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I met my wife this way. Both had accounts on a LiveJournal-like site, both gravitated to the same circle of friends, mutual interest became more and now she's b

I met my wife this way. Both had accounts on a LiveJournal-like site, both gravitated to the same circle of friends, mutual interest became more and now she's been my best friend for 7 years. We've met others (on our honeymoon driving through Houston, on our move to Baltimore when we passed through Ohio, going to a wedding of two other friends who we met this way and who met each other that way). They are the deepest friendships. You don't become friends over the Internet without good communication - everything else is secondary.

semanticist 16y ago
My experiences absolutely confirm this. I met my wife on LiveJournal, and we were only together in person for a week before we got married (and later she moved to the UK). When the bulk of your relationship is done over the internet, it absolutely forces you to learn how to communicate, from the start and continuously throughout the relationship. I'm quite certain that if 'normal' people had to do this there'd be a lot less marriage breakdowns - and possibly a lot less marriages that were never really going to last.