How Did It All Begin??

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

Me too!

Me too!

Me too. (Technically, though I knew the people he was with)

I met my British husband in the US.  He was working there.  We were introduced by a mutual friend at a museum.  He didn't make much of an impression on me.  A few days later we met again at a Guy Fawkes Day party given by another friend and we talked.  He went out of his way to be at a third gathering where he knew I would be.  He came armed with a recording he'd made of the Atlanta symphony while working with a record company, and after I listened to some of it he asked me to go to the symphony with him.  I accepted, but we never went!  We did go to other musical performances.  We never got around to the symphony until an anniversary several years after we were married. 

me again, i also met my friend online,facebook. talk to him on the phone,webcam,pic,etc.have yet to meet him in person yet.

I met my soulmate on Second Life... we talked for a while there, then through email, then on webcam, then met in London for a weekend in person, then he came to dallas, texas for a visit, and we travelled back and forth for a few months, and we were married here in texas last month... i knew right away that he was something special, and pretty soon after, i realized he was the one for me (months before we met in person)!  I am so unbelievably excited to move to the UK next month so we can finally live together and start our married life!   

I met my guy at a club, he was in the US for military reason training.  Its funny looking back at it six years ago when he first approached me I didn't even like him. His friend had started talking to my friend... and at the time I was just the wing-man for her you know. My friend hadn't been out on the town in a long time and certainly hadn't met any fellas, so that day we'd spent the day getting pampered and I said alright I'll go to this club with you and who ever talks to you- you better just take'em home with you. I had no intention of meeting anyone. So when He approached me I was distant and quiet for the most part because men have the tendency to stare down my shirt, I basically expected that. I really didn't expect someone to hold a truly interesting and completely coherent conversation with me in the middle of a club about the politics of war. Six years later we're still having the same conversation mixed with a bunch of other stuff of course...
Of course in the last 5 years we've been separated twice by the war... and he's done an amazing job to help me never feel like I've missed a day with him.
So we're in the process my going to the UK and moving permanently.

What a nice story, good luck with the move and your new life in the UK.

Sean and I met online in January of 2000 (4 year anniversary is tomorrow).  I was up late one night listening to U2 cds and wanted someone to chat to about the band.  I searched the member directory for people with "u2" and "insane" in their profile who were currently online, and his name popped up.  I IM'ed him asking if he wanted to chat and he responded with, "what the hell?".. I misread it as him being annoyed that I would IM.  I quickly apologized and canceled the message.  A minute later, another instant message box popped up from him saying, "you misunderstood, I was saying.. "sure, what the hell.. why not."  It carried on from there and we spent the entire night chatting online.

We first spoke on the phone a month or two after that, and just 4 months later in April of 2000, he flew out to Phoenix to visit me for a few weeks.

Since then, we've both had many many trips back and forth and currently spend half the year together in Arizona and the other half of the year together in England.

Wow! U2 brought my guy and me together too! In 2003 we began talking at the bands fansite, Zootopia. Do to a site glitch, I wasn't able to post normally, but only to send private messages. I was very new to being "online", and was very excited to meet a whole bunch of U2 crazies like myself, so I began pm'ing people. My guy and I sent one another one pm a day. I was very excited to read his very long letters and to hear about this amazing place where he lived, which was called Cornwall. A couple of months into this the site went down, and since we hadn't exchanged email addresses, we couldn't find each other! Finally the site came back online, but there wasn't any private messaging yet, so I left my email address there for him. That's when our relationship really started to blossom. He really didn't like to send emails, or post on sites, but because we missed each other, we started sharing emails more often...and eventually started to talk on msn messenger. We did lots of talking and we like to say that we got to know each other from the inside out, because we didn't physically meet for 3 years...since I live in nyc and he in the uk. He's very cautious, and now i'm glad for it! Soon we started having weekly phone calls and then finally...in 2005 we decided to meet in ny where we attended three Vertigo shows together. I met him at the airport and we instantly knew that we were in love, physically as well as emotionally! It all felt so natural! A few months after we met, I came to the UK and fell in love with Cornwall. I've been there 4 times now...the last time being May of this year...and am already booked to return in November. We became engaged last year,after a trip to Dublin, and I can't wait for us to be able to be together. He's been back to NYC, but Cornwall is the place for us. I feel like I was meant to live there...with him. But...yeah...U2 brought us together...actually helped us to find each other, since my fiance and I think that we would've met anyway...but the love of U2 helped us to realize the love for each other...

After reading all of these stories I thought I would contribute with mine. It was my freshman year at Penn State University. I had just gotten out of a "serious" relationship(high school sweetheart, 1st love, puppy love, etc). So I had a few days off from studying(engineering was my undergrad degree. Which boils down to absolutely zero free time), and I headed to a freshman dorm party with a few of my buddies in a class. Not really thinking anything exciting will happen I had the intention of coming back early and just going to catch up on my studying. Well low and behold I am there for an hour and a few girls walk in, and in the back is a very cute blonde that catches my eye. So I rouse the nerve to strike up a conversation, and come to find out shes from Scotland. This intrigues me even more, and I convince her after an hour to leave the party with me to go get some food. After a good night we exchange numbers, and the rest is history. Almost 5 years later she has finished her first year of medical school, and I am moving clear across the Atlantic in the next few months to be with my soulmate.

