Did you meet your SO online?

[Connonym]

Poll question: Did you meet your SO online?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

1. Yes, I met her here.

[Connonym]

3. So I hear :-)

:toast: you lucky ducks

[NewJeffCT]

20. Why are you keeping it such a secret then?

just kidding.

[LostinVA]

35. I know, I know

We keep saying we're becoming what always drove us both crazy: one of "those" couples. I promise we'll calm down soon. Patience.

[wildhorses]

2. on match

yes, but he was demoted--recentlyhe doesn't believe it though:shrug:

[SPKrazy]

5. Hope Springs Eternal.....

[Broken_Hero]

4. nope, met her in college nt

[Lumily]

19. Same here. n/t

[LadyoftheRabbits]

6. Yep, here

:D :hi:

[ZombieNixon]

12. Indeed.

:D

[LeftyMom]

7. Does DU count?

:)

[mike_c]

8. what is this "significant other" that you speak of...?

I met my cats in a variety of places, if that counts. None of them online, I'm afraid.

[Systematic Chaos]

9. Met my wife on match.com in 2002

Got the subscription to the service as literally my last attempt to find someone. I won't explain my whole backstory but let's just say I'd been emotionally devastated numerous times in the years previous and was ready to give up on romance (and life, for that matter). Couldn't find anyone worthwhile in the Vegas area (seems most of the ads were for club-hoppers who wanted a sugar daddy) and so I expanded the radius to 300 miles to include Phoenix and So. Cal. Lo and behold, she had placed her own ad the day after I placed mine and it was almost at the very top of the list for compatibility.

Within a week we knew we had something unlike any previous experience. After just over a month I arranged to take my first drive down to Tempe and when faced with the need to return to Vegas I almost said screw it and didn't. By the end of 2002 she had moved up here. We were married 11 months to the day after her reply to my first contact. Our 4th anniversary is this June 8th. :)

[wildhorses]

10. what a lovely story

:loveya:

[Connonym]

11. kick -- please vote!

Enquiring minds want to know.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

13. No, this was before the net got off the ground

I met my SO at a Unitarian church because I was looking for a nice non-believer type.

Who liked smart women and was musical and clever and told horrible jokes. And he's great at changing lightbulbs, figuring out circuit loads and all that stuff I would never think of (former engineer. Physicist/mathematician/musician/composer/audio & video engineer).

We've been together since 1994.

[VenusRising]

14. Nope, he was the pizza delivery guy!

:P

[MrSlayer]

15. No. There wasn't much cyberlife back then.

We found each other the old fashioned way, by accident.

[mykpart]

16. I met my husband in 5th grade.

Back then computers were known as Univac or IBM machines, and took up an entire floor of a building. And the internet didn't exist. I think Al Gore was still in grade school too!

[LostinVA]

17. Yup, on DU

I was neither looking for it nor expecting it, but it's turned into the the best thing that ever happened to me.

Even if she is a little New Jersey punk.

[GalleryGod]

18. To quote Joseph Conrad...

" The horror...the horror "

[BuddhaGirl]

21. yes, in an AOL chat room....1996

I moved to the Bay Area in 1997 from So. CA to be with him, and we got married in 1998.

Blissful happiness! I now hate AOL but thank god I had it back then LOL

[kwassa]

22. met online in 1994, pre-World Wide Web, or dating services

Usenet news groups, using primitive Unix newsreaders.

Been together 13 years.

[bicentennial_baby]

23. Yes, on DU

[fudge stripe cookays]

24. Personalpossibilities.com

In very late 1998.

It began heating up in early 1999, he came down to visit that March, I went up to visit that summer, then again at Christmas.

He finally moved down here in May of 2000, and we were married July 2000. Best, most incredibly healthy relationship I've ever had. Texan men and I are like round pegs and square holes. Canadian men and I CLICK.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

25. yes,

[bridgit]

26. nope...

[Jimbo S]

27. I got lucky. We were neighbors.

[NewWaveChick1981]

28. There was no such thing as online when I met him in 1983.

:hi: I wouldn't be opposed to it at all, but it just happened the old-fashioned way.

[auntAgonist]

29. I met my husband on MIRC

In a chat group. We married 2 years later. Our 7th wedding anniversary is in March of this year.


aA

[trackfan]

30. We met on Prodigy in 1995.

She came up as an "auto-match" for me. So I guess you can say we were introduced by a computer.

[soleft]

31. Planet Out 4 years ago

We still torture each other (all in good fun) over things in our profiles. Tho I'm probably more on the receiving end than she.

[skygazer]

32. No but I wouldn't have if it weren't for the Internet

I met a guy on the Internet back in about '95 - purely by accident. My daughter was watching me surf, saw a dating site and talked me into posting an ad. So I did but when this guy replied, I explained I wasn't really looking for a boyfriend.

But he became a friend and kept telling me that if I ever decided to move to California (I lived in Vermont), I could stay at his place. Which I eventually did in '98.

Three years later, I met my SO, we've been together six years and I'm still close friends with the other guy.

Sometimes things just work. :)

[av8rdave]

33. I dated a couple of people I met online when I was between marriages

[Rhythm]

34. Oktoberain and i met at "Joe's All-Nite Diner"

... a chatroom in the old BeSeen system.

That was almost 8 years ago.

How she still puts up with me, i'll never know.

[NewJeffCT]

36. I met a ton of women from online during the 90s

The first wave was a lot of women that were dishonest about their appearances. A few second dates, but nothing really worked out. And, yes I know men are just as bad, if not worse, when it comes to dishonesty online. And, I'm not that shallow where looks are my #1 priority - it's just that how can you trust somebody that is that dishonest before you even meet? (Pictures were not as easy to do before digital cameras became so ubiquitous.)

Then, I got married in '98 and divorced in '99 and hit the ground running as soon as my wife moved out... for some reason, I met a lot of very attractive and very intelligent women. A lot of nurses and school teachers, a few women in law school, a lot of gorgeous college women where I was actually pinching myself thinking why is this Goddess with me? (Where were these women when I was, you know, in college in the late 80s?) A few ended up being relationships that lasted a few months or a bit more.

[lizziegrace]

37. My sister met her husband on AOL

She had a thing for the British chatrooms. They knew each other online for several years and she moved to the UK and married in 2001 (2 weeks before 9/11). He's a terrific guy and my sister adores him. I consider him more than family, he's more like a hostage. ;)

[taught_me_patience]

38. yep. Match.com

If you are single and wanting to date, you must be online.

[sakabatou]

39. Still looking

[bigwillq]

40. No (nt)

[Left Is Write]

41. No.

[GOPisEvil]

42. As a matter of fact, yes.

Right here, in fact. :)

[Blue-Jay]

43. Yes & no....

She & I showed up at a DU function a few years ago, having never interacted online. Apparently there was a spark in person, and now we're married.

:loveya:

[mikeiddy]

44. When we met, there was no "online"

In 1973 we actually had to travel to meet each other . . . while walking uphill in the snow, both ways