Date:

04/11/03

Name:

bloodrosez

Email:

 

Age:

15

Dated-online-before:

Yes

Would-recommend-dating-online:

Yes

Story

On Feb 16th 2001..i had logged onto a chat that i go to every day, it was early in the morning before i would be going to school, and usually no one is in the chat room, but still i went in to see if anyone that i knew happened to be there..there wasnt but to my surprise i saw two guys in there just chatting, and one of them started talking to me n we talked all that morning until i had to go to school, we both agreed to talk to each other later on that day because i started winter break that day. So him and I continued to chat every single day constantly, then on Feb 20th of that year, i asked him out, because i knew from the first day i talked to him that there was something about him that just attracted me to him n made me know thst he was the one i could spend the rest of my life with so easily.. i was so happy when he agreed that we would try out our internet relationship. Well with me being in the United States and him living in England it took a lot to get use to, of never being able to be around each other, and express love to each other that easily..but we soon became adjusted to it, and started every possible way to stay in contact with each other. We send gifts,letters, we talk on the phone and we talk online every single day, we also use webcam. And here it is almost 26 months later and we are still together, yeah we have had our struggles because of the distance and everything along those lines, but we continue to strive for everything we have faith in, and i couldnt change a thing about it hes my world, im miserable when we fight, im happy when im around him, hes shown me what love is, before i met him i was just about ready to give up on everything, and he showed me that people do care, and he continues to show me that each and every day. This year will be our first time meeting, im suppose to be going over to England to spend a month with him in July, im really looking forward to holding him in my arms, and showing him just how much i really love and cherish him with all my heart in soul...ill let u know on further updates! Candace loves Ian

Date:

04/26/02

Name:

cphillips

Email:

 

Age:

22

Dated-online-before:

No

Would-recommend-dating-online:

Yes

Story

Our family purchased a home computer in May 1998. We(2 younger brothers and I) definitely wanted access to the internet. It was the greatest thing that could have happened. I spent my spare time surfing the net. I signed into chatrooms. I must have spoken to hundreds of people. I remember so clearly the day I first chatted with him. It was July 26, 1998. We did the a/s/l thing....and just small chat. The following day I met him online again. He lived 1300 miles away. We chatted everyday to the wee hours of the morning. I could talk to him about anything. He built the courage to ask me for my number; a little hesitant about giving it to him, I gave him my work number and told him he could call me there. He gave me the hour he was going to call 7pm. I remember watching the clock all evening at work at 7 the phone rang. It was him. We didn't talk much but I got his number and called him when I got home. We talked for hours that night. I loved talking to this man. I would spend hours online and phone with him. We professed our feelings for one another. After a couple of years of internet contact we agreed that it was time to meet. March of 2000 he flew down to meet me. We spent a wonderful week together. In July 2000 I flew up to spend a week with him. Another wonderful week. Spent a Christmas 2001 with him. In July 2002 he proposed to me. We married in February of this year. I must say I am deeply in love with him and I would not have it any other way.

Date:

03/22/03

Name:

Michelle

Email:

 

Age:

30

Dated-online-before:

Yes

Would-recommend-dating-online:

Yes

Story

I have been on the net going on 2yrs.now, I have met two guys out of chat rooms that did not work out, so I said strike three and I wasnt going to do it anymore.So one night I was in a chatroom and this guy out of the blue instant messaged me, I responded back we got to talking figuring alittle bit out on each other, at the time he was living with a girl and I was married but I was very unhappily married so his conversations with me helped me out alot. Well him and his girlfriend didnt get along so he moved back home which is 10hrs.from me where he was only like 45 minutes from me but he asked me if he could still keep in contact with me and I said sure but I figured we would lose contact and I wouldnt hear from him again, but needless to say we have stayed in contact and I have recently separated from my husband so he has been there for me thru it all.We emailed each other all thru the day and now we call each other like 4 or 5 times a day.My feelings for him has gone alot further than I ever thought could happen, I have fallen in love with him and I know its love because you dont have that strange feeling that comes over you and nothing is there..but we have planned on meeting the weekend of June 6th he is coming to meet me and my family and I just hope everything works out for the best for the both of us, but if it doesnt at least I will know that wasnt a chance that I let pass by me...So my advice is hold your head high and we all are adults here so I think we know when our hearts is heading in a right direction...

