Sometimes it just happens (was: IRC, I hate....) (Score 1)

When I went online about 6 years ago. I made a solemn vow to myself. Or actually I made the vow well over a year later when I had seen online love happen to some friends of mine. I vowed that I would not fall in love with someone over the net.

So all the time I have been online I never considered it a valid medium to meet a prospective partner with. I went out, I still do, twice in most weeks and met girls that way. Of course I met girls online, but I treated them just like I treated the guys I talked with, as friends, sometimes, once I knew them better as people to confide in.

Then one faithfull day, I found out that I felt more then friendship for one of the girls I had been talking with for over a year. I of course tried to ignore it, but our conversations got more and more intimate, and when she admitted to me that she was in love with me, I just felt overjoyed.

To cut a long story short, I visited her this summer (10 months after we confessed our love to eachother) and I will move over there this spring after I've graduated. I know we still have a long way to go, and many barriers to overcome, but we're both very much in love, and hope our relation will last once we're together.

The point I'm trying to make is that you ussually will find love on the last place you expect it. And more importantly you can't force yourself to love someone or NOT love someone for that matter. I have no recipe for love, on- or offline, and I doubt there is one. There's just this simple bit of advise, which is valid both on the net and irl: Be yourself, that the most likely way to find a partner that suits you.