Heh. I met my girlfriend online, too. But lemme say, as a disclaimer, meeting online has some crater-sized pitfalls, in my experience. In fact, I met several girls who I had various forms of relationships with (*cough*formercyberslut*coughcough*) before I met Jerri, pretty much all of whom turned out to be nothing like I thought they were after talking to them online for months, even years in one instance. Which is why when Jerri first answered my online ad I pretty much blew her off after talking to her for only a few weeks. I was six months out of my last miserably failed online/long distance relationship, and totally and utterly burnt on the idea of romance, particularly the met-online variety. At that point I was only keeping my goofy ad up in the hopes of ensnaring people to read my website. But then here came this sweet, shy girl, this persistent girl, who I really thought I just might end up liking. So of course, I ran like hell. A year later, after starting to get my crap together a bit, I decided I was ready to test the waters again. And so I put up yet another goofy online ad on a different web service, all the while thinking, "I'm such a dolt for losing that girl's email. She was nice. *sigh* " Do you know how hard it is to find a NICE girl in southern California? Xita aside. Heehee. At any rate, I put up the damned thing, and...
Guess who was the third person to respond to my new ad that very evening?
See, I'm dumb when it comes to emotions and relationships and all that kind of stuff. Life stuff. You know. And sometimes the universe has to seriously hit me over the head with a roadsign to get my attention.
I think one of the reasons why it worked this time around, online relationship-wise, is that we really DIDN'T have an online relationship. We met online, talked for a month... didn't talk for a year... started talking online again for a week, and then met in person and got to know each other in the flesh. Granted, we lived ten minutes away from each other and had that opportunity. I really think that it's hard, if not impossible, to get to know someone in an intimate capacity through this box. Friends are one thing, but to find someone you're compatible with as a lover, as a companion... that's a whole different potato. Maybe it's just me. I'm really interested in other people's take on online romance. Care to get subtopic-y?
I got lucky, and I know a few other people who have, too. I wanna hear more takes on this...
"It's not real. I mean, there are no vampires, there are no witches. Well, there are Wiccans, but they're not making out with Alyson, so..." -Amber Benson