How did you meet your fiance?

[Maritah 77]

We are hardcore gamers, and we met each other in a MMORPG, and we still play together!

The couple that play together, stay together!

[Pheebs1201 269]

Keep 'em coming guys! Love it!

[Mawnee 2]

Hope its ok I post how I met my Fiancee Us guys like to tell the story sometimes too

I met her on an international dating website. Initially I looked on such sites because I didn't want to jump into a quick relationship after my divorce(18 years). I wanted the distance to serve as a buffer and encourage lots of time to get to know someone before anything serious developed. And I figured I'd be willing to fly around the world for the girl of my dreams right? I talked to a few girls, even had one get close enough that she managed to hurt me when it turned out she wasn't serious. I was hurt and kind of second guessing the idea of such a long distance relationship. I'm literally sitting there thinking I should just cancel my account on this dating site and give up...... and at that moment I got a chat invite. She says hi, I respond with hi. She then immediately asks me if I would like to video chat, probably to see if I was really the guy from the pics. It was 11am here..I had been up all night depressed and imagined I looked terrible. So I chickened out..... I declined and she immediately left the chat. I looked at her profile though..... she had a cute smile. I thought she was too young for me. But then I read her profile text and was like "wow...she really does sound...perfect". I figured, what the heck, I could use someone to talk to right now anyway. I have nothing to lose right? So I messaged her and said "Ok, I"ll video chat." She spent the next 30 minutes helping me install skype and get it configured and working. I had never used skype before. Finally we get it working and immediately I am blown away by her smile. She is kind of shy, laying on her bed with a laptop.....half hiding behind her pillow just peeking over the top of it most of the time. But when I get to see her smile....wow... her smile is so amazing. We chat for only like 10 minutes. Talked about a few things we have in common. But I can tell she is really tired..its almost midnight her time. I actually asked her "you look really tired, do you need to sleep?" I hated saying it because I was really enjoying her company, but she really did look so tired She admitted she was really tired. I told her to go ahead and sleep and asked if she would mind chatting with me again tomorrow. She agreed and logged off. I spent the entire day here..while she slept completely unable to get her smile out of my head. I was worried I looked so terrible that she was just being nice when she said she would call me..and I would never hear from her again. But sure enough, the next day(later that night for me) she did call. and we were on skype for the entire day for her there. And the next day we did it again and the next and on and on. I'm on skype with her right now while I'm typing this To this day, I still sigh every single time we log into skype and I finally see her smile again. I am so glad I found my nerve after initially chickening out. And always grateful that she found me that day. <3

A few months later, I really did fly around the world to meet the girl of my dreams(9,250 miles away in a straight line). I proposed to her on the beach, in front of her family(after getting their blessing of course).

We even have pictures of our first ever hug. I'll never forget that moment

Edited December 6, 2014 by Mawnee

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Thanks for sharing

[LionessDeon 2,060]

Hope its ok I post how I met my Fiancee Us guys like to tell the story sometimes too

I met her on an international dating website. Initially I looked on such sites because I didn't want to jump into a quick relationship after my divorce(18 years). I wanted the distance to serve as a buffer and encourage lots of time to get to know someone before anything serious developed. And I figured I'd be willing to fly around the world for the girl of my dreams right? I talked to a few girls, even had one get close enough that she managed to hurt me when it turned out she wasn't serious. I was hurt and kind of second guessing the idea of such a long distance relationship. I'm literally sitting there thinking I should just cancel my account on this dating site and give up...... and at that moment I got a chat invite. She says hi, I respond with hi. She then immediately asks me if I would like to video chat, probably to see if I was really the guy from the pics. It was 11am here..I had been up all night depressed and imagined I looked terrible. So I chickened out..... I declined and she immediately left the chat. I looked at her profile though..... she had a cute smile. I thought she was too young for me. But then I read her profile text and was like "wow...she really does sound...perfect". I figured, what the heck, I could use someone to talk to right now anyway. I have nothing to lose right? So I messaged her and said "Ok, I"ll video chat." She spent the next 30 minutes helping me install skype and get it configured and working. I had never used skype before. Finally we get it working and immediately I am blown away by her smile. She is kind of shy, laying on her bed with a laptop.....half hiding behind her pillow just peeking over the top of it most of the time. But when I get to see her smile....wow... her smile is so amazing. We chat for only like 10 minutes. Talked about a few things we have in common. But I can tell she is really tired..its almost midnight her time. I actually asked her "you look really tired, do you need to sleep?" I hated saying it because I was really enjoying her company, but she really did look so tired She admitted she was really tired. I told her to go ahead and sleep and asked if she would mind chatting with me again tomorrow. She agreed and logged off. I spent the entire day here..while she slept completely unable to get her smile out of my head. I was worried I looked so terrible that she was just being nice when she said she would call me..and I would never hear from her again. But sure enough, the next day(later that night for me) she did call. and we were on skype for the entire day for her there. And the next day we did it again and the next and on and on. I'm on skype with her right now while I'm typing this To this day, I still sigh every single time we log into skype and I finally see her smile again. I am so glad I found my nerve after initially chickening out. And always grateful that she found me that day. <3

A few months later, I really did fly around the world to meet the girl of my dreams(9,250 miles away in a straight line). I proposed to her on the beach, in front of her family(after getting their blessing of course).

