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The title refers to your other half/better half/lover/husband/wife/biatch, delete as applicable.
I was thinking about this while in the bath this morning. Does it matter where you meet? Does it have any effect on you or others around you? Do you judge others on how and where they met?
What are your thoughts on people that have met say, in a pub? Or in a club? What about a blind date? Personal ads or the one I'm really getting at, through the Internet? I obviously have had a little personal experience regarding the last of these and have found it to be very strange in some ways. It's strange, because it hasn't been strange, if that makes any sense whatsoever.
It hasn't seemed strange to me regarding my lass, but yet I've still not been comfortable to tell everyone where we met. Why could this be?
I've told some people and it hasn't been a big thing to them and yet I think it would be to others. My parents for instance.
It just strikes me as odd.
We met online, (this very forum), talked for a year and a half on MSN and the phone and then met up. We just got on really well, as cheesy as it sounds, we just "clicked". We've been a couple for over 4 months and now and now she's just my lass. No longer is she a name on a forum, my contacts list and mobile. She's ma' woman, innit.
The way I see it is that is doesn't matter really how we or anyone else meets, it's how you get on and relate to each other and those around you that matters.
I've taken some stick for meeting her online, (even worse then that it has made me talk like a third division football manager now and then).
It has been called "sad" that we met online and are now dating. Why is it sad? I didn't come on this website looking for totty. I mean, the fact that the sexy beast that is Light comes on here keeps me coming back, but that isn't why I joined. If I'd joined a gym or something because I wanted to go to it and then I met someone there, would that not be the same thing? Is it simply because when we first met, we didn't really meet because we were an hour away from each other that causes people to look down their nose?
What if I'd signed up to a dating website, would that then actually be sad because I was looking for people online and the perception may be that I can't "get" a girl in "real" life?
I'm just wondering what all your thoughts are on this and if any of you have had any personal experience of any of it.
Now go, my pretties, and go on Light, you gorgeous creature.
I was thinking about this while in the bath this morning. Does it matter where you meet? Does it have any effect on you or others around you? Do you judge others on how and where they met?
What are your thoughts on people that have met say, in a pub? Or in a club? What about a blind date? Personal ads or the one I'm really getting at, through the Internet? I obviously have had a little personal experience regarding the last of these and have found it to be very strange in some ways. It's strange, because it hasn't been strange, if that makes any sense whatsoever.
It hasn't seemed strange to me regarding my lass, but yet I've still not been comfortable to tell everyone where we met. Why could this be?
I've told some people and it hasn't been a big thing to them and yet I think it would be to others. My parents for instance.
It just strikes me as odd.
We met online, (this very forum), talked for a year and a half on MSN and the phone and then met up. We just got on really well, as cheesy as it sounds, we just "clicked". We've been a couple for over 4 months and now and now she's just my lass. No longer is she a name on a forum, my contacts list and mobile. She's ma' woman, innit.
The way I see it is that is doesn't matter really how we or anyone else meets, it's how you get on and relate to each other and those around you that matters.
I've taken some stick for meeting her online, (even worse then that it has made me talk like a third division football manager now and then).
It has been called "sad" that we met online and are now dating. Why is it sad? I didn't come on this website looking for totty. I mean, the fact that the sexy beast that is Light comes on here keeps me coming back, but that isn't why I joined. If I'd joined a gym or something because I wanted to go to it and then I met someone there, would that not be the same thing? Is it simply because when we first met, we didn't really meet because we were an hour away from each other that causes people to look down their nose?
What if I'd signed up to a dating website, would that then actually be sad because I was looking for people online and the perception may be that I can't "get" a girl in "real" life?
I'm just wondering what all your thoughts are on this and if any of you have had any personal experience of any of it.
Now go, my pretties, and go on Light, you gorgeous creature.
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Tonight will be 4 months, 1 week and 6 days.
I do have more to say but I don't think it would be as interesting as EB's.
I do have more to say but I don't think it would be as interesting as EB's.
Four and a half months
Sweet. Puddin's version is tiny and yours is-- well.... :) And how long have you 2 been together for now?
And this is what she wrote:
"This is Puddin' at the moment.
