How Did It All Begin??

I met my fiancée online as well, in a chat room.  Initially we just chatted as friends, but after a while it blossomed into a long distance relationship.  It was just four months when we/I decided to fly to London to meet her in 3d.  I flew into Gatwick and as I came out of the airport into the area in which people were waiting for their loved ones she didn't recognise me!  I was able to slip past the group and get behind her.  I put my hands over her eyes from behind and said (with an American accent) "Guess who!"  She spun around and gave me a big hug!

That visit was only three months long - I figure better to be safe and not have to spend too long if she's crazy.  I came home early December and by Christmas I had return tickets booked for six months and had said "Yes!!" when she asked me to marry (err, civil partnership) her.

Wow, this makes me feel more normal, having met my hubby online! I usually get "Wow! Weren't you scared to meet him?" or similar reactions...my grandmother actually found a comic from the paper when she found out...It was two birds in a nest with a newly hatched egg that had a turtle coming out...the male bird said "I told you not to order eggs on-line!" or something to that affect...she thought it was hilarious...I thought it was rude.
Anyways, I met him in a chat room at TheGlobe.com (which is no longer around as such) when I was at college. After a year and a bit of chatting and towards the end, phone calls, I was asked if I'd like to meet him, said "yes" then I was told he'd already bought a plane ticket and would be coming in November (this was in late August)...I was extremely nervous, as that meant I had to tell my parents about him, as I was living at home and up to that point, hadn't really mentioned him. He came, we knew we were in love, he stayed for a few months, then after he left, we applied for fiancee visa (which I did all by myself...no visa lawyer involved!) Did loads of research on the net as to what was needed, what should be put in for good measure, etc, etc, and was thrilled when it didn't take as long as anyone that I'd seen who did it themselves. From the time I sent it, it took about 3 months (compared to 9 and 10 months with several send-backs, which we had none!) Was completely chuffed!! He came to the US and we were married about a month and a half later...been married almost 4 years now and have a little girl who was born the day before our first anniversary!
I'll never forget the first moment I saw him, though...I was half-way sick with nerves while waiting at the airport (this was back when you could meet them at the gate instead of at luggage claims at the Pittsburgh Int. Airport) I was sitting in the window and watched the planes come in...at last, I saw a plane pull up and the walkway pulled out...I nervously waited by the exit for him. I told him I'd be right there, but he figured I meant by the exit of the airport....not the exit from the plane! He started off in a hurry with his carry on bag flung over his shoulder, his black leather coat...he spun around when I called his name and gave me this huge hug and kissed my cheeks...

Love at first sight...

How did you meet your husband/wife or Boyfriend/Girlfriend?

He was an online boyfriend of one of my friends while at college in NY.  After they broke up, we started casually corresponding.  Everything snowballed from there. 

Did you know from the start that they was going to be your love for life?

No way!  In fact, when I first met him in person, I couldn't STAND him and was so glad when he went back to England.  However, over the next year, his never failing love, patience, and endurance finally won him a place in my heart.  Now after five years of marriage and almost three children, we're still going strong!! 

Wow, this makes me feel more normal, having met my hubby online! I usually get "Wow! Weren't you scared to meet him?"

yup i got that too lol.  gets kinda annoying after the first 50 times...  i swear that i know more *about* him that i've ever done with someone i date in person.  when all you can do is talk, you learn alot more about someone.  and having spent over 600 hours on the phone that's alot of talking.

How did you meet your husband/wife or Boyfriend/Girlfriend?

We met in a depression chat room/forum where we were both volunteer councilors.  i think i had a bit of a crush on him before we got to know each other.  appearently all of his friends here had heard of me, and this was just when we were starting to talk.  and once we did i knew for sure.  funny how it is when you fall in love with someone you've never actually met in person. i'd been hoping to make it out here in the spring with my sister, but that never came about so he came to me.  and yeah, i'd say it was love at first type

I met my fiance online in a yahoo Irish room.  A friend from work and I were planning a vacation to Ireland and another coworker had suggested talking to locals online to get ideas for places to stay, things to do, etc as we didnt want to do one of those prearranged tours. He was the only one in the room that even talked to me and was really helpful, sending me tourist website links etc.  He gave me his email addy so I could ask him more questions if need be, and it grew from there, and I have now been over here two years exactly...arrived in Dublin Aug 4, 2004.  He was more nervous than I was initially about telling people how me met, but the response from everyone (except my mom) was really positive.

