Did you meet your current husband, wife or partner the old-fashioned way – in person? Or did you first lay eyes on them on a computer screen, tablet or smartphone?
Did someone fix you up with a blind date – maybe with the cute single RVer at the end of Loop C? Or were you feeling a little lonely one evening and signed up for Match.com or another online dating service, and then, a few days later, laid your your eyes on the most gorgeous human being to ever grace a Sunday evening Bingo game at the RV park?
As always, our curious editors and readers would like to know. So did you meet the old-fashioned way or fall in love (or lust) over a bunch of perfectly arranged pixels on an electronic device?
Please leave a comment if you met online. We want to hear all about your first date (well, not necessarily everything if the relationship began quickly) and how it’s going. Are you glad you reached out in this way?
50 years ago, we had a party line, and not what a ‘party line’ would mean today.
Met my wife on match.com . She bought a new computer that came with three free days of match. She liked my smile, contacted me and the rest is history.
Met my spouse of 45+ years the old fashioned way…introduced by my mother.
When we first met, my wife to be was 14 and I was 18. We belonged to a roller skating club, for competitive dance couples. Let’s see, that was about 1966. We each had different dance partners and competed against each other. Four years later we married. We’ve been married for 51 years. The World Wide Web wasn’t put into the public domain until about 1993, so no, we didn’t meet online. How the world has changed!
We met during our senior year in high school, Class of 1971. By chance I was helping out in the school store and she came by to purchase something. It was love at first sight. She knew I had to be hers. LOL.
No there was no internet back in the 70’s,
Met in a bar one weekend
Online? There was no “online” when I met the live of my life. We met the old fashioned way, at a night club.
Online? There was no “online” when I met the love of my life. We met the old fashioned way, at a night club.
What is online? We were in college.
I met my wife in 1965; there was no Internet then. The only computer was a large mainframe at the university. We’ve been married 52 years next month!
We met square dancing!
We met in a bar when I landed on his lap. He asked me to dance and we have been together ever since. 43 years!
We met the old fashioned way–i picked him up in a honky tonk bar outside the back gate of Camp Pendleton. 36th anniversary in nine days.
On-line dating wasn’t available or a thing when my husband & I met 29 years ago. I answered my now husband’s personal ad in a local newspaper.
Yes we met online! We connected through a “dating site” and talked and video chatted everyday for 2 weeks. When we met in person it was love at “first hug” and we have been together ever since. That was 13 years ago!
When I met my spouse on-line meant hanging the clothes out to dry.
We met in 1956. There was no “ON LINE” in 1956. Been married 61 years.
No, the internet did not exist when I meet my future wife 51 years ago! 😉
There was no internet back then.
We met on a Yahoo Single RVers page. He had just bought a trailer to take to Alaska the following summer. I had been full time for over 20 years and a widow for about 10 years.
I told him I was also planning on Alaska but not the next summer.
We ended up going a year later than he planned, but in my motorhome. We had a great time and still are, but are more part time than full time.
My husband and I met in college long before the internet came along. But, our son and his wife met online. They are perfect for each other and would not have met otherwise.
50 years ago there was no “online.” Even our newlywed grandaughter and her husband met in an Ice cream shop!
Online??!! We didn’t even have a color TV, much less a computer. A few hints; our first apartment was $85.00 a month, furnished with all utilities, we both drove a stick shift with no seat belts, I always said Yes and No Sir to my father, never called Long Distance unless it was a Collect call, and I asked her father for permission to marry his daughter. Those were the days….57 years ago. Met her at a church picnic.
Long Distance! You sound as old as me. I used to excuse myself from gatherings by saying I was expecting a long distance call at home. Stopped that whenever I started getting strange looks from people.
Married 18 years now after meeting online!
I met both of my wives online. The first one was through her roommate which happened to be a friend and former girlfriend of mine, and we were introduced on AOL chat. My current wife and I met on a website called Plenty of Fish. We were older and both a second marriage with no kids, but we had a wonderful now six year old little girl.
Well, sort of. 27 years ago, we met through a dating service, the precursor to online matchmaking
we met in 1968, married 1 Mar1969, so no such thing as the internet
Ya, my wife and I met at school in 1968, started dating in 71 and got married in 72. That’s long before the internet came into being. Just celebrated our 49th anniversary.
I had just returned from my 2nd tour in Viet Nam and stationed at Ft Hood Texas. One of my soldiers in the section was having car issues and I went over to his home to work on his vehicle. It just so happen his wife’s sister was visiting and came out to see what I was doing. It was a slow start but I met the love of my life and we’ve been married 48 years now.
Met my wife of 52 years when we were members of the Grange Youth program.
This group as a whole is way too darn OLD to have met online!
Met my second husband online playing pinochle at a card site. We married one year later and have now been together a little over 21 years.
Not online but we were in line.
Met camping as kids. My folks and her folks camped at the same campground every year, so my wife and I grew up together as kids in the same campground year after year.
No, on-line wasn’t even a dream back in ’87. My ex called and asked if I could help a new co-worker at the law firm. It went from there. That was 34 years ago.
