swedish

After being fixed up several times with no luck (I guess I am picky) I thought about it and it made sense that it would give me an opportunity to meet people outside of my circle of friends and thought the chances of meeting someone inside my circle of friends was minimal being in my 30's and most of them were married.

I am shy by nature so it was also easier for me to email back and forth a bit and get to know the person a little before meeting up with them. I was concerned about the safety aspect of it, but I always gave my friend the details/profile of the man and would always meet in a public place and fortunately never had any issues.

I was the head of the IT department where I was working at the time and raising three young children on my own, so to be honest, it did not even leave me much time for the online route. I did not initiate the contact on the site. My friend would check the profile and print off possible candidates that had contacted me and give them to me in a folder to look through. It was one night when my kids were at their dad's for the weekend, I decided to look around the site myself and found my now husband. Funny, we did not come up as matches for each other because he's 5 years younger so we initially weeded each other out.