What Game Did You Meet your S.O. In?

This is a common thread in the other forums that I thought would be nice to add to this forum.

So, are you a gamer couple? Did you meet in a game? Tell us about it:


What game did you meet your significant other in?
How did you meet them in game?
How did you end up becoming more than friends?


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I'll kick it off!

For us, it was Everquest. I was in the LFG (looking for group) channel and he picked me up. I love saying that. It's like the gamer's bar, haha! :D

I was a Dwarf Cleric named Bon Bon and he was a Human Alchemist named No Face. We immediately clicked.

I found great humor that he would fake doing damage, by pointing. It was a time-consuming process to make potions and sometimes he didn't have enough time before getting a group (as a damage dealer you learn to quickly grab a group that has a healer and tank). So he'd have to fake being useful until he had a stack of them made.

He loved that he met a female who wasn't afraid to pick a toon that wasn't the typical 'hot' choice (human, elf). He thought Bon Bon was adorable and the name fitting to her and my personality. He would laugh at watching her run around with her 'wittle pimp hammer' (as I called it), that was twice her size.

Since healers who play a lot are hard to come by (at least dependably skilled ones) he added me to his buddy list and whenever I was on and he needed a healer he'd shoot me a whisper. I gained quite a few friends this way (and a guild!).

It was great fun and we had quite a few laughs. We leveled our toons from 13 to 49 together before our first fight (which is a lot of time together since EQ has death debt). A girl he was talking to in game got angry at the time we spent together so I backed off and took him off my friend's list because he would not ask his friend to stop 'training' me. (I was very patient asking him to do this, but it hit a point where it was miserable to log onto the game because she would follow me about and kill any group I was in causing everyone death debt.)

It seemed that this stopped all the drama, and while I was sad to lose my friend, I felt like I could at least play the game peacefully again. After a couple of weeks I figured it was fine to remove him off my ignore list as I expected he had long moved on. So you could imagine my surprise when after about 5 minutes in game I received a whisper from him apologizing for things.

He asked for our characters to meet up in Freeport (which only gamers will understand this face/face toon need when things are heated). Immediately he gave me his most valuable item, a glowy shield (I believe it was called an Aura Shield), to show how deeply sorry he was.

Up until that point we had not shared private emails and he was scared that our friendship was forever lost as he had no idea how to contact me out of game. During that time he broke all ties with the other girl (err I guess I should say woman as she was 22) because she made him chose between her or me because he admitted one evening that he missed me terribly.

Which was silly because I just wanted to be his friend at that point, but her call, so he chose me. When he tried to contact me he saw I had him on ignore and he thought he had lost our friendship. Each day he would send me whispers to see if I had removed him from my ignore list and finally I did.

I chose to forgive him and he admitted at that very moment that he cared very deeply for me and thought he may care for me more than a friend. I thought, no way. He's too young and how did this happen.

A friend of mine that I shared this story with I think explained it best (love ya Vicki). She said it's so obvious. You thought he was safe because of his age so you let him in. And he loved you.

She's right. I had given up on love for 3 years when we met and I didn't think I had anything to fear being myself around him. Little did I know, I happened across a nice guy who thought older chicks were pretty cool. Especially ones that gamed.

If you would've asked me if 2 years ago if I thought I would be sitting here with him and we would have a baby and be engaged I would've told you "No way. Never in a million years."

But that's how our story went. We've been told our story and real life connection has inspired quite a few gamers who thought it was an unrealistic dream.

And I understand. After all, who would've thought a silly little dwarf female with a large silver hammer running about in a game could find me a real life nice guy. But my little Bon Bon did and I owe her quite a bit for that. ;)

Maybe that's why we feel so obligated to hang onto our first games. We feel we owe them so much for the levels of happiness they have brought us.

So, there ya go. A romantic love story, gamer style. :p Now let's read yours!

Angel, that was great!! I want to hear about the other people here too. Geez, I am finally feeling normal again.

