Meeting "Mr. Right" Online

To actually say I'm expert about finding love online is a double edged sword. I met my 1st husband online back in 1996. We were one of the first success stories on www.ldssingles.com which is still in effect today and was much easier to maneuver back when there were maybe only 150 people on it. He and I fell madly in love over the internet which was really ridiculous when I think back to it, but finding true love and getting married was number one on my to do list at the time. I was 26 and OLD for a good (or not so good) LDS girl living in Utah. We snail mailed pictures to each other as during that time loading it online was impossible. Of course we only mailed our best. I was skinny and beautiful on the beach in Hawaii (of course I was 18 there and not 26). He was thin, no glasses, and a hunk and I knew the chemistry was sure to be there.

Had I not been so naïve and looking to move on from a past relationship that had soured and gone on 5 years too long, I might have strongly considered the red flags at the time, but I wasn't that smart in 1996. We met and went to a movie and dinner for our first date. It wasn't what either of us expected. We weren't the beautiful people in the pictures, we didn't have near as much to talk about without the security of being "behind the screen" so to say. I was positive that I would be going back to my 5 year relationship of issues, but somehow he asked me out again and the second time was actually enjoyable because the first impressions were over and I was sure that neither one of us considered each other "marriage material."

By some miracle we continued dating and due to the fact that we were very devout in our faith, we decided to wait to have sex until marriage. Of course that meant that we met and were married in 6 months. A bit too soon to really know anyone now that I'm a pro! I realize that some can do that and make it work, but by the wedding day I had quite a few doubts about our true chemistry and could tell that "getting married" was more important than "staying married" that cold December day.

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