What do you think about couples who met online?

[Anonymous]

I met DH on match.com and close friends know, but I am reluctant to share this info with just anybody, i.e. neighbors, daycare parents, etc.

Do you have opinions about online couples? I feel like it's still taboo.

[Anonymous]

Nothing wrong with it at all.

[Anonymous]

why would anyone else need to know? how often does it come up in conversation really.

[Anonymous]

my brother met his wife online.
if I were single, I'd do it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:why would anyone else need to know? how often does it come up in conversation really.

When people sit down for a drink, they talk about how they met their mates. I cringe a little and have to tell a little white lie.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't be ashamed! It gives single people hope. Everyone I know loves these stories.

[Anonymous]

I met my beloved via match.com . He's lovely, normal, funny, has friends, is date-able, marriage-able, and has a profession he loves -- and most importantly -- somehow he puts up with me. Now we have a daughter and another on the way, and he's a great dad, too.

So from my perspective, "online dating" is a great way to meet this kind of person!

Zero taboo.

[Anonymous]

Call me old fashioned, but it does make me cringe a little. But, I am happy for those this works! Each to his or her own.

[Anonymous]

I don't think it's a taboo. I met my husband on E-harmony. My cousin met his wife on Match and they've been married 10 years. I have another friend who met her husband on E-harmony also and another friend who met her husband on Yahoo personals.

[Anonymous]

16:33 Why would it make you cringe? This is a new level of smug married! Really, what would you have done if you hadn't gotten lucky and met your spouse offline? Is there something superior to that?

[Anonymous]

I met DH at match.com seven years ago. He is incredible as a husband and father, is tall, dark and handsome, foreign with an accent, smart, and able to fix anything, from cars to electric wiring.

Everyday I cannot believe how lucky I am to have him, and if it wasn't for match.com I would have never met him.

So I strongly encourage my single friends to give online dating a shot. It worked for me .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Call me old fashioned, but it does make me cringe a little. But, I am happy for those this works! Each to his or her own.

I'm one of the PPs who met her spouse online. I think I might get where you're coming from! Maybe folks think that there's something socially wrong with you -- that you have to "mail order" your date. And I have to say, there might be more awkward folks online trying to get a date as compared with the non-internet world? Luckily match.com and so on has become a totally mainstream social medium, which means there are also a lot of totally normal people. And it's pretty easy to sort out who's who. Just like in real life: some dude sidles up and you can instantly detect whether he might be your type or a creepy weirdo.

[Anonymous]

Ten years ago, I think I found it odd. Nowadays tho it is so normal and I don't think anything of it.

I never thought it as taboo as much as shocked that anybody could find a love match over the Internet. But great for those who it happens to!

[Anonymous]

I did online dating as early as 1996. Back then people definitely thought it was weird. I had no idea people still did, though. I have friends who have been married now for 12 years who met online. That beats out a ton of couples I know who met in more traditional ways.

[Anonymous]

I met my DH on Yahoo Personals and we have been married almost 6 years, have two kids and another on the way. He is a wonderful man. Both of us had recently moved to town and didn't have many ways to meet people. Plus we are both introverts. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to meet him -- without internet dating who knows where I would be now. I am always very honest and upfront with people about how we met, because I think it is a great story (he perused dozens of profiles and mine was the only one he liked) and to counter the lingering stigma about meeting online, which is just silly. I think people are suspicious of online because it is possible to misrepresent yourself in an online medium -- we've all heard the stories of married men pretending to be single who just wanted to get a little on the side, or people who put up old pictures that don't reflect the way they look, etc. -- but people can misrepresent themselves in person as well. Probably the VAST majority of people who are online dating are on the up and up. And the more stories like mine (and yours!) that are told openly, the less stigma there will be.