My online gaming foray coincided with the demise of my marriage. Initially it was just an escape and as I have said before, I never looked at any of this as anything more than a game. But I have to confess that my ex's inability to allow me my enjoyment without acting like I had gone wacko and my staunch refusal to give up what I enjoyed, probably contributed greatly to its failure. I think about this a lot and I can't see any of this as anything but a personal triumph. That wasn't the question though, was it?

I had always played with dolls and doll houses. I tell people that Barbie raised me...I was a role player from birth. So when Sims came out I started playing and loved it and the move to the online version was a natural step.

It was in the Sims that I met M (not my YM), a 26 yo graphic art student and gamer. We developed a friendship, but he is even more ADD than I am. I would create a house then come online to find that he had renovated the whole thing. Drove me crazy!! Worse than that he was a game hopper (I'm not). He begged me to go to Star Wars Galaxies with him. Said I needed a game where the object was shooting stuff rather than social stuff. Its true I did tend to get caught up in the online drama to the point of sometimes being distressed. When a game feels like work, time to move on.

So for a number of months we played SWG and even married in the game. Our wedding vows (all in the Zabraki language btw) included a line about gaming together til death do us part! Just when I started to get good he announced that he was going to FFXI to play with some art school buddies. I was welcome if I wanted to come, but he made a big point of making sure I knew thay all knew each other and I would probably feel out of place. Not feeling wanted, I didn't hop games but gutted out more SWG on my own with other players in my guild.

Then one day he comes into game and says the other guys didn't believe he had an ingame wife and wanted him to bring me to FFXI. So I went. We spent an afternoon creating my character with a yahoo window open to discuss what she should look like. Servers were assigned at random and there was no other way to get on the same server as his friends, except to keep logging in and delete the character if it turned out to be the wrong server. Took hours!! But I landed there and he gave me some gear and gil and a brief tutorial and abandoned me. I worked my *** off trying to level up, but I couldn't party with any of them, because they were so far ahead. And he was absolutely no help and was obnoxious enough toward me in guild chat, that it did not go unnoticed by the guild leader (my YM), who suggested they all work on their subjobs, while he power leveled me to at least their sublevel, so I would get at least a chance to party with the group. This act of kindness made a huge impression on me. Meanwhile, M left us and went to Heroes, then came back and then went to WOW and God only knows how many other games. (I see him from time to time in RL; a decent guy but nothing special.)

Most of what we did those first weeks was pretty game directed. Our friendship really took off months later when we both decided to take on Summoner as a sub. The quest involved waiting in different locals for weather changes and this took FOREVER over several nights. So we chatted and I discovered the most amazing person with such an endearing personal story. I think I knew then and there that I wanted to meet him at some point in my life, even told my husband, hoping that he would get some inkling of the caliber of people that I was playing with and understand why I found this place so fascinating. Oh well....

I could go on and on and I probably will at some point...lol. My YM just called. Told him about this. He sounded pleased. :yes:

My last significant other (in whom I still adore and she still attains my immediate attention) met because of a 16 year old friend who knew her from another Ace Combat gaming clan. We hit it off due to the extreme fact that we had many of the same interests likes and dislikes. It sort of worked it's way into becoming a relationship in about 3 days. I made the move because I knew I liked her and not the way she looked (though she was stunning, oddly, 90% of my ex-gfs ain't bad lookin).

She eventually moved over to my clan and there she is our Ensign (Navy Rank) and flys an F-14D Super Tomcat. She is both in the same Air Wing and the same Squadron as I am.

She and I broke up in January of this year. Distance was too much for her to handle. However I was secretly working on maybe visiting her but it would be at least another year. I respected her decision and we remain such friends that I literally tell her about everything.

Aside from God she is and has remained the most positive influence in my life. She literally made me a better person by just loving me, praying for me, and barely getting angry.