Date:

05/23/03

Name:

Anonymous

Email:

 

Age:

39

Dated-online-before:

No

Would-recommend-dating-online:

Yes

Story

After 15 years of marriage and at 39 years of age, I found myself suddenly single. Since I did not work, did not feel comfortable with the bar scene and all of my friends were married, I felt that I really had no choice but to give internet dating a try. Having no children, I only had myself to worry about as far as dating strangers was concerned. I researched several dating sites until I found one that I thought might be worth a try. It was free to women at the time, but men had to pay a fee if they wanted to join. I figured that was a plus, since any man who was willing to pay for membership was probably seriously looking for romance. The site allowed you to control who contacted you, which I thought was another plus. After filling out the required information -- you know, the usual description of yourself, your likes and dislikes, etc., I was a bit nervous but on my way. I must say, except for one "freak", I met several very nice guys over the course of 3 months. I believe the key is to start out with light conversation via instant messaging and then progress to exchanging e-mail addresses if the light conversation seems to be heading in the serious conversation direction. You'd be amazed at how much you can learn about a person through their written word. You can certainly get a sense of a person's intelligence and if they are witty or not just by their writing style. You can then exchange telephone numbers if you feel comfortable and the next step would be to meet in a PUBLIC PLACE if you really hit it off. Also, I followed my gut instinct -- if someone was being too secretive from the start, I immediately would back away. DO NOT give your e-mail address and DO NOT, DO NOT give your phone number unless you feel like it is absolutely the right thing to do. I conversed via IM w/lots of guys, but there were only 3 or 4 I gave my phone number to and then actually met in person. I met the wonderful man I've been living with for the past two years on that dating site. I truly believe fate brought us together and that we were always meant to be. Although he fit none of the criteria I was looking for in a man except the fact that we lived in the same town (he is 4 years younger, smoked, has 2 kids and was only separated from his wife at the time), I sensed honesty and an openness in him from our first exchange of conversation. We met at a time when we were both going through a break-up and we helped eachother through. We fell in love and our love grows deeper every day because of our ability to communicate with eachother and our honesty and respect for one another. He's since divorced and has quit smoking and I have been given an opportunity to share my life with this kind and thoughtful man and to get to know his 2 great kids. So, I'm all for internet dating as long as you're selective about who you invite into your life. Life's too short not to take a chance to find the person you're meant to grow old with!

Date:

06/01/03

Name:

Marissa

Email:

 

Age:

14

Dated-online-before:

Yes

Would-recommend-dating-online:

Yes

Story

On March 25, 2003 I just went into a chat room on Yahoo! and after awhile I got a IM from some guy. We started to talk and he seemed really nice. His name is Chris. We've been going together for a little over 2 months now and it's great. He's 17 and I'm 14. He lives in Ontario and I live in Wisconsin. He might be coming down here this summer to visit. He is not like other guys I have met around here before, he's very nice and respects me, which is very important to me. We talk online everyday and on the phone once a week (only because of the phone bill). I love him very much and he loves me a lot too. He's just a great guy.

Date:

060803

Name:

Anonymous

Email:

 

Age:

15

Dated-online-before:

No

Would-recommend-dating-online:

No

Story

When I was in sec 1, there was guy whom i know that really gave me my happiest moment in my life. I would named him as 'x' in this case. X and me happened to sit together as we were told to do so by our teacher. Hence, everyday was a joy for me. He would make me happy by telling me jokes and chatting with me whenever I'm down. There was one thing that I realised as I sat with him, that is, I could not look into his eyes. I realised that looking into his eyes was tough and awkward. After some time, I knew that X like a girl(Y) from the other class and I decided to help him to woo the Y. Although I knew that I seemed to feel something for X already, I ignored my what I felt and continue helping him. I thought to myself that this would be just infatuation and hence, I leave this feeling aside. Finally, he managed to win Y's heart. I wished them all the best. During sec 2, since they were together, I didn't think too much as well. My sec 2 life just goes on like this and when I was in sec 3, I was banded to a class which was different from this guy. I thought enerything was over. My feeling for him indeed was jst infatuation. However, I was wrong. The feeling came back as when my group of friends ofetnly mix with X and we played basketball together. Basketball stands a important place in his heart as well as in my heart. We kept contact very oftenly. Before every tournament he has to play for our school, I would give him my full support and say two words to him 'Play Hard'. This two words were enough I guess. He told me before that he's always doing badly in the tournaments and didn't help to score points for our school. He was feeling down. One day, I gave a magic sentence and asked him to think about it every now and then as well as even when he was playing in his tournaments. Never did I thought that this magic sentence really works and he was the top scorer for the match that took place the day after what I said. We seemed to be quite close online, but when we met each other in school, we won't chat too much. This is the time in my sec 3 life that I felt that I'm so sure of myself for the first time. I knew that I like X. For the past 2 years, the feeling had just temporary been cover up. Now, the feeling came back so real and strong. One day, I came to know that he broke with Y. He told me that I'm the first to know. Anguish is what I felt at that moment. I thought they were very happy together. He told me that the reason he chose to break with Y was because the feeling had become so plain. He didn't thought that this would happen as well as everything was so sweet when it started. I reprimanded him in a sense of humour as well as in a way that revealed my disappointment. He said that he was guilty, but he had no choice as well. He thought very long before suggested this 'break up'. This matter closes. We chatted in a group on the phone every now and then. X and me would ended up chatting in the conversation as all of them had hung. It was fun to chat with him. However, it was odd as well. This was because I never thought that I would chat with him on the phone. Every day passed on, I felt that X seemed to sense that X feel something for me gradually. Y was my friend now. We chatted online and she told me that she still likes X. It's 5 months!! and yet, she has not given up. I told X about it and he told me that it's impossible for a 'patch up'. Y knew that it was impossible as well. She felt that she was being foolish to wait for X. However, she just couldn't forget him. I felt what Y feels right now. Although Y and me are just casual friends.Nevertheless, I know exactly how she feels and I felt that she must be very sad. I know that I won't accept X because of Y. I knew that even if I gave up X, X will still not go back to Y. However, I juzt can't put down this heavy rock, Y. Y is trying hard to forget X, but I think it wouldn't be easy for her. All I know is that I would not accept X even if he asked as Y exists in this world once and had once been with him. They are both mearnt to be together, that's what I thought in my heart. However, fate seem to distinguish them apart.