After a good night we exchange numbers, and the rest is history. Almost 5 years later she has finished her first year of medical school, and I am moving clear across the Atlantic in the next few months to be with my soulmate.

I love a sappy, sweet romantic ending.  Wishing you lots of happiness in your life together!

My husband, Brett and I were actually first boyfriend and girlfriend to each other when we were 15 and 17 (1983). We had a pretty deep relationship for kids that age, couldn't live without each other and professed undying love!  We we're together almost 2 years. Out of the blue (partially because of my age and a new group of friends), I broke up with him. Although I devastated him, I was confused as to why I did it because I was somewhat devastated as well! Age and experience, decades later I chalk it up to fate and doing what I was supposed to do at that age. We needed to grow up, have relationships (bad ones!) with other people, to figure out in the end who we were and what we wanted. Both of us has secretly pined for each other over the years. I never stopped kicking myself for ending that relationship and always celebrated his birthday in my mind. I kept the bottle of perfume he bought me when I was 16. He was more than 'a boyfriend'. I knew I'd never find another like him, my other half  :\\\'( Am I bumming you out yet? haha! Well, I met a British man online in 2000 (just a note, I wasn't looking!). He moved over here, we married. We decided we were going to move to the UK by 2005 when I would be legally able to live there by my spousal visa. 4 months before, I ran across Bretts Yahoo profile on accident, advertising a small side business he has. I was actually looking for a friends profile, when I type fast, I mix up letters. Funny, the swap of two little letters took me back to Brett. I started having vivid dreams about him every night, crying, apologizing for the way I broke up with him. One night I was dreaming about him we were having a terrible thunderstorm (I live in the mtns), I could see him so clearly, getting closer to him when lightening struck my house!!! It shook my entire house like an earthquake! I felt bad for my British husband, but not too much, he had attempted to start a relationship with someone else while we were married  . Our marriage had begun falling apart only a year after we were married! I knew I had to make amends with Brett after all these years. I sent him a birthday e-mail where I was surprised to find he was actually happy to hear from me and had been looking for me for years! I also found out in our conversations that he was going through a divorce and another funny little fact, had always wanted to move....to England. It was like all my dreams coming true at once. We both divorced our exes and picked up right where we left off, totally in love, but with a lot of life lessons behind us and our 3 combined kids from previous relationships. Sorry this turned out to be so long, but there is so much detail that makes this story unique, most of which I didn't even include to keep in short! haha! If you can imagine, this is the Readers Digest version! He is truly my soulmate (I know, cheesy, but you get what I'm saying!), my other half and the only person that understands me and vice versa. Oh! We were married April '07 (after waiting for that day for 22 years!) and honeymooned in...yeah, England. We'll be back in Feb./March '09! Can't wait.
Thanks for letting me bend your ear(s)!
E. Rhiannon

Mrs. Redbeard and I met playing indoor soccer.  We had both signed up as singles at a local five a side center and were put on the same team.  I had extra tickets to a pro match and went through the team roster, and she was the only one available.  18 years and counting.   

Gee, I am surprised at how many met online.  We actually met in a pub (but were properly introduced by a mutual friend, mind you!) but that was back in the olden days!  I had gone over to the UK as an academic exchange and was kind of overwhelmed how stuffy things were in a university library.  One of the younger librarians told me he had organized a weekly get-together of like-minded librarians and would I like to come along.  They met in a pub (gasp! what would my puritan ancestors think!)  So I gathered my courage and turned up to the next meeting.  As it turned out there was only my colleague and a friend (non-librarian) there that week.  So the boys offered to show me around over the next several weeks.  I hit it off with the friend right away -- we had a lot in common in spite of our differing nationalities.  He was a post-graduate student and teaching part time.  When my year was up I went back to the States but felt totally lost.  So we decided to do the matrimonial thing in the States and then I moved back to the UK.  And that was nearly 35 years ago...

My husband Chris and I started talking when I posted an add on the British Craigslist for a pen-pal one day when I was board.  Just wanted someone to email to pass the time.  He answered my ad, obviously, we emailed occasionally, which became more and more frequent, and became friends.  It was so nice and easy.  He had family in MD (where I live now) and in NYC (where I was working at the time).  He talked about visiting them all and the US for the first time and I helped plan his trip.  I was back in MD by that time, we agreed to meet at the train station when it was time for him to go up to NYC and do the trip together on Greyhound.  We stayed in the same hotel, separate rooms...mine quickly went to waste!  It really was a case of just feeling so at ease together, already being good friends, and feeling like being together was....just right.  We decided to be more than friends, officially, a couple weeks later.  Been doing the LDR ever since and it's going on 4 years or so.  Got married 25 Aug. this year!   Hopefully, I'll be approved for a visa soon and will be there in a few weeks

He's so adorable and lovely and funny and perfect for me.  I know you hear it a lot but I truly believe we're soulmates.  We're definitely best friends!  And such a good team.

I was hitchhiking on Orkney during a trip there and Frank gave me a ride into town.  That was 4 years ago.  We got married this summer.  I am heading to Orkney as soon as I can get my visa!