What is your story??

[shananana]

When you met each other were you with someone else?
We've known each other since we were like 13-14, so no. We were always really good friends and he knew basically everything that was going on and vice versa.

How did you first meet?
We met from a chatroom on AOL called "Hey Girlfriend". My brother use to go into the chatroom and I started going to talk to all the people and stuff. It was very interesting and there were "regulars" that would always be in the chatroom at certain times. Philip was in there and we all would talk. I was attracted to him, but we were young, so nothing came out of it, lol.
When we met in person it was in August of 2009. He flew to Florida to visit for a week. I was excited, but extremely nervous because I didn't know what he would think about me since it was the first time he'd see me. It went well and I had a lot of fun with him. (: We always have fun together.

How did you come about telling your SO about your feelings for them?
Well.. I actually wasn't going to say anything about it because I didn't want to be in another LDR. I was previously in one and it ended horribly and I just didn't want to go through that again, plus if I was going to be with someone, I wanted them to be here locally. My friends and I would go to the park late at night and I remember talking to him a lot (more than usual) and he asked me about how I felt and then that's when I noticed he had feelings as well. I was a little skeptical about it all, but I kind of let all my guards down and just expressed how I felt to him. I think I scared him a little bit because he didn't know how to take it. I'll admit it was a little overwhelming, but I was a little upset as to why he would bring it up if he wasn't expecting anything out of it. He didn't like the distance as well, yet we kept talking like we always would. He tried not talking to me a few months and that was devastating because I love him and I'm in love with him and I couldn't just be friends. We started talking again because some drama arose and then on January 12th, 2010.. he finally came to his senses and asked me to be his! Heheheh. Of course I was ALL for it!

When you first saw a picture of them did it feel like you've seen them before?
Yeah, I feel like I've known him all my life. He's my best friend.

[Mio]

When you met each other were you with someone else?
No, we were both single.

How did you first meet?
I was backpacking in Europe with my brother, we went to visit a friend in Munich Germany, and my SO turned out to be a friend of her! Lucky ah?

How did you come about telling your SO about your feelings for them?
Well, he told me about his feelings first. I was in love with him, but didn't have the guts to say anything. Then one day we were talking and he declared his love for me, I was in shock! Then I told him how I felt!

When you first saw a picture of them did it feel like you've seen them before?
We met in person first, then we developed a relationship from there on. But my baby knows me as if he knew me from before!

[ValadinShadow]

When you met each other were you with someone else?
I wasn't. I don't think he was officially, but he did go out with a couple girls before we started dating.

How did you first meet?
You know, I don't remember? Probably in class, but I actually don't remember the first time I ever met him... I actually didn't like him at first. But *shhhhh*, don't tell him that.
We really got to know each other the summer after my Freshman year of college. We talked online quite a bit, because his GF worked a lot. When we came back to school that fall, all of a sudden we were friends. Which was good, because he was good friends with my best friend.

How did you come about telling your SO about your feelings for them?
At the time, he was dating another girl, but we hung out a lot. His relationship started having problems, and he talked to me a lot about it. Late September of 2006, he and I went to a tractor pull with a couple friends (it was in the rural South...::shrug:. On our way home, everyone fell asleep except me and him (he was driving) and we stopped at Sonic to get something to drink. He asked if I wanted to split a strawberry limeaid slushie. According to him I gave him a really funny look. What I thought was (is he flirting with me??). what I said was "sure". About a week later he broke up with his GF (not because of me) and we started walking and talking a lot. Almost every night actually. I was clueless (I had never had any guy show any interest in me before and it never occured to me that anyone would). I liked him a lot, but I thought that he just wanted someone to talk to. According to my friends it was very obvious he liked me, but I didn't notice until one night he reached for my hand. I was startled and pulled away and he apologized. We talked later, after I had calmed down a bit, and he apologized again, saying that he had thought I had liked him and that he guessed he was wrong. I said he wasn't, but that I wanted to wait longer since he had just broken up with his GF. We made it to the beginning of November.
He said it first. We had been dating for a little bit, and were talking on the phone late one night, and he said "I love you" And I said "I love you too".

