Let 'er rip! The other threads got me thinking, how did you meet the man/woman of your dreams (or the pain in your arse, whatever fits!)

The pain in my arse is correct i met him (USC) online in a yahoo chat room

I met my most wonderful love at a business conference in Chicago nearly 3 years ago. Here I thought I was getting a one night break from my life as a single mom of 3 kids. Not only did I get that, but I also met the love of my life. I still can't believe how lucky I am!

So, what's your story, Leney?

Playing online trivia nearly 6 years ago! And let me just say I would normally whoop his arse in the trivia games!

It's a very long and boring tale but in a nutshell - I met my husband through my job - I am from the US, work for a software company in Germany, and support our British, Australian, Canadian, and US customer base. I was in the UK after foolishly getting married, I lost 150lbs and the marriage failed, I met my husband as he was a volunteer for our company, and we became best friends, and started dating (first date he took me to the Braehead Mall and he wanted to sit and watch large women fall while taking ice skating lessons, yeah he's sadistic lol), moved in together eventually, and had a son, together, then got married So we're a little bass ackwards, but we're all together and happy bunnies now! We each had a son before we met, so we're like the international Brady Bunch of sorts.

I met mine in November 2005...

I had just gotten out of a 4 year relationship that probably should have ended looooong before it did... So I decided to quit my job of 5 years and go to America for a month to visit my Dad to clear my head... Bit of a spur of the moment decision, but I am SO GLAD that I did it!! (My Dad had emigrated there 5 years prior with my American Step Mum who had decided she would quite like to go back to the American life after spending 30 years in England!)

Anyway, I arrived there on November 3rd and went out on a girlie night out with my Step Mum and a few of our mutual friends on the 5th. We went into this bar and proceeded to drink lots... Halfway though the night I got chatting to this rather handsome guy who was sitting on a stool at the bar... This sounds like a clique... But we clicked instantly. We chatted all night long.. He had arrived back in Maryland the same day that I landed in America after spending the summer in Texas with his sister! We shared the most AMAZING kiss at the end of the night and he asked for my phone number, he called me the next afternoon and we went from there! I extended my stay for another 2 months and we were pretty damn near inseperable for that whole time. And apart from the 3000 odd mile difference, we have ever since The longest we have spent apart is this stretch now It's driving both of us crazy, but it's so gonna be worth it in the end

When I think about that first 3 months I get this HUGE cheesy grin on my face

I wanted to broaden my horizons and meet penpals from various countries so I was browsing profiles on penpalsnow.com. I usually only emailed the listings that were posted recently since I found that many emails were undeliverable after a while. One day, though, I was browsing older postings in England and came across a post by a man that sounded really interesting.

So, I emailed him. He emailed back the next day. I emailed back a couple of days later. He emailed me back right away and proceeded to sweep me right off my feet. I didn't take him seriously at first but then realized he was serious! Within a few days we were chatting online and unbelievably were falling head over heels. I was very skeptical until I could actually meet him...I never dreamed a fairy tale like that could ever come true and online besides!

We began emailing in October 2002, met in April 2003 for the first time and stayed for a week at the very romantic Lazy Cloud Inn at Lake Geneva WI (***highly recommended***). That meeting confirmed what we felt online and the rest is history. We have been married nearly three years and I still get so excited when I see him or am with him that it still feels like it did when we were first together (without the nervous bit of course ).

Oh, and the other penpals didn't last long. We have also gone back to Lazy Cloud since that first meeting, and stayed in the same room. It felt so much different there this time...still as romantic but without the tension of parting when we left. We hope to go back as much as we can.

PJ

I had just graduated from college and decided to go to Australia and Fiji for three weeks. 2 days before I was to fly home, I met Rich. He was also travelling in Australia and had been there for almost a year and was working at a hostel I stayed at in Cairns. We really only had one night together, most of which took place at a bar called "The Woolshed." I had a huge crush on him but realized that I would probably never see him again. He took me to the airport after an amazing night together and that was that.

For the next two years, we kept in touch with an occasional email and phone call, all the while being in serious relationships with others. He randomly decided to come visit me last February and we immediately became attached over the 7 days we had together. He returned to England after asking me to consider going there for an extended amount of time, which I was scared to do but ended up doing just that.

He'll be here in 5 days and we are getting married on October 4th, his parents and grandparents anniversary! Who would've thought?

My wife was researching a project for the local police department and found we were running a similar experiment in the UK. She e-mailed for details of our experiences and fate intervened.

That is the official story she puts out, I tell people I got a spam e-mail from a desperate US female in need of a husband and I felt sorry for her.

awwwwwwww!