She got angry only once while we were together which she was barely angry and provoked an immediate apology on my part.

Some of the guys in the clan occasionally cross the line with her in which I let her defend herself until I know it'll become a rank issue then I chew them out for it. It's harder to ignore the guy that's the most active member of their clan and almost does everything around the forum.

I'm actually approaching 3000 posts on that forum now.

But that's how we met.

Interesting story Cuteguy. Roughly what percentage of players in Ace Combat are women?

I want to say about 30.

In our clan we've had the most female members in our history vs. Other AC clan's history.

*stops to count cuz I knew them all*

We've had 5. 2 are Lieutenant Colonels upon retirement (You never loose rank if you retire), one was a 2nd Lieutenant, K is our Ensign, and the new girl doesn't do much but post on topics but it's nice to have her around.

Alot of our High Command members know nearly all of the females within the larger AC community we are part of but I don't.

Generally we have them from a few different parts of the world just like the guys.

Alot of our female members seem to enjoy playing AC for what seems to be the most common reason being that it can be anime based on cut scenes.

One girl I know (I'll use her screename), Fairy says she like the freedom of being out over the ocean and flying in general.

I met my SO in the game called life ;)

He used to be a gamer but let his WOW (yeah Angel, I learned the abbreviation!) expire or sold his character or something before he left high school... I know nothing about games, but am finding this section of the forum so sweet and charming. Your stories (Rozie/Angel) are so cute!

Ohhhhhhh how I love to tell this story... hope those of you who already know it aren't bored out of your skulls LOL!

I met Devon in There. There is a social "game" very much like SecondLife, but a lil prettier and more polished (no haters from SL plz LOL!). I had game hopped over from TSO (*waves to ma girl Rozie*) with some friends and was really only a few days into it. I was at a house with some dude that had picked me up in the boneyard (which is a cool night zone that is used for hoverboarding). The owner of the house had also game hopped from TSO, but was pretty established in There already. Dev was there sitting next to her on the couch. His name in game was Smiwi and everyone called him Smi. (how cute is that???!?!?)

I can't exactly explain why I was drawn to him, but I was. His toon definately appealed to me, but it was just more than that. I think anyone who spends significant time online, but especially online gamers can relate to this. It is possible to communicate a wide number of things through text. It is utter baloney that you cannot. You can tell when someone is having a good day and a bad day, just in how they type to you. At any rate, he really appealed to me.

I took to sending him tells in game and constantly thinking up new ways to need to see him and hang with him. It was stuff like... Where is such and such place? How do I do xyz thing? Game stuff, but then once I had him in chat we'd spend a lot of time chatting all while we were logged in. I admit it... I chased after him shamelessly in game. Worse... he was already in a game relationship with the chick I mentioned earlier! I didn't know his age and it never even occured to me that he was so young. He was completely innocent here though because he was also sending me PMs and chatting me up too. Dev was highly sought after company in game at that time because he was the top racer and boarder in game... a stat that was visible to every single player who logged in as its part of the login screen you see on your interface.

So finally a day came where his game g/f was going to be offline for the night and I invited him to a party. It was literally all over for both us after that. He ended things with his game g/f immediately after that and we were talking about moving to rl shortly thereafter. Truth be told... we just were feeling it hardcore for each other right away after meeting and though we had both had lots of "game" relationships... there was just a definate difference in how we felt about each other almost from the start.

What game did you meet your significant other in?
World of Warcraft

How did you meet them in game?
We had met in passing in the game and would flirt a little THEN we were in a raid...He chased me for a while LOL

How did you end up becoming more than friends?

We had a second raid...and It was my bday...he was all happy saying OMG HI WOW long time no see..then after chatting a few he had asked me..DO YOU LIKE WHALES? I thought HMM I will bite...I said Yes I love whales..HE says OH GOOD ..wanna HUMPBACK at my place. I laughed so hard as I was having a crappy bday...Cheesiest Pick up line EVER!!

