Internet dating stories :)
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I met my fiancé online 5 1/2 years ago. We talked online for about 3 months before we actually met in person, which is probably a good thing because I was having a TERRIBLE day and was in a bad mood the day of our first date. My boss was being a jerk and someone had hit my truck in the parking lot. Luckily, we clicked so well online that my foul mood didn't affect our date.
5 1/2 years later we have a house and a dog...and we'll be getting married next year!
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I have a LOT of stories.... but the summary would be "you have to kiss a lot of frogs...."
I've been married to my "prince" for 3 years now.0 -
OMG! I have some amazing internet dating stories!!!!
Date 1-Meet up with guy, we go out to play pool and hang out....afterwards we go get something to eat. He starts hitting on the waitress, RIGHT in front of me. Then proceeds to ask for her number. We finish the meal, I feign "Oooo, forgot my wallet" and he says "No problem." As I'm walking out to my car he asks "Hey baby, no good night kiss?? Thought we had a nice time." Ouch, no.
Date 2-Meet up at library, hang out. Head off to get something to eat and he says "Oh, go to this place right here, they have the best _____." So I pull in and park and he leans over and says "Oh, can you go in and pay, my ex works here but I'm not allowed within ____ yards of her."
Date 3-(This was a blind date, not so much internet, but the story is great!) So, we meet up (double date) at a pizza place. First off, it's incredibly awkward since it's painfully obvious how different we are. (I'm in something sort of hippy-esque, he's in a lumberjack shirt and stone washed tight rolled jeans...year 2000 btw) He's talking about dropping out of school to farm, and I'm graduating in the top 5%...so right off the bat, it's not going well. So, we're sitting there and all of a sudden my friend's (the other double dater) eyes light up..."Hey, jess isn't that your mom?!" So I turn around and my WHOLE family just walked through the door..(random coincidence). The waiter sees them wave at us and escorts them over saying "Oh, you guys know each other, well I'll sit you here so you can talk if you'd like!" So we finish out the painful date with my family sitting by watching the whole thing0 -
Some of these stories were seriously great, not like great for you guys, but great for me to read :laugh:
I have been on too many sites. I don't get out much between full time work and my baby boy. I tried Christian Mingle and met 2 guys from that site. The first one was amazing, like seriously amazing. We clicked and had so much in common. Unfortunately his ex was pregnant, which I was fine with because his story was my story but backwards (I have a dead beat dad, she was a dead beat mom), BUT she lost the baby. I think it was too much for him that I had a son and he literally just disappeared without so much as a goodbye :brokenheart:
I tried Plenty of Fish, most guys just want sex. I had one talking to me for a bit and I gave him my cell number. He asks for a regular pic so he can put it on his phone for when I call, whatever. I said return the favor.. he sends me a pic of his ****. SERIOUSLY!!?!?
I'm sort of trying to get to know this guy I met on there. He says he's interested, but doesn't really seem to have the time. UGH... dating sucks. Internet dating, meeting people in public, it doesn't matter anymore... it all sucks.
Congrats to those of you who have found someone. I'm praying my man is out there somewhere!0 -
Growing up fat and still being it lol I never had the courage to message people on Plenty of fish or even eHarmony(yes I paid and wasted it lol FML). If I did message a woman on those sites it feels like I would have to make it like this!
"Hey Baby Gurl, yous bangin I would tottaly friend the s*** out of you. I would give you my pimp hand in respect and understanding! Calls me yo!
Ps. Here's a picture of my ****! I named him Richard because he reminds me of Keith Richards, he is a husky mix!"0 -
Growing up fat and still being it lol I never had the courage to message people on Plenty of fish or even eHarmony(yes I paid and wasted it lol FML). If I did message a woman on those sites it feels like I would have to make it like this!
"Hey Baby Gurl, yous bangin I would tottaly friend the s*** out of you. I would give you my pimp hand in respect and understanding! Calls me yo!