We met on Yahoo Chat in an Irish room. He PMED me and i sat here trying to decide if i should answer him back lol Glad i did

Me & the hubby met thru datingdirect.com. I was a good ole American student in London. We had our 3 year anniversary last week! Awwww.

My girlfriend who told me to join that site is still single & mad!

Your marriage failed because you lost 150lbs?!?

Like a proper Brit, I met my wife down the pub.

This was in Santa Barbara, CA BTW, not in the UK. I already lived in the USA at that point because I moved here for work after getting my PhD.

I met Jen in Yahoo Chat. She was a newbie just came in the room. We got talking and never looked back. We used to speak all the time and then in the end we met last year I spent 6 weeks in Kentucky. We got engaged christmas day. I put the ring in a box of pasta from Krogers. Jen hates pasta. The first present she opened was for me and her face was omg. I did it to wind her up. Then she opened the pasta box you should of seen her face. Her sister had to tell her to open the pasta box. I went back home to Kentucky (I call it home now) last month and got back a few weeks ago and it felt like id never been away.

In part, the more I lost, the better I looked, the more confident and independent I became, ex felt bad about himself, he went psycho, his mum went psycho, they became controlling and scary...but yeah whew for getting outta that! He's happy now though, he's with a new girl who is over 300lbs - I think that's his "thing" lol To each his own

I'm guessing Yahoo Chat is pretty popular its still my favourite haunt these days, most of my friends are still hanging in there i'm usually haunting 30's & 40's love rooms, most of the friends i have in there are from the U.S, Canada and Oz, we have some great times just hanging out listening to tunes, having a laugh tormenting the life outta people that come into the rooms solely to start drama

Infact i met my hubby in 30's love:45 but its now gone to the dawgs since a few undesirables decided to invade our once peaceful room and constantly harass and boot myself and my friends out of the room, eventually after weeks of constant abuse we gave up and scattered and found a new room to hang out in.

We met in an IRC chat room in 2001. We were friends for a few years until I cried on Dave's shoulder about an idiot ex. Told Dave I needed to get out of London for a while and he offered to show me around Pittsburgh. I flew over for 10 days in April 05, within 5 days we both admitted to being in love

Been married 14 months and every day I still can't believe how it all happened.

Met mine on an online music chatroom and have been inseparable ever since.

In short, in a bar! The long story is I was visiting a gf in US and she wanted to introduce me to him. I said no ty~ and when I came back a second time we started dating and a lot of plane rides later we're married and settled somewhat~ aww

I had joined a dating site, plentyoffish.com, shortly after getting separated just to get out, meet people and not sit a home thinking about the bad times. I went out on some horrible dates. They were so bad just to get out of them early, I started talking about my failed marriage

One night I thought, well I just want a new friend to talk to, someone that doesn't know anything about me or where I'm from, start off with a clean slate. It was about 2 or 3 am so I thought I would look at other countries and see what they had to offer. When I checked out England, by about the 3rd profile I saw him. Same interests, new in his town and looking for friends as well, and damn was he cute! I decided NOT to email him thinking, 'what am I doing? what if he and I end up liking each other? Do I really want to go through another LDR?' A few days later I was still thinking about him and though, hell, who cares what happens, if anything we can at least crash on each other's couches if we want to visit, I just want a friend.

The rest of the story you can see in my sig

Josh and I met in a chatroom for a Sims 2 modding website in May/June 2005. Talking in the chatroom progressed onto online gaming together (first GuildWars and then World of Warcraft). We admitted we had feelings for each other in August 2005, and the first visit in Feb 06 just confirmed them

Kassie and i met june 2005 when we were both working as servers in the restaurant at Canyon Village in Yellowstone national park. I was on a J1 visa for 2 months during my summer vacation from university and we both ended up working the same shifts, got to hanging out all the time, this led to that and now we're engaged after another summer working in Yellowstone, as well as a family vacation to Hawaii and many other great memories too!
I cant wait til we get to be together again. the first thing im going to do is get rid of msn and my webcam!

We met in Japan in 2005. I was there as a research associate on loan from my UK uni for 18 months. To meet people and make friends, I joined a bellydancing troupe and toured one of the islands in my spare time. He was stationed on the same island with the US navy and we met on his first night out. He came to see me dance and that was that...

