I met my husband online in '96 and we married in '97. The internet was a godsend since I was living in a podunk town in a podunk county where I couldn’t find anyone else who could read let alone carry on an intelligent conversation.
Anyone else meet their loved one online?
Julie
Not me, but my son just married a woman in England that he met on line, after several years of unhappy marriage to his first. I wish them all the best.
My wife, 1985. Still at it, too.
I met my husband on-line. We met on something this this site, an open discussion forum. He was the manager of the site and I had just happened to stumble on it. We held the same views and beliefs. We I.M.'ed and e-mailed each other. Often times we would talk for 7+ hrs. a night. We fell in love instantly. He told me wanted to marry me before he even saw a picture of me. He has never once said anything he didn’t mean. One day while we were I.M.ing eachother I heard a knock at the door. The fedex guy gave me an envelope, I opened it and it was flight tickets for me from my husband to come and see him for a long weekend. We spent four amazing days together and that confirmed everything. We knew we could wait no longer. I was living in Calgary, Canada and he in San Diego, ca. I returned home to finish writing some college exams, then an hour and a half later I was on the next flight down. I told my family that I would be back in 5 weeks. They did not know I had planned for no return as they would not approve of the situation. Less than a week after I arrived we got married and have been happily married for just over 2 years. We are still on our honeymoon. He is my bestfriend and lover and I am the luckiest woman in the world. I think we are the exception though. But a great way to get to know someone.
I met my boyfriend online back in 1996 when we were both 16. We had no romantic intentions. We just talked as friends for 2 years before his girlfriend decided she wanted to meet me. So I met her. Turns out her intentions were to find a replacement for herself. She wanted to break up with him but didn’t want to leave him alone. I’m marrying him next April.
ShadiRoxan, Wow, thats a great story. Congrats.
Kind of. I kind of knew my current wife when she was just a kid (she’s 13 years younger than me), because I was friends with her older sisters boyfriend. About seven years later, I ran into her on-line and we realized we knew each other, and we started chatting ALL the time. Two and a half years later, here we are, married and the parents of an awesome one year old boy.
It wasn’t really a case of meeting on-line, and neither one of us was using the internet to find people, but without the internet, we probably wouldn’t have got together.
Jon
::nods and points at Gunslinger:: We met in Very Vaguely Creepy in fall of '00. I’m moving down to Texas to be with him on Sunday.
I met my current (Ex? She’s moving out, tonight. Not sure where the dividing line is.) GF online. That was about 10 years ago, on a small, local BB.
auntie em and I met here on the SDMB a little over a year ago; two weeks ago we agreed to annoy one another for the rest of our lives–we ended up jumping the broom in a little chapel in Vegas.
Oh well. I suppose I don’t mind losing that gamble. 
I was actually in an email group with my boyfriend for seven years and we knew each other on a friendly basis, but nothing had ever happened. Back in March, I was living in NYC and he started sending me tapes of a show I didn’t get on cable - still nothing developing. Then I went for a riding lesson last August, fell off my horse, and hurt my posterior very badly - I was laid up for a week, and then would have to lay in bed at night because I hurt and was still on painkillers, so I was online a LOT. We ended up IMing one night, and IMed for about 3 hours. Then the next night. Then the next. After about a week, I started looking forward to seeing him online. After about three weeks, I realized I had a crush on a guy I’d never met. We kept talking and talking, and after a couple of months, admitted that we were starting to have feelings for one another. We talked on the phone and hit it off there. After about three months, I was unemployed and decided to splurge on a train ticket to go out to see him. I went, terrified out of my mind. I came back, happier than I’d been in a long time and on the start of an amazing relationship. That was in October, I’ve moved back to VA to continue my schooling, he’s planning to move here in the fall, and we’ve set a tentative wedding date for April of 2005 (tentative because it depends on when I finish my schooling). He’s the love of my life and I can’t imagine ever being without him.
