Online love is very tough, especially when you find out you are an entire country away. My last girlfriend I met through a twitch chat room for a Lets Player named Cryoatic (Cry for short) while she was organizing a project to surprise him with. I quickly became second in command and we all got on a group with Skype, but her camera didn't work so her looks were still a mystery to me. Regardless around last January, I asked her out. She said that she'd think about it. We got her camera working and we saw each other for the first time. She asked me out then, to which I said yes. There was a problem about our relationship that was probably the reason it failed. She lived in Alaska and I live in Florida and neither of us have any money to see each other. We broke up for the first time because she wasn't on barely at all and got back together a little while after. We broke up for the second and final time because I felt like our relationship had a hole in the touchy-feely department, which was bad because I am a very touchy-feely guy. I'm glad that we broke up when we did though, because a month later I met my current girlfriend Star_Cherry who I am very happy with. I say online relationships can work out, my friend Molly's did, but be careful of distance, Molly's was a state away and mine was a country

The first time this really happened to me, I was about fourteen, and I actually met a boy on a pet site! It wasn't this one, but still. He was a couple of years older than me. We used to talk on AIM and actually video chat on it basically daily. We started playing Guild Wars together. I don't know if I was "in love" with him but 14-year-old me definitely thought he was The One. He eventually began dating a girl local to him, and it crushed me.

Furthermore, I met another guy while playing Guild Wars with the first guy, and at first we were friends. Later, I kinda had a thing with him. He was actually a horrible, manipulative person, but I was head over heels.

I also met two of the people I dated--who were actually friends, so I met one through the other--on tumblr. I met the first person, a guy, by talking about writing, when I was fifteen going-on sixteen, and there was an instant connection. He was a bit older than me though (as all of these guys had been), and although he seemed to like me, the age ordeal made it quite a problem. Eventually we broke up and I dated a guy I had met in person for over a year.

Eventually, after I was eighteen and I had since broken up with the guy I met in person I had been dating, I dated the friend! I had met her through the guy I had a thing with on tumblr, and we had also been good friends on tumblr for over 2 years then. I dated her for a little while, and she ultimately dumped me because she wasn't ready for a relationship. (It really hurt me though because I was super into her. We've never really been able to reconcile our friendship which sucks.)

Lastly, I've been dating my current boyfriend for a year and three months now. It's my longest relationship thus far, and of course I feel this way every single time but he feels like my forever. I met him on OKCupid, so I met him online, too, although it was more on purpose than any of the others of course. We are currently in a LDR.

The majority of my relationships have stemmed from online communities! Only 2 of my total 7 relationship-type-things have ever been with people I originally knew/met in person. I think that LDR/online relationships can totally work, but both people have to be willing to put in the extra effort since you don't have a lot of the physical affection. I also think it's incredibly important that younger people be careful. I made a lot of misguided judgements/mistakes and found myself with people a lot older than me when I was 13-16. It was kinda gross and totally creepy.

I am not much the kind to expose my life on the forums but duh, I feel concerned here. I love what wrote and I am totally agreeing.

I'm going to be short : I met my boyfriend on Subeta (yes yes) in November 2013. I live in France, he lives in Australia. He asked me out in March 2014 and I just was the happiest person on earth at this moment and then we Skyped times to times because I was busy with school. Then I got graduated in June and just had to look for a job so we were Skyping every single day and every single night. In very late December 2014 he took a plane and spent 2 months with me and now he is back to Australia but I did all the papers and requests so I can move to live in Australia in late July/early August with him. In the meantime, we keep on skyping daily. :)

I know that some people NEED to see the person face to face and such but Skyping really helps to fill the "emptiness" and the fact the loved one is not next to us. For me, having video calls is like having the person and talking to them face to face. Well, there are all kind of points of view on Earth but I am an "online" dating convinced.

I'm with a guy now who I met through a fandom community. This is actually our second go at a relationship.

I've known my Malcolm for nearly ten years now and I can say with the utmost confidence is that he is my best friend. Our first go at a relationship, we were both young; me sixteen and him eigtheen.

We ended up breaking up for quite a few years due to someone else asking me out. Now, this person was closer to me, we could have a physical relationship and for a while I was happy.

But then I started thinking about Malcolm again. Wondering how he was and whether he was happy. I still had feelings for him and while I was with this other person, we were the best of friends. I could talk to him about anything. Some things happened and he ended up losing his internet connection. We didn't talk for almost three years.

When he got his phone in 2013/14, he went to go look for me, only to find me not on. I was with a different guy and had moved in with him. He didn't have internet access at his house and the end of 2014 when I switched providers and got a phone that could support YIM, I signed on and there he was.

I ended up leaving the other guy I was with, our own issues making for a strained relationship and while him and I are still friends, I'm so happy I've gotten a second chance with Mal. Being older and wiser, I see what I let go and almost lost and I wouldn't be who I am today without him. He makes me strive to be the best I can be.

I uh, I also had a couple other online relationships, but they... well, they weren't as much of a success story as this one.

eeh, the way i see it... i need to be able to be next to that person to see how we connect face to face. i read many stories with a happy end, and many with a sad ending. i came to the conclusion they are not for everyone. i saw they worked better for those who managed to meet in real life a few times? or something. maybe if it's meant to be it will work out? and if it's not meant to be, one of the partners will suffer. :/

I guess it all depends on the person and situation, its crazy to see how many people fall in love online! I think its making its way up there on the where couples have met scale xD

I met someone on a teen site almost 6 years ago. We talked constantly through messages/text. I'm in NJ and he's in KY, so of course we never met in person, although we talked about it quite a few times. Just never happened because of money issues on both sides. We kinda had this up and down friendship/relationship. He seems to have quite a bit of anger issues and we fought a lot over some stupid shit, I felt like I was walking on glass whenever I was talking to him because any little thing would seem to bum him out or anger him. Just so many issues with that guy! We called it quits with whatever friendship we had left recently. I'm done with that shit.