Date:

06/12/03

Name:

Stacey51

Email:

staceywabie@hotmail.com

Age:

27

Dated-online-before:

Yes

Would-recommend-dating-online:

Yes

Story

Hi my name is Stacey, I am 29 years old. Two years ago about I meet this guy on line. Like not face to face. I meet him on ICQ, we had fun getting to know each other.Then we started calling each other on the phone and we would talk like for hours not caring how much our phone bill would come up to at the end.We talked about meeting in person and I was gonna. But I got to nevous. I loved this guy so much that I was scared that he would of denied me at the end. So I called it off. I told him that things wouldn't work out and I knew he would never talk to me again. But I would email him just to let him know I was alive still. I missed him over the years and I always wondered what he was up to. But this year around january I cleaned up my junk box that I keep old things in. I found his picture and I was sad. So I throw it away. Three months went by and I was online in my Yahoo messenger. It was easter Monday, Boy! did I get a suprise of a life time. It was a messenge I got from him. I Cried with happiness. We talked everynight catching up on the last two years. It was great but to this day we are so busy with work and our lives that we haven't had much time to talk anymore. But Take it from me when you get that chance to met the guy that swept you off your feet take that chance and go for it. Because to this day Me and him are gonna met in person. And I care for him and his name is Danny. So don't be a fool. I now believe in Faith because if it wasn't for faith we would of never talked again. So take you chance and run tohim. Thanks for reading my story.

Date:

6/14/03

Name:

Sapphire

Email:

Delishisskissez8@aol.com

Age:

13

Dated-online-before:

Yes

Would-recommend-dating-online:

Yes

Story

Hey whats up.My name is Sapphire and i am about to explain my love story to you as it is so far.Well i was 13 when i met corben that is m boyfriend now.Just to let you know this is a teenage love story a real real thing.I am 14 now.And i know in your heads you are saying what in the world does she know about love but let me tell you that this is real you just wouldnt understand until i explain.Ok i was in a chatroom and also talking to who is now my ex boyfriend reggie.Corben imed me wanting to talk but i payed no attention to him because i was talking to reggie and liked him alot.I took down corben's screen name put him on my buddy list for some strange reason.The next day i went to school and gave his sn to my best friend and told her to talk to him because i was taken and she was single.Well its so strange how i began talking to reggie less and less and began talking to corben more and more for hours.Well i had a crush on him like a big crush and began losing interest in reggie.Well somehow reggie found out about corben imed him and had a big argument over me.This is when corben told me he had been liking me from the beginning when he started to know me.Well i broke up with reggie and we are just friends now.Me and corben now go together.And have been together for 4 bout 5 months so far.He knows everything there is to know about me and i know everything i mean everything there is to know about him.He sends me cards for occasions and sometimes no reason to show he cares for me and loves me.And i do the same exact thing he sends me money all the time and says i am his future wife.I have spoken to his parents and grandparents and his little sister.He has spoken to my family also.He is the same age as me 14 and is about to be 15 in october.And we are in love with each other truthfully.Not playing around i mean like real life love and we show it to each other.I think this was meant to happen.I have prayed to to god and the heavens above for guidance and yes he is the one for me.For me and him it was like destiney like fate.I just cant explain it.When i am depressed or just not feeling good he is the only one that makes me laugh or feel happy and glad.And i sing to him all the time and he writes poems to me all about me.We love each other regardless of anything.I am so in love with him i just sometimes cry cause i am so happy.Yes this is my love story as it is so far.And i am very much glad to share it with you.I hope you now understand this is something real as i do.Goodbye i appreciate you reading my story.Thank you. ~Sapphire~