I'm a bit out of my league here--not only a male but older than, well, everyone.

On the 16th of August 2001 I was a contented bachelor living in upstate NY.  On the 17th, I flew to western Ireland for a hiking holiday.  While there, I met an English woman.  By 28 February 2002, I had sold everything I owned in the States and moved to Sussex to marry her.  My friends thought I was insane; it was the best move I ever made.

That's the short story.  A more expanded travelogue of my Ireland adventures can be found here:
http://www.lindenwald.com/album/Ireland/index.htm

And the long story is, four years later, and we're as happy as ever.

We met in a chatroom on Paltalk...all I did was say hi in the room and he started chatting me up...I even remember asking him if I was on some kind of job interview because he was asking so many questions...he then asked if he could call me...I don't usually give out my phone number but I decided why not..what is he going to do stalk me from England...he called and we talked for 1/2 hour...it was like we had known each other our whole lives...from there we exchanged emails and starting talking on the phone twice a week..we became good friends..and then a few months later he came over to the states and we met...spending that time together we realized that we loved each other...and we began dating...going back and forth between the States and England...it will be 3 years in November since we met...I am currently living with him in England...we are seeing if we are meant to be together...so far so good...I always knew he was the one for me

I met my df while on spring break. We are both from the USA. My df and I go to the same school, live about five minutes away from each other, hung out at the same places, had classes next door to each other, but had never met. I don't remember ever seeing him around campus.

In March 2006, for spring break, I signed up to go to New Orleans with a group from my school. I was single, bored, had no plans for the week, and wanted to do something to help after Katrina's devastation. I found out about the trip about an hour before the dead line. I rushed and paid my fees and such, and before I knew it I was on my way to N.O. I didn't know anyone else in the group. On our way there, we stopped for lunch. I went up and introduced myself to my df and one of his friends. They are video production majors, and were there to do a documentary.

He was really nice and hot, but the friend he was with is female. I thought they might be dating, so I didn't flirt or anything. Later that night, when we got to NO, I ended up talking to them again. Most of the other people in the group seemed more concerned with getting drunk and partying than really helping, so the three of us ended up hanging out. His friend kept talking about her bf.

After I figured out he was single, we both starting coming up with reasons to hang out alone. He would ask me to walk to the dinner tent with him (we were staying in a FEMA tent camp). He went with me when I had to get a tetanus shot. I felt like I had known him all my life. The first three nights we were there, we stayed up talking for endless hours.

We spent 24/7 together that week, his cot (we were in a giant tent with about 300 other people) was near mine, and he was the first person I saw in the morning and the last I saw at night.

Our first kiss was on Bourbon Street.     

I still find it amazing that because I didn't go to the beach with my friends or I didnt just sit at home and relax on my break from school, I met the love of my life. I firmly believe that whenever you do something for someone else, you will be rewarded a hundred times over.

I met my fiance working at a theme park in Virginia, of all places! We hired international students to come over for management internships, so I met lots of brits and other Europeans. He was placed in one of my stores as a manager and I was his boss! We were both dating other people at the time, but became good friends. This was four years ago.

The next year, he came and worked at the park again for 8 months, and I went to the UK to study abroad, so we missed each other! We kept in touch and both returned to the park the next summer to work. We were both single and had matured and changed a lot in the time that we had done different things. I knew him well to begin with, and the relationship just grew and blossomed seamlessly!

We've been in an LDR now for 2 and half years. We got engaged in June and will get married in April 2007, then I will move to the UK. I count my lucky stars every day that things worked out the way they did. I can't wait til we can share our lives together every day!

