How did you meet your YM?

Maybe the old timers here already know how who met whom and when, but being fairly new here, I wondered how you guys met your YM's.

As some of you already know, I am an online gamer and met my YM over three years ago through a multiplayer game called Counter-Strike.

I'm curious to hear from you guys. :)

I was out singing karaoke and he was shooting pool. Thank goodness my friend was bold enough to go up to his friend, whom she was eyeing, or I may have never seen him again. Turns out both he and I were looking at eachother that night, but neither of us could work up the nerve to say anything!

I think there are quite a few people who met her playing online games....

My story is kind of boring..I met J because he lived across the street from me....!

My b/f and I met online playing an mmorpg (Dark Age of Camelot) almost 2 years ago and have become romantically involved for about one year now (omg, almost anniversary time :D) ...

He used to play CS a lot too, from what I have been told, but as he's admitted lately, he's "no longer the gaming machine he used to be" - lol (I found this really cute, actually - coming from an ardent powergamer .... ;) )

As we live in different countries, spending irl time together is still an organizational issue and getting to know each other more and more, ofc ;) But we are working on it ....

Dave and I met at a forum for the Scifi Channel TV show "Farscape." We got to know each other through posts and then started corresponding. Soon we moved to the phone and within 3.5 months took it to real life. That was in the spring of '99 and we haven't been apart since. We were married July 20, 2002 and it's working out very well in spite of our 26 year gap.

Dave is also a gamer and we played Diablo and Diablo 2 as a way to date and then to be together. He is also gaming a lot less these days and hasn't found a game he likes in some time, so he's finally getting some writing done. :)

Peace,
Jane

Hikmet and I met when he answered my personal ad on Singlesnet.com. After a few emails and phone calls, we met for tea and decided to start dating.

I was preparing to uninstall yahoo messenger from lack of use when I decided to cruise those infamous chatrooms for the very first time. Remi was the first person who ever spoke to me and he was the only one who wasn't rude, obnoxious and inappropriate that day.

We became friends and would talk periodically about our families, our jobs, etc. I thought he was my son's age and I called him "son" and he called me "mom". Then, a few months later, I saw him on cam and nearly fell out of the chair. It was like being struck by a bolt of lightning. I thought he was the most handsome man I have ever laid my eyes upon. I flirted shamelessly, but then pulled back even though I found out he was actually 7 years older than I originally thought he was. The age difference bothered me.

A few weeks after that, I bought a cam and he saw me for the first time. He started pursuing me. I still couldn't handle the age difference. So, I found Agelesslove and started looking for people in the same situation as me. But, the distance also bothered me. He lives in Romania. I live in the U.S.

For the next 6 months, I became involved with another man, Joe the hothead, who ironically was also far away, but not quite as far. He lived in NJ. But the whole time I could not stop thinking of Remi. Remi and I remained friends. When Joe and I broke up last September, I decided to give Remi a chance.

We met in person for the first time in March and we are now engaged and applying for him to move to the U.S. :D

Jason and I met here, in Ageless.

We are Ageless babies!!! We had both come here because of problems with age gap relationships, I was about to break up with my ex because of his mother and Jason was interested in someone who would not date him because of him being younger (bad things happening to our own good!!).

He disappeared for sometime, I stayed around, and some months later, maybe one year and something, he came back and said hello to everyone in a thread I had created about the Silent Ageless Members who never post.... and he had his avatar there!

I posted a welcome post and said "nice picture". Two days later we were flirting, and about two weeks later he had bought an airplane ticket, but as I was going to Brazil at that time, his ticket was bought for 4 months later, when I would be back to Europe.

In the meantime our love grew, then we met and it grew even more, and now it's so large we need to find space, we had never used that much space for love in our lives!

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Devon and I met playing www.there.com on April 15, 2003. :D

I met my guy almost a year ago now after he
graduated college and moved back from Boston
when he started showing up to work out with my
local running club. I knew who he was already
because I'd been running with his identical twin
for a while at that point. Funny, I always thought
the twin was a nice, cute kid but as soon as I met
his brother I was angling for excuses to start a
conversation with him. At least I can be pretty
sure it wasn't just based on looks!

