How Did It All Begin??

A bit bored today, so thought I would briefly post my story.  The husband and I met 8 years ago while I was doing a study abroad at the University of Bath in my junior year.  I definitely wasn't looking for a long-term relationship - I was only 20 and had kind of left the US to escape a difficult personal situation (eating disorder, depression, heartbreak...you know, the normal stuff!).  I met my husband in my first week there and we started seeing each other right away.  At the end of my three months in Bath, I went back to the US, and he went to Berlin.  We left it at that.  But, three months later, he decided to come for a visit so he spent two weeks in Seattle with me to determine if we wanted to give the long distance thing a go...and we decided yes.  I permanently moved to the UK in November 2002 (for school) and in July 2004 we got married. 

Funnily enough, someone asked us the other day if we always knew that we were meant to be together.  My husband said that the minute he met me, he kind of thought to himself that he had found a long-term partner.  I always felt the same way. 

At the end of my three months in Bath, I went back to the US, and he went to Berlin.  We left it at that.  

is he German?

We met in an online poker tournament in late December 2005. I was working from home that day, due to being snowed in, and would normally have not been playing. He was kicking my tail, and proceeded to harass me, as did his friends that were watching...all in good fun of course... so I began to give a little back 

We ended up playing in several games together that day, and after a couple of weeks of "coincidentally" ending up in the same games, he asked for my IM and we started to chat daily. Our first voice chat was during a work trip to New York in early February, which is when we also first exchanged pictures online. We talked for hours each night during my week there, and haven't missed a single day since.

He told me he knew that he would meet me in person some day, although at the time he wasn't financially able to make the trip...so, rather then wait, I reached deep down into my lifelong reserve of courage (always been the "safe" sort) and took the leap instead. Up until this point, even at 33 years old, I had never taken a trip like this in my life...and up until New York I had never taken a trip alone.

I applied for my passport, paid to get it back in two weeks, and arrived in London in March. I was so scared/nervous/excited I still can't figure out how I went through with it. I had the support of some family, and others tried to talk me out of it... but here we are today. I also had a full backup plan in case he ended up being different then what I knew of him... all the local hotel numbers, police, cab companies...and enough $$ to remain there on my own for the 10 days if it didn't work out.

I think this might be the first time I've ever explained how we met without trying to make it sound any better then it was... don't know why, but everyone seems to give that funny look when meeting on the internet is mentioned 

is he German?

No, he is English.  The MA required you to spend at least a quarter studying in a foreign country and the husband is all about Germany, so he went to Berlin. 

We met in an online poker tournament in late December 2005. I was working from home that day, due to being snowed in, and would normally have not been playing. He was kicking my tail, and proceeded to harass me, as did his friends that were watching...all in good fun of course... so I began to give a little back 

Holy cow! I thought I was the only one. My husband and I met on a poker forum. I had just started playing, and he'd been doing it professionally for about a year (still does.) Do you both still play?

Dave and I met through a friend (Mark) who I met online in September of 2004. I was doing admin and maintainence for VampireFreaks.com (lol) and Mark was a member of the same site. A friend of his had been flamed by several members of the forum I was a member of and she asked Mark to go round to all of our profiles and say nasty things to us. When he came round to my page, he decided that I was cool, said as much, and we eventually began a relationship. He came to visit me in Texas in August 2005; In February 2006, I went to visit him in Edinburgh and utterly fell in love with the place. As it happens, I also utterly fell in love with his friend Dave, haha! Dave and I started talking every day, etc. etc. Mark and I broke up in May 2006 (mutual, we're still best best best friends) at which point Dave and I started to get more serious. After a lot of hemming and hawing and moving to Scotland one day and chickening out five minutes later, I finally made the move in October 2006 and it was the best decision I've ever made (apart, of course, from the one where Dave and I got married this past May). I can't imagine wanting to live anywhere else. 

I'm sorry BWooster, I didn't see your response. Yes, we both still play, although not nearly as much as we used to. He is working full time again (poker was his job when we met) so he plays weekends locally, and online for a couple of hours each night. He needed a good break from poker, and luckily is self employed in his profession, so things are working out wonderfully. Some of his friends still play poker professionally/semi-pro ... it's a great way to live when the cards are coming...not so much fun when they're not. I've always worked full time, so mine is usually on the weekends only.

What site do you play?    We met when I was playing BOS (and was quite new) and he was on BSQ.

I'm fairly new here but thought I'd just jump right in.

