like most of these girls have said, it's possible. my dad met his girlfriend online, i met my boyfriend online. my dad supports online dating because he says you can kind of get a feel for their personality before ever having to meet them so generally, you can "weed out" the ones who don't have a chance.
last year, i was going through a really rough time at work and at home. one of my best friends was dying, and i couldn't seem to get anything together. she suggested that having a good man in my life might help me through the rough stuff, but i wasn't in the mood or mindset to go find one; nor was i convinced that a relationship would make anything easier.
she took it upon herself to set me up a profile on match.com and get one of those free three-day trials. the first day, she found a guy who was from the same city as me and had similar interests. she convinced me to send him a message (i was really hesitant, even with the success others have had with online dating.)
we started talking on myspace quite regularly, and i learned that he works in the same career field as me. he was also deployed in iraq for six more months when we started talking. we talked more and more over myspace, and finally one day when my work schedule was adjusted, we got a chance to talk on aim. hit it off real well. i started getting up at two in the morning to talk to him (that damn time difference killed me!) and after a few months, he managed to get access to a phone every two weeks and we talked for thirty minutes each time. got to the point where i was always thinking about him, and he said he was doing the same.
by the time he returned in february of this year, we had fought like a married couple several times. he stuck with me through a few dramas, and some of the most ridiculous moodswings i'd ever had. i stayed by him despite the fact that he had a stalker who threatened to hunt me down and "take care of me." needless to say, it was an intense six months.
when he came home, he picked me up at around eight at night (turned out that he lived two doors down from me, how's that?!
) and we came back to my house around eleven, he didn't go home until three. we spent that entire time talking and laughing, like we'd been together for years.
we're now talking moving in, and someday getting married and having a family. i dare anyone to tell me it's impossible to find love online.
