Has anyone met their new man on the internet and it has worked out?

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Split up with DD's dad about a million years ago and as a laugh went on internet dating site and started talking to a man who lives in Northern Ireland; I live in Scotland. Anyway he came over the other weekend and it was fab and he is coming over in another couple of weeks. He has sent me lovely presents in post, called me loads but not in mad stalker way and is v funny.
He seems v normal and kind and funny; but I am not sure. I just wondered if anyone had any good outcomes of meeting online?

Met my absolutely great and lovely DH online. We were not even living in the same country at the time. but if you meet the right person, it will work. He's perfect, loves me to bits and I couldn't be happier. (he is also smart, goodlooking, fit, tall, educated etc etc)

Met my dp online. It's still early days really but he's a keeper. Neither of us are any more freakish than average

My brother and my best friend also met their long-term partners online.

Met dp on pof over 3 years ago, blissfully happy. Though did meet a few weirdos before him, one ended up stalking me!!

Planning on marrying dp one day soon

oh and few friends have been lucky on pof too. Another just collects fuck buddies casual friends

Yes on match.com we are now married and expecting baby number one! Good luck!

two of my friends met and married their DWs online :)

Yes I met mine on an Internet dating site (not in the UK). We just celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary and have 2DC!

Best of luck and hope it all works out wonderfully for you.

TeaHouse You can't possibly be past it unless you are trying to catch a 25 year old or something.

There is someone for everyone out there. I am over 50 and I haven't lacked men to talk to. You just need to be positive and take each exchange as lightheartedly as you can. Have a look at the dating thread to see funny the disasters can be.

First you need to be happy with your own life and like yourself. See finding a new friend as a bonus extra in your life not a necessity and keep your standards high. If all else fails you could get a cat for company!

DH and I met on the internet. Today is our 8 year anniversary of the day we met!

Met DH on dating direct. Married 3 years now with one DS and planning No 2

I was very coy at first about admitting to people that we had met on a dating site. Now it does not bother me and I happily admit it - I think (disclaimer - I may be biased) that DH and I are a very good advert for entirely normal (indeed lovely ) people being on dating sites.

Good luck.

Can I have a prize please? DH and I 'met' online in 1997, though not on a dating site, as they hadn't been invented way back then

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My brother,UK,met his wife in a chatroom 8 years ago.His wife is from USA and they are now blissfully married with a 3 year old dd and living in USA. Coming home on holidays on Saturday-cant wait![hgrin]

I met my DH via MSN 6 years ago (we had mutual friends), we chatted and one thing led to another. We have now been married 3 years this Halloween and he is the best thing to have happened to me

I met Dh in a chatroom 12 years ago :o I am in USA he was in UK. Weve been married 8 1/2 years and still happily going strong :o

Met DP online 9yrs ago (although not on a dating site) and were just friends for ages, then we got together in July 2009 and now have a mortgage and a 3 month old baby :D

We're both quite shy when it comes to meeting new people so it gave us the chance to get to know each other gradually.

10 years next march and two dc. But i was very cautious at first and had no expectations. Pleasantly surprised. Did hear from many very odd persons in the search, though.

Some of these stories are bringing a little tear to my eye. Especially knickknack's.

I think the old interweb has done a great deal of damage in some respects, in the way we socially interact with one another (thinking cyber-bullying, txtspk, an unhealthy obssession with airing our dirty laundry on facebook, etc.) but on the other hand, I think it has totally revolutionised the world of 'lonely hearts' and has taken away the stigma, and almost all of the old-style pitfalls. For so many people - older, divorced, disabled, single parent or just unfulfilled/frustrated/thwarted in love thus far, it has made the job of finding happiness and friendship so much easier and more foolproof. And global!

I also LOVE that people with disabilities/issues making it difficult for them to socialise or find love or just be listened to as an equal in RL, have a whole world of friendship, potential love, or just intellectual stimulation (and social inclusion that the rest of us take for granted) available to them online, that in the past, would not have existed. For those people, trying to imagine how limiting and unfulfilling their lives could have been had they been born 30 years earlier, must be scary.

well said, Fellatio

Met my DP 3+ years ago on Guardian Soulmates, bought a house together a year ago, and couldn't be happier. I was very sceptical, and still can't get over how lucky I was to meet such a funny, lovely, gorgeous soulmate.

mirai, why won't you admit where you met? We very proudly tell this everybody - if someone thinks online dating is for ugly sad losers who can't get a date in real life, they will change their mind.

I met my dh on a dating site, we've been together for almost 3 years and have had a baby this year.

I met loads of pillocks beforehand though.

Met my DH on EverQuest (older than WoW!) - was living with someone at the time That relationship was already over - but when it officially finished, the dwarf cleric I teamed up with a lot asked himself over for dinner. He went back home the next day for his toothbrush & hasn't left since.

6th wedding anniversary this month, 2 DC later and we're still in the honeymoon period :)

I met my OH on loveandfriends in July 2006. I saw his pic and messaged him. He replied later that day. We emailed for a few days, then phoned for a couple of weeks, then finally met about 3 weeks after initial contact. We only met for a drink on the Saturday, then HAD to meet again on the Thursday when I was treated to the most magnificent snog I've ever had in my life.... (sorry, TMI).

I fell pregnant in late February and we had a brilliant weekend celebrating the first anniversary of our first date. Then on the Tuesday he had a massive brain haemorrhage and died just over a week later. I had our daughter at the end of the October.

I would do internet dating again if I had the heart, but I'm a bit too busy at the moment [hsmile]