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| I do not have a spouse/partner/other... |
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37% |
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| Arranged by another person.. ie: blind date, set up by family/friend |
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5% |
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9% |
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| high school sweetie/friend |
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9% |
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| bumped into the person in a supermarket/mall/park/etc... |
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5% |
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| Other... would love to hear about it |
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32% |
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 Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 4:21 am
I have no interest in having an online husband, the one I have at home is enough. I would not be ok if he had an online wife either.
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:46 pm
Harbone I'm gonna go ask Umberella for permission to marry someone else online, and then I'll do some scrubbin' and go e-courtin'! ...er, as soon as I finish these punes so's I can feel nice and regular (the closest thing I got to confident these days.) Toot toot! Ha ha old man! I caught you! You can court all you want, but I know what you're like in real life so hurry up and wash those dishes!
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Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 1:04 am
But... honey... I was gonna do my Wormtongue impression.
Bleh! I'm creepy! Bleh!
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Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 6:03 am
I met my husband in a singles chat room almost 11 years ago. (He recognized what a kitsune was ... good for him!) We've been married almost 9 years and are very happy. heart
The thing is that I did meet a lot of toads before I met him (online and irl), we were both older, and we were in professions that didn't lead to a lot of dating opportunities (I was teaching, he was in the U.S. Navy).
No guarantees in anything, really. I've just been really lucky.
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Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 8:11 am
slightlyfoxed I met my husband in a singles chat room almost 11 years ago. (He recognized what a kitsune was ... good for him!) We've been married almost 9 years and are very happy. heart The thing is that I did meet a lot of toads before I met him (online and irl), we were both older, and we were in professions that didn't lead to a lot of dating opportunities (I was teaching, he was in the U.S. Navy). No guarantees in anything, really. I've just been really lucky. Well, good for you, I was begining to think every one here was quite negative on the dating/relationship/mariage thing. It was getting quite depressing.
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Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 9:50 pm
Lil-Jo Well, good for you, I was begining to think every one here was quite negative on the dating/relationship/mariage thing. It was getting quite depressing. Aw, there's lots of us "happily marrieds" here too, it just doesn't make for such interesting conversation.
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Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 2:09 pm
My wife and I are happily married, however we both enjoy chatting with new friends on Gaia. My youngest son has met some of the kids he met on Gaia and enjoys their company however he is bnot interested in a relationship at this time. He wants to finish his first 4 years in college before he starts looking. I agree with him totally, but if he should find a mate from Gaia I would think that was cool also. After all I am his father.
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Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:04 pm
Catira Norr Lil-Jo Well, good for you, I was begining to think every one here was quite negative on the dating/relationship/mariage thing. It was getting quite depressing. Aw, there's lots of us "happily marrieds" here too, it just doesn't make for such interesting conversation. Yeah, we Smug Marrieds are continually intrigued by you Singletons. ON behalf of all of my kind, I apologize for being: 1) incredibly boring; and 2) trying to inflict our state on you.
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:36 pm
Smug Marrieds, now there's a phrase I haven't heard in a while. Luckily I missed out on that phase (according to my most single girlfriend), and can still talk about non couple things.... Although there was a brief time after I just became a Mum when I was on the verge of bringing infant bodily fluids into every conversation (just how much can one little baby hold?). Thank God I saw sense before I bored everyone to tears.
Mind you, since we all hit our 40's even the singletons tend to start talking about the same things - aches, pains and memory lapses.... now, what was I talking about?
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 11:33 pm
I think internet relationships are better than dating in real life. At first! ^_^;
I think you have a better chance of really knowing someone over the internet.
I just feel like when you're with someone face to face you tend to exaggerate about yourself or just plain lie, and the physical tension can cause more than a few unpleantries or regrettable actions.
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:30 pm
I think internet dating beats the hell out of the bar scene. You don't have to stand in line to use a nasty bathroom. You don't have to stand up for hours in uncomfortable shoes because your jeans are to tight for you to sit down in and the fat roll would ruin the "cute" look you've established. You don't have to wait to get a drink. YOu don't have to buy overpriced drinks. You don't to scream to be heard of the music. You don't have a hang over the next day. You know exactly where you are when you wake up. You don't have to have boring, affected conversations while you are trying to figure out the polite way to escape from the situation (i.e.: if your fat butt will allow you to climb out the restroom window. And if anyone would notice if you snuck out the back.)
those are just a few I could think of off hand.
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:31 pm
rofl how very very true!!
i have an online friend, we've been talking for around 18 months now, i'm in England, he's in Indianapolis, but i'd still say he's my best friend, we talk for hours, i'm chatting with him now actually, we know LOADS about each other. Have a great deal of similarities in our likes/dislikes and opinions.
We are both attracted to each other too, he says if we're both still single by the time we hit 40 (5 years time) we should marry each other, so i'm not all doom and gloom on the subject, but it is a little demoralising to find your soul mate when they live 4000 miles away rolleyes
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:38 pm
At least you've found them at all. 3nodding
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:39 am
Good point! And I used to enjoy hanging out in bars, which gives you an idea of their male clientelle.
To give you an idea, since I'm free to gleefully lie all I like in this format, I enjoyed dancing at this once club in Portland, OR called the Lotus Card Room-something-something. I'm such a total spaz on the dance floor that I accidentally hit this one woman in the face. It was very embarrassing, but not as bad as discovering, three months later, that my wife-to-be and all her friends had been there that night and witnessed the event.
I swear on my mother's grave* that this is true.
Incidentally, Cosmichedgehog, isn't that a weird stance for a future bartender to take?
*My mother currently lives with my father in a small town in the southwestern United States.
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