Love on the Internets: Looking for input UPDATED!

OK, so I've started a new relationship with someone I met on another message board. I've managed to avoid the whole Internet dating thing up to now. We've already done the scary picture exchange and spent hours a day on the phone. The big meet is scheduled in two weeks in a neutral city. (We live in different regions of the country). Anybody done this sort of thing? Any advice to offer? Tips? Comments?

 

Re: Love on the Internets: Looking for input

IJAG just told me to stay away from this thread ...

 

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go to a bar and talk about the Yankees...

 

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Has that worked for you?

 

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No. But discussing Mitch Albom only led to anger issues.

 

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And that's the reason I turned my ballot in on time each week ... Didn't want to make him any angrier.

 

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Hmm. There are only about 10 women on this site I know who aren't in a relationship, so which one is it?

Don't lie and claim it was another site.

'Fess up.

 

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Expect her to look nothing like she does in the picture. [/jaded online dater]

 

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Seriously, it was another site. And what makes you think I'm not a woman?

 

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She didn't tell me to, but I know I should on my own.

 

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Get all your affairs in order, in case he/she is psychotic and feeds you into a wood chipper.

Actually said something along those lines to my best friend from back home when he went off to the middle of nowhere to meet a girl he'd met online...in 1996, way back when this seemed like a REALLY weird way to meet someone. Turns out her friends said the same thing to her about his possible psychosis.

He came home--alive, even--and said he was going to marry her. And he did, 20 months later.

No wood chippers yet, either!

 

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Don't play games. Be yourself.

Even if the relationship works out, you'll have to let him/her know who you really are (a big fucking dork) at some point. Might as well do it from the beginning.