Okay everyone… I have a few questions-
One, how many people out there met a SO on the net? And eventually marry that person? How long did you date before deciding? Were these long distance or relatively close relatioships?
What are some of the most creative proposal ideas you can think of, or perhaps carried out?
Thanks:-)
Hey! I was in a store where they paged you once! They used the diminutive form of your first name, though, and half the store started laughing. I don’t know why.
I know- it’s a joke:-) I decided to be subtle though in the screen name:-)
Well so far i’ve been dating my boyfriend (whom i’ve met on the net) for over 3 months. Eventually i will marry him, because of the strong feelings i have for him:) We have a long distance relationship, but that could never keep us from having this relationship we were destined to have.
Hey Michael, Amber, while you’re both here, what’s up with the symbols in your screennames? I mean, they don’t serve any useful purpose… I’m just curious.
Anyway, I met my girlfriend over the internet, and now we live together. Errr… that is, we live in the same dorm. She was applying to my school and emailed me to get a insider’s view of the place.
Over this summer I just sort of fell for her, and now here we are. I just got back from making out with her. Ain’t the Internet great?
–John
Just decoration really:-)
Congatulations on your relationship and make-out session;)
I met my husband on the net just over three years ago. We ‘met’ in an AOL chat room about horror movies. We dated long distance for 2 years (he was in MA and I was in NYC) and got married last October. Our first anniversary is less than a month away
Long distance dating can be rough, especially when something unexpected happens, and your sweetie can’t just rush right over. It was hard, and there were some times when I downright hated it, but it worked out in the end
Rose
I met my SO the old-fashioned way (in a bar), but a buddy of mine met his wife on the internet. They exchanged email for a year, he flew out to see her, and just never left. They’re still unbelievably happy after 7 years.
Seems scary to me though. I congratulate anyone who ever had it work out.
Well, I met my BF about 19 months ago. We were friends for about 5 months, and we talked to each other CONSTANTLY. I mean, 18 hours a day, sometimes even 20, we were on the internet or the phone. (Yes, that leaves 4 hrs for food, sleep, showers, and family). Well, we met in Sep, he stayed with me for 3 weeks, then went home for 6 weeks. Then on Oct 30, 1998, he came back and lived with me, and we’ve been together ever since.
I met my first serious girlfriend in college through Usenet (when I was your age sonny, we didn’t have that there high falutin’ World Wide Web thingamabob…) on alt.folklore.urban.
I met the second one through the net as well. It was spring break and all my friends had gone on vacation. By Tuesday I was bored out of my skull. I did a who command to see who was logged in and saw the name of a girl who lived in the same dorm, but whom I had never talked with. We chatted for a while online and decided to meet the next day for coffee. By Friday we were together almost 24 hours a day and remained so until graduation.
My current SO (and fiancee), I met through more conventional means. She was my student in the ESL class I was teaching (don’t worry, she (like most of my students) is older than me). One day, we were talking about international marriages when she looked me in the eye and said, “I’d really like to have an American boyfriend.” To which I suavely responded, “Okay.” We’ve been together for just over 3 years now.
–sublight.
You must be new.
Since you are, I met a SO off the sdmb.
We got engaged a month after meeting.
Didn’t work out, but…
I didn’t meet DeathLlama on the net; we’d gone to college together and had been casual friends when we started emailing each other after graduation. The emails revealed an entirely different person than either of us had thought, and well…the rest is history.
It kinda counts, right?
I met my husband back when you connected to a “BBS” through a “2400 baud modem” and always used either local numbers or PCPursuit. He ran a local board, to which my then-boyfriend directed me. He invited the bf and me to a movie with him and some friends. Boyfriend had to work. I went. Boyfriend showed up at house after work and hung out for a while. Then he went home. I didn’t. :eek:
Been married almost eight years now, with our computers side-by-side. Which plays hell on my monitor, by the way. Heh heh heh.
I met my SO over the internet, through an ad I had placed on Love@AOL, seven months ago. We talked for a few weeks before we were able to meet in person. Thankfully we did not live far from each other so we were able to talk and see each other as often as we could. We clicked instantly and started out as “movie buddies” and decided to take things slowly. As of today things are going fantastic and I could not be happier.
One, how many people out there met a SO on the net?
Raising hand. Right here on the good ol’ SDMB!
And eventually marry that person?
Not yet… Looking at watch.
How long did you date before deciding?
We “dated” online and over the phone and via a few visits back and forth for about six months, at which point we decided we were sick of not being with each other and she moved out here to CA.
Were these long distance or relatively close relatioships?
Well, she was in PA and I was in CA, so I guess that would be long distance.
What are some of the most creative proposal ideas you can think of, or perhaps carried out?
I’m not tellin’, because I haven’t got to do it yet.
Oh, BTW, we are still insanely happy…
my barber met his wife online
he was actually chatting with another woman and she thought he would be more suited for her friend, introduced then, as it were, and viola, about a year later they tied the knot. Last I heard, they’re quite happy and it’s been about 2 years.
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I made it to someone’s sig line. WOW!
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I’ve never dated anyone I’ve met on-line but I have a couple of chat buddies. I do have a friend who met her boyfriend over the Internet. They haven’t met IRL yet but I have a feeling they will soon. They e-mail and chat and talk on the phone quite a bit. I hope it works out for her.
Amber, let me do you a favor and explain this to you now.
DO NOT quote out the entire contents of a persons post, especially within the first handful of responses. It gets very annoying and people here will not take kindly to it.
Quote only when your response directly applies to something that was said, if you just want to make it known you are talking to another poster in specific mentioning their name will do nicely since we all can read the rest of the thread. When you do choose to quote just crop it down to the sentance of two that apply to your comments.
My advice, do with it what you will. Enjoy the SDMB, thanks for coming.
Brian and I met on here, thanks to his amusing posts and my complete boredom. I work at a computer lab and often have down time, and he had his AIM and Yahoo screen names in his sig way back when, so I just figured I’d drop him a shout. We were friends for about six months before we met, and we were engaged about three months later. In less than three months, I graduate from college and move out to be with him in NC, then he goes with me to wherever I end up for law school. Right now, we see each other about once every two weeks or so, sometimes more often (I just spent 10 days with him because I was on break from school). Oh, and the proposal? He did it at an NBA game, on the scoreboard. Absolutely awesome.
We’re happier than flies in garbage, and we still manage to nauseate everyone we meet with it. I can think of many worse ways to be.