THEN One day after the 3rd raid we were in we talked for hours and had so much in common...I did like him alot before him....I had been having a rough day and asked him not to log off till I fell asleep..he said okay..(headsets) and when I woke up ..he was still online..sleeping...He woke up and said I could not shut it off..I loved listening to you softly snore and breathe...I knew then I loved him as He could put up with my snoring LOL

World Of Warcraft

We were in the same guild for awhile, then the guild went kaput, saw him on again hmm on beach i believe started talking and hanging out, we were just friends at this point.

Became more and wow did he ever pursue me even though i was talking to another ingame who i had found out later was just stringing me along:rolleyes:, he was always there listening never judging i fought him off for awhile then thought better of it, he is indeed like a knight in shining armor.

Married ingame :bgrin2: And have never looked back since then.

What game did you meet your significant other in?

World Of Warcraft

How did you meet them in game?

i transferred to his server and joined the guild he was in.

How did you end up becoming more than friends?

Well i had an alternative charactor that I was trying to lvl up. He came on his warrior to help me with a few quests. We got her to the top level in the game and then decided to keep doing stuff together and get our epic flying mounts.

during this time we became a lot closer. one day a chick was hitting on him in game and it struck me that i was bothered by it. I had to ask myself why. and thats when i realised i felt more for him than friendship. I then discussed it with him. he told me he had felt the same way for awhile. and i guess we went on from there

Ultima Online. Back in the dark ages. I was high up in my guild, he was new, I actually was "with" the GM, till he quit playing. He made me GM, and gave me his house, and account, asked me to take care of his character in case he ever came back. I was kind of the mommy of the group. Usually a healer in battle, and all those kids had sort of crushes. I had my real picture on my icq avatar, as a realism check for them. Cause I was way too old y'know.

They were a great bunch of guys, talked me through my divorce, I talked them through girlfriend/parent/school problems, while we had a blast at the same time.

UO is different, in that, at the time, you could actually influence the game. What you did could be recognized by the managers, players could be trained as semi-admins, called counselors, and higher ups were seers, who had the power to actually cause stuff to happen. There were invasions of our town, Trinsic, that we had to fight off. Our guild was actually the Honor Guard of Trinsic, recognized by "the game" as government on that shard. We led the city council, which was made up of several guilds. We had meetings to plan stuff. David's char and mine were always early for those meetings. So we'd chat. We started chatting outside of the game too. Eh, no biggie, I was mommy to lots of them.

Then when ICQ first introduced voice chat, we were trying it out, my ex had come to pick up our daughter, heard a male voice and went ballistic, accusing me of having a man there, threw some furniture around, and screamed at me for a while, which David was treated to listen to.

I think it aroused his male instincts, and suddenly I was not just some in-game character, I was me. Not too long after that, he started trying to convince me that there was something there, that we should explore. I did the whole, "its normal to have fantasies" thing, and it finally got to the point where he was making me consider it, which I knew was nuts, so I had to break it off. I was going to change to a different shard, and change my ICQ name so he couldn't find me.

The night I was going to tell him, he got online earlier than usual, and was panicky, his dog was very old, and that night was laying there gasping for breath, he didn't know what to do, and while we were talking his dog died. No way I'm going to kick him at that point, so I listen to him grieve, he pours his guts out that Tommy was his only friend for so long, he asks me to wait till he gets him buried, so he's not alone when he comes back in, and so I don't break this off that night. My heart broke when he told me that the only reason Tommy could go now, was that he knew David had met me, so it was ok.

He found me Ageless, which was Lovestories at the time. I meet a couple of other folks who had started very young with big gaps. We joined a weekly chat session there. Nyah Nyah, I've chatted with Harrison's Pookie. She didn't stay very long though.

I started wondering if this maybe could happen. My family was cautiously supportive, My kids said whatever makes you happy. My sisters chatted with him online.

