Anyone else meet their significant other online?!

DiZ · 06-13-2012, 05:20 AM

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Originally Posted by WorkOnIt

The internet is evil. Most affairs are born from it these days. Well the ones that don't start in the work place.

I'd guess that "most" relationships born of the internet are doomed prior to even starting. Too easy to hide who you REALLY are until emotions are involved.

While I love the internet you are right. It seems to have brought out all the weirdos.

I met my husband on plentoffish.com. That site has a really bad rep but it worked out for me.

DiZ · 06-13-2012, 05:22 AM

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Originally Posted by EleGirl

As we use the internet to communicate more and more people will become wiser. There is a feeling of safety that many have on the internet. They think that since the person is not there physcially they can get away with building themselvs up more. And they let down their guard and let online friends too close too quickly.

The trick is to meet the person in real life as soon as possible. If the person you are chatting with knows that they are going to have to look you in the eye soon they are less likely to lie so much.

Very true. Even tho I met my guy on the web it worked out. We e mailed for a few days, instant message for a day, he called me and we met pretty quickly at a restaurant.

DiZ · 06-13-2012, 05:23 AM

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Originally Posted by occasionallybaffled

Met online as well. Was a free site. She contacted me and we met a 2 weeks later. Been enjoying each others company ever since.

Wasn't a very well known site. We've joked that we should contact their marketing department and do a commercial for them.

We joked about that too. How we should make a commercial for the web site or at least go on their forum to tell of our success story. It was plentyoffish.com which has a horrible rep.

His_Pixie · 06-13-2012, 11:29 AM

I met my husband on an online dating site. I had dated several other men from the site, most of whom are really good guys and a couple remain as my good friends.

You have to be smart about it and use the brains the good Lord gave you. It's not like the scam artists were born with the internet; they've been around for years.

My daughter also met her husband-to-be on the same dating site. Great guy; they get married in August after dating 3 years.