Cyber Love Story of the Week – Vanessa and Ray
July 16, 2010
Vanessa moved from the east coast to the suburbs of Houston a few years ago. She wanted to meet new and interesting people, but was too busy with her job at NASA and didn’t have time to enter the dating scene.
Based upon recommendations from friends, she joined the online dating site BlackPeopleMeet.com as a free member. When she saw Ray’s profile, she decided to upgrade her membership immediately to meet him.
She sent Ray, a foster parent, an email introduction. Ray responded and the communication began.
During their first lunch date, they quickly realized that they both had a lot in common. Both Vanessa and Ray had children from their previous marriages. They also both enjoyed crossword puzzles and exercising.
The two easily blended their families together and two years after their first online date, they were married.
Congratulations to Vanessa and Ray who found love online on BlackPeopleMeet.
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Cyber Love Story of the Week – Joan and Richard
June 25, 2010
It was Love at First Sight for Joan and Richard who met on SeniorPeopleMeet.com.
The first time Joan got married was at the age of 17, shortly after she graduated high school. Widowed after 43 years of marriage, Joan decided to try looking for love online.
She was looking for a companion who treated her with respect and didn’t take life too seriously and joined a few Internet dating sites. At first, Joan was less than impressed with the online dating process. She thought the people seemed more interested in hiding behind their profiles and e-mailing than actually meeting one another
One day, she joined SeniorPeopleMeet where she was only browsing profiles — that is, until she received an email from Richard.
Like Joan, Richard was widowed as well. He was a retired naval captain and liked the way Joan presented herself on the website, with current pictures and “no sunglasses.” At age 75, Richard was clearly older than 67-year-old Joan, who wasn’t sure about the age difference at first. Joan lived in northern California at the time. After some successful phone calls, the couple met up in San Diego when Joan visited for a business convention. Ultimately, it was Joan’s daughter who encouraged her mother to meet Richard in person by simply saying, “What have you got to lose?”
On their first lunch date, the two heard more than one comment from strangers about what a nice married couple they looked like. One day after meeting, Joan turned to him and said, “Is this what they mean by love at first sight?” to which Richard responded, “Yes, I think it is.” They spent the rest of her trip together, and maintained a long-distance relationship from October 2008 onward. In January of 2009, Richard asked Joan to marry him. She moved from Sacramento to Coronado and the two were married in February, 2010.
Congratulations to Joan and Richard who both got a new start at love on Senior People Meet.
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Cyber Love Story of the Week – Tara and Ryan
June 11, 2010
Tara joined the online dating site Yahoo! Personals in early 2001. She was doing a year of graduate study in North Dakota when she met Ryan who was in law school in Houston.
Tara knew she was moving back to her home town of Houston to finish her graduate studies. She wanted to make some new friends and meet someone, so she posted an online dating ad in anticipation of her move back home.
Ryan saw her profile and answered her ad on February 8, 2001. The two started emailing back and forth and had the occasional all night chat session getting to know one another, where they learned that they attended the same undergraduate university.
The two finally met in person two months later, when Tara flew home for the Easter holidays. A month later she moved back to Houston and they started dating exclusively from that point on.
Two years later, on March 15, 2003, they became engaged and were married 8 months later. Two years later, their daughter was born. Tara believes that meeting online and communicating in writing for 2 months prepared them both for their marriage. As Ryan is an Officer in the Army, he was deployed to Iraq for 14 months. Shortly after that he left to attend several Army schools. Basically he was gone from his family for almost 2 years. Being able to communicate together through writing helped them keep their relationship alive and healthy.
After their online dating success story, Tara’s mother and brother both ventured into the cyberdating waters, where they met their spouses online as well.
Congratulations to Tara and Ryan, as well as to their family members, who show us that Internet dating can be successful, in both love and war, regardless of the distance.
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Peril of the Week – Switch and Bait
June 4, 2010
Sandra was looking for love online and after a bad experience, she learned to spend more time on the phone getting to know her date before agreeing to meet in person. The gentleman on the other end of the line sounded good enough. He offered to meet her at a fine dining restaurant, which sounded to her better than the usual, “Let’s meet for coffee.”
But when she arrived, he said, “Oh, my goodness. It closes for lunch. But look — there’s a McDonald’s down the street.”
Sandra ordered a burger and French fries. Saying he’d had a late breakfast, he ordered a coke, but then hungrily proceeded to make her fries disappear in a private pool of ketchup. Between morsels, he launched into a lecture on how sex was good for the complexion and circulation, and, by the way, there’s a nice motel near here and we could have a terrific afternoon improving our complexions.
She refused him politely and said goodbye forever, thinking as she got behind the wheel of her car that he probably would have used her credit card to pay for the motel.
The Peril of the Week was contributed by Howard Eisenberg and Shirley Friedenthal of itsnevertoolatetodate.com
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Cyber Love Story of the Week – Megan and Jesse
April 23, 2010
Megan and Jesse were both hoping to find love, but were skeptical that they would ever find it on the Internet.
Megan had tried several online dating sites and was about to give up until she found out that her neighbor had met a great guy on Yahoo! Personals. After a few months of dating, she received an email from Jesse who she thought was so darling. Megan told herself, “This will be the very last date that I will ever go on.”