I had made plans to meet him in February, by December we were both having nervous breakdowns, because this was so intense and scary, and we decided we had to see if it was real before we invested any more time and energy into it, so I drove to the airport in an icestorm, flew there, pretty positive that he was going to take one look at me and run screaming down the street, and the rest is history.

We just fit.

We married in game before our next time together, we shared our three houses, it was the way we could be together while we were still half a country apart.

That story is so sweet, Bella. As long as I have known you, I didn't know you found the site because David found it for you. Kinda neat, if you ask me.

I don't understand a lot of the gamer talk, but I love reading these stories. They are like fairy tales come to life...

Great thread although I have NO idea what you are talking about it's amazing that you all have met such wonderful people. I might just explore the net to see what all the fun is about!

Lisa and I met in Secondlife. We happened to be at the same place at the same time, I was kind of depressed and lonely and she was a little lost being new to SL. I was sitting more or less by myself and she came along and we just started talking to each other, after a while she said she should leave and stop imposing on me but I was already getting to be fascinated with her so I didn't let her go. :no: We ended up talking and talking for hours on end and I took her back to show her around what was my home in SL then. I think by the time we did eventually part ways for the day I was so sleep deprived I could barely function anymore. :Thud: We just clicked when we met and I couldn't let her go and she felt exactly the same way. Things went really fast from just friends to friends with privileges to falling in love and committing to each other in just a couple of short months. We've slowed down since then, been up and down a lot but we're still together and in love with each other after it all. :)

World of Warcraft

I think it is very interesting the alot of us met in games. But logically, I view it as a hobby and it makes sense that you would meet someone you were compatible with while doing something you enjoy-like biking or hiking or a billion other things. It just so happens gaming is performed while sitting on your bum in your house!

Anyhooo...My previous boyfriend and I played Everquest together, then moved to World of Warcraft where we played beta then started a guild on release. Andrew (my YM) was made an officer in our guild. We played together pretty much since the beginning of the game and we would talk alot, eventually about real life stuff. I started to confide in him about relationship issues I was having with my current boyfriend. At first he was adamant about helping me to try to work things out. Over time it because encouraging me to leave him because he saw how miserable it was making me and that I really was being taken advantage of.

He flew out to Washington (where I live) just as a vacation and we hung out and has SOOOO much fun. My boyfriend even came along some of the time-it was strictly a platonic, "hey, I know you online and want to see Seattle" kind of visit. Shortly after that I got the courage to boot out my boyfriend and was officially single, at which time Andrew told me that he would like to start a relationship with me.

At first I was pretty hesitant-worried about the age difference, what his parents would think, etc. But he came out for another visit and it just seemed so right :) He moved out last September and things are going great! We still play WoW, but ironically not as much as we used to. The game just isn't so important now!

I met my boyfriend because of Phantasy Star Universe, which is a game we both still play. It's an online action based RPG, as neither of us can stand the slow pace of point and click MMOs. It's pretty popular with women because of the incredible variations of style possible for your characters - heavy emphasis is placed on looks as well as gameplay.

I won't bother introducing my characters because I don't roleplay nor do they have any real importance in how we got together - I play multiple characters and most are male.

I met my boyfriend in an IRC channel for the game before the game's actual release. It was heavily anticipated by fans of the predecessor - Phantasy Star Online, so these channels sprung up before the game was even out. I was on the Japanese server long before the western release. So were a whole bunch of elitists who preferred the Japanese players. Initially my boyfriend didn't have a good impression of me - I was a long term member of the Phantasy Star forums, most of us were disenfranchised with the newer members and how the site was run (being a japanese game, it's full of pretty dodgy individuals who like the lolita esque art), we were cliquey and subtly trolled it. But it's how we got on in the IRC channel that cemented it.