Oddly enough, in addition to my Ireland travelogue (previous post), I also just posted a chronicle about this very subject:

http://www.lindenwald.com/

My bf and I actually met through eHarmony.  A friend of mine had given me a gift subscription for a year (cheeky, cheeky girl!).  I tried for about a month or so, met a couple of nice people but it never went anywhere.  Found the whole internet love thing really just odd.  So, I just let it sit there.  About a week before the year subscription ran out, he sent me a message.  I thought, what the hell do I have to lose?  In all honesty, I was expecting nothing and was totally happy being single.

So, we started emailing.  A month later, we were talking on the phone once a week for hours on end.  Soon, we both cancelled our memberships.  We emailed every single day. Spoke several times a week.  It felt real, connected, and just flat out amazing.  He said he wanted to come visit and started to plan something.  The first time, things were crazy at work for me so it just wasn't going to work.  We finally settled on a date.  He came 7 months later for a month.  It was wonderful.  Things went from there!

And now, I am looking at the big move. 

Did I know that he was the love of my life when I met him?  In my heart, yes.  I just had a hard time admitting it to myself.  Just goes to show, when you aren't truly looking, love finds you.

My husband and I met when I moved from CA to UT for school. I got a job at a 50's style restaurant where he worked. He was 17 at the time and I was 19. I never even intended on being friends with him but on Halloween I had nothing to do (being new in town) I had no friends yet and he invited me over to watch a movie. From there we dated on and off and started seriously dating in March of the next year (When he was 18) LOL!! A little over a year later we were married and have lived in Southern CA since. My husband has just recently applied to a University in London (which we have never visited) but we are hopeing for an adventure to embark on together. I guess we will wait and see what happens!!

Well for me, it was normal, we met on the internet in April, he was out visiting his brother and pow here we were chatting. He seemed to know me so well. Men here (American) I am sorry to say are liars and cheats. I know they all aren't but that is what I was used to. To talk with someone who had family values and respected woman was refreshing to say the least. I fell so very hard in love with him. We were married on June 3, 2006. We thought we could get him here with my business but as you all know America wants no neewbie in their country. So now I really had to make a serious decision. My son is in Iraq, American Marine, and I am alone. Not that I ever had an issue with that. But I want to be with my husband as he makes me feel so good about who I am. No one ever made me feel that way. So maybe it was love at first sight. So I am now in process of selling it all to come to be with him. I don't think I will regret it as he is such a loving man. I think if I didn't I would regret it. No idea what to expect except this:

You live only once, I have never been outside the U.S., small trips but other than that never. I know the way of thinking here is Career first work to death, keep up with the Jones, and no time for a=family or friends. (no offense to anyone) this has been my experience. I am looking forward to slowing down, meeting new poeple who do not think you must have money and fake boobs to be a person. (no clue maybe they think that way in the UK too. My husband says people are more real here and not so fake like Americans has become. It sounds good to me to try it. All I know is I want to be with him, and he is gentle, kind and embraces everyone with an open mind. I could learn from him a lot about the world. So I am taking that plunge! My family is against it, so I have no real support here. Can't blame them as I have made many a mistakes in my past but I have always survived them all. I just don;t want to ever look back and wonder (what if?) You know? I can always leave if I want to. But my gut tells me because of this man I may not want to.

"If you have no dreams what are you living for) Think outside the box! " So I am on my way and I can;'t wait until I am with the man I love. From there hopefully with his support and here too, I will make it. I know where I came from and it wasn't so pretty, I can't keep up anymore. My son sent his best to me this evening from Iraq. What a great kid and man! I pray he will be ok to see this through and we can all be together soon. So I don;t care so much about where I am as uch as I do with who I am with. Not in this day and time, life is too short. :\\\'(

Don't know if I posted about this before in this thread, but Im too lazy to look back to a few years ago.

My signature shows the trek, but how it began was really when I met him at Heathrow and a few days into my trip there.

Let me take you back a little.

Back in July/August of 2002, I was bored, liked Coldplay and Travis and wanted to go to a concert. So, I found out that Coldplay was gigging in Sept of that year and wanted to get ahold of tickets asap, so there is when I found myself on the Coldplay message board.

I met loads of nice people and decided to stick around. At present time, Ive met over 30 people from that board, so there are some good memories! I met Jassen on the board as he started to post more once a mutual friend on the board influenced him to post in the general section of the board, which was my primary hangout. We would chat in the same threads from time to time, but really we were just boardie buddies.