Ps. Here's a picture of my ****! I named him Richard because he reminds me of Keith Richards, he is a husky mix!"0 -
I met the most amazing man one night in a random chat room and after that first encounter we logged on every night to say, "Hello". Chatting led to e-mail, then phone calls and writing each other letters and sending cards through the postal mail.... we were 600 miles apart. This went on for a year and then one day I hopped on a train and traveled up North to meet him face to face. Six months later I moved to his state and four months after that we took our wedding vows. We've been happily married for 12 years now and we have an awesome little 7 year old son together! The internet was a wonderful facilitator for our love connection.
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I met my husband on WoW. We were in the same guild and after months of playing together we found out we lived in the same city so we decided to meet and kicked it off. Fast forward 5 years, we are married and very happy
There is your dose of nerds.0 -
Met my boyfriend off of craigslist! Only because my friend got tired of me hanging around the house all the time. "you need to get out and meet somebody new" she told me. I had just gotten out of a bad 13 relationship.
Mark answered my add and we emailed back and forth for 2 months, then exchanged #'s. Met in person after 4 months of talking. We live together now. Its been just over 2 years!
The best part is that my mother and stepfather love him to death! I was able to find one of the good ones! Thanks to craigslist and my friend for pushing me to do it.0 -
I've completely sworn off online dating.
I met my ex-husband playing an mmo (online game like World of Warcraft) when I was 19 (10 years ago)... we were good friends for a long time.. he liked me when I was a big girl.. liked me when I'd lost the weight. Anyway, he came over to visit me in St. Louis in 2005... we were married 2 weeks later. I was young and infatuated with his accent... blah blah blah. Anyway, I moved to England about a month later with two suitcases full of clothes and shipped my PC over. That was it. Chasing rainbows... living the dream!!
I didn't know he was an alcoholic... he pretty much just sat in front of his computer playing games every single night and did little to help acclimatize me to this country. I was ready to go back home until I found out my bc failed.. I was pregnant! Fast forward three years and two babies later. I wasn't happy.. things never changed. I was so lonely. He did me a favor and cheated on me with my then 2 year olds nursery/day care worker. It was incredibly difficult at the time... my girls were only 6 months and 2 years old at the time.. raising them on my own.. living for the first time on my own without any family and friends here.. phew. I look back and don't really know how I coped, but I did and I'm so much better for it.
Anyway, despite all of that... It's helped me realize that I am a strong, independent, and beautiful woman. I'm working part-time, working on a degree part-time, and have 4 & 5 year old little girls (15 months apart!) who often drive me crazy but more often make me so proud and happy! I've made an amazing circle of friends and feel that I am 'home' now.
No regrets :-)0 -
I met my husband on Okcupid 4 years ago...friends first...talked on the phone every night for a few months. Then he convinced me to agree to meet him...and he drove 50 miles to see me every day (he lived in New jersey, I lived in New york)
We've been married since September 2010 and living together since fall 2008 0 -
I met my hubby online. I saw his goofy photo on a friend/dating site and I left him a little message in july 2006. We hit it off well but we didn't talk for a month so he thought I lost interest but then we started talking again. We talked casually for a few months when I asked him if he had a gf and he replied "do you wanna be?" We continued chatting online and eventually on the phone. He asked me to marry him on the phone in April 2007 when I said yes then we met in person for the first time 2 months later in July 2007. After meeting him in person I went home (he gave me gas money for the way back) and 4 months after that we were married in a court house in November 2007. The first year of marriage was us getting to really know eachother & a few days before our 1 year wedding anniversary in November 2008 he got the phone call to deploy. We had that December 2008 together and he left in january 2009 for a year.
We've been married for almost 5 years in November
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There was no such thing as the World Wide Web when I was dating. No texting, sexting, sharing, FB or Myspace. Had to make human contact.
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Met my husband in a forum.
We flirted back and forth in the forums for a few years, then starting talking on msn messanger, then the phone & skype, then finally I flew to California (i'm in BC, Canada) to spend a week with him, yup, just dove in, he could have been a serial killer, but I was pretty sure he wasn't. My parents were supportive, but what could they say? They had a one night stand and 9 months later my sister was born, 31 years later and they are still married, so it all worked out.
