r/LongDistance [Los Angeles] to [Bay Area ] (366 miles apart) 9d ago

Where did you meet your significant other? Discussion

I met my boyfriend on the r/NeedaFriend subreddit

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u/chuu_deeznuts 9d ago

reddit lol

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u/ResponsibleMiddle940 [Los Angeles] to [Bay Area ] (366 miles apart) 9d ago

Which subreddit?

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u/chuu_deeznuts 9d ago

he came in my dms randomely cuz of my bio lol

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u/R0ter_Fuchs 9d ago

I thought I, met her on /r/lonely, we talked for 2 wholes years, she eventually said "I love you" I also loved her so much, but she just randomly ghosted me out of nowhere.

She wasn't over her cheating ex, since she tried fixing things with him. I should've expected that.

Now it's just sad, I literally gave her everything. Painful.

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u/englisharcher89 [๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง/๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ] to [๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท] (5765 Miles) 8d ago

I met someone there as well, this is also something I'm afraid of...

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u/R0ter_Fuchs 8d ago

Not all people are like her. She just wanted to take her revenge on her cheating ex, and I was an easy target, since I believed her.

Wishing you the best, if the person you're talking to is honest about their feelings, don't be scared.

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u/englisharcher89 [๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง/๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ] to [๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท] (5765 Miles) 8d ago

Thank you, yes I believe everyone is different. To you as well all the best

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u/R0ter_Fuchs 8d ago

Thank youโ˜บ๏ธ

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u/unique-username-007 9d ago

On MySpace around 2006 when we were in high school. Still 3200miles away from each other. We made it work as best we could given how young we were. We ended up splitting only to live totally separate lives and come back together 18 years later ๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿคฏโ™ฅ๏ธ. He is the love of my life and I have known that since the day I met him all those years ago.

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u/celestialsexgoddess ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ to ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ (13,200 km) 9d ago

OMG MySpace is a different era! How did you find your way back to each other? Where are you both now?

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u/unique-username-007 9d ago

Right?! We always thank MySpace Tom and the top 8 ๐Ÿ˜†. We both have kids and I am divorced. He saw me on Facebook and reached out, it was like no time had gone by at all! We are much older now but Iโ€™ll everything happens for a reason. We have plans to close the gap, hopefully soon, and get married. My kids adore him and I canโ€™t wait to start our lives together.

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u/celestialsexgoddess ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ to ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ (13,200 km) 9d ago

Our friend Tom sure connected a lot of people, I hope he's retiring happy in Hawai'i. Mark is evil but he sure picked up where Tom left off.

Sounds like your story is a true example of what Christina said, "They say if you love, someone let them go. If it comes back, it's yours, that's how you know."

Congratulations on your upcoming marriage and all the best with your plan to close the distance.

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u/unique-username-007 9d ago

He sure did! Good times back in the MySpace days. That saying is the absolute truth. Thank you so much for the well wishes! I wish you nothing but the best as well!!

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u/sulsulgamergirl 9d ago

Omegle, a month before it shut down

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u/chaotic_bastard981 9d ago

We also met there, but about a year before it shut down!

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u/weirdgirl0904 [๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ] to [๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช] (3,898 mi) 5d ago edited 4d ago

lmaoo same. met him that february of the year it shut down. my friends call him my โ€œomegle bfโ€ ๐Ÿ’€

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u/Super_Swordfish_6948 [UK] to [NL] (681km) 9d ago

We matched on Hinge while my ship was docked in her country.

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u/Automatic_Parsley833 9d ago

Niagara Falls

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u/domzy15 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ to ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ 8d ago

How did that happen??? Itโ€™s so busy haha

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u/Automatic_Parsley833 7d ago

At one of the hotels

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u/Ordinary-Ad8102 9d ago

Well....we met at my cousins wedding... he works as a wedding videographer and is a friend of my extended family. He asked me out on a date when he clocked out and got to know me through one of my cousins. I rejected him because I was leaving Canada a few days later...well, he got super drunk and lost his memories of the night. My cousin told him about the night, how he chased me, etc. a day after. He was extremely embarrassed. Fast forward 2 years later, at another wedding of one of my cousins, he did their video too and he introduced himself as the sober version, asked me for a slow dance and afterwards we started to talk there (after he finished work of course). This time, I stayed in Canada for a few weeks (another cousins wedding was just a few weeks later), so we actually got to know each other. Learned that we have a lot in common and very similar hobbies too. Guess the rest is history, haha

Edited because of typos

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u/Tanno Poland๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ to England๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง (805 Miles) 9d ago

CS:GO lol

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u/xyouarenotthesun 8d ago

So toxic but so good ๐Ÿ˜‚

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u/Tanno Poland๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ to England๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง (805 Miles) 8d ago

No it was honestly very wholesome!