When me and EB first spoke, we talked for ages and all i thought was how posh he was. I think he was drunk though!
M@rk, are you going to meet this girl?
When I first met EB it was really strange, we had spent a year and a half talking on msn and the phone so to see him in person was weird. He looked a little different in 'real life' but i wasn't dissappointed. We went to Epping, which has crap all to do, so we just went for a coffee, and a coke and then he let me drive his car, then he took me to this place which sold christmas trees, it was really dark and in the middle of nowhere, but being the gentleman he is, he didn't try anything :S
Anyhoo..it took him AGEEEEEEEEEES to give me a cuddle or a little kiss :o( but when he did FINALLY kiss me, it wasn't a little one and was worth the wait. Since we've met about 4 weeks ago we not really been apart.
He said he's gonna post his version of us meeting now."
"This is Puddin' at the moment.
When me and EB first spoke, we talked for ages and all i thought was how posh he was. I think he was drunk though!
M@rk, are you going to meet this girl?
When I first met EB it was really strange, we had spent a year and a half talking on msn and the phone so to see him in person was weird. He looked a little different in 'real life' but i wasn't dissappointed. We went to Epping, which has crap all to do, so we just went for a coffee, and a coke and then he let me drive his car, then he took me to this place which sold christmas trees, it was really dark and in the middle of nowhere, but being the gentleman he is, he didn't try anything :S
Anyhoo..it took him AGEEEEEEEEEES to give me a cuddle or a little kiss :o( but when he did FINALLY kiss me, it wasn't a little one and was worth the wait. Since we've met about 4 weeks ago we not really been apart.
He said he's gonna post his version of us meeting now."
Here is something I wrote a while back in FOG about my first meeting with my lass.
Ok, so let's just have a little bit of a brain-fart and see what comes out.
Right, I'm "informed" that we met 4 weeks ago, but I think it's more like three, but I'll go a little further back then that.
I first started talking to Puddin' back when she first joined the site with her previous account about a year and a half ago. She seemed to find me funny and asked for my MSN addy. I was drunk and she said she was female, so I thought, what the hell. Anyway, I talked to her a little bit, usually while toasted, (I used to drink too much), and we got on quite well. I was just about to go off to training school and so I was only online at weekends. Just before I went I posted the now famous picture of me freezing my balls off in a swimming pool and from this picture her obsession grew.
We talked a fair bit when I came back at the weekends and swapped mobile numbers. We talked every now-and-then on the phone. She took the mick out of me for having a "posh" voice, (posh to her means that I pronounce words correctly), and I took the mick out of her Only Fools and Horses style accent.
We kept in contact throughout my training. She then got banned from this site for posting too many of those, "Boogies", threads and we sort of lost contact. She came back after a month or so and we started talking again.
Anyway, we talked a lot for the last five months on MSN, (and on the phone when she rings at 4am when drunk), and we really hit it off.
She sent me her own now very famous picture, (the one with all the cleavage, yeah, you know the one), and over time I started to like her more then just as a matey type-thing. In other words yes, I wanted to give her one...or more then one if possible.
Well in December we decided to give it a crack despite the living two hours away from each other.
We talked even more and told each other quite personal things before we'd even met. For instance, did you know it's her fantasy to....actually, best not.
We arranged to meet up a week before Christmas and went for some mutual ground. We both made our way to Epping, somewhere neither of us had ever been. Well, good old Epping, eh? What a ...um...high street that place has...
It was more then a little odd. We arrived at pretty much the same time. Just as I was driving up to the train station I saw a midget in a furry-hooded coat so I thought it must be her. My phone then beeped confirming this. I went and parked up and walked back to meet her. The first thing I really remember about meeting her was how shy she looked. She had a huge nervous grin on her face and then seemingly looked down at her feet. I took this as a bad sign to start.
We made our way to the thriving centre, (via a "I know where I'm going" shortcut of hers), and went for a little walk, which nearly killed her. I was my usual self. Very jokey and sarcastic, but she seemed a little quiet. I don't know if this was just nerves or what, but again it made me think she didn't like me in person.
