I believe for the most part that dating on the internet is wrong - and is often a false sense of familiarity that can lead to all sorts of problems when you meet face to face.

BUT having said that.

I met my husband on the internet.

Sometimes it is a God thing, but my story is not a common one and have only met one lady (Dana Zini) with one similiar.

Here is my story:
Following my divorce, I hit a very low point in my life where I in many ways I turned my back on God and my faith and every thing that was good in my life. I had failed miserably - or so I thought at the time. I didn't think I could do anything right again, in love - even as a single mom to my little girl. I logged onto AOL around 10 at night and did a search on members' profile currently logged on for the phrase "I can do all things through Christ" (which is part of Philippians 4:13). One guy was logged on in the whole internet world of AOL, MikeActs18.

I instant messaged him and just laid it all on the line - every horrible thing that I had done and everything my ex had done to me and I asked a question "Can God forgive me?"

I knew God could - but I needed some sort of affirmation from an outside source. Mike delivered the affirmation through verse and verse of positive scriptures. Over the next two months, Mike held me accountable to studying my bible, memorizing scriptures and attending a "sister" church to his that was on opposite sides of the same little town of El Paso.

I was heading out of town to visit family for the holidays and during this time, he was going to move before I would return. I didn't know where he was moving too - frankly, I was just focused on pulling my head out of the sand and getting back to God and bringing up my little girl alone.

We decided that under the circumstances we would meet for lunch. We met, and I was shocked. The moment I saw him I started to cry - tried to compose myself- and then laughed deliciously at God's sense of humor. It turned out that my online mentor and friend, who I credit with restoring my faith in God and Men, was the same "Jesus Freak" who had lived in the apartment complex I lived in almost five years earlier - me as a newlywed, him as a fresh divorcee and single dad to the little girl I watch from my porch daily...same guy with the Schnauzer who almost daily became kibble for my German Shepherd.

We were both overjoyed to realize this connection, but still we moved on - him moving literally and us simply keeping in touch over the web and through e-mail in "accountability" e-mails and "hi, how are you" stuff.

I decided that I needed to move and start a new life with my little girl. I wanted to stay in TX so I put a map of TX up on the wall and threw a dart - I hit Corpus Christi.

I put up my resume for jobs in Corpus Christi, Houston and San Antonio and got call backs from Corpus Christi only.

In passing in a e-mail, I let Mike know that I was moving and it looked like I would be moving to Corpus Christi.

"Oh really, wow, that's awesome...because I live in Corpus Christi."

God, really does have a sense of humor. I had no interest in guys and dating, trying to keep my wits about me, move on past the divorce and he keeps crossing my path with Mike? =)

I got the job, packed up a full-size Ryder, loaded my then two year old into the cab, my two Siberian Huskies into the car on the car carrier behind the trailer and drove from El Paso to Corpus Christi myself.

Anyways, to make a long(er) story short(er), I decided to take a chance on Mike. I went out on a date with him and walked down around the bayfront in Corpus Christi and ended up walking around the Rose Garden at Heritage House. There was just something very "different" about him, the way he loved God and the way we kept crossing paths.

I am glad I did. Almost two years after our "initial" online meeting we were married in the Rose Garden at Heritage House near the Bayfront.

Now we travel the same path together and I couldn't be more happier and daily enjoy loving Mike whose favorite verse is "Acts 1:8", hence the reasons for his old screen name MikeActs18.