We met in 1994 in high school when my family and I moved to Scotland when I was 14. I was "the new girl" and a Yank to boot so I was an object of interest to everyone. I ended up falling for the quiet, shy guy at the back of chemistry class, yes chemistry, who constantly pinged erasers in my hair! He also routinely tripped me up on the way to classes and stuck his tongue out at me- which I must have found endearing

We got together when I was 15 and he was 16 and about two years later we fell pregnant with our first son. We got married in 2004 and had our second son a year later. So we've been together for 11 years and have finally decided to head west. It took a long time for Malcolm to find the courage to make the scary leap across the pond and I can hardly blame him as he was born and bred in this small town we're in.

It's nice to hear everyones story!

the short story is that Annie asked me for directions to the bathroom.

The whole is that I was stewarding at an event in St Andrews called CLAN and as I had a yellow vest on, I was the appropriate one to ask.

It was immediate attraction, later at the conference while talking in a room with a thousand people there, the whole movie thing happened, the lights dimmed, everyone else disappeared.

You know that whole load a shite that we really do not believe in, but happened to us.

We were married thirteen months later

We were members of the same music related site since 2000, always thought he was nice but we didn't ever really chat.
He messaged me in Nov 05 when I'd just broken up with someone who lives 20 miles from him in the US....We got talking and the rest in history!!

There are some really cool stories here of how people met

Make me feel all gooshy and sentimental it is!

The first time me and Jamal spoke was online - I think he sent me a message on facepic as he was going to be stationed in England for 2 years. We met a few weeks later in London when I showed him the sights of the capital! We remained friends for 6 months and when I moved to London we finally decided to get together and we visited each other everyweekend. 10 months of weekend trips to London or Newmarket, I finally moved in with him!

These are really sweet stories guys! Thanks for sharing.



Chris and I met in a Drum Forum. He is a drummer and I am a poser! Ha. Nah, we met on the drum forum talking about music, then started talking on msn or something of the sort. Then we started talking more...then it seemed we were talking to only eachother...then to the point where one of us was staying up late and rushing home from work just to talk. At that point I think we were smitten but not admiting it to ourselves. I would say we knew eachother for about a year before Chris came to visit. Chris visited twice between New Years and March. Then I visited in April. By that point I was in love...Whitby did it to me!! That was 4 years ago and we just got married in June. Totally worth the wait and the distance.

I must say we had it lucky because Chris and I saw eachother every 6-8 weeks. Gosh....I am feeling lovey now....

I met the hubs at the UCL student bar in 1991. Shortly we agreed to see a popular beat combo Nirvana at the AStoria shortly after and the rest is history..

you're dating youself, namedropper!

I had joined an international chat/forum/download site off of my mobile phone of all things called Prodigits (it's also on the web now too)...but it's just a simple site. I went on to chat and go in the forums ....meeting people from all over the world (mostly Australia, England, and Scotland)...I had a pic up...the one below and I was getting all sorts of messages...even some pervy...or some wanting me to marry them just for a green card to the US then we could get a divorce

I only added those that I knew of to my "buddy list" ...never accepting any random buds. It was sometime in March of 2005...I got like 6 bud requests in one day....I read thru each of them laughing at the ridiculous comments some had made....There were two that struck my eye...one was my mate Wayne from England..he and I are still the best of mates....he rings me up every so often still just to see if I'm ok...and the other was Pete....Pete sent me a real nice message talking about my smile. It just captured my heart at that moment....and something inside of me kept telling me to ADD HIM to my bud list...so I did...and haven't looked back.

It took us a couple months to get talking real well with one another.....once we did...it was texting all the time...then of course I was skeptical for a while..and didn't believe he was from England...so I said..ok, if you're from England, let me ring you up. (The first night was very late...and I was just made aware of the time differences lol)...the next night..I rang up...and low and behold...a British Man! lol Bestill my heart. lol..... We talked and texted hour after hour....phone bills to prove it...it was like we had known each other for years....Pete made arrangements to come meet my children and I that September of '05.....the first time he had ever been on a plane...let alone out of the country....but he took the chance....as did I.

I was questioned and given the 3rd degree from several people about letting a stranger stay in my home....I said...If I didn't trust him, I wouldn't have him in my home. And if there are any bad vibes, then there's always a hotel....but...as I suspected, nothing bad at all....It was just as we had said on the phone....it was as if we had known each other for years...So, he's been flying back and forth...and I've been over to England (met the family).....My kids love Pete to death...and are excited he is going to be their stepdaddy...We just want to "officially" start our lives together finally....


The pic that started it all....

Online in a dodgey chat room.

The usual drill of eventual private chats, then emails, then his first phone call wherein I got to hear that lite Northern Irish accent where every sentence sounds like a question. Oh, and I got to hear his laugh. Which pretty much did me in.