Date:

06/17/03

Name:

Chris33mCT

Email:

 

Age:

34

Dated-online-before:

Yes

Would-recommend-dating-online:

Yes

Story

Got divorced and started using online personals and chat rooms to meet people. Since I worked a lot and was never into the bar scene, meeting on the 'net seemed my best hope. Met lets of girls online and went out with 5 of them. None of the dates were disastrous, but none turned into anything. I found a decent tool online at http://www.loveresume.com that lets you organize and store your dating history. I found that it was a good way to keep track of who I was talking to and going on dates with. I used a few online single sites ... not sure which ones are still online, but I had success on most of them. Met my wife on webpersonal.com ... now. Don't give up! After 3 years of what seemed like endless chatting and setting up online personal ads, I met a wonderful girl. And get this, she was only 3 blocks from my apartment! We wanted so many of the same things from life. Using the Internet to search for a match allowed us to learn a lot about each other before we even sent our first messages. I can't imagine all of the false starts I could have experienced if I just tried my luck at plucking a total stranger out of some bar or similar scene. Our online profiles let us learn that we were both in our 30s and divorced, neither of us had children and wanted some, non smokers, light drinkers, home bodies, etc. We married after dating a little over a year, and had a beautiful boy the following year. Hard to believe just a few short years ago I was working every night until it was time for bed, wondering how I was going to start over on building some kind of life. Things are so good. Internet dating made it possible.

Date:

07/05/03

Name:

anonymous

Email:

 

Age:

14

Dated-online-before:

Thought about it

Would-recommend-dating-online:

It depends on the circumstances

Story

I can't believe I found this website, I thought I was going through this alone. Well.. my story, I'm not going to say any names but I met him when I was 14 in '00 (turning 17 this year in Sep 13) We met in a chatroom when I very first got the internet, I didn't really know what I was doing but from seeing my friends I knew how to IM someone in a chatroom, it was a compuserve (however you spell it) chatroom and it sucked i rarely went in there but just out of nowhere I was like "I should IM him" so I did and that's basically went it began. It was hard to get to know him at first, he was kind of shy and i was kind of immature then so I always cracked jokes, told stories about me, asked funny "what if" questions.. etc.. but we eventually started talking a lot, before we even thought about being together or anything like that, we really got to know each other, and it seemed just out of nowhere we slowly started falling for each other, till this day (almost 3 years of not meeting but constantly talking pretty much everyday) he's still my best friend, i feel like i can tell him anything and not just because it's online. I've read "good and bad" section and I mostly dont have a problem with the bad, even though I've never seen him before we've talked about being a "fake" and so on and pretending (but really, who would pretend after almost 3 years? lol talk about a game) anyways.. i could go on and on, almost 3 years is A LOT to talk about but basically the point is i guess it's possible to like someone online and love them, we aren't "together" we both agree it's kind of stupid but we're both in love and also love each other as friends and hope to meet one day. Thanks for reading.

Date:

07/21/03

Name:

Louise

Email:

 

Age:

21

Dated-online-before:

Yes

Would-recommend-dating-online:

Yes

Story

I'm a disabled girl who has found my Mr Right through the net. It all started when I posted an ad on a disabled website looking for friends, the last thing I was expecting to find was love. I had a few replies mostly off guys, i who lived about half an hour away, we started emailling each other about once a week, after a while he wanted to meet up, one part of me wanted too, but the other part felt uneasy as he was a few years older than me. My parents weren't happy about the idea either. Eventually I gave into him, I made myself ill with worry and nerves days even weeks before I met him (I never want to go through that again). I had no reason to be though as he was really nice, we got on well together. He wanted to meet me again, but I haven't heard from him since. Then earlier this year another guy who I used to email got in touch with me again, we started instant messaging each other, we found we had so much in common, then one night while we were chatting he said he loved me, I was very shocked by this as everyone said no one would ever want to go out with me cos of my looks and disability. I thought i'd be a loner forever. A couple of days passed by then he asked me out, I didn't give him an answer straight away, but I thought why not, i'll give it a go. We've been going out just over 2 months now, we love each other so much, he means everything to me. I'm happier now than i've ever been, and I always will be as long as i've got him. We're hoping to get married in the future, i'm looking forward to spending the rest of my life with him. Some people think i'm mad having an online relationship including 1 of my best friends (she should read some of the stories on here), she doesn't want anything to do with me anymore, it upsets me in a way cos we've been friends about 10 years and have been through alot together. But at least now i've got a new best friend as well as a boyfriend. So i'd say to anyone who's thinking of having an online relationship to give it a go regardles of age, sex, race or disability.