Did you meet your partner through an online dating agency?

[Aniles]

Hi

After being a single parent for years I now feel ready to take on the challenge of a relationship. The problem is that while I chose to be single I always seemed to be turning down offers but now I want to date I don't seem to meet anyone suitable. There's little chance of me meeting someone in my line of work, and most of my friends are all coupled off.

I've looked at some online dating sites but feel a bit strange about the whole thing. What if someone from work sees it and then broadcasts it on the notice board!!? I'd die of embarrassment! What heppens if I meet up with someone and we obviously don't like each other and it's really awkward, or worse still what if one of us is really keen and the other can't wait to get away? I think I'd be pretty rubbish at getting to know someone on-line. I hate chat rooms, feel too shy and can never keep up.

So, has anyone met Mr/Miss right this way? Or should I just accept that I'm going to be an old spinster? Please share your stories, good or bad :-)

hey aniles, me and dp have a long distance relatonship. he's in kent whilst im in watford which is about 70 odd miles. it takes about 2 hours on the train, but is definetly worth it. he is willing to move here to be with me, which we were going to do next year but as he has the last year of his degree to do, its a bit complicated so he's going to stay at mine when he has to do it as he has to do it near me, but go home on his days off. complicated but we'll be together more than we are now, and the year after that we're going to live together officially.

i think you tend to get more responses if you have a picture up as they can see what you look like, where as they may be a bit more cautious if you dont, iyswim. although me and dp didnt have a clue what each other looked like when we first met up, its surprising we found each other!!