Five months later he visited me for three weeks. On his return visit to me three months later, we dropped the I129F in the Fed Ex box and the rest is history. We didn't waste much time - we're old.

I don't deserve him. But he doesn't deserve me either. So that makes us even - and happy.

You guys deserve all the happiness in the world!

There are some lovely stories on here.
I was visiting friends in Myrtle Beach as I had worked there for the summer after university and I went out on Valentines Day for a drink with a girl I had met (we were both single and Valentines is the worst time). She invited her cousin who is now my fiance. Five years and 5 months later, we are getting married on 15th September.

Wow I'm surprised at the amount of people here who met in pretty unconventional circumstances.

Disco and I met as postgrads at university here in England. She was this crazy artist girl and I was a geeky muso. We were good friends for a few months before we started dating (well, making out while purporting to watch Predator, anyhow). She was cute and exotic!

And that, as they say, was that. As far as I'm concerned we are now the most yukky, horrible, vomit-inducing PDA-prone couple I NEVER wanted to imagine!

Lauren and I met in Santiago, Chile. I had been travelling for many months and arrived in santiago on christmas day 2004. I was shattered and went straight to bed, not before seeing two girls in the hostel dorm on their way out for a night of revelling (It was already midnight). The following morning i went to explore Santiago, noticing on my way out that the two girls were sound asleep.

I returned to the hostel around 5 pm and found two girls asleep in the same beds, i miade some comment under my breath about them still being asleep at this time. It turns out that they were two different girls one named Lauren and the other named....err..Lauren. They had just arrived for a 4 week vacation in Chile and were exhausted from the flight. I felt bad about waking them up so took them out for dinner.

3 wonderful days together and we went our separate ways, not thinking we would ever see each other again. We met up 3 weeks later for another couple of days of bliss (although it turns out that they had fallen out over me and now don't speak). I Continued my trip around south america and we kept in touch via email and the occaisional phone call - Lauren then flew out to meet me in Buenos Aries for ten days during her spring break. I returned home to England and we then had a number of trips to see each other over the next few years before I finally asked her to marry me.

So here we are....married....still in the honeymoon period 9 months on. Long may it continue.

We met at a house party in NY. And the rest, as you say, is history....

I met Nick on yahoo in Feb 06. He messaged me and sat for about 15mins wondering whether to reply or not.....glad to say I did. Met each other in person in Nebraska in June 06. He flew to Glasgow in Dec 06 then went back for a while. Now he's here until december then the next time we will see each other will be once I have my visa. Hoping to be able to head to US in March.

Bill and i met on myspace.com in october 05, he messaged me and asked if it was ok to add me as a friend.Later that night he asked to talk on msn, which i wasnt to keen on as had bad experiences of pervy men in the past but thought id at least give it a chance, so i told him i was then going to bed but would chat for 20 mins, that chat ended up 5 hrs long. Every night was the same after that, i wasnt gettin to bed til 6 am and thought about him alday long...and talked about him, my kids thought i had lost the plot..and was sick of hearing his name lol. 2 1/2 months later he came for a visit to england, we then knew what we were feeling was real. Was a relief cos then my family could stop worrying he was some kinda serial killer or something. I then flew to see him, had never been out of the uk before so was very nervous about doing the whole flight thing by myself...then 7 weeks later back i go again..blah blah.. now here i am.

Actually, I don't think I ever mentioned the entire story.

My baby and I were both on a messageboard for our favorite band Rush. I was always posting about the music or band and sometimes goofed around with other topics. I noticed him because of his avatar. It was a dolmen that he took me to go see on one of my visits. I asked him what it was, if it was something like stonehenge and he explained it's history and I found it fascinating. I noticed he was writing from Wales and I heard legendary folklore and history about it and I thought he was a very nice guy. My first words to him were "Hi Dan!", thinking he wouldn't respond but he did.
Eventually, I posted my photo in an introduction topic and I noticed Dan started to talk to me more but I thought nothing romantic of it. In fact, I was chatting with another guy from California. Eventually, things fell apart with the california man, total disaster and I was so upset, I announced I was quitting. Dan wrote to me telling me he didn't want me to go. I told him I wanted to stay away for awhile but he made me promise to let him know when I returned. After some time, I went back to the board and Dan and I started to talk which led to a romance between us and me realizing he liked me when he saw my photo but never told me.
The more we talked, the more we were falling in love. I told him I loved him and he took my breath away when he said he loved me too. Unfortunately people from the board were starting to find out including the california man and he tried breaking us up. He would taunt Dan saying I was his phony girlfriend and he would taunt me saying Dan has a deep dark secret that will make me regret getting together with him. Some fool even made a topic saying I was mental. All of this made me leave and eventually Dan followed me.
Despite negativity from certain family members, I went to Wales to see him in person and it was the best move I ever made.