I have also met some of my best friends as a result of the internet. 2 of my girlfriends were friends of a guy i met on line that I used to go to concerts with, I don't hang out with him anymore, he was kind of an odd duck, but I met these 2 wonderful friends, so it was all worth it!
I met my husband on line in a chat room in the late 90's. After 2 months I dove in and flew down to meet him. We got married 4 months later. I never went back. I was living in Canada at the time, now I am in the States, and still married.. Happily most days, but married none the less.0 -
i gave up on it lol. toooooooo and i mean toooooooooooooooo many wierdos only wanting a quick fumble when they saw fit. to find my mr right i started volunterring and had a secret crush on him then one day he just gave me his number and i was like OMG. and hey presto he is mine now.
internet dating to me is to risky. i dont believe in it as you dont see the real person. and i think its an easy way for some not all to cheat. bring back the old fashioned days when the guys were scared to ask the girls dad permission to do anything thats when dating was dating from the stories my gran and aunties have been telling me. but then it was funny watching my otherhalf ask my dad permission to marry me. now that was funny.0 -
I met my husband in a vampire chat room on vplaces, which I don't think even exists anymore. We were from different countries and started emailing each other. After a couple of months he proposed and he flew to New Zealand to meet me and get married. It's our 14th wedding anniversary today.0
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I met my boyfriend on OKC! We talked about books, and music. We started texting, talked on the phone, then met for coffee. He thought I wasn't going to like him because I bought my coffee before he could. We talked for hours, and then we hung out consistently for a few days. I brought him tea to the theater he was at, and he gave me paintings he made. We had a ton of mutual friends, have been to the same concerts at the same time. It's crazy. We've been together for over a year now, and we've lived together for officially six months.0
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I met my husband in a yahoo chat room back in 2000. We were regulars in the room, and just chatted like everyone else. When I found out he was in Tennessee, I made a comment that he was close enough to me (I was in Virginia) to come visit. I was joking at the time. Fast forward several months later...we started chatting through messenger, then talked on the phone, then planned for him to come visit. He cancelled the first time, and I thought he had changed his mind. When he finally did drive up, he was supposed to go back the next day. He ended up staying for a week, at the end of which I moved to Tennessee with him! We've been married for almost 10 years now...a sometimes difficult 10 years, but we've stuck it out and made it work. 0
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It was Yahoo Chat for me too!!0
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I have tried this quite a few times. All the guys were nut jobs.. broke up with me or cheated on me.
Until I met my fiance. We were friends on facebook for a long time and we had 2 mutual friends I think. He tried to talk to me every day and I ignored him. After my ex broke up with me on my birthday, he talked to me and I asked for his number as I really needed a friend. We were friends for a few months and he was head of heels for me. I didnt want to rush into a relationship and I have to say I am glad we didnt.
He asked me out for about the 4th time and well I said yes. He had bought me my christmas present with a poem inside it was so cute. 3 years later the rest is history!0 -
I know too many people who have Internet datng horror stories, and not many with successes. I have created profiles on a couple of dating sites but am still very reluctant to officially post them.0
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Ahhh those were the days...when you met real live ppl and could actually see if they were who they said they were!There was no such thing as the World Wide Web when I was dating. No texting, sexting, sharing, FB or Myspace. Had to make human contact.
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I don't use it but my mom does... She had a picture of me and her up as one of her profile pictures and she got a lot of creepy messages requesting threesomes... UM NO... :noway:0
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I was just kind of seeing someone for a couple months, she gradually stopped trying and would barely text me anymore. So I got it, I've been there plenty of times so I asked her about it and she said she was just trying to take things slow. A week later she dumped me.
I think I've been internet dating for so long I can read people pretty well and can tell how they feel before they even know it.0 -
The girl I dated for 3 1/2 years I met "online" even though she lived less than a mile from me. She finally talked me into coming over and hanging out w/ her... I made fun of her for having so many stuffed animals. The next time I was there, they were gone. At first I wasn't really interested in dating, just hanging out as friends, but it finally happened.
We had a great relationship, with it only ending b/c she moved away for school and it was too hard for both of us at the time.
