Meeting ppl via net.

[HeavenLeigh]

I have posted a profile on a dating line. Haha. Everyone knows that I tend to attract morons. So far I've been contacted by 2 guys. One graduated 2 years before me and the other 2 years after me...........same high school. This is getting interesting.


Note........I'm not looking for a b/f, H, or whatever. Just someone to talk to and maybe hang out w/ eventually.

[HeavenLeigh]

Hey I know this guy! His mom and aunt work at the hospital. His wife left him 6 months ago for another man. I faintly remember him in school. LOL.

[veda]

hey K, funny that you know these guys... when you put yourself online do you just search people in your area i guess?? well, best "man-huntin' " luck to ya!

[HeavenLeigh]

It was strange how it happned. I posted my profile and email addy and bam. There he was........J.W. Anyhow, he graduated 2 years before me and we know all the same ppl. I called work to ask a girl that graduated 3 years before me if she knew him and she said he was a really sweet guy. He even sung at her first wedding.
He now lives about 5 hours away in Western Ky at Lake Blakely or something like that. He's the golf course supervisor and lives in the park. He was going to sit in the sauna :argh: when we ended our chat. Aahhhh........life is good, elsewhere.
It was cool tho running into someone online that wasn't a psycho liar or stalker. I had a pretty good time talking about ppl from school, who we hung around, etc....

[veda]

Originally posted by HeavenLeigh
It was cool tho running into someone online that wasn't a psycho liar or stalker.

and who has apparent access to a sauna!! :cool: 5 hours is a good buffer too!

[HeavenLeigh]

I just finished chatting w/ him again. We agreed to meet for pizza the next time he comes in to see his family. I have no idea what he looks like.........I remember his name and that's about it. I'm going to dust the ol yearbooks off when I find 'em. He seems sweet enough. I'll try to figure out the site where he lives and post it. It has everything.......must be nice!

[HeavenLeigh]

Here's the addy........hope it works.
www.state.ky.us/agencies/parks/lakebark.htm

[Mommy_To_Jordon]

Hope you guys have fun when u meet for your pizza...Hey, I met my husband online...I had no intentions of finding someone their, but it just happened in a chat room...And I couldn't be happier...:D

[lovebug]

I have met a few people on line and I think it is a good way to meet folks when you don't want to sit at a bar and find a drunk! lol!! Anyway I guess I will do it again maybe in a month or so. I just know that a few of the guys I have talked too and met for like a drink ended up being VERY weird and boring! One guy stills calls me after months and thinks I still want to go out with him??? :confused:

[brandis77]

I met my hubby online, and we are about to celebrate our 2 year anniversary this summer. We couldn't be happier!

We didn't meet in a chat room or a dating site, though.. I was a part of a mailing list related to music, and I posted a message asking about bands to see during my trip to NYC. At the time, I had a b/f (and I was in high school!), so J's response was purely friendly. We spent several years writing back and forth before I came to visit him when I had a horrible break-up with my bf. We fell in love, and the rest is history! We dated for 2 years long-distance while I was in college, and I moved down here (Texas) from Canada just over 2 years ago.

It's strange, I know people are using the internet to find romantic partners more and more, but I really feel there is a bad stigma with meeting people this way. When people I don' tknow well ask me where I met my hubby or why I ended up in Texas, I usually lie because I don't want them to think that the situation is freaky or something. I don't know why I care.. Does anyone else feel this way?

[suzieq728]

I met someone via internet once. It was not such a bad experience but it was'nt exactly good either.
I had just gotten my first computer and went online. I went into a chat room and I really didnt know how to chat. There was this guy in there that seemed to be very helpful. We started chatting in instant message, and he really taught me everything I know about computers.
He said, one day we will meet, and we joked about it, but nothing more. This type of friendly chat went on for 2 years. He lived in Texas, he was newly divorced with custody of his 3 boys.
Then one day he said very seriously, why dont you come down to Texas :eek: , I was like what, well stupid me, I bought a ticket and flew down there. He was great! Everything I always wanted in a man, kind, gentel, good with kids etc.... I stayed 4 days, and then came home. We continued to chat online, and then started phone conversations also.
When my sister moved to Arkansas we found out that she lived only 6 hours from where he lived in Texas. So I went to see my sister and he met me there. We met a total of 5 times, and each time was great.
One thing though, the last time I flew to Texas he picked up his kids, his supposed ex-wife came out to the car and talked to me. It seemed that they were still working on there marriage and he never told me. I was furious. She had left him, (for another man), and then when that didnt work out they went to marriage counseling, but he was so hurt by what she did, I think, he was getting back at her threw our relationship. I got out real quick.
Today, we still chat online. I never expected anything to come of that simple chat online the very first time, and I certainly wasnt looking for love or anything like that, but I did make a very good friend. He never went back to his wife, but I felt like I could be a problem, so I left him alone.
I speek to his wife online, his kids and him all the time, and they are really nice people. I have even gone down to visit again. Nothing serious, just a visit. I had lunch with his wife, (she seems very confused), but nice none the less.
So yes, I do think online meeting does have a bad name, and I think if your careful you can meet some really good people online.
Just look at all of you that I have met here ;)

[Csara]

Originally posted by suzieq728
Just look at all of you that I have met here ;) Exactly! Even though I've never met any of you guys in person, I would feel very comfortable at this point meeting pretty much any of you face to face. I think that if I were single, I wouldn't rule out meeting someone online. I know quite a few people who have met their SO online....either from a dating site or chatroom. Especially if it's someone in your area that you know a lot of the same people Krysti, I wouldn't be nervous. If anything maybe you will have just made a new friend, but maybe it could be more. Good luck and have fun!!

[HeavenLeigh]

I just found some yearbooks........He's a cutie! He said he hasn't changed any but he's very tanned and more muscular :eyebrow: He has strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes. We chatted for hours yesterday. He even Emailed me this morning.
I think I have made a good friend C.

[HeavenLeigh]

BTW.........I was thinking about ya'll last night. I remember coming to Weddingtalkers happy as a pig in crap, dating "the one", and planning a happily ever after marriage. A couple weeks later my world was flipped upside down when he turned out to be an :moon: I thought I would die. I have never hurt like that before and figured noone would want me around since everyone was married or planning a wedding. I was amazed by the words of encouragement and the love I was shown by total strangers. I consider all of you dear and close friends. I know that if anyone here needed me I would be on the first plane out to be there for them.

[Margarita]

I think that's really neat that you met someone you knew of in highschool online! Bonus that he's a cutie. :) Meeting people online really isn't that much different than meeting them in bars or whatnot. You just have to use your intuition, take your time to get to know them, and see what happens.

[rdy2rac with]

Originally posted by HeavenLeigh
I know that if anyone here needed me I would be on the first plane out to be there for them.

You would just be using us to get another vacation from the hell hole. :biglaugh: Don't worry, we don't mind.

[veda]

Originally posted by rdy2rac with
You would just be using us to get another vacation from the hell hole. :biglaugh: Don't worry, we don't mind.


:biglaugh:

[laughter]

That is exciting talking on line to a guy that you knew back in school. My dh sis met her hubby on the net they talked for a few months and then met each other got married 6months after they met and its been 6yrs for them.:)

[andrea]

:crossed:

good luck girl!!!