Online Dating Success Stories

Commenters share personal anecdotes about meeting and marrying their partners through online dating sites and apps like OKCupid, Facebook, ICQ, and Myspace, often contrasting with traditional meeting methods.

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Sample Comments

meursault Feb 21, 2011 View on HN

great idea. this is actually how my wife and i met. no joke. i had just ended a long relationship and changed my status on facebook. she noticed and started messaging me.

matt_the_bass Jun 26, 2018 View on HN

Good luck! I met my wife on that site.

52-6F-62 May 14, 2020 View on HN

Truly. Your described scenario is how I met my partner of nearly six years.

room505 Oct 4, 2022 View on HN

My spouse and I passed each other all the time because we lived in the same neighborhood. I almost had the courage to approach her. Ironically, we ended up meeting through a dating website!

theogravity Oct 29, 2023 View on HN

Another +1 for okcupid. I met my wife through it.

wldcordeiro May 8, 2015 View on HN

I met my girlfriend via OKCupid. We started talking, spent a few weeks messaging back and forth about interests, goals, and just generally getting to know each other than met up for the first time to go to a beer festival, had an awesome time and kept seeing each other.

geogra4 Nov 24, 2020 View on HN

My now-wife was relatively new to the city we were in when I met her. we were both on OkCupid at the time but I didn't meet her from there. I wonder if we had met on OkCupid we would have hit it off as well

vectorEQ Jan 2, 2020 View on HN

i always said i hated dating apps and people on there just look for sex. after a long time nagging by my friends who met on there, i tried it. first person i met i ended up to marry :'). u never know.

asimuvPR Jul 21, 2016 View on HN

I met my wife on ICQ in the year 1998. My marriage happened because ICQ allowed me to connect with her. I would not have met her otherwise. :)

DarronWyke Dec 15, 2017 View on HN

I'm in a similar boat. I met my wife on a website with a mutual game interest, and we started chatting on AIM. Come to find out she's not too far from where I lived and I started visiting her once a month. Now we're married.