We even have pictures of our first ever hug. I'll never forget that moment

So sweet. You 2 are very cute together!

[icv21 110]

Hope its ok I post how I met my Fiancee Us guys like to tell the story sometimes too

I met her on an international dating website. Initially I looked on such sites because I didn't want to jump into a quick relationship after my divorce(18 years). I wanted the distance to serve as a buffer and encourage lots of time to get to know someone before anything serious developed. And I figured I'd be willing to fly around the world for the girl of my dreams right? I talked to a few girls, even had one get close enough that she managed to hurt me when it turned out she wasn't serious. I was hurt and kind of second guessing the idea of such a long distance relationship. I'm literally sitting there thinking I should just cancel my account on this dating site and give up...... and at that moment I got a chat invite. She says hi, I respond with hi. She then immediately asks me if I would like to video chat, probably to see if I was really the guy from the pics. It was 11am here..I had been up all night depressed and imagined I looked terrible. So I chickened out..... I declined and she immediately left the chat. I looked at her profile though..... she had a cute smile. I thought she was too young for me. But then I read her profile text and was like "wow...she really does sound...perfect". I figured, what the heck, I could use someone to talk to right now anyway. I have nothing to lose right? So I messaged her and said "Ok, I"ll video chat." She spent the next 30 minutes helping me install skype and get it configured and working. I had never used skype before. Finally we get it working and immediately I am blown away by her smile. She is kind of shy, laying on her bed with a laptop.....half hiding behind her pillow just peeking over the top of it most of the time. But when I get to see her smile....wow... her smile is so amazing. We chat for only like 10 minutes. Talked about a few things we have in common. But I can tell she is really tired..its almost midnight her time. I actually asked her "you look really tired, do you need to sleep?" I hated saying it because I was really enjoying her company, but she really did look so tired She admitted she was really tired. I told her to go ahead and sleep and asked if she would mind chatting with me again tomorrow. She agreed and logged off. I spent the entire day here..while she slept completely unable to get her smile out of my head. I was worried I looked so terrible that she was just being nice when she said she would call me..and I would never hear from her again. But sure enough, the next day(later that night for me) she did call. and we were on skype for the entire day for her there. And the next day we did it again and the next and on and on. I'm on skype with her right now while I'm typing this To this day, I still sigh every single time we log into skype and I finally see her smile again. I am so glad I found my nerve after initially chickening out. And always grateful that she found me that day. <3

A few months later, I really did fly around the world to meet the girl of my dreams(9,250 miles away in a straight line). I proposed to her on the beach, in front of her family(after getting their blessing of course).

We even have pictures of our first ever hug. I'll never forget that moment

Those pictutes are so cute!!!!! Love the happy faces and the shine in the eyes

[shippingforecast 126]

Facebook. She randomly added me in 2009 after an argument with her then boyfriend. I only found that out not too long back.

We didn't really talk much until 2011 when I posted a picture of a huge oak tree in some woodland owned by my mother. I agreed to send her some seeds, which I never got around to (and come to think of it, probably wouldn't have made it through customs). We spoke all day and night until our body clocks synced to the local time of somewhere in the mid-Atlantic. My grandmother passed away and left me some money in her will, so we discussed meeting up, platonically. I was too naive to think she might have feelings for me, like I had developed for her. She made a passing comment that she would be devastated if I met someone here in the UK. I took it as a joke, just like when she referred to me as her English boyfriend. At the time, I lived relentlessly in the real world so failed to see how we could've worked as a couple. I moved on and found someone here. We started talking less, just fractured messages here and there. Eventually, she moved on too. I thought about her often.

That relationship ended in late 2012, and oddly, she contacted me and told me she was touring Europe with her partner. I offered my apartment as a place to stay for an evening. They came and I cooked dinner. Her partner fell asleep, and we talked long into the night. Nothing happened; I abhor adultery and cheating, but there was a confirmation in that moment that the rapport and chemistry we shared definitely translated face-to-face. They left on a train the following day. I felt quite hollow. We stayed in contact after that, as regularly as we had done before, and when they had arrived back in the US, he confessed he had been unfaithful; she confessed how she felt about me, to both him and me, much to my surprise. I reciprocated.