Now I was married at the time and still am, to a man who had told me he didn't love me for two years and I was heavily depressed and still set on winning him back when I met my boyfriend (friend at the time) although I was basically giving up back then, and hurting hard. I'm now in the process of divorce - it didn't take a 19 year old (20 now) on an online game to make me leave, but it was something that had been coming for years. I was however terrified of change and losing the life I had built up with my husband. I was effectively a coward and worn down by verbal abuse. I sincerely believed nobody would love me again so I had better give it my best shot at winning back the man who hated me, but was equally too scared to break out of the relationship, or be alone forever.

I did not see any romantic prospect at first in my online friend but I knew that I related to him better than any person I had ever known in my life. I've always been a very uniquely minded person, of the belief that nobody would ever really understand my feelings so I should just take as good as I could get. Being a bit more social than my (now) boyfriend, I messed up a lot trying to make friends and lovers of those who didn't "get" me at all. My life was full of conflict, I never saw any alternative and I loved the company of people too much when things went WELL to think it was worth giving anyone up for conflicts. Sadly other people have never felt the same way, nor been able to bounce back from arguments like I have. They bore such terrible grudges that I couldn't believe. If I sensed there was equal blame on either party I was happy to let it drop, but lacking understanding of my thought processes people always attributed terrible and cruel motives to me which were never in my mind at all. My husband and father were always the worst pepetrators of this.

I found myself quitting the Japanese server of Phantasy Star Universe because my new friend could not speak Japanese, and I didn't want to play without him. This was unheard of for me because I do speak Japanese and the Western servers of this game series have been typically plagued with hackers.

I started on the US PC version in October 2006. Predictably the game got hacked, the pair of us then quit on the same day for the X-box 360 servers which are completely free of such destructive acts. Neither of us had a 360, we both went out and bought one. I think it was less about the game, and more that we wanted that connection we had to continue. The thing with 360 though is it has voice communication. I think my eventual use of this furthur cemented the connection I felt with my friend.

I really never expected to meet the one person I've known in my life that I have been able to connect with on such an epic scale - via a videogame. It has ended years of sadness and confusion for me. I had already given up on my husband by Christmas of 2006, but I was extremely sad and confused. I was starting to realise intense feelings for my friend online. I held off buying a headset for X-Box Live for two months because I was scared of hearing his voice. I cried a lot because I thought it was hopeless. I didn't have the courage to say a word to either man despite the fact my husband was continually telling me he hated me and to find somebody else.

I was 31 years old, married, in a country non native to my birth, and had fallen for a 19 year old American via the medium of one of the most flamboyantly camp online games in history. I knew it would seem ridiculous to absolutely everyone if I came clean so I did not. I had also spent the better part of the 8 months I had known this American, telling him I had to win back my husband because I was scared of losing my home and I wanted my old happy life back.

Anyway we finally DID get together because my friend told me how he felt, after I finally said I had given up on my husband. And when I said it was hopeless he was completely incredulous, asking me WHY I thought it was hopeless. He also said he had spend this entire time harbouring such feelings for me but he hadn't needed any fruition of them, that he was just happy I was there to talk to as he too had never felt like anyone with his mindset existed. He was waiting for me to either patch things up with my husband or gain strength to end things before he would consider telling me his feelings - either way he would be happy just at the thought of me finally finding peace of mind.

We started the relationship, I told my husband right away. There was some conflict but it's much better now. We are sorting out an amicable divorce. My boyfriend flew here to meet me in July last year, then we spent Christmas with my parents in the UK. It's been nearly a year of us being together, and some 20 months of being friends now. We still play Phantasy Star Universe together on X-Box 360. He's 20 now, I'm nearly 33, I start a job this month to cover the expenses of my husband leaving. My husband ironically also has a girlfriend in America, I worry that it's true rebound as opposed to finding somebody with his mindset - we were both only together because of neurosis at being alone, but I'm truly happy with my boyfriend.

