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When I do something weird or quirky, which I am known to do, Mr Frenchie just smiles and says, “Where did I find you?”
To which I answer, “On the internet.”
Yep, Mr Frenchie and I met on the internet. How very new millennium of us! 
I guess I was never really turned off, or afraid of meeting someone on the internet because that was how I met my very first college boyfriend. He was a friend of a friend, and we were set up online before we met. So in that case, I didn’t really “meet” him on the internet but I talked to him on the internet before I “met” him. Does that make sense? Internet dating didn’t turn Mr Frenchie off either, because when his parents remarried, after their divorce, they both met their new husband/wife using the personals in the newspaper.
Anyway, 3 years ago when my ex-boyfriend and I had broken up, I decided to try Match.com. Knowing there can be a LOT of freaks on the internet, I went in with a plan. I wasn’t going to date anyone who wasn’t a college graduate or at least in college, and they needed to be Christian, or at least open to Christianity, because I was very involved in my church at the time. Also, they needed to live fairly close to me. After a month and 4 first dates later, I received an email from Mr Frenchie. I was immediately interested - he was cute (check), Christian (check), in college (check) and didn’t live too far away (check). Mr Frenchie and I exchanged emails for a few weeks and one night, after we chatted on AIM, I was the one to give him my phone number… he was taking things a little too slow for my taste hahaha.
How did you meet your Mr? Like us, did you turn to the World Wide Web?
Awww, Mr. Frenchie’s “Where did I find you?” question is so cute!
Mr. Bruschetta and I really got to know each other very well over AOL Instant Messenger in the days leading up to my senior prom — he was my date, but we were so awkward we didn’t really talk in person before the big night!
Match.com here as well. Our first “meeting” was a shopping trip to the super wal-mart at midnight (long story). So I like to call him my roll-back special 
I’ve found that telling my peers that I met my husband online is a lot easier than telling my family or people my parents’ age. There’s still that “but… it could be anyone looking at your profile!” stigma, I think.
But I found that meeting people in “real life” dating scenarios (in bars, for example, or through mutual friends) doesn’t guarantee you a good match, either. In fact, some of the worst break-ups I’ve had resulted from being set up through mutual friends!
I always tell people that I wouldn’t have thought twice about my mister if I’d met him in real life, though - we’re both very quiet, and not the sort of people who would randomly ask out a cute stranger - so the internet was a perfect means for us to meet!
I met Mr. BF on Yahoo Messenger…we met at my apartment complex when I was working at the front desk. I figured that was neutral enough and if he was a weirdo, campus police walk around often. Glad he wasn’t a weirdo…well, not a criminal minded weirdo, but he is a dork like me!
I met my husband on Match.com, my sister (at my urging) also met her husband on Match.com!
We both lived in New Jersey at the time, so in typical Jersey fashion, our first date was at a diner!
I met FH on our first day of move -in at college. It took us 4.5 years to actually start dating, but we had been friends for so long, that it was a natural transition.
@Jo: Wow, it never occurred to me that if I had met Mr Frenchie in a bar I probably wouldn’t have thought twice either. I always joke with him that we would have NEVER dated in high school, though.
@Miss Ballet Flat: Good call on the neutral meeting place! I was usually all about that, but for some reason I let Mr Frenchie pick me up at my house… we live in a gated community so I guess I thought I was safe. But, he totally could have killed me and left me in a ditch :-/
We met at work but it was through email that we noticed the spark
We met through match.com! I’m starting to see many more couples out there who have met online…
My fiance and I met playing in one of the most non-athletic sports leagues that exists… adult kickball.
Funny to hear someone else say that her parents met a hubby through the newpaper. My mom did the same thing! haha My mom met my stepdad through the newspaper classifieds. She actually met TWO husbands that way! LOL!
As for me…we met online. Good ‘ol Craigslist
We met in the psychiatric ward.
I was interning at the psych hospital where he worked. I love telling people where we met. I get a lot of gasps.
@FlipFlopBride: hahaha
We met while working at the same dept. store during college. He worked Loss Prevention… I thought it was kind of hot.
Yay! For internet dating success stories! Although we did not meet on the interet (school) I believe it’s so different than the old misbelief of internet dating. I wish certain single guys we knew would be more open to the idea. Meeting someone after college is SO hard.
FlipFlipBride - thats a great story!! We met through mutual friends and were only friends for 2 years before realizing there was a definite spark of chemistry. I love hearing how we all met our significant others!
My sister met her husband on Match, too–and a good friend who just got married last month! I think it gives you a lot more opportunity to “screen” and have an idea who someone is, especially with how the world works today.
I met my FI in college in the outdoors club. I wondered what the punk kid with blue hair was doing in a backpacking club. He wondered if the preppy blonde chick had even been outdoors before. We were best friends from from the start. These days, his hair is back to brown, but mine is red!
My fiance and I met working as camp counselors at Taekwondo camp when we were 16.
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Mrs. French Bulldog, Orange County Age and Occupation: 28, Administrative Assistant & Interior Design Student Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, Purchasing Analyst Engagement Date: November 8, 2008 Wedding Date: August 2009 Venue: Bernardo Winery About Me: I've lived in Atlanta, Dallas and Laguna Niguel; although I've lived in Orange County, CA most my life, I'm a Southerner at heart. I work full time for a Commercial General Contractor (aka my father) and I go to school for Interior Design at night. I love modern design, music, wine, crafting, DMailing, my family, my Westies, and of course, Mr Frenchie! Mr Frenchie and I met 3 years ago on Match.com and have been best friends ever since. I love his "old soul" and how he laughs with his whole body, among many other things. We are planning our summer wedding at the winery near his hometown, just 45 minutes south of Orange County.
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