I did however, meet someone that didn't go well. For whatever reason, I agreed to hang out w/ her one night (around v-day I think, or on v-day) and she showed up, woof. Def wasn't fitting as her picture(s) were. I don't know if I got bit by the myspace angles or what, but we went to blockbuster to rent a movie and before we even made it back I told her she had to leave. She cried. I went and watched a movie and passed out. Do not feel sorry for that one.0 -
Okay- this is really long- I originally posted it on my blog.
I joined OKCupid on a Friday night, on a whim, when I was totally vulnerable from every single person in my life wondering why I wasn't dating. From my mom to my co-workers, I got a lot of "but you'd be so happy if you were dating" speech. So I caved.
Friday night- uploaded my profile. My profile mentioned my music likes (everythi:g, as long as I can stand around looking smug, holding a Rainier and nodding absently- no dancing required), my food likes (everything, as long as I can criticize other restaurants who have the same food types and offer better/worse wine, and aren't yet featured on Yelp!), my movie likes (70's horror and please god, no "rom-coms") and my shoe preferences (Converse and Fluevogs). I didn't mention anything about my sexual proclivities, but did mention I'm a single mom who works a demanding job, and that I don't have a ton of time for dating.
Saturday- the responses come pouring in. And by that, I mean, I got like... 7. 2 of the 7 were out of my area (Rhode Island? That's quite a commute for a Saturday night booty call) and Tacoma (sigh). Leaving 5 potential suitors. One guy asked me what the craziest thing I'd ever done was. I told him a very long, hysterical story about a shopping cart and an icy hill in Portland, that ended with me jumping out of the cart mid hill and hitting a cop car with my body and moving just before the shopping cart smashed in to the cop car. That's not what he meant. End conversation.
Four potential suitors. I made two friends, one of whom I ended up seeing for a bit. And then. Then. There were the other two.
Puddle Guy: This one started off rather innocuously, and I thought, Hmm, maybe. He asked me to describe my perfect date, and I blathered on a bit about something. God only knows what, I'm sure I mentioned music, food, nodding, and Rainier. Then he told me about his perfect date scenario. Wait for a super rainy day. Take my car (because he didn't drive) and tour the city looking for the biggest puddle. Review all big puddles in the city, and then when we agreed upon the biggest puddle, he would get out and stand next to the puddle. I would drive through said puddle at a high rate of speed, and splash him. This splashing, apparently, caused him a great deal of arousal. So then I needed to pull the car over and we'd have sex in the car. Yep. He didn't date in the summer, he said, because he couldn't get aroused.
Uh... Next. If only I'd known.
Fetish Guy: This guy made the puddle guy look like your kindergarten teacher. He opened our conversation with "Do you have a lot of fat friends who like to get drunk?" I waited for a minute for the punch line, and he kept going. I don't know that I ever said one word in the conversation because I was so stunned. He was very detailed in his need, he'd really planned it out.
The scenario: Invite all my friends over for a party, and provide tons of booze and food. He was going to pay for the booze and food. He specifically requested that I invite all of the curvy women I know, and specifically asked if I didn't have "heavier" friends that I should make friends with some heavier women before the party. He would show up half way through the party when everyone was halfway drunk, and just stand in the middle of a circle. He wanted me to start with insults, by calling him ugly, and then have my friends and I verbally abuse him while he slowly took off his clothing. When he was naked, he specifically wanted people to insult his anatomy, and the group of women should try really hard to make him cry.
The denouement? He was going to bring his own (ahem) aid, and wanted the heaviest girl at the party to use it on him in front of everyone and call him names while this was happening.
I declined. And then I canceled my account.0 -
Okay- this is really long- I originally posted it on my blog.
I joined OKCupid on a Friday night, on a whim, when I was totally vulnerable from every single person in my life wondering why I wasn't dating. From my mom to my co-workers, I got a lot of "but you'd be so happy if you were dating" speech. So I caved.
Friday night- uploaded my profile. My profile mentioned my music likes (everythi:g, as long as I can stand around looking smug, holding a Rainier and nodding absently- no dancing required), my food likes (everything, as long as I can criticize other restaurants who have the same food types and offer better/worse wine, and aren't yet featured on Yelp!), my movie likes (70's horror and please god, no "rom-coms") and my shoe preferences (Converse and Fluevogs). I didn't mention anything about my sexual proclivities, but did mention I'm a single mom who works a demanding job, and that I don't have a ton of time for dating.
