Married after meeting online

dbnavan

Has anyone on boards met their other half online, the night my darling wife and I met she was in california and I was in ireland, a simple "hi wanna chat" on yahoo chat in 2003, ended up being a 6 hour chat and few months later she landed in Dublin Airport and we have been together ever since, Married now and first baby on the way!

netwhizkid

dbnavan wrote:

Has anyone on boards met their other half online, the night my darling wife and I met she was in california and I was in ireland, a simple "hi wanna chat" on yahoo chat in 2003, ended up being a 6 hour chat and few months later she landed in Dublin Airport and we have been together ever since, Married now and first baby on the way!

You Truly have done every Internet Nerds Dream, I wish I could do that, So much easier than the typical pickup bars and getting hammered, Not so easy to "pickup" when you don't drink like me

dbnavan

netwhizkid wrote:

You Truly have done every Internet Nerds Dream, I wish I could do that, So much easier than the typical pickup bars and getting hammered, Not so easy to "pickup" when you don't drink like me

Believe me I amnt a nerd, many things other then computers interest me. The way i see is if all you can do is chat online, if the person is 100% honest, you can get to know someone alot faster and alot quicker that way.

You meet someone in a pub, you have to talk over loud music and lots of times u end up in bed with them before you even know their middle name, first name sometimes:v: (less said the better).

When you met online and your only interaction is chatting and their is no other outside influances its amazing how well you can get to know them.

ST*

dbnavan wrote:

Has anyone on boards met their other half online, Married now and first baby on the way!

Oh yeah, you mentioned it in passing before. Lovely story. congrats on the pregnancy news btw. when is herself due?
met my current bf this way . yaay for the internet :v:

dbnavan wrote:

When you met online and your only interaction is chatting and their is no other outside influances its amazing how well you can get to know them.

Very true

dbnavan

Shock_treatment wrote:

. when is herself due?

September all going well

ST*

dbnavan wrote:

September all going well

Ah super, sounds like you will make a great and doting daddy
So whats that.. three? three and a half months? As soon as she hits the third trimester she will need you alot though

dbnavan

Shock_treatment wrote:

Ah super, sounds like you will make a great and doting daddy
So whats that.. three? three and a half months? As soon as she hits the third trimester she will need you alot though

8 weeks this week.

One very excited daddy to be.

Willymuncher

Not married but engaged. A simple hello on oceanfree chat in 2002 brought us together, finally got together in 2004 and it was like we were together in person all along, we just knew from all the years talking what made one another tick. Shes moving from Oklahoma to Ireland this June.

Terry

i know of a few people who got together over the net. my own story wasn't as successful though.

congratulations to you and your wife. may you have a healthy child and many happy years together.

December Son

I actually met a girl living in ireland via t'internet, but shes american. Went out for a while, she had to move back to D.C for college sadly, so i went over to stay, it was really great, hopefully be moving back again after her exams in april, maybe moving to her home state of Seattle, i can only hope anyway! i really miss her
Met my ex online and went out for like 18 months, ended rather acrimoniously tho. But she was a wagon anyway

hepcat

Willymuncher wrote:

Not married but engaged. A simple hello on oceanfree chat in 2002 brought us together, finally got together in 2004 and it was like we were together in person all along, we just knew from all the years talking what made one another tick. Shes moving from Oklahoma to Ireland this June.

Hmmm....Mrs Willymuncher

Congrats to DBnavan by the way. I have never met anyone off the internet - but sounds like ye became penpals first. Did she live up to expectations in real life?

Ruu_Old

Congrats OP, i too met my beautiful wife online, married on May 22nd 2004 and couldnt be happier Ah the times were hard when we were apart but we pulled through it all and are living in the states now.

JohnCleary

dbnavan wrote:

Has anyone on boards met their other half online, the night my darling wife and I met she was in california and I was in ireland, a simple "hi wanna chat" on yahoo chat in 2003, ended up being a 6 hour chat and few months later she landed in Dublin Airport and we have been together ever since, Married now and first baby on the way!

Thats just plain weird and freaky*

* just my opinion!

MarinoMark

Met my wife through the ads in the Evening Herald, I placed the ad when a bit drunk, Best drunk thing I ever did !!:D

LadyJ

Funny,I've always thought of the internet as a way of meeting other people's wives!

Binomate

I know a couple that are now engaged who met over the internet.

jonny68

dbnavan wrote:

Has anyone on boards met their other half online, the night my darling wife and I met she was in california and I was in ireland, a simple "hi wanna chat" on yahoo chat in 2003, ended up being a 6 hour chat and few months later she landed in Dublin Airport and we have been together ever since, Married now and first baby on the way!

Well done mate that's cool,met an ex bird before online and ended up going out for year and a half or thereabouts,wasn't looking or that sort of just happened,was bizzare to begin with as id never done anything like that before but it was cool (at the time anyway)isn't it usually fat American men who can't score women that go to Russia to marry stunning women all they want is to get out of Russia

jonny68

JohnCleary wrote:

Thats just plain weird and freaky*

* just my opinion!

How is it?Nothing wrong with it at all,id say you are the one who could be deemed weird and freaky,this sort of thing is quite the norm thesedays

Suaimhneach

Congrats OP. Hope the pregnacy goes well, and you have many happy years together.

I personally don't think its weird at all. I think it's important to remain realisitic though. We do some high statistic, lets say 70% [I forget the actual number] of our communication through body language, and that important factor doesnt exsist with the internet.

What's the difference between texting someone daily, say a girl you like, and pm-ing her on IRC, besides the nerd factor of course :P The difference is you can communicate more. However texting is more socailly acceptable.

kaimera

Met my current gf online 4 years ago Feb16.

Seen her bout 8 times in total in that time, most recent was for the last 3 weeks. Be out in the summer on the J1 next.

Can't see myself with anyone else so marriage is the next step after college

Congrats on the baby.

Manic Moran

Yep. Wasn't trying to pick her up or anything, she just put up a rather depressed post on Craigslist.org. (San Francisco area online community).I sent her a link to some Swedish Chef video clips to cheer her up.

Eventually met up for coffee... I convinced her to go to the range. Date #2 was to a tank museum, date #3 was an electronics store. I figured I'd be keeping this one.

Getting married July.

NTM

Flukey

I know of at least 4 married couples who met online, none of which were through dating sites, just through places like Boards. I was even at one of their weddings. It's not so unusual. I know of lots of relationships too, and of course many friendships, that were built online.

RoundyMooney

Time was when such a happy turn of events from such a meeting was national news! Congratulations, and the best of luck to the two (soon to be three/or more!) of you, from someone who did it the old fashioned way!

dlofnep

Congrats. marriage is a special thing. Two of my friends met on a webforum of mine and got married just recently.

scoot on

I met my boyfriend five years ago online. Have a house together now and couldn't be happier. Definitely the best thing that ever happened me! I never imagined in a million years I'd end up going out with someone that I met online but we just got on like a house on fire. It helped that we lived in the same city, i'm not sure how i'd handle the whole long distance thing!