What do you think about couples who met online?

[Anonymous]

I read an article that close to 50% of couples are now meeting this way.

[Anonymous]

One of my best friends met her husband on match.com. To be honest, a lot of my friends are married to d-bags but this guy is a one in a million, totally great guy. The whole thing makes me think very positively of online dating. Of course at their wedding the priest announced they met at starbucks, which is technically true....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I met my husband on e-harmony. We hardly told anyone about how we met so now it's this secret, but I wish we could go back in time and just be honest. I don't think it's anything to be ashamed of, I don't know why we didn't just tell the truth. It does still come up for some reason and even years later people you meet sometimes want to know how you met.

I feel the exact same way. Met my husband in 1998 on the Boston Herald's Personal Possibilities website. And I don't even know why because I hate the Herald. I put up a profile before moving to Boston for graduate school, never done online dating before. The people who contacted me were duds except my now husband. It's weird b/c he said he was just looking up a story about a friend's dad death in a car wreck and started browsing on a lark.

Online dating definitely had the ick factor then. Like only desperate did it. Anyway, he told his friends and fam. the truth. I lied. Luckily his live in New England. Ha. My friends and fam. think we met in a bar. I wish I'd been honest too. Eventually, it will come out and it's not such a big deal 12 years and two kids later I guess.

[Anonymous]

Wow 5:13 that's a great story. Will your children know the truth? Because they might blab. The "how my parents met" narrative is essential.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do I think about these couples? We're awesome!!!

DH and I met on JDate 7 years ago and got married 5 years ago. We are so grateful to have met each other, which likely never would have happened without JDate. So we're not the least bit hesitant to tell people if they ask how we met.

By the way, the same year we got married, we went to FOUR other weddings of friends who met their spouses online. Three were via Match and one was via Jdate. And that was five years ago.

we also met on jdate-nine years ago. We have been married 8 years-three kids...most of my jewish friends also met on jdate-especially those in their 30s.

[Anonymous]

Another poster afficted with DCUM Broken Spinal Column Syndrome.

[Anonymous]

I met DH online when we both signed up for a Jews for Jesus marathon.

[Anonymous]

I did some online dating a while back when it was still somewhat taboo. Nothing ever really panned out for me and I ended up meeting my now DH at a work event when I was not even looking.

That said, I see nothing wrong with it and know TONS of people who have met their significant others online.

Before Match. com there was the Matchmaker. This type of thing has been around for years and years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another poster afficted with DCUM Broken Spinal Column Syndrome.

Insulting people anonymously, on the other hand, is a sure sign of spinal fortitude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another poster afficted with DCUM Broken Spinal Column Syndrome.

Insulting people anonymously, on the other hand, is a sure sign of spinal fortitude.

No worse than implying folks who meet online are some sort of desperate or icky.

Met my wife online in 1998, married 10 years, one 3 y/o DD.

[Anonymous]

Another eharmony happy couple here. I wouldn't change our story for the world: we both knew we wanted someone special in our lives, we were emotionally and financially ready, we made a profile to be matched with someone compatible with us and out of dozens of matches, we chose each other. I would never chose met at a bar or at work over that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Op. This sounds like my DH, except for the dark part.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's totally normal these days.

OP. These days, it's more ok, but I feel like even 5-6 years ago, it was still on the margins. My parents don't know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Insulting people anonymously, on the other hand, is a sure sign of spinal fortitude.

No worse than implying folks who meet online are some sort of desperate or icky.

That's quite a leap you made there.

[Anonymous]

Black Singles dot com happy camper. We are six years into a happy marraige, with one DC. I would do it all over again. One regret, if there are any, is that we did not do it earlier so that we could have met earlier.