Quote From: outloudestIt true what they say. When you stop looking for that thing you want the most you will find it. My husband and I met online but not through a dating service. We both had had enough of the dating world and called off dating. We both registered on yahoo looking for a pen pal. I got his profile as a match and I emailed him because we had a lot in common. We exchanged emails for six months as pen pals. Not once did we mention talking on the phone or exchanging photos. We were just long distance friends.
We finally talked and exchanged photos in Oct. We met on Thanksgiving day. I was a soldier at the time and not going home for the holidays. He invited me over to help him cook dinner. I was really comfortable with him like I had known him forever. I would not recommend everyone do this but it worked for us. He was a police officer and I had him checked out. We have been together ever since. Married 5 years now with two beautiful children.
Too many people go on these online dating services expecting to meet their soulmate in the first 5 min. I recommend going on there and meeting new friends. Start as friends and you can grow from there. Don't rush into things. Take you time and don't add more pressure by trying to make yourself the perfect woman or man. Be yourself and be honest.
I met my boyfriend of 3 1/2 years online, but when we started talking I was getting out of a relationship that I had been trying SO hard to get out of for 2 years (eventually had to get a restraining order...). He kept me sane really, & while we were talking I wasn't even thinking about a relationship. He lived a little over an hour away from me & it just so happened that not long before we started talking my mom moved quite close to him, so while I was at my mom's visiting one weekend, we decided to get together just to hang out, watch a movie or whatever, & have been together ever since.