Saturday- the responses come pouring in. And by that, I mean, I got like... 7. 2 of the 7 were out of my area (Rhode Island? That's quite a commute for a Saturday night booty call) and Tacoma (sigh). Leaving 5 potential suitors. One guy asked me what the craziest thing I'd ever done was. I told him a very long, hysterical story about a shopping cart and an icy hill in Portland, that ended with me jumping out of the cart mid hill and hitting a cop car with my body and moving just before the shopping cart smashed in to the cop car. That's not what he meant. End conversation.
Four potential suitors. I made two friends, one of whom I ended up seeing for a bit. And then. Then. There were the other two.
Puddle Guy: This one started off rather innocuously, and I thought, Hmm, maybe. He asked me to describe my perfect date, and I blathered on a bit about something. God only knows what, I'm sure I mentioned music, food, nodding, and Rainier. Then he told me about his perfect date scenario. Wait for a super rainy day. Take my car (because he didn't drive) and tour the city looking for the biggest puddle. Review all big puddles in the city, and then when we agreed upon the biggest puddle, he would get out and stand next to the puddle. I would drive through said puddle at a high rate of speed, and splash him. This splashing, apparently, caused him a great deal of arousal. So then I needed to pull the car over and we'd have sex in the car. Yep. He didn't date in the summer, he said, because he couldn't get aroused.
Uh... Next. If only I'd known.
Fetish Guy: This guy made the puddle guy look like your kindergarten teacher. He opened our conversation with "Do you have a lot of fat friends who like to get drunk?" I waited for a minute for the punch line, and he kept going. I don't know that I ever said one word in the conversation because I was so stunned. He was very detailed in his need, he'd really planned it out.
The scenario: Invite all my friends over for a party, and provide tons of booze and food. He was going to pay for the booze and food. He specifically requested that I invite all of the curvy women I know, and specifically asked if I didn't have "heavier" friends that I should make friends with some heavier women before the party. He would show up half way through the party when everyone was halfway drunk, and just stand in the middle of a circle. He wanted me to start with insults, by calling him ugly, and then have my friends and I verbally abuse him while he slowly took off his clothing. When he was naked, he specifically wanted people to insult his anatomy, and the group of women should try really hard to make him cry.
The denouement? He was going to bring his own (ahem) aid, and wanted the heaviest girl at the party to use it on him in front of everyone and call him names while this was happening.
I declined. And then I canceled my account.
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I met my hubby in an online chat at the university we attended back in 1993. We chatted for about a month before I agreed to go out with him, only because he had a motorcycle and I thought that was cool. We got married the summer of 95 and will be celebrating our 17th anniversary this summer. We've got three great kids and though like all married couples we've got good days and bad, but I knew right after I met him that he was the one God had planned for me!0
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Fetish Guy: This guy made the puddle guy look like your kindergarten teacher. He opened our conversation with "Do you have a lot of fat friends who like to get drunk?" I waited for a minute for the punch line, and he kept going. I don't know that I ever said one word in the conversation because I was so stunned. He was very detailed in his need, he'd really planned it out.
The scenario: Invite all my friends over for a party, and provide tons of booze and food. He was going to pay for the booze and food. He specifically requested that I invite all of the curvy women I know, and specifically asked if I didn't have "heavier" friends that I should make friends with some heavier women before the party. He would show up half way through the party when everyone was halfway drunk, and just stand in the middle of a circle. He wanted me to start with insults, by calling him ugly, and then have my friends and I verbally abuse him while he slowly took off his clothing. When he was naked, he specifically wanted people to insult his anatomy, and the group of women should try really hard to make him cry.
The denouement? He was going to bring his own (ahem) aid, and wanted the heaviest girl at the party to use it on him in front of everyone and call him names while this was happening.
I declined. And then I canceled my account.
WTheck wow!! Sorry but i cracked up once i read this! Yea ummm nooooo!0
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