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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?
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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.
ahh–you’re so cute!
Fi and I met through my roommate/his friend in college. I was dating someone at the time, but as he says, he got me by playing “hard to get”. I broke up with my boyfriend while he was studying abroad!!
eharmony.com baby! I have so many friends who have met their SOs that way. My FI’s mom was the one who talked him into signing up. Actually…my cousin’s mom talked him into signing up on jdate.com as well where he met his FI. Maybe our parents generation is more into the internet dating than we give them credit for!
we met at a mutual friends party. Your story is very sweet!!
Another match.com here!
Starting talking to him about 4 years ago but he still lived in LA at the time and I had already been talking to another beau. So unfortunately, I let him go and starting date “the other” and continued doing so for almost 3 years. After we broke up (we had stayed together past our expiration date), I decided to get back on the horse - errm, match, and my betrothed found me again - the 2 day I was back on match! By this time he had moved to Las Vegas (my city) and the rest is history. Wahoo!!!
Timing is everything I guess.
E-harmony.
He was talked into joining by a friend who had met his wife on E-harmony. I had heard E-harmony talked about on a radio program back in 2001, but I never joined up until 2007, because I was chicken. I finally decided to give it a try after some pushing by friends who had met their spouses online. My sister, my mom and my aunt also pushed me.
We met through our families but before him, I dated a few guys I met on match.com. One of them for almost a year. I met a few weirdos but most of the guys I met were decent guys, just not for me.
Every time eharmony runs their promotion on tv, I tell my FI that we should both fill out the questionnaire (as a joke) just to see if we’d be matched! He won’t do it.
Unfortunately there are a lot of freaks and creeps no matter where you go. I met my husband through the nerve/salon/onion personals in 2003. It was considered a little ‘weirder’ back then, but honestly I met some of the most interesting (and good looking) guys through online dating, and even found someone I liked enough to marry!
Another eharmony success story here! It was my 2nd time as a member, FI’s first. In fact, he had only been a member for 2 weeks when we met, but unfortunately he joined (and paid) for a whole year!
@mkendrick: That is an amazing story! I was meant to be
I tell my hubby the same thing, if we would have met in high school, I probably wouldn’t have dated him. We met towards the beginning of college when my godfather, who is also his best friend, introduced us.
Funny to see all these Match.com success stories on a website owned by eHarmony!
Met in highschool, stayed friends through college and fell in love over email while he was deployed.
Met mine in college… when I first met him he was dating my RA. We were the same major though, so I would sit in class and wonder if we’d ever date! Funny how things turned out.
We’re a match.com sucess too. He moved very quickly though. He winked, emailed, and asked for a date within about three hours. I HAD to play it cool though, so we didn’t meet until the next day
We meant in middle school and hanging around the neighborhood since we both grew up just a handful of streets from each other
We met while we were interning for the state. Fraternization was very frowned upon so we had to keep it a secret from everyone else at work, which ended up being kind of fun
Eharmony. we were both the first people that each other went out with… although he says he’d noticed me in the grocery store before we met via the internet but thought it would be weird to hit on me there.
another Match.com story, and we totally do the “where did i find you?” bit all the time! the funniest thing is i was only on it for the free 2 day trial period, and he found me in that time frame! we always joke that i got the best deal since he was free
I can completely relate to all you ladies out there, I too met my man online. Though I must admit at first I was skeptical…meeting someone through Myspace was not on the top of my to do list (after all anyone sending messages through those networking sites are creeps right?) Anyhow it was nearly 4 years ago that I was first messaged by him and the rest is history (we couldn’t be happier). The story of how we met in person is actually the best one. After months of talking online I finally decided to be spontaneous and meet him in person. Looking back it prob wasn’t the safest thing to do..I didn’t tell my roommates where I was going or when I would be back and really for some reason thought nothing of it at the time. But, lucky for me he was normal and likely the sweetest guy I have ever met. I ended up staying over since it was an hour drive from where I lived (still not thinking anything of it). So after a great weekend with a great guy I get home happy as clam to see some very unhappy roommates waiting for me. Apparently one of them had seen my message to my guy saying I was on my way…They assumed since they hadn’t heard from me and I hadn’t called that I was kidnapped/missing. I had to call the police to tell them no I was not missing and that I was safe and sound, just not good at communicating. Regardless today we are happy and we still find ourselves skirting the question of how we met..we joke to each other and say we met through our mutual friend Tom.
