Ever connected with someone you met here on the EH Boards?


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FirewomanLS is offline FirewomanLS Post #1  May 15,2011, 9:41pm
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I'm curious! Has anybody ever connected off the EH Boards and went out for a date or are dating? When you have been posting enough on here, you recognize user names and in a way get to know that person but the comments they write. So I was wondering if anybody ever connected with someone?
 
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There are several couples that met here on EHA, and I think a couple of marriages, and at least one current engagement.

So yes. It happens.
 
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There are several examples of people who met on eHA and are married or engaged.

People tend to let their guards down here much more so than they would in a real life dating situation. So much better that way. It's a shame more people aren't that way in real life.
 
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FirewomanLS wrote :
I'm curious! Has anybody ever connected off the EH Boards and went out for a date or are dating? When you have been posting enough on here, you recognize user names and in a way get to know that person but the comments they write. So I was wondering if anybody ever connected with someone?
Yes.

It happens, and it's no surprise it sometimes turns out well, too. On the boards we can see people interacting with others and in time, we can get a pretty good sense of who a person is. OTOH, in e-dating (eHarmony, Match, OKC or wherever), our so-called "matches" just pop up out of thin air without any social context. Until we meet them in person, we really have no clue what they're like.

The major drawback of meeting someone here, of course, is that we're scattered all over the place; any relationship that develops is likely to be a LDR and for many people that's a non-starter.
 
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This question pops up from new users at least once a month, and the answer is a solid yes. Both serious relationships and casual dating have occured here. Howver, these dynamics develop spontaneously; the folks who approach EHA as a dating or hook-up site and actively seek out fellow advicers fail. The good stuff happens naturally.
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I have had a couple times when it almost happen...same true with a board similar to this some 10 or so years ago through MSN where I got to talking to someone in PMs and we just started talking and talking...were we close to each other we would have met in person.
 
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I now have 2 people from EHA on my Facebook Friends list. As others have suggested, people find commonalities in the posts, and sometimes connect in real life. But, I would never use these boards specifically as a "dating service".
 
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