And I highly advocate meeting people from online:D. Obviously;).
Ava
My idiot brother met his current wife on-line.
Of course, he was still married to another woman at the time he met the current Misses.
I had just moved to Baltimore from Maine and didn’t know anyone. Since wandering around Baltimore looking for rainbow colored signs that read, “Hey You’re Gay! Yea! Come On In And Converse With Like Minded People!” hadn’t exactly panned out for me, I joined an online group for gay women in the area.
It just so happened that Theios was in the group as well. We started chatting quite a bit through AIM and finally met at one of the dinners that the online group was having at a local restaurant. Went to a club that night and then she took me muddin’ in her nice yellow jeep the very next morning.
Almost two years later we’re still together living in West-by-Gawd Virginia. Really I think we’re only together cause both of us are afraid that no one else would understand just how retarded and twisted we are. 
Actually, I lied. The only reason I’m with her is cause she’s got a real nice uhhhh… Jeep! Yeah, that’s it! 
Met fizzestothetop on this very MB, and we’re one of several couples (including a fair number married) who met on this board.
ooooo…I love these stories.
I met my girlfriend (Morelin) on a newsgroup a couple years ago. We wound up chatting in ICQ.
Oh, man, it’s been THAT LONG?
As a reflection, I remember when meeting people from the Internet was considered creepy and weird.
I met my girlfriend online back in 1996 when we were both 16. We had no romantic intentions. We just talked as friends for 2 years before my girlfriend decided she wanted to meet her. So she met her. Turns out her intentions were to find a replacement for herself. She wanted to break up with me but didn’t want to leave me alone. I’m marrying her next April.
I met my fiance online in 1996. I was in a reaaaaaally bad marriage and he was my sounding board. I wasn’t allowed to work, so I spent most days and nights online, chatting on IRC. For the first year and a half, we were good friends and never even talked on the phone. We knew by the summer of 1997 that we had feelings for eachother, but I was still legally married, even though my marriage had all but disolved. My ex and I were living together as roommates. I got a job at a video store, found a little independance, and felt a lot better about myself. In August of 1997 I went to Illinois for 2 1/2 weeks and when I came back, my ex had cut off our internet. So, by the time we finally got back online, my fiance was seeing a girl from Michigan. I was heartbroken, because I had decided to leave my ex and persue our growing relationship. My fiance was in Michigan in Dec of 1997 and he was VERY unhappy, but felt trapped there. In January he decided to go back home to Southern Ontario. I had told my ex by that time that I was looking for a place to live. In February of 1998 my fiance came to see me for a week. Then he came back in April for his birthday. I found a place and Jeff and I decided to move in together. He was having problems with his mom at home, so on May 19th, 1998 I drove the 7 hours, packed him and the car up and drove back here and we moved in our apartment on May 22.
5 1/2 years later, we’re engaged and VERY happy.
Of course, leaving my ex and moving in with Jeff caused a lot of problems with my family. My family never saw the side of my ex that was controlling and nasty. My cousins saw it. My parents thought I was leaving my ex for a new guy. Not the way it happened.
I met my SO online over a year ago. We both were playing EverQuest at the time. We started talking, first about the game, then about our lives outside of the game. Several months later, we fell into a relationship. Last August, he bought a plane ticket to visit me in December. It was the most wonderful week I could have imagined. And the months apart were very difficult. I spent a month with him this past June in England. He moved to North Carolina last month so that we could be together. I have one year of school left. Who knows where we will actually end up living, but I can’t imagine my life without him.
Like pun said we met on here. I posted a picture in a picture thread and next thing I know I’m getting an IM from some weirdo saying I’m pretty.
We talked for a bit and then we decided it’d be nice to meet so he came down to see me and I haven’t been able to get rid of him since! Of course I haven’t been trying that hard either.
Oh and we are currently engaged and batting around ideas for a wedding date. Sometime next summer is the best we’ve come up with. You’re all invited!