Letters to the Editor
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Oh, please....
This month, I will be married to my soul mate for five years...whom I met online.
I was an engineer working as a contractor on an Air Force Base, she was a buyer in an independent book store. We are both homebodies and NOT into bar scenes or chatting up someone at random. There is no way we could have ever met and clicked if it weren't online. If I had ever seen her out somewhere, I would have thought "Wow, she's cute" and that would have been it. Maybe I would have thought about talking to her, but what the hell would I have said?
I was online for about eight months before we met and had many a bad date. And yeah, the online stuff can be as much as a meat market as the real world, but it does provide a tool to find someone you would otherwise never have met unless through some fortuitous random event. Not.Gonna.Happen.
So don't be ashamed, count yourself lucky that you were able to find the guy in the first place. I was a little hesitant at first, too. But you'll be surprised to know how many of us are out there. I have already met five others who met their current spouses online. Like me, it is the second marriage, and like me, this time they found the right person - online.