Internet Dating

Discussion in 'Relationships' started by TooTrue, Jul 27, 2014.

  1. TooTrue

    TooTrue Member

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    I'd like to hear stories of people that have tried various forms of meeting people via internet who have actually dated the people they met.
    Include forums like this, dating sites like e-harmony, and Craigs list stories.
    GO--------->
     
  2. Pressed_Rat

    Pressed_Rat Do you even lift, bruh?

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    I've used OKCupid with some success. I've hooked up with some girls and made some new friends, but nothing too serious has come from it. It's better than bars, IMO.
     
  3. -Yggdrasil-

    -Yggdrasil- Einherjar

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    I met my fiancé in an old school chat room about 15 years ago. We chatted on msn for years then decided to meet. Until then we barely knew what each other looked like but had spoken on the phone for a year or so. When we did finally meet we clicked instantly and I asked her to move to me which she did. That was 10 years ago.

    I've always had high praise for internet dating because my story is real and I know it works no matter the distance (gf was on the complete other side of Australia to me, certain countries are closer to me) You just need patience. What I liked about it was I got to know my girl from the inside first for years that when I did meet her the looks really meant nothing to me, I knew her for her and that's what I fell in love with.
     
  4. TooTrue

    TooTrue Member

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    I LOVE that story Yggdrasil!!!! Thank you for sharing.
     
  5. RickyRicardo

    RickyRicardo Member

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    My girlfriend and I met via an online dating site.

    I sent forth a request, she accepted & the conversations began, they grew, expanded, became bolder & whatnot & eventually, we started going out.

    That was almost 2 years ago now.

    Whilst a lot of people go to online dating sites for 'fun' or to troll, there's certainly the capacity to find some decent people that you could spend your life with out there.
     
  6. Tyrsonswood

    Tyrsonswood Senior Moment Lifetime Supporter

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    I met my ex online.... Note, she's my ex.
     
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  7. -Yggdrasil-

    -Yggdrasil- Einherjar

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    Without anymore information I'm just going to suggest that you were probably the problem haha. :p
     
  8. Tyrsonswood

    Tyrsonswood Senior Moment Lifetime Supporter

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    I filed... She was off with some other guy.
     
  9. -Yggdrasil-

    -Yggdrasil- Einherjar

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    I take that back then good sir!
     
  10. TooTrue

    TooTrue Member

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    Do you think it was the third eye?
     
  11. Sandra85

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    Your story is very inspiring and it gives hope to other people searching for their other half online.
     
  12. -Yggdrasil-

    -Yggdrasil- Einherjar

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    I hope so. It is a good story, everybody loves hearing about it even in real life. It's one of the topics you'll see me get passionate about. I've gone through the hard time but it paid off with good times. Never say never!
     
  13. Alternative_Thinker

    Alternative_Thinker Darth Mysterious

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    I met my girlfriend on a music related website. I first noticed her because she was into all the same stuff I was into. So I messaged her, and we just started talking. I was talking to other girls at the time, but soon it because apparent that she'd become my "go-to" girl just because I always felt so relaxed when I was talking to her. We didn't even know we were starting to fall in love with each other until a little while later when we stopped and were like, "wait, are we becoming a thing now?" lol

    That was a little over a year ago. Our relationship is still thriving despite the long distance(our distance could range from 5000 to 7000 miles, currently the latter). Like Yggdrasil, I've found long distance/online dating to be beneficial in terms of building and exercising your communication skills. The reason being, that's pretty much all you have when you're in a relationship like this. I guess you don't have other things(namely sex, perhaps? lol) that might distract you. You also tend to find out who is compatible with you and who isn't pretty quickly, too. My first online relationship was with someone from Hip Forums many many years ago. We definitely weren't compatible, though, back then we tried to ignore that for a while, lol. My second girlfriend and I thought our relationship was "it" based on a series of rather uncanny things, but we lasted less than a month together.

    With my current girlfriend, I finally know what it's like to be in an easy relationship. Mind you, distance still means, in my case, big time difference and all that makes it challenging. But when it comes to how well we communicate, the whole thing of having each other as our romantic partners, all that stuff is pretty much stress-free. In other words, what makes it hard to deal with in this relationship comes from the outside, not within us.
     
  14. TooTrue

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    That's sweet. One of you can't move to the same city as the other?
    I do agree it's nice to talk to people online, but it still leaves a void in physical connecting (outside of sex; I'm talking about just being able to reach out and physically touch).
     
  15. Amethyst87F

    Amethyst87F JesF35

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    I used to chat A LOT. I had about 4 men that I was really close to. I've not been into chatting very much for around the last 7 years or so. I know that before I gave it a chance and "fell in love" with doing so, that I think I was really lonely.

    Anyway, I kept my relationship up with of these men on and off for a long time.

    Looking back, I think I liked that the communication was done through typing. -- I did also have a webcam as did the people I mentioned being so close to.

    --- I did have the option to do communication to cam with audio. I never got into that though. --- I definitely preferred typing over that kind of interaction and think I still would. -- I think this kind of communicating is similar to phone conversations for me in regards to it being natural to pretty much always typing or talking.

    As for internet dating, I think it can be a really wonderful thing. -- Of course there's things couples can do when together in person that can't be done over the computer.

    I'm sure most everyone that's reading this does know that giving out information online an be dangerous.

    --- There are plenty of stories out there about people meeting online and then meeting face-to-face that work out really well.

    I met my past good friends/lovers in chat rooms. I bring this up because there are those dating sites online these days.
     
  16. la Principessa

    la Principessa Old School HF Member

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    I met my current girlfriend on OkCupid. I get very nervous with people so going to meet them gives me such anxiety but I honestly don't know how to meet people in person lol I made her wait two weeks before I agreed to meet up with her. That's the thing I like about online dating. You can get to know them before you waste time and energy picking out an outfit and sitting in a coffee shop with someone you don't click with. Luckily I knew I'd click with her so when we met I was only nervous for a few minutes and then it was all good. It's been 3 1/2 years that we've been together now.

    I had an off and on strictly online relationship with someone from this forum actually but he turned out to be a psycho so that was that lol he got mad when I started dating a woman and didn't want to be with him again, but he has anger problems and I don't have patience for that shit. Plus I should have known better because he started chatting me up on here when I was 16 and he was like 30. I was a dumb kid.

    I briefly had a thing with another guy from this forum like seven years ago. It didn't work out, but we're still friends on Facebook and everything.

    I actually had quite a few flirtations with people I met on here. Even a woman back when I was convinced I was totally straight lol
     
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  17. I'minmyunderwear

    I'minmyunderwear Newbie

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    someone from here turned out to be psycho? no way...
     
  18. la Principessa

    la Principessa Old School HF Member

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    I know, it's unbelievable lol
     
  19. Alternative_Thinker

    Alternative_Thinker Darth Mysterious

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    Four years later, I'm still with the same girl. So that has got to say something. I'm currently back in her country, and we've been enjoying the physical closeness aspect that we missed since my last visit.
     
  20. McFuddy

    McFuddy Visitor

    Some of the worst dates of my life were brought to me by online dating sites. Well, site. I only used one. I mean the site did it's job, just... I can't reasonably expect them to guarantee the quality of the resulting dates. But it was easy enough to meet people, I give it that.
     

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