In real life, I have a boyfriend. Met through high school since he graduated 2 years ahead of me, we didn't start talking until summer of 2009 on Facebook. Now we're going on a little over 5 years. I've stopped my habit of talking to random guys online, it was a teen thing I guess, lol.

I have read all these stories and I love the success ones. It proves that it can work. I just feel like online relationsships start off much deeper than face to face ones. When I had fell in love online, I had no idea what the guy looked like for months. By the time I finally saw him I already had fallen for him and wouldnt have really cared too much what he looks like. As for actual face to face encounters, that would not have happened.

Its just different online. :)

The best people I've ever met, hands down, have been those I originally found online. I have a friend in particular who lives in Boston -- if we lived closer, I know it'd be awesome! BUT! He's still an awesome friend, who has come down to Texas and gotten ARRESTED ON THE SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY with me and my friends.

That's true shit right there! :)

Yes and it was the worst thing happening to me. Never again.

LOLLL!! Wow that is crazy!! xD But defintely some real stuff right there. Sounds like an awesome story xD

I'm sorry to hear that! :( Doesnt always work out the best way. ;-;

- I have a story about how I met my wife.

- I had to ping you, because your story was amazing, and it started out exactly like mine (The ICQ Conversation).

I believe it was in August or September of 2000, I was 16, feeling lonely, and wanted to chat with someone from the general area, so I searched ICQ for someone living in New-Brunswick (Canada) and believe it or not, 1 entry came up in my search. I asked if she wanted to chat with someone from the same area, and we struck up a conversation. She was 14 at the time and we live about 40 minutes away (We went to different schools). I can't remember what we talked about, but every day at school or work, I couldn't wait to get home to chat.

I first called her on the phone just before Christmas break in December, but unfortunately her mom answered :P. She had seen some of our conversations, and decided I was a creepy adult that was after her daughter (To be quite honest, thinking back on it now, I don't blame her one bit). She gave the phone to her daughter anyways, and I talked to her for like 30 seconds before hanging up. We chatted online over Christmas break, but I didn't dare call her back. Early January, her mother came online and asked me why I wasn't calling her daughter anymore. She was apparently fine with me talking to her daughter after she heard my voice on the phone, so I called, and I talked with her (my wife) pretty much every night since then.

January 18 of 2001, we met for the first time at a local mall. We spent 2 hours walking around, too shy to even hold each others hand. We started seeing each other from that point every 2-3 weekends (much more than that after I finally got my drivers license at 17) and talking almost every night.

We moved in together when I was 20 and just got married on October 18th of last year. Until then, we used January 18th as our anniversary, but I guess now October 18th will be our anniversary. we can celebrate both :P And I'd rather be celebrating our 15 year anniversary than start all over at 1 again. :)

ladylola and I have been together for 15 years now, and we met online when we were still in high school.

That was a beautiful story!!! So happy it worked out for you that way!! Congrats :*

The relationship bloomed from an online friendship writing fanfiction.

In a nutshell, so I don't bore you to tears.

He sent an email about an idea he had and wanted to write, but he also read some of my stuff and asked if I wanted to do a collaborative effort with him since the subject matter was more of something up my alley. I accepted and we became friends spending several months writing bits and pieces of the story and putting it together, as well as asking casual questions. What other shows do you like? What books do you like? Yatta, yatta.

A year or so goes by, and I went to Anime Expo. While I was there, I got an autograph from the artist of the series we wrote fanfics about and sent it to him as a present. I told myself I was just being a friend, but pfft, I don't think I was being very good at deceiving myself.

A few months later, I joined the army, and he promised he would come see me on my graduation from basic training. He flew in, I broke down all sappy like and confessed I had feelings for him. Luckily for me, he reciprocated my affections and we agreed to try to make our not-so-new long distance relationship work, as I still had about six more months of training ahead of me.

We communicated through phone and email for those six months. Somewhere in there, he managed to take time off from his job to visit me for a weekend and we agreed to get married once I was done with training and settled at my first "real" army base.

So altogether: Knew each other through fanfiction and email for 2 years, "dated" for six months through phone and email, and we've now been married for 3 and a half years, and quite frankly, writing that fanfiction was the best thing that ever happened to both of us. ❤

TL;DR - Married my online boyfriend because of fanfiction.

I met my first love online. He lived in Canada and his name is Chris. I still think Chris is the one that got away.

We had so much in common, I adored him. We skyped anytime we could, emailed all the time, but then my parents got involved. Since I was 16, they really were not happy. He was the same age as me and I knew he was not lying, but they didn't believe me. Things between Chris and I were strained and he really changed. It's a shame, really.

But I am happily engaged now with a 6.5 month old son, so I guess it all ended for the best. I haven't talked to Chris in almost 3 years.

I met my boyfriend on 4chan....hah. We've been together a little over a year now! He moved to me (California) from Missouri after several months of chatting and two previous in-person visits. :D

Congrats to the both of you! ^^

Congrats to the both of you! ^^

In 2004, I met a boy on Gaia Online. We hit it off instantly and ended up falling in love with each other. We tried dating here and there, but the distance was a problem because we both lived in different states, so we remained friends for several years. In 2012, we met in real life, began living together, and have been in a committed relationship ever since. :)

Which thread did you meet him on?

oh god, I don't want to say.
...it was the early days of /soc/. We both posted regularly in chat threads and stuff. Happy to report neither of us has been there since. x___o