When you first saw a picture of them did it feel like you've seen them before?
Yes, because I had.

Wow, that was long. We had sort of a convoluted beginning.

[Podling]

Awh I really like the idea of this thread - it's so nice reading peoples stories!

When you met each other were you with someone else?

I was, in fact I was there with the guy I was seeing but it was a very brief and non serious relationship which ended well and I am still friends with that ex so it's all worked out. He wasn't seeing anyone though...

How did you first meet?

We were both attending a retro gaming convention, he was running around trying to find his netbook whilst I was sat down in the pub having a drink and recovering from the large amount of travelling I'd undergone to go there.

How did you come about telling your SO about your feelings for them?

He told me actually. I was down in London visiting family and we met up there and nothing happened, he lives a little way outside of London and as I had spare days when my family was busy he invited me to go to his. We had dinner and decided not to go to the cinema and instead had Ben and Jerrys and watched a film at his and he started talking rather obviously about a girl he liked and dropping big hints so I asked if that girl might have a name

When you first saw a picture of them did it feel like you've seen them before?

Well as I said we actually met in person. It wasn't love at first sight per say - my first though was 'gosh he's really cute, shame he looks/sounds a bit like he might be gay' Needless to say I was very happy to be proven wrong!

[stargazerlily]

Your stories are so cuuuuuuute!

When you met each other were you with someone else?

Nope for the both of us.

How did you first meet?

We were classmates in high school but we were just friends then. We were close during our freshman year but we slowly drifted apart afterwards coz we don't have any common classes anymore. His family migrated to the US when we were in college. We became close again when he was there coz we chatted often. Then last year, he went home for a visit. We arranged to meet up with some other friends. Thanks to traffic, our other friends were late so the two of us were able to spend some alone time together. That's when I noticed changes in him and began to fall for him.

How did you come about telling your SO about your feelings for them?

Luckily, he felt the same way and told me he likes me. However, we both know that our time together is limited since he's going back to the States after a month. It was pretty complicated at first because we were both being careful and afraid of getting hurt. When we talked about it, our first resolution was to make the best out of the time he was here but no commitments involved. But then it was too good to let pass, so after several dates, he said that he wanted to try the long distance relationship thing.

When you first saw a picture of them did it feel like you've seen them before?

Not really. And 10 years ago, if someone said that I'd end up with him, I would have laughed. Even some of our friends were surprised that we got together.

[entranced.in.noise]

When you met each other were you with someone else?

I was dating a guy from school when I met Mariah.

How did you first meet?

We met on Tumblr. I had followed her and a bunch of other people due to mutual interest in Green Day. She was one of the people that I actually started talking to rather than just posting photos back and forth with. I got the screen names and/or cell phone numbers of her and others, and started IMing/texting outside of Tumblr (which became a big help when the guy I was dating broke up with me).

How did you come about telling your SO about your feelings for them?

I don't know if I really "came about" telling her. We started getting really close and I talked to her much more than anyone else. A bunch of things happened that she'd probably kill me for saying, and we just started sending a lot of lovey-dovey texts. I went to make her a "fake" card for Valentine's Day, and then when the day came, she basically told me she had a crush on me, and I thought it was really cute, and then I kept pushing until she asked me out.

When you first saw a picture of them did it feel like you've seen them before?

I don't even remember. I had seen so many pictures of everyone from the site at once, and I'm bad with remembering things like this.

[LadyMarchHare]

When you met each other were you with someone else? I've never been in a relationship before, so no. Plus I was 14. I don't know if he was in a relationship, I know he was a couple years back.

