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A colleague of mine married a guy she met on a Christian on-line dating site - they're both wonderful people and now happy parents of a little guy!  

Online dating really isn't that scary.  Just always keep your eyes open to what's being said on the screen and what happens on the first coffee meet.

I have met a loooot of people from the internet.  Some from here on WonderCafe, some from Facebook, and some from eHarmony.  (To clarify -- the people I met on WonderCafe were never for dating purposes, only friends, and the people on Facebook have been mostly for friends, but I have met a few for dating.)  Once you meet your first one or two online contacts, then it loses the intimidation factor after that -- the internet just becomes another way to meet people.

People can pretend to be anyone on the internet.  But people can pretend to be anyone if you meet them in a bar.

One thing to keep in mind that I've been told about... the free dating sites tend to be people who are looking for sex -- the paid sites tend to be people who are looking for a relationship.

I have made a loooot of friends that started online -- almost all my best friends are people I met online.  I've had less luck with online dating.  I've met a lot of women, but very few that I would want to pursue dating with.  I don't really have any funny or scary stories -- they were all just normal people giving the online dating thing a try.  (And I know the perspective of a male might be different than that of a female -- so it might be helpful to know that one of my female friends has had very similar experiences to me.)

My exbf I met through eharmony. He was the love of my life until I realized he was sleeping with his best friend's wife. Now I have a hole in my heart where that love used to be. That could happen in real life too though. I have met guys I have not clicked with online. I don't like being set up by friends.

I met another guy online. So far he seems to be pretty decent. 40 percent of married couples meet online. I personally know three and it seems to be working for them.

Serena-40% of married couples met online?

Where does this come from? It seems rather high to be but I do know of 3 couples who met on line.

I went on 2 coffee dates with a very nice/cute muslim guy I met online a while back. He ended up not really liking me like that but at least I made a friend . So that's my story!

I have seen similar numbers before.  Maybe not that high but it depedns where the sample was taken I would guess.  And most certainly the number is growing

I'm going to guess that it's couples who were married in the last 5 years - or something like that.

 Or maybe from a poll on a online dating site 

I don't remember where I heard the statistic.  Maybe I read it on an online dating site?

I too know several couples who met online at dating type sites.  One 70+ pair say they have never been happier.  The woman said "You have to be careful.  I set up all my first meetings in a fast food place where I could sit and see everyone coming in.  If the guy who was looking for me proved to be obviously dirty, maybe drunk, I excused myself and left via the back door."

A younger woman said she always took her sister and a friend along on first meetings.  If things weren't going well (often that meant too fast - a quick greeting and lets jump into bed!) she 'suddenly spotted' some friends and invited them to join her and the guy.

I'm single, but not nearly single enough to ever want to try online dating

When I was single I signed up for a few sites, but I never wanted to actually fork over the cash to get in contact with anyone. A very good friend of mine, however, met his first girlfriend online. He was living in Canada, she in the Phillipines. About a year later, with many an email and phone call exchanged between them they met and married in Hong Kong. She then flew him back to her home country to meet her folks. Six years later they are still married and now enjoying life in Canada's world class city.

I met my recent boyfriend online.  We live 2 hours apart so we would never have met in person.  We found we had a lot in common even before we met.  Unfortunately it didnt work out, but I will keep looking online.  I am convinced there are lots of great guys online who are looking for a relationship.  I just need to keep looking.

I have a good story now.   I met a guy online.  We clicked instantly and we were dating every day.  Then he stood me up and dissapeared for a week.  He phoned me and said that his buddy died and he couldn't think straight but if I wasnt too mad at him we were still a couple he just needed some time.  In the mean time I found out he was dating a friend of mine.  He dumped the friend and came back to me.  I confronted him about his behaviour.  He admitted to lying and apologized.  After a week of me insulting him (answering his texts with scathing remarks) him driving from the city just to deliver me tim hortons coffee before work, and both of us agreeing on what a jerk he was we decided to try dating again.  Before we tried dating again I was dating 4 other guys and getting dating advice from him and calling him "big brother".  I did this to bug him.  And it so worked.   He was advising me what to wear on the dates.  He wanted pics of me and critiqued.  He texted me during the dates so I had to turn my phone off.  When my dates went to the washroom I read the texts.  Basically, he was asking me to ditch the date and meet him.  Then he stood me up again but he got into a fight that night and was hospitalized.  He came over the next morning and showed me his arm in a sling.  He was in a lot of pain.  I had to help him take his coat off and put it on.  I had to help him with his seatbelt.  So then we were back together...me still wary of him.  Then I found out he was dating my boss and it was over.  Now my boss has dumped him and between the three of us we have no idea what he is doing but we are not keeping tabs anymore.