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...to still be a bit embarrassed DP and I met through a dating website?

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CinnamonSwirl31 · 11/07/2014 16:59

We have a beautiful baby daughter and are really happy, but I don't always admit to people how we met! It still seems stereotypically not a cool thing to do. Have a feeling I'm being a bit silly! Any other dating website success stories from 'normal' people? Grin

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ICanSeeTheSun · 11/07/2014 17:03

What's to be embarrassed about.

Now DH and I just tell the DC about the first date, we was FB

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Weathergames · 11/07/2014 17:03

OH and I met 5 yrs ago on a website.

The embarrassing bit is it was POF Blush

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YouTheCat · 11/07/2014 17:04

I met my dp playing World of Warcraft. Grin

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RedPony · 11/07/2014 17:05

I met DP thorough POF. We have just bought a house together and have a 2 day old Ds :)

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Theselittlelightsofmine · 11/07/2014 17:07

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CinnamonSwirl31 · 11/07/2014 17:08

Just googled pof as hadn't heard of it! Nice one

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QisforQcumber · 11/07/2014 17:08

I met DH on MySpace (So much better than FB of course)

Thanks Congratulations RedPony

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HavantGuard · 11/07/2014 17:08

Envy RedPony

Sniff his lovely newborny scent for me.

You could always tell people you met at an S&M club when your whip got caught in his nipple ring. See. The dating site thing doesn't sound so bad now.

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CinnamonSwirl31 · 11/07/2014 17:08

Congrats on your DS Red Pony!!!

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CaptChaos · 11/07/2014 17:09

YouTheCat that's how I met my DH. In Molten Core to be exact, while killing Lucifron.

Nothing to be embarrassed about.

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CinnamonSwirl31 · 11/07/2014 17:10

How did you know he had a nipple ring Wink

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Bue · 11/07/2014 17:10

I'm not embarrassed at all about meeting DH online. It's completely normal these days! I think it's a very boring way to meet but people usually love to hear about it.

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farewellfigure · 11/07/2014 17:10

I think it's completely normal these days isn't it? I read somewhere that a third of recently married couples met online, or maybe that's in America. One day people will say, 'Oh we were childhood sweethearts', or 'We met at work' or whatever, and people will say, 'Oh how QUAINT'! Don't be embarrassed at all!

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ImpatientMissW · 11/07/2014 17:11

I met my amazing DP on Match 5 years ago, we are expecting our first child in October. Don't be ashamed - so many more people than you think have met their partners this way! What else do you do when you have no single male friends, or friends of friends, left? Why is hookng up in a bar any better!

He messaged me first because he liked my picture. I went on the date to get a free dinner and we've been inseperable ever since. Grin

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CinnamonSwirl31 · 11/07/2014 17:12

Feel better now! Knew I was being silly

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AnyFucker · 11/07/2014 17:12

I met my DH in a spit'n'sawdust pub Grin

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ImpatientMissW · 11/07/2014 17:12

hooking

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YouTheCat · 11/07/2014 17:13

Aw CaptChaos, happy times. Grin

He joined the same guild as me and we just got on really well. Many, many bosses smote later, and here we are.

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Brickshed7 · 11/07/2014 17:13

It's the modern way of meeting and every bit as valid as any other way of meeting a partner. You have nothing to feel embarrassed about. I didn't meet my DH via a dating website but we were the result of a holiday romance that worked out. So long as you are happy together that is what matters not how you met.

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Titsalinabumsquash · 11/07/2014 17:15

We didn't meet online but DP says he's going to embellish our story for DS when he's older because I was pregnant within weeks of meeting DP for the first time Blush

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ChelsyHandy · 11/07/2014 17:16

Well, call me shallow (and you probably will but its individual choice) when I man I knew through a mutual hobby that I really liked became single, I was keen until I found out he had done a lot of internet dating. I was never able to look at him in the same way again. I found it really off-putting and although we went on a couple of dates and he was keen, I couldn't stop thinking about why he had done internet dating in the past instead of asking me out then, how many women he had dated and whether he would go on it again or was even on it now, looking around to see if he could find someone better. So I just let it fizzle out.

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Knottyknitter · 11/07/2014 17:17

DP and I met on match.

No probs with that whatever; I met a lot more weirdos with traditional dating than online! We've been together nearly 3 years now and expecting dc1 at Christmas.

Everyone knows now anyway, we were never cagey about it in the first place.

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MammaTJ · 11/07/2014 17:19

I met DP in AOL chat rooms. They don't exist any more, I don't think!

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CinnamonSwirl31 · 11/07/2014 17:19

chelsy I can understand where you're coming from, I think some men do use it to meet lots of women. But I reckon they're the men who would do that in real life anyway if they could. I was DP's second (and hopefully last!) date

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TinklyLittleLaugh · 11/07/2014 17:21

I net DH at Glastonbury through mutual friends. We are just sooooo rock and roll, the teens are well impressed though they manage to hide it really well.

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