How did you first meet? I had joined the roleplaying/gaming forum called Gaia Online, which caters to teenagers mostly. I liked roleplaying, which is like a form of storytelling and you play a character in the story, it's great if you like writing, and joined up with a group. He was old friends with the guy running the group and had joined too. My first impression was the way he wrote each post. His words were very fluid, very elegant, and he always painted such a wonderful picture with his words. I was, at the time, both intimidated and jealous of him and did everything I could to avoid talking to him. Here and there he'd invite me to join a few groups he'd made and I'd get so happy I'd almost wet myself because it, to me, was a high compliment that a writer of his skill wanted me among his players. We didn't really become friends until about 2007, though, and that's when I started crushing on him really badly.

How did you come about telling your SO about your feelings for them? I actually had never planned to. I'm shy and terribly afraid of rejection and the times I HAVE told my crushes I like them, I got spurned badly. At the time I had said I was asexual since really I'd lost all interest in sex and attraction despite carrying a little flame for him and he knew about it and had simply told me one evening he was interested in me because, for whatever reason, he was drawn to me and wanted to know more. I thought he meant like he just wanted to know my screwed up life story or something but when he repeated it a couple times more over the week I realized he meant in the "I want to date you" way, which blew me out the water. NEVER have I had a guy actually WANT to date me, I'm always so anti-guy (basically I playfully harass people and it tends to hit tenfold with men, earning me the title 'bitch' and probably killing any interest they could've had for me) but it excited me. Still I was so scared I would find out I had interpreted his words wrong if I said anything, so I drew a picture for him that, even if it turned out he didn't want me, would still be a nice gift. I had stayed up until 9 am drawing it, woke up at noon to do chores and the like, and colored it when I got home from dinner. I had also skipped two dosages of my meds by accident and had drunk coffee so I has literally shaking and just about out of my mind. When I showed it to him, he expressed he really liked it and I suppose he caught on because he began heavily flirting with me (he always tried flirting before, even years ago, but I never took the bait because I was shy) and I flirted back. It turned into a serious discussion about relationships and how we seemed to 'click' so well and he finally asked me. I had a damn heart attack. (not really, but it felt like it)

When you first saw a picture of them did it feel like you've seen them before? I first saw his picture back in January when I jokingly asked him to friend me on Facebook since I'd only just gotten an account a couple months earlier. I never knew he was black and when I saw the pictures in his album I was stunned and then just thumbed through them. With each picture I kept noticing his eyes and this.. look they held, like he had an entire world much better than our own in them and he was taunting the camera and viewer with it because he'd never indulge it. It was totally him. I think had I seen these pictures without knowing they were him, I could've told you who they were of.

[NaNi]

When you met each other were you with someone else? No, I was single. I have never been in a relationship before meeting my girlfriend.

How did you first meet? Through LiveJournal. It's an online journal. Somebody wrote a story, a fan fiction, and my girlfriend replied to one comment from the author and, the stalker that I am, I replied to her comment within seconds and so we spent the first night just replying to each others comments. I promised that night that I would talk to her again and I did. The next day I went to her journal and left a comment, not really knowing what to expect, but she replied back. And it made me so unbelievably happy.

How did you come about telling your SO about your feelings for them? Looking back... it was quite obvious that we would end up as girlfriends. But we never talked about it. We shared our feelings right from the beginning, in emails, text messages, through videos, everything. But we never talked about if we were girlfriends or not. At that point though... that wasn't really necessary. I just felt so happy. But on some days I noticed jealousy. Like when she went out with her best friends, partying. Thinking that she might meet somebody else and that she might stop talking to me then. Then it happened again when she had this work gathering, so I just sent her a text and asked. "Are you still looking for somebody else?", already implying that I want to be with her. The next day... we were officially girlfriends.

When you first saw a picture of them did it feel like you've seen them before? When my girlfriend replied to that author's comment... I went to her journal and looked through her photos on her Bebo page. I don't know why. I normally don't stalk everyone like that, especially since I didn't know her, but I somehow was really interested. And right from the beginning I though: "She's beautiful", and I told her so.

[ForGodAndNation]

When you met each other were you with someone else?
Technically no. I was living with my ex girlfriend and trying to work things out with her. We were together on and off for 10 years and I was attempting to make things work with my ex girl for months. She wasn't interested. I was in a rut over it.