Over that time, I wasnt looking for love, but I had a 10 month canadian and that didnt work out. I believe he had a short time board crush on a girl from cali or something, but it didnt go anywhere. So we both were having our ups and downs, left and rights of relationships at about the same time.

Anywhoz....in 2003, I was planning as well as a few other boardies to head to Glastonbury 2004...so plans were being made and I asked Jassen if by some awesome chance, if I would be able to stay with him during the festival time, as I would be traveling with another boardie after to Scotland(did go) and then Ireland(which never happened). He said that it was cool, so about a month after I graduated from Uni, I was off to the UK,first time, by my lonesome, taking a GIANT leap of faith....I arrived, but he had yet to arrive at the airport and was a little late...I think my flight was early, so it worked out in the end.

I rushed to the bathroom thinking....dang Jen...youre a risk taker! I even had a nice lady and her husband from Manchester giving me their phone number just in case there were issues. It was cute of them!

So, I walked out of the bathroom and no sooner than I did, I heard my name being called. Out of the corner of my eye, Jassen then tripped over a crowd of old people's luggage and made his way as I turned to see him directly...I immediately gave him a hug and said thanks for putting up with me. I was SUPER tired and he could see that in my face.

He got my tube pass and we road back to his house(1.5hours of travel time). He got out of work early to meet me, which was very nice. I got to his house and pretty much crashed out on his bed as I was dead tired. I remember getting up quickly saying that I might have drooled on his pillow and he said that it was alright.:-p I had the room to myself and he was upstairs with his little brother in the loft.

We met up with one of his best friends that he hadnt seen in a while that night and then the next day, went to meet up with some boardies, Tez, Hana, another Hannah, and a french dj girl at a whetherspoons...I had a vegan burger...it was odd.

The day after that was the 20th and we were making plans to go to Stonehenge, cuz I thought it cool to go on the Summer Solstice. We then went on the 21st and on the way there from North London(his dad drove and his lil brother skipped school to be there, me thinks) there was a connection...energy-wise.

Now im into all that new age stuffz...and I feel receptive to peoples feelings, energies, etc...but that day it was sooo strong. At first, I asked if he was ticklish, and I reached his legs and tickled him. Was he ever!! We were in the backseat as his dad drove on...and I felt a magnetic pull a connection and slowly he started to tickle me...and our hands began to lock.....eyes locking......intense stares....emotions, hormones, whatever, all rolled into one.....our faces got closer and closer and I started to instinctly make circles in his hands where ones minor chakras lie. He did the same to my hands....so sensitive.....closer....faces closer....lips getting closer...but

BUT we totally werent going to kiss while his dad was driving in the front along with his little bro. We walked around stonehenge, it was BEAUTIFUL, and then came back home, doing the same tickling, energy thing...it was amazing.

We werent looking for love.....it kinda found us out. I know that we are totally perfect for each other...through the ups and downs and all that jazz.....you just know....

2.5 years have past...we mark our anniversary on the summer solstice....21st of June....and we are going strong...whether we might feel weak at times by the distance or not. Its a beautiful thing....and I feel so blessed to have him in my life, and life without him, I cant imagine and wouldnt want to...

I once had a clairvoyant family friend say to me...when i was 18.....you are going to have a relationship with a guy named John...John Lennon I said? Since i was obsessed with the beatles....she said Jon with a different spelling(which I did my freshman year of uni)...and then she said.....and Jason...but also a different spelling(he spells it Jassen)....Jen, you have a thing for J names! I dont really recall that last bit but my mom reminded me of this a few years ago....so....interesting.:-/

My bf and I met online, ironically in a support group site for people going through a breakup, as we'd both just ended relationships at the time. We became friends and after we'd started to feel better after our breakups, we started chatting about all sorts of things and realized all that we had in common. We'd "known" each other for nine months when I finally went to England for a visit and we got to meet in person... and it was wonderful! We've been together for a year now, and although we just have visits now every few months till I'm able to move there, our relationship has survived the distance and continues to grow stronger over time.