It took me forever though to read my feelings as
anything more than an impractical crush. There's
something to be said for taking your time though.
Hanging out at races and workouts, exchanging
silly e-mails, going out drinking with big groups of
friends....by the time he caught on that I was really
interested and took a chance on asking me out, we
actually had a friendship to build on.

I'm still a little bewildered at how happy I've been.
I think there's another good thread about being
frightened by your own happiness, but I'm definitely
living that feeling. (And hope to continue doing so!)

I met Matt in a Yahoo chatroom. I was in the Portland chat talking about Basketball in general, usually get lots of idiots who want to talk to me about sex.

Matt wrote me, and his comment although lame amused me. I started laughing and I actually responded back... we chatted for a good 2 weeks, then met IRL since it turned out he lived about 15 miles from me.

We have been together ever since which is about 11 months now. Moving in together in T minus 11 days. Once he is here, we will either be driving across Country OR depending on my job, we might be here while I train for my new position and we will be moving into our new place June 21st...

3 Br / 2 Ba - 4 pools on the campus - Basketball Court - Tennis Court - Raquetball Court - Rec Room - Pool/Airhockey - Sauna - Hot Tub - Weight Room etc...

My son is excited and so are we because we love doing all the above activities so now no need to "join" or drive anywhere to get to them. We are going to have a contest as to whose body changes the most by September 4th. (I say mine since I'm going to have to work HARD to keep up with those two) :-)

I love him immeasurably.

I met Jeremy the first time I ever went in a chatroom. I wanted to brush up on my French so I went to a French chatroom to listen to others speaking their native language. I put "occupe" next to my name because I wasn't really interested in chatting. Somehow, Jeremy got through and talked to me. He seemed like a nice person, and he talked a lot about his French girlfriend, so I didn't think that he was just some guy trying to flirt with women online. As a matter of fact, he talked a *whole* lot about his girlfriend and about how she was planning a huge, formal engagement party for her eighteenth birthday.

Jeremy and I continued to write to each other so that I could practice French and he could practice English. The rest was fate. It was sad for the young French girl, though:( Jeremy and I did not intend to ever fall in love with each other.

YM was a consultant with the s/w company involved in a big project I was on at my last job.

He was reluctant to get involved in the project - very messy, poor direction, etc. - and I wound up getting laid off in one of those power struggle things.

Luckily, our relationshiop has flourished - we both feel that the time in hell on that project was worth our having found each other!! and from what we know about how things are at my old company - it may be the only successful thing that resulted form that effort!!

I met him online....in a flame board. At first I couldn't stand him as he attacked me all the time..but then I got to know him

Originally posted by yruon
I met him online....in a flame board. At first I couldn't stand him as he attacked me all the time..but then I got to know him

Lmao --- I never heard of such a thing until now.

Having said that, I was playing cards on Yahoo and this guy lost two games in a row to me and my partner. Oh he was pissed, so he said some not so nice things, to which I said some not so nice things right back times 10.

I didn't back down and to this day, almost 8 months later he still writes to me and considers me one of his best friends.

Kind of curious how these things happen... in fact, if I wasn't already taken he was convinced he would marry me.

A flame board is an insult community board......they can be fun...making things up about a person...in an attempt to get other people to believe the things you are making up.......

I really did hate him at first...he was so hateful to me....then one night...we went into chat...discovered that we didn't live far from each other....we picked a day and agreed to meet in a public place the first time....(we had exchanged pictures so we knew what each other looked liked).......

As I was parking my car in the assinged meeting place...he walked by my car....I knew right away it was him....yet I didn't say anything ..I watched him walk into the blg.....

From that day...over a year ago...we have spent every weekend together...met half way for dinner during the week and have taken four vacations together....he's met my daughter and grandchildren....who accept him.....I've met his family...for the most part they are nice..except for his sister in law...no one else had a problem with our 11 year age difference...