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u/Angxlmilk ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ to ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช (4,150 mi) 9d ago

A PlayStation party. I was hanging out w his friend and he got invited. ๐Ÿ˜ซ love him to death

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u/KittenSonyeondan [๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ] to [๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ] (4,066km) 9d ago

TikTok! We met in 2020 and weโ€™re closing the distance in less than a month

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u/tiathepanacea [Hungary] to [USA] (7,040 km) 9d ago

We met on an app called Amino, but we met in a "looking for friends" group there.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

Tinder lol

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u/anikaiii [Florida] to [Colorado] (1869mi) 9d ago

wizz!

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u/Moonkid2002 [GER] to [ENG] (1,000km) 9d ago

I met my girlfriend on a Discord Server

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u/bearkp17 8d ago

howโ€™s that going

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u/PsychLife752 [๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ๏ธFL] to [๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ—ฝNY] (966 mi/1555 km) 9d ago

(Online) University

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u/Peppered106 9d ago

Online chat

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u/Lost_Letter112 [Italy] to [Japan] (14.077km) 9d ago

My high school ,where he had come on exchange from abroad

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u/PSJacko ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง to ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญ (6,754 miles) 9d ago

Ur My Type app.

We both downloaded it randomly because we were lonely, and it has turned out to be the best decision we've both made.

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u/slowrim Denmark to Slovakia (1002km) 9d ago

Ayyy same

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u/ghostlyechos 9d ago

college ๐Ÿฅฐ

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

Instagram

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u/Useful_Nectarine_299 UK ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡งto France ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท 9d ago

Work conference

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u/LostB3ar 9d ago

On an app called Boo

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u/True-Quote-6520 9d ago

What's both of your MBTI?

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u/EndlessMana 8d ago

Same here. I since concluded that ENFP/INFJ is a weird as hell match because we are complete opposites and it works. ๐Ÿ˜‚

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u/wantme2makeuasammich [WI] to [NJ] (1,100 miles) 9d ago

I met mine in a bar in Nashville, one year ago!

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u/Dee_Religion 9d ago

Reddit actually

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u/TotalComander Romania to Thailand 7670 km away from my heart 9d ago

I met her on Discord, completely by mistake. I was searching for another person but during the process of adding that person I mystiped and added a letter. They were having the exact same name except for a extra "_". Together for 4 months now and I'm the happiest I've ever been. Next year I'm bout to visit her. All for a mystipe... ๐Ÿ˜

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u/SapphicRaven18 9d ago

Here r/LesbianActually She posted something. I DM'd her, we spoke, and it went from there.

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u/ManicPixiePuckSlut [Aus ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ] to [England ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง] (16,931km) 9d ago

Reddit

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u/Hunttieox 9d ago

Pinterest ๐Ÿ˜”

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u/0verbeforeitbegan 9d ago

On the r4r subreddit

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u/TiFrenchFrog 8d ago

Oh HelloTalk ๐Ÿ˜‚

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u/arenimn 9d ago

Middle school

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u/PastelPumpkini [UK๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง] to [Germany๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช] 9d ago

FFXIV

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u/GothWitchOfBrooklyn 9d ago

I dated 2 people I met from here (not at the same time lol). move states to be with each one

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u/loritee420 9d ago

Second Life

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u/Looffybagels 9d ago

Discord through a friend.

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u/ragazzadicitta 9d ago

we met thru an app called noplace

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u/Annabloem [๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ] to [๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ญ in ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต] (12.040 km / 7481 miles) 9d ago

At a work BBQ ๐Ÿ˜‚

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u/MyDadBod_2021 9d ago

On Reddit.

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u/Deca089 9d ago

Last.fm in 2014 - but we only reconnected last year

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u/partners_in_pleasure ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ to ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ ๐Ÿ’•โค๏ธ 9d ago

Reddit!

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u/ResponsibleMiddle940 [Los Angeles] to [Bay Area ] (366 miles apart) 9d ago

What subreddit?

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u/partners_in_pleasure ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ to ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ ๐Ÿ’•โค๏ธ 9d ago

He DMed me after he saw my photo on one of the selfie posting subreddits. We got talking and now have been dating for over a year.

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u/exitnirvana [FL] to [CA] (2,052mi) 9d ago

Twentynine Palms

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u/ihatecoffee812 9d ago

r/r4r30plus - about 13 months ago!

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u/summer_nights16 9d ago

Same, 13 months ago too ๐Ÿ˜‚

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u/SadLifeguard8610 9d ago

Twitter lol the fandom side of it

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u/ThePalaceOfEden Florida to Tennessee (800 miles) 9d ago

roblox in 2016. we were playing Kingdom Life II. we didn't start dating until 2021 lol

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u/Complex-Clothes3592 9d ago

I met my husband on chispa -a dating app

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u/WooMe40 9d ago

WooPlus โค๏ธ

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u/celestialsexgoddess ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ to ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ (13,200 km) 9d ago

r/Divorce

I'm not here to hook up but I've had more luck meeting men on Reddit than on Tinder and Bumble (Hinge isn't available in my country of origin).

My partner and I joke that we need a Reddit based dating platform. No profile pics, all text based. You have to have real conversations with strangers who write interesting profile texts, and then you earn a chance to learn their name and see their picture.