We went for a coffee and this is where things seemed to pick up. Despite me having lots of cream put on her hot chocolate only to find that she hates it, but hey, I paid, she'll have what she's given.
We talked for quite a while in here and there was some typical childish flirting, so here I thought that maybe it was just nerves earlier.
We went for another drink in a pub and drove around, but because of the lack of anything to do we just talked for most of it. She seemed to stare at me quite a lot. At the time I didn't know if it was my stunning good-looks or if I had a boogey hanging, but after asking her it turned out there was no boogey.
She seemed nervous about something and took to texting her mate at one point, a certain lad that then embarressed her on this site at a later date.
Anyway, I'm going on a bit too much, so I'll try and shorten the rest.
The day drew to a close and there was the awkward goodbye moment in the car at the end. I didn't want to jump on her and rape her face, but again asking to kiss someone is just pretty lame. I went for the lame option in the end and we had a fairly big old kiss, (tongues, lads. She likes them ;D)
That was the end of that day.
After that Lil Bro on this site posted what she sent him in the text about what a good kisser I was ...
*Cracks knuckles*
...and how it made her go all tingly.
Anywho, I invited her down to stay for a while at mine before Christmas, which she did and things moved on even more....
I went down to hers for New Year. I've met her folks and she's met my Mum and all this in just six weeks!
It has flown by, but I'm a slightly different person now. I'm no longer the shy innocent flower I once was :D
Anyway...good God I've just wasted a lot of your time if you read all that.
Ok, so let's just have a little bit of a brain-fart and see what comes out.
Right, I'm "informed" that we met 4 weeks ago, but I think it's more like three, but I'll go a little further back then that.
I first started talking to Puddin' back when she first joined the site with her previous account about a year and a half ago. She seemed to find me funny and asked for my MSN addy. I was drunk and she said she was female, so I thought, what the hell. Anyway, I talked to her a little bit, usually while toasted, (I used to drink too much), and we got on quite well. I was just about to go off to training school and so I was only online at weekends. Just before I went I posted the now famous picture of me freezing my balls off in a swimming pool and from this picture her obsession grew.
We talked a fair bit when I came back at the weekends and swapped mobile numbers. We talked every now-and-then on the phone. She took the mick out of me for having a "posh" voice, (posh to her means that I pronounce words correctly), and I took the mick out of her Only Fools and Horses style accent.
We kept in contact throughout my training. She then got banned from this site for posting too many of those, "Boogies", threads and we sort of lost contact. She came back after a month or so and we started talking again.
Anyway, we talked a lot for the last five months on MSN, (and on the phone when she rings at 4am when drunk), and we really hit it off.
She sent me her own now very famous picture, (the one with all the cleavage, yeah, you know the one), and over time I started to like her more then just as a matey type-thing. In other words yes, I wanted to give her one...or more then one if possible.
Well in December we decided to give it a crack despite the living two hours away from each other.
We talked even more and told each other quite personal things before we'd even met. For instance, did you know it's her fantasy to....actually, best not.
We arranged to meet up a week before Christmas and went for some mutual ground. We both made our way to Epping, somewhere neither of us had ever been. Well, good old Epping, eh? What a ...um...high street that place has...
It was more then a little odd. We arrived at pretty much the same time. Just as I was driving up to the train station I saw a midget in a furry-hooded coat so I thought it must be her. My phone then beeped confirming this. I went and parked up and walked back to meet her. The first thing I really remember about meeting her was how shy she looked. She had a huge nervous grin on her face and then seemingly looked down at her feet. I took this as a bad sign to start.
We made our way to the thriving centre, (via a "I know where I'm going" shortcut of hers), and went for a little walk, which nearly killed her. I was my usual self. Very jokey and sarcastic, but she seemed a little quiet. I don't know if this was just nerves or what, but again it made me think she didn't like me in person.
We went for a coffee and this is where things seemed to pick up. Despite me having lots of cream put on her hot chocolate only to find that she hates it, but hey, I paid, she'll have what she's given.
We talked for quite a while in here and there was some typical childish flirting, so here I thought that maybe it was just nerves earlier.