That cracks me up! Welcome to ageless by the way.

Originally posted by yruon
At first I couldn't stand him as he attacked me all the time..but then I got to know him

LOL That is so funny. Me and my ym have laughed a lot at what I am about to tell you. I had completed forgotten about it until I read your post, though. I didn't like my ym at first either! :D He had just joined the competitive Counter-Strike team that I had been in for a while. My teammates recruited him while I was out of town, so when I came back I was all like Who the heck is this guy? He was by far the best player in the team and quickly became our captain/strat-caller during scrims and matches. Keep in mind that then, he was 17, highly competitive and had his testosterones levels going through the roof. :) He was a bit harsh on people who didn't follow his strats to the letter, and given the fact that I was a complete newbie back then, I got a lot of crap from him during the game. He was the player I liked the least - disliked even. But that was only until I met him at a tournament/LAN party. From that weekend on, not only he became my favorite CS player, he also became my best friend. In person, and outside of the game, he was the most gentle, kind hearted and sweet guy I had ever met. Soon I moved on to another team and he got picked up by another one. However, we still play together to this day and people are amazed at how well we play together. By the way, he still is the strat caller -minus the attitude. :)

Originally posted by Elle
... He was a bit harsh on people who didn't follow his strats to the letter, and given the fact that I was a complete newbie back then, I got a lot of crap from him during the game. ...In person, and outside of the game, he was the most gentle, kind hearted and sweet guy I had ever met. ... By the way, he still is the strat caller -minus the attitude.

Hehe, kinda sounds like my b/f too (he's always been very successful in CS as well) - with the only difference that in the game we met, even though I was a total noob, he was totally nice and sweet with me (just pm-ing me like every 2 mins to tell me to better do this and leave that etc the first time we grped together :p ). So, let's say he's only got an attitude with people who don't have a clue (relatively speaking) but an attitude themselves and who don't listen, this really ticks him off .. ^_^

But these days, he mellowed a lot too ... Guess playing with me noob all the time has kinda taught him some patience :D And he's the sweetest, gentlest guy irl too ... ;)

Guess playing with me noob all the time has kinda taught him some patience

That could be it! Hadn't thought of that. LOL He just got used to my newb ways...

I was organizing a protest that was job-related and he was a voluntary participant :>

He was so amazingly calm, helpful and competent that I more or less hired him as my unpaid assistant.

A few months later, I took him on as much more :D

Thanks for your replies... it was nice to hear how your love stories began. :)

LOL...me and my fella met in an online game too, Neverwinter Nights, on a server hosted by my son-in-law. It's a fantasy role-playing game and our characters met and started the interaction that led to ICQ chatting out of game and then the phone and so on. And here we are today..he had to move from two states away to be with me and we are planning to marry in about a year or so. :D

One of my best friends came into town and decided to bring her 25 year old son as a pre-wedding gift (minus fiance) so that they could spend some mother son time away in Florida. I had not seen Chad since he was about 4 months old. When I went to pick them up at the airport and our eyes met...well I know this sounds cliche...but we instantly knew we were extremly attracted to each other and by the end of the 7 days he told me he had fallen in love with me and had no choice but to break off the engagement (very sad). I tried desperately to convince him otherwise because of our very large (18 year) age gap. But a week later my friend phoned and said that she agreed with Chad that he should break off his engagement and that in her opinion Chad and I were perfect for each other. That was 2 years ago and she has continued to support us in our LDR and will help to relocate him down here to Florida in October!!


:cool: Joi

Babes,

LOL what a great opening line:D

Joi

Hello,

I met my fiance at school in a film class. We worked on a couple of school film projects together and fell madly in love. We have been together now for a year and a half and will be married soon. We've had our ups and downs- but it definitely has been worth it. He is such a sweet, loving, loyal man. I've really been blessed. Oh, I'm 36 he's 24.