Anyway this has not been much about the game, but the game is still very much part of our lives because we are apart for so long and we need this social environment to interact in and "see" each other. I don't think just talking in chatrooms is enough, there needs to be an activity you do together and this is why online games are very important for many people in long distance relationships.

We have a long term plan, he did a lot of research into visas and wants me to acquire a fiance visa for the USA as soon as it is financially viable for the two of us. The divorce process where I live is simple and should be complete by this summer. I don't know how long it will take to finally be with my boyfriend after that, but for the meantime I'm just glad we have a game as unique and fun as PSU to play together.

I really am enjoying reading these stories. There are certainly some similar threads here...loneliness, failing marriages and the eagerness to explore new worlds. I can't stress how much I have learned about myself through this experience.

I met my YM in Unreal Tournament 2004. We were both in a sniper clan. We heard each other's voices on Teamspeak and the attraction started there.

I teased him a bit that he had a sexy accent, and although I said so in a joking matter I really did find his voice entrancing. He of course, thinks I have a beautiful voice and accent. :p

We flirted a while and started chatting every day. It's been almost a year now, and hopefully this summer we'll be able to meet!

I met my bf in WoW,

I led a perform pvp group made up of players from all over the server, my motto was “If you want to play come on and if you don’t know how to I will teach you.” I had so many requests I kept a notebook of the daily wait lists, I also have a vent server and people would just come to hang out with the rest of the pvpers.

Anyhow my bf was one that would play and hang out, Jan of last year (I had left my hub a year earlier) he would be on vent constantly and we would chat, then he was leaving the game and going away for school and would not be back for at least 3-4 months. He gave me his account and I told him, she would be there when he got back, I was just babysitting her. He left and I didn’t hear from him for months. He appeared one day and was back home waiting between jobs, I of course told him to start playing his toon and we fell back into the usual pattern, pvping and chatting as friends.

One of the guys was coming to my house to visit over the July 4th holiday and we all talked about it on the vent server, I had visited others from the game and all were good friends and that was all. My bf asked one night if it could come over and visit and I said sure no problem. He arrived the day before the 4th and we talked and went to lunch, walked on the beach and headed out for some drinks. While we were sitting there at the restaurant drinking some beers listening to the reggae/Jimmy Buffett music that plays at all the restaurant here, he mentioned that he had found my dating profile. You could have picked me up off the floor. First it told me that he knew how old I was and that he took the time to find it. (I didn’t mention my age as a rule ingame and when asked I always said too old for you to all the guys, I was not looking for someone and I never led any of them on by letting them think I was in my 20’s and 30’s. I had mentioned to the guys that I had posted a dating profile but never told them under what name or the site and it was not one of the Match.com’s type.) He then proceeded to tell me that he liked older women and again I was shocked, total blindsided. We continued on with the day, went back to the house, played the game, talked and he kept getting closer and closer invading my space. I was terrified, I hadn’t been with anyone other than the hub in over 15yrs, he was so young and damn he was hot! Finally we settled down to watch a movie and he made all the high school moves, the arm stretch to being draped over my shoulder to the tentative kiss, it was so sweet. He stayed the night, us talking all night long and then morning came and he wanted to leave before my other friend arrived. I guess he wasn’t sure of my relationship with the other guy or he didn’t want to be there and competing for my attention. He did come back the following day and the relationship started. Been through some adjustments but we are doing good.

We were just talking about that first meeting last week and I told him again that he floored me with the “I found your dating profile” comment. Previously he had told me that he had wanted to come over in Jan of last year but was too scared and with the schooling wasn’t sure if the timing was right. That he would sit and wait all day in vent for a chance to talk to me and as soon as I logged on I would get bombarded with tells and people hopping on vent to talk to me. Poor guy never had a chance, but sometimes in the wee hours of the dawn we would talk getting to know each other. It is a bit of a ldr, he is about 2 hours away but we try to see each other about every 3 weeks for a long weekend and of course we talk every night ingame still. I am so happy he stuck it out, he makes me so happy.