We went for another drink in a pub and drove around, but because of the lack of anything to do we just talked for most of it. She seemed to stare at me quite a lot. At the time I didn't know if it was my stunning good-looks or if I had a boogey hanging, but after asking her it turned out there was no boogey.
She seemed nervous about something and took to texting her mate at one point, a certain lad that then embarressed her on this site at a later date.
Anyway, I'm going on a bit too much, so I'll try and shorten the rest.
The day drew to a close and there was the awkward goodbye moment in the car at the end. I didn't want to jump on her and rape her face, but again asking to kiss someone is just pretty lame. I went for the lame option in the end and we had a fairly big old kiss, (tongues, lads. She likes them ;D)
That was the end of that day.
After that Lil Bro on this site posted what she sent him in the text about what a good kisser I was ...
*Cracks knuckles*
...and how it made her go all tingly.
Anywho, I invited her down to stay for a while at mine before Christmas, which she did and things moved on even more....
I went down to hers for New Year. I've met her folks and she's met my Mum and all this in just six weeks!
It has flown by, but I'm a slightly different person now. I'm no longer the shy innocent flower I once was :D
Anyway...good God I've just wasted a lot of your time if you read all that.
Personally i was nervous about seeing her. It was a little strange at first. Thing is we already knew each other pretty well so it wasnt like going out on a first date and learning about the person. Seeing her face to face after so long just hearing a voice and seeing pictures, was strange, but a great experience.
I was staying for a few weeks. The first day was just getting use to each other. But the second was just like we had been together for years.
Its kind of hard to explain, but something i will never ever forget.
I was staying for a few weeks. The first day was just getting use to each other. But the second was just like we had been together for years.
Its kind of hard to explain, but something i will never ever forget.
More questions for Pro Evo..
In an earlier post, I inquired as to what it was like when you first met in person. Can you please say what it was like to finally see eachother? I know you said you "just clicked." But, what did you do? What were you thinking to yourself and feeling too?
In an earlier post, I inquired as to what it was like when you first met in person. Can you please say what it was like to finally see eachother? I know you said you "just clicked." But, what did you do? What were you thinking to yourself and feeling too?
Lawrence wrote:
> Wow, AbsoluT Neó. I didn't know you was married! I thought you
> was about 15 :o)
* chokes *
More like 25!
> Wow, AbsoluT Neó. I didn't know you was married! I thought you
> was about 15 :o)
* chokes *
More like 25!
Awww some of you are just big softies :)
Ashman wrote:
> Question for Pro Evo.
>
> If you were the one who flew out to meet her first, weren't you a bit
> concerned you were spending all this money to meet somebody you'd
> only ever known as a username, words, voice, etc? Or the other way
> around, weren't you concerned she was flying out to meet you, going
> to all this trouble, and it just wasn't right?
>
> I mean, all the travelling costs don't come cheap, do they?
Dont come cheap at all, and it was a risk. I was the one who flew out first 3 years ago. I was concerned, but not about the money, more about how things would be meeting the her for real. It was alot of money but for me money isnt the be all and end all. In the end, if things didnt work out right, id had a trip to the US (my first) and experienced something that many people wouldnt have had the guts to do.
Thankfully, things for us worked out perfect and we both have never looked back. It didnt feel too much of a risk at the time to us. We had been talking for over a year online, through letters and on the phone, so it felt right, and it was.
> Question for Pro Evo.
>
> If you were the one who flew out to meet her first, weren't you a bit
> concerned you were spending all this money to meet somebody you'd
> only ever known as a username, words, voice, etc? Or the other way
> around, weren't you concerned she was flying out to meet you, going
> to all this trouble, and it just wasn't right?
>
> I mean, all the travelling costs don't come cheap, do they?
Dont come cheap at all, and it was a risk. I was the one who flew out first 3 years ago. I was concerned, but not about the money, more about how things would be meeting the her for real. It was alot of money but for me money isnt the be all and end all. In the end, if things didnt work out right, id had a trip to the US (my first) and experienced something that many people wouldnt have had the guts to do.
Thankfully, things for us worked out perfect and we both have never looked back. It didnt feel too much of a risk at the time to us. We had been talking for over a year online, through letters and on the phone, so it felt right, and it was.
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