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IsabellaSnow

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Out of curiosity:

How many of you have "met" someone online, hit it off, decide to meet, and actually end up dating (etc) as a result?

I don't mean just having a shag, either.

I mean became involved in a serious relationship of some kind.

Those who've had it go wrong, feel free to comment as well.

As for me, personally, I did actually meet a gorgeous Londoner online, who flew all the over here to meet me. He spent the weekend. Called me 5 times a day for the next two months (and managed to not seem needy, somehow). He was fantastic.

Until I googled him.

Ladies, google is your friend. If the bastard youre dating has done anything worth telling the world, believe me, its already in google.

Next!
 
Sorry to hear you had a bad experience. I met many local and from overseas while I was looking and while they were usually fine gentlemen, they weren't the right one....until F. He flew 16,000km to meet me, we married 2 weeks later and 4 years+ on, we do not regret it.

Catalina :catroar:
 
catalina_francisco said:
Sorry to hear you had a bad experience. I met many local and from overseas while I was looking and while they were usually fine gentlemen, they weren't the right one....until F. He flew 16,000km to meet me, we married 2 weeks later and 4 years+ on, we do not regret it.

Catalina :catroar:

Wow... that's impressive.

Mine only flew 1,150 km.

Guess I ought to looking futher away.

;)
 
19 months now in a serious and loving relationship with someone I met online.

But I'm curious... what did you find on google?

I googled myself out of curiosity... most of the results weren't about me. A windsurfer, a DJ, a professor with an interest in beekeeping... did find myself a short way down, but nothing bad. My website, and some fencing league tables. :p
 
catalina_francisco said:
Sorry to hear you had a bad experience. I met many local and from overseas while I was looking and while they were usually fine gentlemen, they weren't the right one....until F. He flew 16,000km to meet me, we married 2 weeks later and 4 years+ on, we do not regret it.

Catalina :catroar:
Now that is romantic :heart:

I met both my primary male partner (almost 1 year now, relationship is progressing slowly but steadily with only one setback, a long and hard one that gave me the room to begin formal BDSM exploration) and my BDSM partner (now also one of my best friends) online. The irony - my BDSM partner lives only 5 blocks away (both a short and a long distance in a city as densely populated as SF), and we have many common interests, but I doubt that our paths would have ever crossed without the Internet.

I have never had real "luck" finding a woman lover online and at this point am going back to RL hunting.

Isabella, that's an excellent cautionary tale, but I too want to know what you found out!?!?!? At least a tidbit - I promise to believe you! ;)
 
I meet my girlfriend online and visited her a while later, we are now in a LDR but hopefully that will change :)
 
I've dated men I met online. The longest of those relationships lasted about ten months.
 
Neonflux - Mmmm.. nuh-uh. I ain't tellin' nada. :cool:

ABX - It did occur to me. :D

Marquis - Leading to an LTR?

m wisdom - Good luck!

Soumis - how long did your other longest relationship last?
 
I don't get it..what is the big deal about telling us what you found out..or at least a tiny part?
 
It's not a big deal.. which means I could turn the question around and ask why y'all want to know!

;)
 
I met Master online. Within a few minutes of talking to one another, we realized that we'd grown up in neighboring small towns. I think the only reason we never met each other back when we were in middle/high school was that he's six years older than me. Six years isn't much now, but in school, it was. We wouldn't have run with the same crowds.

On the plus side, we know many of the same people, so it wasn't exactly difficult to find information about each other. I agreed to meet him because I knew that if women who hung around him had a habit of disappearing, I'd have already known about it. :D Ah, the beauty of small towns.

Right now, I guess you could say we're kind of long-distance because I go to school a couple of hours away from home. It won't be that way forever, though. :)
 
IsabellaSnow said:
It's not a big deal.. which means I could turn the question around and ask why y'all want to know!

;)

I'l happily answer that one..it is because I am a scientist and by nature very curious.

OR

because I am a nosy bitch.

take your pick! lol
 
I'm not sure which you're asking for so...