20 years ago you could find an apt, buy a car, apply for a job…and find a date on Craig’s list. Folks were rather blunt in those days, perusing ads was an evenings’ entertainment. One night I found a fella who liked to travel to new places and enjoy the scenery…I emailed him. The rest is history.
We didn’t meet online but through a local singles group that played volleyball every weekend and did other activities including an annual camping/tubing event. We actually hooked up while camping. Another couple talked us into going to a fireworks display nearby and then to a bar (we asked the police at the fireworks where to find one!) Following a more formal date a couple of weeks later we gave ourselves six months to see how things would go. It’ll be 28 years in August. We tent camped and stayed in motels adding grandkids then a Class C when all four grandkids went along. We’re taking the great-grandsons to a nearby zoo this Friday in the MH so the 15 & 18 yr. old granddaughters asked to come along. Gotta love it!
the fall of 1967 at our high school
Lots of folks saying they are too old for online, but Operation Match started a computer dating service in about 1965. You answered a book full of questions and mailed it in, they keypunched it, ran it through their database, and mailed back the results. On the other end, we know folks in their 70s who met on senior singles sites and wound up married. Met my wife on a blind date, friend in my Navy Reserve unit asked if I would go out with his bosses’ daughter. Met first wife at a college mixer.
No, but my son did. Engaged 6 months later. Married 6 months after that. Today, 15yrs married with 3 beautiful daughters. I was a tad apprehensive when he first told me. However, first meeting we fell in love with her.
I guess the only “on line” there would have been in 1960 would have been the school cafeteria line.
Met my Mrs. on the ol’ Interwebs via Yahoo personals.
I met my wife on a ski trip to Lake Tahoe with our local ski club. She was the only female I ever met that was crazy enough to point her ski down what ever slope that I would go down no matter how steep or remote. Married 43 years and together close to 45 she ended up being a ski patroller and I a level 3 instructor.
There was no “online” in 1964 except on a voice-only, rotary-dial phone line. In fact, there were no personal computers or even hand-held calculators. A “personal electronic device” was a pocket-sized transistor radio (in AM only). Our TV antenna could pick up a total of four stations. My cousins still had only one, hand-crank, party-line phone in their farmhouse!
Not sure that I wouldn’t prefer communication back then to today’s constant need for instantaneous communication.
My husband and I met in a chat room in 1998. We chatted two weeks before I would give him my number. Finally after about a month, I agreed to meet him at a local restaurant. I got there early to “scope him out” as he told me what he drove. After verifying he wasn’t there yet, I settled in to wait. Fifteen minutes after our appointed time, I thought I’d been stood up.
Then I noticed a man walk out the front door, look around and go back in. I wondered if it were him but where was his car? Next he came out the side door and looked around. This time I got out of my car and called his name. It WAS him! I knew on our first date that I would marry him, and I had dated and rejected several men before him. We were both in our late 30s.
Now, nearly 23 years later, we laugh how we each thought the other was stood up. We are a great balance to one another and can’t see ourselves with anyone else.
PS – he had parked in the employee parking lot. The one place I didn’t look!
We met one of the old-fashioned ways — we met in school.
No, I was out walking in my neighborhood and met a lady also out walking. We got to talking, then walking and as they say, “the rest is history”. That was 10 wonderful years ago.
My best friend in High School was trying to date a girl from a local private school, and was trying to hook me up with her best friend. There was ZERO chemistry between the two of us, but the girl he had eyes on and I were another story. Over the next six months we chatted constantly, and long story short, 37 years later (33 of which we’ve been married) we are still taking this journey together.
Had very good success dating women through online sites, but no one who was ready for a LTR. Disillusioned, I went on a hiatus from dating; 9 months into my hiatus, a woman from my group of friends and I discovered we had feelings for each other. She had decided to be permanently single 12 years prior, so neither of us was “looking” at the time or had considered each other as more than friends. We got married a year later, now 3 years ago – best friends and partners, the very best situation!
Are you serious. Back thirty plus years ago computer were still working forward email. I met my wife being the NCOIC of the postal center and she was a delivery drive UPS. So I met her direct line not on line.
After losing my wife of 41 yrs, after awhile I got to thinking I didn’t like living by myself. I had joined Plenty’o’Fish web site, nothing serious just conversations, I had started praying asking God about my future( I was 72), one morning when I opened the computer there was a pic of a very pretty lady with a beautiful smile I couldn’t get out of my mind. Several days went by and I finally contacted her, turns out she was a widow of several years and also had been praying about her future. Now 6 years later we celebrated our 5th anniversary on the 8th of June. We couldn’t be happier, we have so much in common, we laugh constantly about anything and everything. Laughter is what keeps us going, and we go to bed with a smile no matter what we growled about earlier. Never go to bed angry, you never know if that’s the last time you will get the chance to say I Love You.
What a sweet story, Bob. Thank you! We wish you and your bride many happy and healthy years together, including many wonderful miles of RVing. Take care. 🙂 —Diane
My friend from my Navy days introduced me to his cousin in 71. We wrote letters back and forth for a few years and dated. We were married in Nov 78. No online for us.
By “meeting online”, did you mean meeting on a telephone party line back in the 1960’s? 🙂
Ha! That would work, Al and Sharon! Have a good night. 😀 –Diane