I met my boyfriend 2 going on 3 years ago on myspace of all places.  Started out as friends, kept talking, became a bit more.  I actually just got back from spending 5 months over there with him.  Was very nice and I am a bit sad to be home but I've been accepted to a uni there starting in October so might not be too long before I'm back.   

I'm so glad to see other people who have met online! Everyone seems to find it so odd that me and my fiance did

I used to go to a message board for the olsen twins(hey, I was 13!) and one of the threads was "What do your parents do?" I replied and said my Dad was a pilot. So I got an email from a boy a year older than me who also went to the message board and told me how he wants to be a pilot and asked what airline my Dad worked for and stuff. We're 22, and 23 now and have been together 6 years! It started off just talking with mutual friends from that board in chat rooms after the first few emails, then on AOL messanger. We got closer and closer as friends over the years and I got a massive crush on him which scared me because it was the internet and I thought it was weird of me. Finally I emailed him and said I had a hard time being friends with him because I  really liked him more than a friend and listening to him talk about a girl who upset and broke up with him was just too heartbreaking. He replied with the sweetest email, and then soon after that he admitted to having feelings for me as well and we made plans to meet. We met at Manchester airport. He picked me up and we got the train to Leeds(where he was in uni) and it was the best time of my life! We clicked right off and still just love eachother more and more everyday. We had planned to get married May of last year, but we ended up canceling it to give his parents more time to get used to the idea and get to know me better( like thats happened...) and give him time to finish his pilot training but we FINALLY are getting married this August.

My hubby likes to tell people we met while he was on holiday in KY at a county fair where I was the announcer for a horse show.  But the truth of the matter is we met online.    

(We did go to a county fair tho, and I was announcing the horse show...so it's not *that* much of a stretch, right?)

Oh gosh, my parents, and his parents know we met online. My parents are fine with it and adore him, his parents think im some internet freak and wont get to know me because its "just not right" to meet online But we also fib to our friends how we met. My grandparents live in England so we just always say "my grandparents live in hastings..." and people usually just assume we met while I was visiting them 

My bf and I met when we were 13 at church. We were on a puppet team together, lol. We were never really friends until our junior year of high school. We starting talking almost every night on IM. I dated several other guys, he moved to Memphis and started dating someone. We stayed friends and would end up talking until 2-3 in the morning on IM all the time.

This past summer I stopped in Memphis for a few days on a road trip to LA. We went out on Beale St with his best friend and my best friend. We were both single. He asked me to dance. They had a live singer, who seriously sucked. The singer was singing "Purple Rain" and got stuck singing the same line over and over again for what felt like forever. He ended up kissing me and we both admitted we had feelings for each other. I ended up moving to Memphis and the rest is history!

we FINALLY are getting married this August.

That's a sweet story.  It's always nice to hear of couples who love each other enough to make it work.  Congratulations!

Oh gosh, my parents, and his parents know we met online. My parents are fine with it and adore him, his parents think im some internet freak and wont get to know me because its "just not right" to meet online But we also fib to our friends how we met. My grandparents live in England so we just always say "my grandparents live in hastings..." and people usually just assume we met while I was visiting them 

Ahaha, now I dont feel too bad for lying to my friends about how we met anymore. Guess Im not the only one who feels sort of weird for having met her s/o online.

i met my boyfriend (sigh) at a bar!!

i had recently gotten out of a fairly serious relationship last spring and decided it would be a good time to take a little vacation.  two friends and i decided to trek across europe for six weeks strting at the end of june.  one of our first stops was the lovely town of edinburgh, scotland.  i instantly fell in love with the city.  the first night there i felt like i was starting to get a cold so thought about staying in the hostel for the night, but then i figured, "i'm in SCOTLAND! i can't stay in!" so decided to go down to our hostel's bar for a few drinks.  little did i know, a bunch of local kids were there celebrating canada day (who'd have thought??)... that's when i met ewan.  we ended all going out til the wee hours of the morning and i spent most of the three days in scotland with him.  i thought that would be the end of it - the last thing i wanted was another relationship, but we kept in touch and he came to visit me in the usa for my birthday in october.  welllll... one thing led to another, and after to more trips back to scotland and two more planned for him to come here again (one in a week.. yay!!) i have decided to make the big move over to edinburgh in septemer.  yippeeeee! can't wait!!

i met my boyfriend (sigh) at a bar!!

Nothing wrong with that my dear! I met my husband in a bar as well