How did you first meet?
We met at a Flatfoot 56 show at a Christian music venue. I only went to the show to make fun of Christian kids after dealing with a lot of drama back home. She only to the show because her ex talked her into going after she was done babysitting. Her ex boyfriend was my best friends buddy from high school. Her ex introduced us as we stood in a circle and his plan for trying to hook back up with her went out the window. Me and her were pretty smitten after our first conversation.

How did you come about telling your SO about your feelings for them?
She was spending time with some friends one day and one of her guy friends admitted his feelings for her. She in turn freaked out and called me not knowing what to do. My response was to laugh and make fun of the situation with "Uh what if I told you I liked you" and she was like "Shut up...wait are you serious?" and I was like "What if..." and she was like "Oh um...yeah...well I'd be happy cause I like you too....wait are you joking?" I laughed and hung up the phone. I told her the next day I was serious hahaha. I enjoyed letting her stress out about it all night.

When you first saw a picture of them did it feel like you've seen them before?
She knew who I was when we first met because she'd been to my myspace a year before we met. I use to DJ and I ran with a gang for awhile. She heard stories about me from her ex whenever people messed with him. He told her I had friends who'd have his back through anything. I didn't even know the kid. I call her my little stalker just for that fact haha.

[5000miles]

When you met each other were you with someone else?
Yes, but just barely. I met him at the end of a year long relationship that had been on the verge of ending for 5 months. I broke up with my ex about a week after meeting my SO. I didn't break up with my ex because of him though, we were just friends at that time. We got together about a month later.

How did you first meet?
We met in an online chat. He was a complete dork, but I thought it was cute. We ended up in the same chat room nearly everyday and we would talk for hours. There was one night about 2 weeks after we met that he stayed up the entire night to talk to me.

When you first saw a picture of them did it feel like you've seen them before?
It wasn't that I felt like I had seen him before, it was like... I already knew him pretty well, so after I saw his picture it was like my mind was like "Yeah, if I had to put a face to his personality it would be that one". He's handsome with long eyelashes and baby blue eyes for the cute part of his personality and floppy ears for the goofy part.

Maybe our story isn't the most romantic, but it's perfect to me. I love him so much and I'm so lucky to have him.

How did you come about telling your SO about your feelings for them?
I think we both just started figuring out that we had feelings for each other and one night (he had stayed up all night again) he asked me to "be his". And I said yes. I wasn't sure how far it was going to go, but after just a month with him I knew that I was totally in love and that he was the one I wanted to be with.

[Reckless_Anarchy]

When you met each other were you with someone else?
No, we were both single...Although, she went into a relationship about 3 or 4 months after we met

How did you first meet?
We were on a christian retreat in Florida, and it was just so random.I was walking with one of my friends and all of a sudden behind me I hear "Hey!Is that a Metallica armband?!" and I turn around and smiled "Hell yeah it is.You like Metallica?" and then for that whole week we just talked and then we just kept talking some way or another after that lol.

How did you come about telling your SO about your feelings for them?
Ummmmm, well, funny thing is, I told her I liked her when she was with her previous girlfriend...Didn't really work out on the timing lol

When you first saw a picture of them did it feel like you've seen them before?
Not really.But she sure as hell seemed cool to me though

[Smoosh]

When we first started talking I was in a confusing situation. I'd met a guy in a bar a couple of months beforehand, we went out together occasionally drinking etc. and ending up having sex one night. He started calling me his girlfriend, but we rarely saw each other. Then I started talking to my boy a few weeks since the last time I'd seen this other guy...even though I was confused about what was happening. I saw him again by accident on a night out, and we said a friendly hello, but that was it, so I accepted that that was pretty much over.

We first started talking on a random website, I added him on msn that day and we just chatted for a couple of weeks. He kept suggesting driving to see me, but I was a bit dubious because I wasn't sure if I wanted a relationship and I had exams at the time. We talked on the phone a bit, he used to phone me when he knew I was upset about some stuff my 'friends' were putting me though. And we texted a lot. The day after one of my exams we arranged for him to drive to see me. When I saw him in person, I knew I liked him instantly.

