how did you meet (International couples)

[Chifuyu4]

My SO and I met on a dating site called Christian Mingle about two and a half years ago. Her profile decided someone 3000 miles and in another country was fit into the category of "people near you", she thought I looked cute and loved what I had to say on my profile so she sent me a smile. I read her profile and wanted to run and hide because I'd been in an LDR previously that went very south. I wasn't keen for a repeat. However, I prayed about it and couldn't shake the feeling I should just take a chance. I did, and two years later I got my K1 Fiancé Visa to move to the US, bought a one way plane ticket, and got married. Now I'm living on tropical island spending most of my time writing while I wait for paperwork to finish going through.

Wow congratulations!!

[soclosebutsofar]

I met my SO on Reddit. I'm not getting into details on the Subreddit because we still frequent it and I'm very anxious about internet safety haha.
First visit was cancelled due to an expired passport on his end. Rescheduled to this summer.

[Campanilla]

Belgian girl dresses as calavera for Halloween in Belgium. Spanish boy drunkenly stands in fountain and gets cold feet in Belgium.

They pass. Ecuadorian friend yells something dirty in Spanish. Belgian girl replies unexpectedly.

They chat. Ecuadorian friend makes Spanish boy give his number to Belgian girl.

2 weeks later they start dating. 4 months later he moves back to Spain for approximately 7 months.

[MollyLovesBowie]

We started communicating on FB in a group for professional wrestlers (I am retired after a 20 year career and he is just starting out). Talked a lot about "old school" versus what is being presented on television these days. I was giving him advice as I attended Walter Killer Kowalskis Institute of Professional Wrestling in Malden, MA, USA and he is attending a prestigious school in Japan. It didnt start out as a personal relationship, we were just communicating one wrestler to another. Over a few months we talked privately, then on Skype. Before I knew it, I was crushing on him terribly and as it turned out he was crushing on me as well. I wasn't looking for a relationship as I had just escaped one that was an LDR that went south real quick and I was broken hearted. I suppose you could say he healed me and after a while we got real close despite the distance. He liked that I was in the business and he could talk to me about it without having to explain every little thing and I quite enjoied that as well, not to mention he was physically my type. Tall, nice hair, originally from Manchester, England and I was hit by his total dedication to the sport. We met last year when he was booked in St. Louis and I happened to have a little money left over from a settlement because some crazy lady rear ended me. So we decided that we should meet to see if we got along one on one. Also, we said that if it didnt work out we wold remain friends. On the third day I knew that I wanted to be with him for the rest of my life and he gave me a promise ring, getting down on one knee. I couldnt tell you what he said because I was bowled over!! We are still together and see no other future than with one another.
I told him that his career comes first because I didnt want him to resent me if he left Japan and his training just to be with me. It just wouldnt work out. I dont know who is going to move where, he is still married to a Japanese national living in England so he can keep living and working there. He held me at one point and said :"Marry me?" and I told him "Get a divorce." I explained that I am not a side dish and if he was serious, he needs to get a divorce and make it legal before he puts a ring on my finger. He is a lawyer in the UK and knows how to get it done but again, he needs the citizenship to train and work in Japan. He is coming here this summer to see what it would be like for us to live together and I guess we will take it from there.
~m~

[cetodd95]

We met through a social media/meme app (9chat). We first started talking through WhatsApp, just basic conversations about our different countries, cultures, and experiences. The more we talked, the more we realized how much we had in common. So we decided to try Skyping, hear each other's voices and finally put a face with the words we were speaking. We did everything together that normal couples do, from watching soccer (or futbol in his country) to "sharing" a drink to going grocery shopping. We met each other's families and soon got to know each other in the most intimate of aspects.
When we first met, neither of us were looking for a relationship, and for sure neither of us ever intended on marrying anyone at this point, much less carrying out a long distance relationship. And yet here we are, completely, utterly in love and planning our wedding.
It's been hard, we've seen our fair share of obstacles, but I have never been happier with anyone, I've never learned so much from another person, and I've never felt more loved.
It's amazing how you can find the love of your life thousands of miles/kilometers apart, in different countries, on different continents.

[Connibby]

We met on an online game called ourWorld and are engaged.

[Framboise]

We met during our holidays!

[aoitori]

We were both using this language exchange app, where you can find tandem partners to learn languages. After a while we were texting everyday, just getting along really well. I went on holiday to Japan a few months after we started texting, so we met and eventually started dating.

[Bee'sknees]

We met online. I was bored and my friend was telling me how awful the guys were on some dating site she was on so I wanted to see it myself. So I pretty much joined the site as a joke and yes, I got some ridiculous messages. Then just a couple of days later this one messaged me and I was pretty much sold.

He was so lovely right from the start and looked really cute on his profile picture. We messaged on there for four days I think, and then we started using Kik. Skype came into the picture couple of months later cause I was scared to actually talk to him, lol. But when I heard his voice I was even more sold. We couldn't meet until six months later cause of my work stuff but finally that day came.

I had already met guys online years before we started talking, but I never was this goddamn nervous. I literally almost puked when I was waiting for him. Then he called saying he's downstairs and I went to the door and I was just so nervous it's unbelievable. There he was with some roses and we probably kissed within the first two minutes. And the rest is history.

[Framboise]

We were both using this language exchange app, where you can find tandem partners to learn languages. After a while we were texting everyday, just getting along really well. I went on holiday to Japan a few months after we started texting, so we met and eventually started dating.

May I ask you what's your app'?

[sherida13]

My college gives students the opportunity to go abroad in the 2nd year. I have family in Sri Lanka (the only reason my parents let me go haha), so 17 year old me went there for a couple of months to volenteer in a boys' home.

I went to my cousin's home for a mass for my uncle who passed away 1 year at that time. I was standing in front of the church and saw a really cute guy. We were chatting on Facebook nonstop and hung out a few times. We thought our family would disapprove, because the culture is very different to my European culture, so we kept sneaking around. Our first kiss was in the men's bathroom in a big arcade. The guard followed us and shouted at us to get out haha.

I left 2 weeks after meeting him and I didn't know if we were serious or not, so when I got home I asked about it and he wanted me to be his girlfriend. That's a little over 3 years ago now.

[HeadInTheSnow]

We met online on an application. He asked me out on the first week but i refused. I wanted to get to know people more before i meet them. He never gave up and we finally met. First day was really like hanging out with a friend and i liked it a lot. From that on, it's been 8 months now.

[aoitori]

May I ask you what's your app'?

Sorry, I only saw your comment now, it's called 'Hello Talk'

[Metjuw]

We met through a World of Warcraft Singles group on Facebook, I posted my biography with a photo of me in a thread and she liked my post and also left a comment and then I talked to her in private message, that's where it all started, now we do skype calls and play together.

[Jelly11]

I travel alone a lot. I logged into my online dating app when I was in that country, meaning to reply to someone from my country who I was in a convo with but forgot it would tag my location. Got a message off him and he asked to meet before I left the next day.

It was silly really.