The longest my other started-online relationship lasted was six months and the longest relationship I've ever had lasted about a year and a half.
 
I haven't had the opertunity to meet with my love yet (damn ocean lol), but we've been carrying on a ldr/online thing for a little over a year now. I really don't think of it as an online thing, because the people I talk to who have "online relationships" usually associate them with a fantasy and not really one with which they consider "real" for lack of a better word. And tho the majority of our interactions carry on thru im and email, we also chat on the phone, send stuff thru the mail and do plan on hooking up together in the real world, but timing and finances are a major issue for both of us. But it will happen when it's right. :)
 
I haven't had the opertunity to meet with my love yet (damn ocean lol), but we've been carrying on a ldr/online thing for a little over a year now. I really don't think of it as an online thing, because the people I talk to who have "online relationships" usually associate them with a fantasy and not really one with which they consider "real" for lack of a better word. And tho the majority of our interactions carry on thru im and email, we also chat on the phone, send stuff thru the mail and do plan on hooking up together in the real world, but timing and finances are a major issue for both of us. But it will happen when it's right.

Word... for... word...

I recommend Skype. I hate to think what my phone bills would look like without it - anyone here want to work out what a 30-hour intercontinental phone call would work out at?

I have plane tickets booked though - at considerable cost, sadly, but worth every penny - to spend New Year a very happy man. :)
 
ABX said:
Word... for... word...

I recommend Skype. I hate to think what my phone bills would look like without it - anyone here want to work out what a 30-hour intercontinental phone call would work out at?

I have plane tickets booked though - at considerable cost, sadly, but worth every penny - to spend New Year a very happy man. :)

I get phone cards, and free weekend minutes on my mobile, so all it really costs is the phone card, and for $10 i get 300 minutes to him. so it's really not too bad.
 
$2 an hour's pretty good, I'll give you that. But compare it to $0 an hour for phone/videophone. :p
 
I MARRIED an guy I met online!

I'd lived in town for about a year, my boyfriend had left town, my mother had died, and I needed some friends. So I signed up on a vanilla, friends-only site, and met someone who had a few things in common with me. We met, hit it off and made plans to meet again-as "friends". It soon became obvious we both wanted it to go farther, at which point I took the leap and told him about my kinky side. He smiled.

We've been married 7 years. I know from other threads like this, that ours is an unusual story-that we weren't looking to "hook up", we weren't initially discussing kink, and more-he was a novice at BDSM, while I wasn't. But it HAS worked out.

I did do an online/LD thing with my first Master, and we did end up in the same town, and together for a year. There were some serious differences in where we both were in life at the time, but for what we had when we had it, it was something I will hold dear forever.

No Google back then, but I can see how it could really help if you didn't know a person well.
 
damn I love skype!

ABX said:
I recommend Skype. I hate to think what my phone bills would look like without it - anyone here want to work out what a 30-hour intercontinental phone call would work out at?

I have plane tickets booked though - at considerable cost, sadly, but worth every penny - to spend New Year a very happy man. :)

Christ, I don't know where I'd be without Skype. :)

Anyway, I've been considering the issue of this thread a great deal lately, and I sometimes worry that it could be easy to mix-up RL and fantasy. Regardless, I still want to bring the fantasy to my real life, but time will tell me if this is the right thing to do.
 
Isabella, I too met my present Master online and are now married for five years.
and yes I've Googled his past nicknames thanks or no thanks to a friend who suggested I do so, not because of my Dom... at least I don't think so, but out of shere curiousity and yes I found a few tasty tidbits which I brought to his immediate attention. Still I believe that sometimes ignorance is bliss. I don't know what your bastardly friend was up to, but hey... unless the info you glean from your Googling has a "direct" effect on your relationship, why even bother?
 
I met her online. It's been 3 1/2 years. There have been a few visits, and there are phone calls every nite. It works well. We get our skin to skin in one or two week chunks and a move is planned as soon as certain legalities are taken care of. She is exactly who she portrays herself to be. I know this because I know people from her "real life", and nobody can lie that well, plus convince others to lie that well for them. :)
 
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