WELL..................i have Andrew Lloyd Webber to thank for me meeting my husband! Here's how.....

*Andrew Lloyd Webber made Phantom of the Opera
*Gerard Butler starred as the Phantom in the movie
*I became a (pathetic) obsessed fan of Gerard Butler and joined his fan website (he's Scottish btw)
*In the course of being a fan I met a lovely Scottish girl (Julie) on the fansite and we became fast friends
*I had always wanted to study abroad, so having a friend in the area, I chose Scotland
*Two months before I was scheduled to head over, Julie wanted me so get to know some of her friends before I flew over, so she popped a few of them into our conversation on MSN

Long story shorter, John was one of them and we spoke for 5 hourse straight that night, and every night afterwards. I spent six months over there as a student and then he came over to visit for the 3 months allowed on VWP and we said, screw being apart, we love each other and we are going to get married!

I love you Andrew Lloyd Webber!!!!!

Actually, technically I should thank Gaston Leroux for writing the Phantom of the Opera novel.....but thats just getting TOO geeked out...I will refrain....

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I think that is a typical response. But congrats on the loss

Neal and I met on a messageboard for a band I used to really like but now only sort of like. Lucky coincidence, he was not a fan but a friend of his convinced him to join the board. They stopped being friends, but Neal stayed on the messageboard and used to talk the silliest rubbish. Every once in a while we'd reply to each other, but nothing more than that. This was back in 2003 or so. He actually got another friend Pete to join the messageboard, and I ended up talking to Pete on MSN before I ever conversed with Neal. I didn't even realize they were friends in real life. I was always greatly amused by Neal and finally he added me to MSN to talk (sometime beginning of 2004). We talked more an more, and by that summer, we were messaging constantly. I began to really like him, but felt rather ashamed of my feelings for someone I knew I'd never meet. Plus, I was convinced he didn't feel the same way about me. Fall of 2004 rolls around, and I am really quite smitten and it's driving me crazy! Especially since he seemed to like me, but essentially told me I was too far away. Finally, in November of 2004, he told me that he loved me and we decided to try a relationship. We were both pretty shy, so didn't even talk on the phone until after that! Then I flew out to meet him on January 1, 2005. Since then, I have lived with him off and on for almost a year, and he has visited me over here six times. He asked me to marry him in August 2005, but we didn't make any concrete plans (I was still in school, so it didin't make sense). I lived with him from June through December of last year, and before I came back to the US, we decided to file for the I-129F.

That sounds a lot like us. You said Dodgey....you can tell your husband is from NI and I want to say Derry.

We met on a sub-culture message board. He was making fun of my good friend and ranting about how so many Americans are "plastic paddys" and I PMed him and told him to knock it in the head. It went from there and then I realized he had a girlfriend. So I tried to stop flirting... it didn't take long for him to tell me he was on the verge of dumping her anyways. We met in May 2005. We talked pretty much everyday e-mails on our cells at work to aol IM on my phone at work(5 hour time difference). We went around drunkenly telling people we were going to get married. I will never forget hearing his sexy accent for the first time.... it still makes me melt. He came to see me in July 2005. We were engaged before he left. We were constantly filling out paperwork and then decided we just couldn't wait and there was only one form to fill out to get me and my son to Northern Ireland. So he came back in Sept. 2005 and we married on Oct. 4, moved to Ireland on Oct. 16, had a beautiful little girl in Aug. 2006.
We do things fast.

Thinking about heading home. But not sure yet.

I met my fiance in Yahoo Chat. Apparently that's pretty popular here .

wot can I say? You know you're old when such bands appear on VH1 classic and you realize that their albums are almost as old as Sgt Pepper was when you were watching MTV in the 80s.

It was a pretty good gig - I got soaked with beer

We were both posting on a Rush message board. Made each other laugh, so I asked him if he had Yahoo messenger, and voila!

My husband (from Scotland) was talking to another friend online who was searching Yahoo! profiles, so he decided to check it out as well. He messaged me, we spoke for a few minutes but then I just stopped talking because my sister was getting ready for a date and I went to visit with her before she left. I came back later and he had sent a few more messages. Luckily he was still online and we started talking again. Kinda makes me sick to my stomach to think I almost blew him off and he ends up being the love of my life! (and biggest pain in the ### too though)

Yahoo Messenger for us !

Just searching and chatting, then one well placed IM lol !

The rest is history ......5 years and counting & we couldn't be happier