I knew he had feelings for me before we met, he made it quite obvious and told me I was perfect all the time etc. he even asked if I'd go out with him before we'd met in person...but I didn't want to do that. On the day we met, after a few hours together he said 'so what do I have to do to get you to be mine?' and after a conversation I said I'd 'go out with him'.

When I first saw him online...I was actually kind of unsure of him but the moment I met him...

[TiffanyLovesNick]

When you met each other were you with someone else?
I was in a really stupid LDR with someone at the time, when I met him.
How did you first meet?
I met him through a online game called World Of Warcraft. It was about a year and a half prior to us starting our relationship, and we were just friends at that point. I grew some feelings for him but I never wanted to go through another bad LDR. I lost contact with him for a little while and found him on a site called Gaia, where we started talking again. I was with another person at the time. I had a bad break up with him, and coupled with my depression and other issues going on in my life, I was very lost. He helped me through everything, and he helped me heal all the old wounds. He helped me to become a new person. Eventually, he told me that he had strong feelings for me. And that's where we started. One year and three months ago.
How did you come about telling your SO about your feelings for them?
He told me. We were planning on quitting WoW. Then, he told me that he had strong feelings for me.

When you first saw a picture of them did it feel like you've seen them before?
Well, I saw him a long time before that when we were friends, so no. But he looked like someone who I could hug and kiss. D:

[sam]

When you met each other were you with someone else?
She was. She was living with him and they'd been together near enough 2 years.
I found myself going online more and more and the first thing I'd do was see if she was there on msn or not and be sorta.. disappointed when she wasnt. Pretty sure I fell in love with her kinda quickly.
It hurt like hell that she was with someone else.. even more so that they lived together but yeah.. I got through it (just about - thought about deleting her/not talking to her any more because it hurt so much and stuff ) and we're together now so I guess that's all that matters.
Sure, there's worse stuff that can happen in someones life, but I certainly wouldnt wish that on anyone.

I was with someone, but not really.. hah
We just hung out a lot more than I did with any of my other friends. Nothing happened between us.. I wouldnt even call it a relationship but yeah.. *shrug*


How did you first meet?
Playing minigolf on playray x)
There was a multiplayer game made with 3 players and we both happened to join it. So the very first time we met, there was someone else there too. We were the only ones talking through the game and (she wont like me saying this ) I was kicking her ass, and she was like "wait for me :<" on one of the holes, so I replied 'ok, only because I like you' and.. apparently when I asked her for her msn, that was the reason why (or one of them )


How did you come about telling your SO about your feelings for them?
Guess she kinda knew over time. Dont think I ever really "told her" as such, other than when I said I love her for the first time - which was at the airport when we met for the first time, about 30 minutes after being together. I'm pretty sure she knew I loved her long before then though, without me ever actually saying it..
I wanted to say I love her for the first time face-to-face, and not online


When you first saw a picture of them did it feel like you've seen them before?
Uhm, nah..
When she first added me on msn, she had a picture there then so.. :s
I just thought she was amazingly pretty and was thinking like.. "woah, she's that pretty, and I already like her loads and we've only spoke for like.. 45 minutes" haha



Yeah, I wish some things before we were oficially "together" were different but.. we cant change that so.. Just have to be happy now, which I am

[ginaxnj]

When you met each other were you with someone else? I was single at the time and so was he but there was a period of 2 years where I didn't speak to him at all.. (long story) Then when I talked to him 2 years later he had a girlfriend.

How did you first meet? Ummm.. that parts a little hazy because we both don't really remember. Somewhere online though.

How did you come about telling your SO about your feelings for them? I never really told my SO, he just knew by my reactions for him and I knew by how he was acting towards me about how he felt.

When you first saw a picture of them did it feel like you've seen them before? No I did not.