After several email exchanges, Jesse called Megan to set up an official date. The two met at the Cheesecake Factory for dinner. She was so nervous and had butterflies in her stomach. For Megan, she had met her prince charming and their first date ended with a steamy good night kiss.
Almost two years later, after asking her parents for permission to marry her, Jesse proposed to Megan. At the end of a home cooked meal as Megan scrubbed the cake pan used for the meatloaf, she cursed it and said it was so dirty that she was just going to throw it away and buy a new one. This was Jesse’s cue to end her anxiety. He pulled the engagement ring out his pocket and replied with, “I have a better idea — let’s register for a new one,” as he got on one knee and the rest is history.
The two will be getting married in September.
Congratulations to Megan and Jesse who didn’t give up on online dating until they met “the one.”
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Cyber Love Story of the Week – Haleh and Itai
December 11, 2009
Cyber Love Story of the Week
Haleh originally joined JDate because she wanted to try and meet a nice Jewish guy. While she was not a super-religious, she knew that Judaism was important to her. She knew that one day when she wanted to have children, she wanted to share the culture with a family. In 2006, Haleh was dating, but not meeting Jewish men. She thought if she signed up for the online dating site, JDate, she might meet a Jewish guy.
Haleh was on JDate for only a few months, when she contacted someone with the screen name “NJGuy” in a simple flirt that said, “There is an opening in the sweetheart department, please send resume.” What she didn’t know then, was that Itai was a day or two away from ending his subscription after months of trying to connect with someone. Timing is everything because he immediately responded to her flirt.
Haleh had no idea that she would meet the man that she would spend her life with.
In early December 2008, Itai asked Haleh to be his wife and she said “YES!” The two were married in October, 2009.
Congratulations to Haleh and Itai, our Cyber Love Story of the Week. Sometimes it pays off to pay attention to those casual flirts.
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Cyber Love Story of the Week – Gail and Daniel
November 27, 2009
Cyber Love Story of the Week
Gail joined the online dating site Match.com in July of 2005. She wan’t really looking for someone and had not been cyberdating for a while. Daniel contacted Gail, and at first glance she wasn’t interested in him. When she realized that they had some mutual friends in common, including the local minister, she decided to check into it further.
When she was told that Daniel was a great guy by her Minister, she agreed to meet him for coffee. That first date lasted for hours and so she says, the rest is history. They both knew after a few months of dating that they would get married someday. Everything just clicked for the two of them.
After 9 months of dating, Gail and Daniel got engaged. Two years after they met, the were married in a small ceremony by the same Minister that gave Brad the vote of approval in the back yard of their new home. It was second marriage for both of them and they both truly believe they were lucky to find someone who shared their same values.
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Cyber Wedding Album – Margarita and Avi
November 16, 2009
Avi and Margarita – San Diego, CA
Met in April 2007
Engaged in November, 2008
Married in April 2009
Met on JDate®.com
After 14 years of nagging by his mother, Avi decided to make every attempt and truly try to date someone Jewish. His friends told him to try JDate.com. One day he noticed an adorable blonde holding two small dogs in her hands. The woman was Margarita and Avi hoped that she would reply to his introductory email.
Their first date consisted of dog walking for two hours at 2 am, all the while having a wonderful conversation. Avi was so excited that after their first date, he couldn’t wait to see her again.
The two became inseparable! He never imagined that there was anyone out there that would truly be his partner and understand the real him.
On November 14, 2008, after nervously pacing around the house before a dinner that they were hosting, Avi asked Margarita to give him a few minutes of her time. He held her hand and said how in-love with her he was and how happy she made him feel. Then, he dropped down on one knee, took a little box out of his pocket and asked, “Would you make me the happiest man in the world and spend the rest of your life with me?” After exclaiming 29 times “Oh my God!” and “Is this for real?” she finally said “YES!!!!!!!”
The two were married on April 5, 2009.
Congratulations to Margarita and Avi who prove that real love is only a mouse-click away.
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Cyber Love Story of the Week – Lynne and Dave
November 13, 2009
After a very odd experience with cyber dating involving a daytime talk show, Dave was referred to Match.com by one of the show’s producers. Several months later, Lynne responded to his online dating profile headline which simply read “I Like Cake.”
On their first meeting at the Formosa Cafe in Hollywood, they found they shared a lot of core interests: theater, Scrabble and a passion for baseball. But alas, Lynne had met another guy on Match and Dave was given the dreaded “friends” speech.
Feeling a connection, Dave played the “friend” card as well as he could. He arranged post-season baseball group get-togethers and stayed in phone contact with Lynne on a regular basis. Dave soon won over her sister and enlisted her as a conspirator.
Dave’s strategy worked. Soon the other Match guy was out of the picture. This led to years of Scrabble tournaments, trips to Texas and Tahoe, and attending over 40 Dodger games together.
Dave proposed at the Neil Diamond concert at the Hollywood Bowl three years later on the anniversary of their first date. They were married on Oct 3, 2009 in Los Angeles.
To celebrate, they invited the all guests to the Formosa Cafe the night before. The Dodgers clinched the National League West title on their wedding day.
Congratulations to Lynne and Dave who prove that by being “just friends” might result in finding “just the one.”
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