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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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Is it really that important though, life would be easier to just lie.
How much of a pain in the a**e is the truth worth to you?
How much of a pain in the a**e is the truth worth to you?
phi11ip wrote:
> It just seems geeky and not something you'd wanna boast about. I don't
> tell people I post on an Internet chat forum and hardly anyone knows
> that I've got a website. It's nothing big but it's still geeky and I
> don't want people to know about it as I feel that they'd think
> differently of me.
The fact that you're worried about such minor things mkaes you seem much more pathetic than knowing any of the stuff you want hidden.
You must know some seriously closed minds.
> It just seems geeky and not something you'd wanna boast about. I don't
> tell people I post on an Internet chat forum and hardly anyone knows
> that I've got a website. It's nothing big but it's still geeky and I
> don't want people to know about it as I feel that they'd think
> differently of me.
The fact that you're worried about such minor things mkaes you seem much more pathetic than knowing any of the stuff you want hidden.
You must know some seriously closed minds.
Not at the moment. If they asked again I'd tell them. Though I'd proberly say that he was visiting Brighton (where I live for Uni) and because I've spoke to him for so long I agreed to meet him by the pier. At the end of the day I'd hate it if I knew my little sister had met someone from the internet, but I was old enough to make my own mind up about whether EB seemed decent enough. I would like my parents thinking that I'd put my self in unnecessary danger.
So, basically, I never told them how I met him before they had met him, but now they have I wouldn't have any problems telling them.
So, basically, I never told them how I met him before they had met him, but now they have I wouldn't have any problems telling them.
Right, but they still don't know the truth?
I didn't think that made sense.
I meant, now I've got no problems, now they have met him. But before I told them I met him through friends.
I meant, now I've got no problems, now they have met him. But before I told them I met him through friends.
Lawrence wrote:
> I've got no problems with telling my parents, but when they asked how I met my new boyfriend I said through friends.
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> I've got no problems with telling my parents, but when they asked how I met my new boyfriend I said through friends.
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I can understand why there is the whole stigma around internet relationships, since before I met David/EB, I thought it was a little sad to meet people from the internet, but until you are in the situation yourself, I don't think anyone can dismiss it.
I never set out to form an internet relationship, or rather, meet someone through the internet, but that's the way it's worked out. Besides, me and David have known each other for ages now so I don't see it so much as an internet relationship, but rather a long distance one.
A few of my friends know how I met him, and my sisters and brother-in-law knows too. I've got no problems with telling my parents, but when they asked how I met my new boyfriend I said through friends. Now they have met him a few times, and like him too I might add, I'd tell them, but the subject hasn't come up in conversation again.
I never set out to form an internet relationship, or rather, meet someone through the internet, but that's the way it's worked out. Besides, me and David have known each other for ages now so I don't see it so much as an internet relationship, but rather a long distance one.
A few of my friends know how I met him, and my sisters and brother-in-law knows too. I've got no problems with telling my parents, but when they asked how I met my new boyfriend I said through friends. Now they have met him a few times, and like him too I might add, I'd tell them, but the subject hasn't come up in conversation again.
Maybe a little or maybe you're just looking for an easy life and lying about it isn't such a problem, i can understand that.
How do you feel about net relationships in general looking outside of yourself, still sceptical or have you come round, has your opionion changed at all?
You may have already answered all this but my memory is so poor i've forgotten.
How do you feel about net relationships in general looking outside of yourself, still sceptical or have you come round, has your opionion changed at all?
You may have already answered all this but my memory is so poor i've forgotten.
Flock wrote:
> It depends on how much other peoples opinions matter to you
Bingo.
Nail on the head.
> It depends on how much other peoples opinions matter to you
Bingo.
Nail on the head.
Other peoples opinions do matter to me when they are those of my folks or sisters. I would not break up with my lass if they didn't like her or how we met, but it could be awkward if they didn't approve.
I've told other people how I met her, including one of my sisters, (I told her after they got on so well), and they say it makes no difference. I will no doubt tell my folks at some point and I imagine that they will just wonder why I never told them originally, but there are certain taboo's when it comes to this kind of stuff.
If I'd told them straight off that I was going to meet up with some girl I met on the net I think they'd have looked at me oddly, so I lyed to cover that.
Cowardice? You bet your butty!
I've told other people how I met her, including one of my sisters, (I told her after they got on so well), and they say it makes no difference. I will no doubt tell my folks at some point and I imagine that they will just wonder why I never told them originally, but there are certain taboo's when it comes to this kind of stuff.
If I'd told them straight off that I was going to meet up with some girl I met on the net I think they'd have looked at me oddly, so I lyed to cover that.
Cowardice? You bet your butty!
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