.  When I got over here?  Turns out David had the entire collection of Elfquest...

Right, that's as short as I can make it lol.  Hopefully it was fairly coherent. 

wench

Oh...velcro = David. 

Also, the day after I arrived (while we were waiting for David to get home from work), Ivy (his mum) and I were chatting...and she said "I hope you don't mind, but I'm planning to marry you off to my son."

I didn't mind! 

  Ta for the  today hon.You just dont get any better then you two!

Much paperwork gathering and saving for tickets commenced (mind you, I was still thinking of him as my best friend, bedroom tactics not withstanding, and was in *total* denial about being in love with him...ask elle lol...).  I planned to visit him for 5 months, before coming home for my friend's wedding...and then travelling to Georgia to attend Art School.

Yes, I recall this.  what I remember (from a conversation we had a CUUPS gathering at our local Unitarian Church) was that you and he had split up for about a year dating other people and you said that after that year you both realised you were still thinking about each other.  Can't recall anything other than that.

About a month before I flew over, it suddenly dawned on me that I was head over heels for David (heh, ask elle about that too lol, funny times...) and worried about that for a bit, before deciding not to make an issue of it until I'd been around him and made sure...

Yes, I recall that too!

Might I also add that in October 2001 I came to the UK see Frank for the first time and of course visited with Wench, who predicted that Frank and I would get married (this was prior to him proposing).  See?  She really IS a good witch.

Everyone back in the states know we met online but everyone in the UK thinks we met whilst travelling in Vietnam.

We met in a MUD. Jon was in Vietnam at the time but I was back in Phoenix. The story goes that I was an exchange student living in France (which is true) and my host family owned the local mortuary (true again) and one of their clients was to be buried in Vietnam (not true) and I tagged along (again, not true).

We just know that none of his friends or family would understand the fact and that telling a silly story is worth the hassle. The only problem we have is that I've never been to Vietnam, so I do a sort of stuttering reply when people ask me what I thought of it.

MUD?

MUD?

Text based role playing game in real time.

WOW, I loved reading these!!!  Wench, yours brought tears to my eyes!!!  What a lovely MIL you have, she is just so sweet!


I kind of feel left out, Richard and I didn't meet on-line, though we did indirectly.  Our friends who's wedding we met at had met on-line, so I guess you say I owe Matchmaker.com for my sweet husband!!! 

aaah a subject I can relate to.
  I met my sweetheart on Feb. 25,2003. I was very ill and up late  in Califonia. for some reason he was online before work one morning ( HE NEVER IS on at this time ) and I was in a london global chat room. i was bored decided to log off cbut tried one more random chatroom and  i saw his name. i saw his profile becuase i thought he was some old man i had chatted to before that was rude. BUT  i saw his profile and was liek oooh he's so cute. so i just  messaged that he was adorable. and like forever later he messaged me back and we just became good friends and fell in love
  and then we met  face to face april 8,2004. and i have a long story about that meeting if anyone wants me to post it someplace
he he
  NOW I am planning his trip here and then  he's taking me home with him for 6 months to just see how we like living togtheter ect..
 
HE HE
  Shala
and that's the jist of it.

yes...people knew...
sometimes i am still hesistant to say anything...people judge
i came over here on my own at 17 years old......i met my hubby online
i wouldnt change it for the world...
but i am 22 now...so it doesnt effect people much...i think its rather the shock of me coming over to england such a young age..and going back to america again at 17 and getting married then coming back to england...but i guess that is people's problem not mine

I just happened to stumble on this & it's just so awesome..I love hearing love stories like that..How I met my husband is sorta a love story too so I like to hear that there are just as crazy girls that do stuff like that...

Well........  Spill it, hon!  Enquiring minds want to know!

I met my boyfriend finally in the flesh on January 10, 2003. I used to have a music website that I promoted on the net so I always had a profile on different sites (i.e. - makeoutclub, lipstickandcigarettes, etc) On August 1, 2002 Martin e-mailed me saying "I'm Irish. Does that count?" At the time, I was like WTF? I had no idea what he was talking about. I did some research on who he was as best I could from his e-mail and found out he was talking about my profile on one of those websites. I said something about liking Irish boys. At the time, I meant nothing by it. I was married and had no intention of meeting anyone even though my marriage was on the rocks.

I replied to Marty and he was one of the sweetest, funniest and MOST adorable people I had ever spoken to. I still told him my situation and intentions and we both just kept it as friends.

In September of 2002, my best friend passed away and Marty was the only one really understanding. I had feelings for him but after that, I just couldn't keep it in anymore. Just before all that, my then husband and I were really having issues and it just made it that much easier to connect to Marty.

In October of that year, my husband and I decided for divorce and it was fine. I was in no regret and decided to pursue my Irish hubby even further. Before he and I ever started talking, I had booked a trip to London for January 2003 and still was going especially now with all the stuff going on personally. Marty and decided to meet then.

January 10, 2003 was the day that changed my entire life. He and I met and we have been inseparable ever since. I love this man more than anything. At the moment, we are broke because of moving back and forth to the US and UK because of visas and whatnot, but it's all worth it knowing he's mine in the end. One day (after all the legalities are settled with my living here in January) we can talk about marriage in a more realistic way without the UK govt telling us we have to or split and it will be the most romantic day because of the way we met and the way we have stuck together. It's been VERY rough and tense on us at times, but in the end ALL worth it.

My family and his are supportive in the most amazing way. No one ever questioned about how odd it was that we met. Both families have just welcomed us in. It's been amazing.