Reply #4: Gotta keep this short, but [View All]

[Systematic Chaos]

I did have a couple of real nightmare scenarios with women I met on the internet - nothing I couldn't cope with though - before finally meeting my wife nearly 2 years ago. I could tell just by reading her ad that she was of the same mindset I was at that time. Namely, that we had both been badly hurt by other people and were almost ready to just cloister ourselves away and forget the whole thing. It's not that her ad went on about that forever or anything... it's just this vibe I got. So, even though she was almost 400 miles away I went ahead and wrote her. We progressed from e-mails to voice chat within a week. Exactly one month later I took my first drive down to Phoenix to meet her, sight unseen since neither of us had any good recent pictures, and we knew right off that things were going to be wonderful for us. I can't begin to describe just how lucky I was to meet this woman and without the internet it never would have happened. Some of us do get very lucky that way, and I'm glad a few depressing initial experiences didn't stop me from giving it one last shot.