She flew back to the UK in May 2013; we pretty much became a couple straight away. Whilst we were both in the US in late 2013 she had to work a music festival in New Orleans, which she snagged me a ticket for. Prior to getting to the festival ground she sent me a text message that read "we're getting married tonight". We watched the Cure together, and then eloped around midnight in the French quarter. Cut to now and we've managed to spend a considerable amount of time together; we just celebrated our first anniversary on November 4th by having a castle wedding here in the UK with our family and friends. She's my best friend, and I love her just as madly as I did the first time I saw her.

Our entire relationship came down to random chance; one altered decision and we might not have ever even met. Hence, when I look across at her (as I'm doing right now - she's knitting) I remind myself that I'm the luckiest.

Edited December 6, 2014 by shippingforecast

[1stLoveRedo 111]

Our entire relationship came down to random chance; one altered decision and we might not have ever even met. Hence, when I look across at her (as I'm doing right now - she's knitting) I remind myself that I'm the luckiest.

What a wonferful story!

[LionessDeon 2,060]

Our entire relationship came down to random chance; one altered decision and we might not have ever even met. Hence, when I look across at her (as I'm doing right now - she's knitting) I remind myself that I'm the luckiest.

Fate and destiny strikes again

[ChicagoSarah 127]

Our entire relationship came down to random chance; one altered decision and we might not have ever even met. Hence, when I look across at her (as I'm doing right now - she's knitting) I remind myself that I'm the luckiest.

Completely agree with this sentiment! We always talk about how many things had to fall into place at just the right time for us to even have met, let alone fall in love and be together now.

Your story is so lovley! Thanks for sharing!

Edited December 7, 2014 by ChicagoSarah

[Pheebs1201 269]

You guys are the best, all these lovely stories are making me teary!

Please keep them coming!

On another note I fly to the US tomorrow to spend christmas out there so please keep me in your thoughts for a successful POE!

[rlogan 2,036]

This is an interesting topic for me because I see different groups of people with their standards on what are socially acceptable ways to meet. I met my wife coming down out of a typhoon that had hit when I was on a road featured years later on the TV program "World's Most Dangerous Roads". Up in the Kalinga and Mountain Provinces. Stunning terrain, but God-awful in the rain. Only a motocross bike with big knobbies could get through, which was me.

I was drenched, muddy, and hugely pissed off at the gas station attendant who gave me wrong directions to the highway. I ended up going through miles of backroads, finally rice fields, and was just feet away from the highway... with a fence and waterway between me and the road. I had to turn around and go all the way back. Oh yea, I dropped my camera and it was run over by a rice truck. I saved the memory card though.

So I cut five days off the trip on account of the typhoon making me so miserable and bought a diet coke across the street from the motorcycle rental place. I was going to sit down and figure out what to do with myself for the next five days. The girl behind the counter took my breath away. Yow. The next five days I stayed with her.

But everyone there in the Philippines asked us: did you meet on the internet. It was asked with suspicion, a rhetorical question. More of an accusation than a question, and I couldn't figure out why people were asking it that way. When we said "no", then everything was OK. Just so long as we didn't meet on the internet. It wasn't until a couple years later that I figured out this negative stereotype about the internet: girls were doing nude chat: getting guys to send them Western Union for a nudie show on Yahoo Chat or whatever.

Yesterday I was in a Hot Springs resort and a Korean woman about my age started talking to me. Divorced from an American husband. When I told her my wife was a Filipina, she asked me "did you have to go over there to get a wife?" God what a malicious way of putting it. I explained how we met, and then it was OK with her Highness. Just so long as I didn't have to go over there to get a wife.

[99balloons 12]

I met my husband at a concert in a local club in Chicago. He is in a band that tours internationally and he was playing that night. I usually don't go to concerts, this was only my second one in about 10 years. We spoke for maybe 5 minutes after the show and exchanged emails. My last words to him were "I'll see you again, goodnight." He told me later that I left before he had a chance to ask me out for coffee,

We married some 2.5 years after that first meeting in a two day ceremony in Mali

So far we spent time together in the United States, Morocco, Mali, Portugal, France and Poland. Our case is processing in Nebraska, we just passed the 4 month mark. We hate being away from one another. You'd think that a case of someone who had numerous recent entertainment visas and is "already in the system" would make the K1 process quickly, but alas we all have to wait

[Wooderz 314]

You guys are the best, all these lovely stories are making me teary!

Please keep them coming!

On another note I fly to the US tomorrow to spend christmas out there so please keep me in your thoughts for a successful POE!

Pheebs, good luck! My fiancé will be flying in for a 10 day visit on Boxing Day. Will you update on your Poe experience in the yes you can visit thread? Hoping that his 12 passport stamps here will save him from some scrutiny. I'll probably just fly to London after this one until he's approved just to avoid the potential for issues.

[icv21 110]

You guys are the best, all these lovely stories are making me teary!

Please keep them coming!

On another note I fly to the US tomorrow to spend christmas out there so please keep me in your thoughts for a successful POE!

Have a good flight and I hope everything goes well at POE and you can enjoy Christmas here

Edited December 8, 2014 by IRIScv