We’re a match.com couple too. I dated a handful of men on match, but none were right, until I met him. I know that we wouldn’t have ended up together if we’d met at the bar, so it worked out perfectly this way.
We met in my college while he was visiting his friends but we didn’t really get to know each other till we swapped emails and talked online. He was waaay too shy and taking it too slow (like yours! so I asked him out…online. Hehe. Thankfully, we’re past the internet! 
We met on Craig’s List of all places. I put up the ad and he answered. He was one of the few that replied in coherent sentences.
All of you girls have such cute stories! On the other hand that makes me feel obligated to tell my story which should be much harder to tell our children than we met on match.com!
I was on an internship in San Diego for the summer and my entire plan was to have the summer of my life. The very first night my best friend and I went out to the closest bar to our apt and get as drunk as possible! I was already very drunk before I ever saw Mr. Chihuahua and when he walked in my first comment was, “Well he’s the first normal person thats been in here tonight, I am going to talk to him!” Well I dont remember the details of the rest of the night because by the end of the night I was sick, but he invited us to breakfast in the morning and then stood us up. We actually didnt make it either because we were sick, but led to a good laugh and then the best summer of my life and now the happiness for the rest of my life. How do you tell your kids you met drunk at a bar? Awful story, but makes me giggle!
FI messaged me on facebook.
we talked online for 2 weeks. and then met in a public place at a coffee shop. we’ve been smitten ever since (going on 5 years!)
i agree that its easier telling my peers, w hen most people ask i say we met at a coffee shop not because im embarassed, but because i dont want to have to explain the whole darn thing! lol
and i never imagined i would meet the love of my life online, butttttt i am forever grateful that he got the nerve up to write me, since he said he never would have “in person”.
hes awesome
aww how cute!!!! Well the Mr and I meet in Mrs. Rice’s 2nd grade classroom.! Yup! I became best friends with his sister and 8 years later we started dating! We have been together ever since!!!
We’re a Match couple, too!
My dad met his gf online too! I think its great that you used a website that you have to pay…because the ones where all the freaks hang out are usually the free sites! Smart girl! My fiance and I met at work! I had only just started there for a few months when we went on our first date and the rest is history!
Eharmony! Your story sounded so much like ours! I was soooo nervous to join-my friends tried to get me too for years! I finally did, within a week we were matched…..we did the whole eharm process, emailed about 2 weeks then, like you I had to speed things up by giving out my number! LOL! We talked and met about month later (he lives miles and miles away!) We were engaged within 3 months and now getting married 10 months after 1st matched! I love our story!!!!!!!
@ggsb: Too cute!
I’m glad going online worked out for you. I had a friend that kept finding all the WORST guys online. I think it was mainly because of her insecurities with herself (trying to find someone she thought was worse than her I guess) and they always ended up as one night stands or horrible breakups.
I think that if someone decides to go online to find someone, they should take a page from your book and know what they’re looking for before jumping in.
Oh, and I met my man at work but we spoke via AIM before the first date (that awkward time between just knowing each other and then knowing that you both like each other!).
We met online as well! lol Not through a dating site…but a chat room. We kept in touch on and off for 3 years before actually meeting…and here we are 3 years later. lol
Without the internet, there would be no Latte wedding!!! While we didn’t actually “meet” online, our relationship really began through email and AIM! Cute story, Frenchie!
Aww, lobstergirl, I met my guy on the day I moved to college too. But it also took us ages to start dating.
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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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