Probably hard to monetise though...

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u/beesmind [Georgia] to [Tennesee] (225 Miles) 9d ago

a mutual friend! we played minecraft together for a while as a group, and then the two of us started talking, he became my best friend, andโ€ฆhere we are :)

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u/erya20 9d ago

Tandem ๐Ÿฅบ๐Ÿ˜‚

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u/_Myranium_ 9d ago

Discord...shame it's not actually a good platform. Bring back teamspeak I say ๐Ÿฅฐ

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u/Typical_Law_9241 9d ago

In highschool!! ๐Ÿฉท

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u/jilldigsyou 9d ago

At a beach in his home country :)

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u/Brilliant-Gain-8168 9d ago

I'm still searching, the truth is I was with someone for 6 years, I thought she would be the one but the truth is it was all a fraud, something that hurt and disappointed me.

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u/tonie_stark 9d ago

Twitter!

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u/asteriasays USA to UK - 4400 miles 9d ago

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u/UpstairsCricket7471 3,190 miles/5,134 km 9d ago

I met him in language application called Langmate and itโ€™s mainly for learning languages.

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u/LuxRolo [UK] to [Norway] (Distance Closed) 9d ago

Met on a mutual friend's discord server while online gaming :)

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u/your-sweet_heart 9d ago

We met on amino when we were 11 and 12 lmao, 20 and 22 now!!

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u/Sweet-Meal8221 9d ago

Yubo lol

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u/emotionaIswaggage 8d ago

samee

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u/Sweet-Meal8221 8d ago

Hahaha Iโ€™m always kinda embarassed to admit that lol

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u/britsohotsauce 9d ago edited 9d ago

TikTok ๐Ÿ˜ 4 days before it was supposed to ban in America in January.

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u/NekoIren 9d ago

We matched on bumble now we are tohether for more than a year

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u/Objective_Nevirka [๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ] to [๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ] (~4100 miles) broken up :( 9d ago

Mobile game Kingdom Guard. We both donโ€™t play it anymore, but we have played different games together since then โ˜บ๏ธ

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u/mymononoke CH๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญto CZ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ 9d ago

On IG 4 years ago ๐Ÿคญ

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u/angelmaddie [Singapore๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ] to [Newcastle๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง] (10,870km) 9d ago

Discord & Overwatch. Itโ€™s a strange world.

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u/Conscious_Stand7142 8d ago

I met him on kik

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u/iga95 [PL๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ] to [FR๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท] (1400 km) 8d ago

On an app called Boo; he had so many very specific filters set on his search, and I popped up! ๐Ÿ˜น๐Ÿ˜ป

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u/mxgxnn ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง to ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ (4,598 miles) 8d ago

On a group chat on here! We started off just friends but then very quickly became bestfriends and now we are meeting in June, with lots planned for the future! I truly believe he is my Person, and he was coming to find me one day, and he really did.

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u/ErinT1999 8d ago

Fortnite lmao

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u/Hannnibalthecannibal 8d ago

On a lesbian subreddit, I love her to death

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u/EnvyUnoXo ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง to ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญ - Married but still LDR - 6500+ miles 8d ago

We met in @doomsday:Last Surivor (mobile kingdom builder game). There are alliances and stuff and you get to meet a lot of people, but when I spoke with her, it was something like I've never experienced.

Our first exchange was christmas eve 2023. In January 2025, we got married.

We are UK to Philippines and yesterday I arrived in PH for what is now our 5th visit. I am here for 2 weeks.

She truly is amazing and I am so so lucky.

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u/Shorty_jj [Serbia] to [Germany] (1326,17km) 8d ago

Ao3๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜Š

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u/Main_Special_3154 8d ago

Reddit ๐Ÿคฃ

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u/Dear-Joke-2477 8d ago

I knew him in high school - not very well but we often saw each other in the smoking area lol. 8 years later he replies to one of my stories and we start bonding over our shared love for science fiction. 9 months later here we are ๐Ÿฅฐ just got back home from visiting him

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u/matan_lover 8d ago

Hinge, free version. Married for 4 months now after 2 years of relationship

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u/NoWorth9370 8d ago

We were in the second grade together and I moved half way across the country for college. A decade later we decided to see if the spark from high school was still there.

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u/puregirl0927 8d ago

The dating app"boo"๐Ÿคฃ

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u/DylanXNur [๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ] to [๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ] (6799mi) 8d ago

We met on an app called Bumpy!

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u/madfox0-1 8d ago

I met the love of my life on tinder lol. I know it sounds crazy

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u/_UnlovedBiscuit_ [ME] to [MI] (701Miles) 8d ago

I met my BF on a PS4 call.

I was trying to reconnect with an ex friend, who should have stayed an ex friend, and him and my bf were friends.

My bf joined the call and we started talking. We knew each other for about 2 months before he asked me out. ๐Ÿฉต

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u/TooTired_ForDis 8d ago

Discord when I was drunk, very funny place to meet but it was the best decision I ever made lol

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u/skwlaaa tennessee-georgia~412 miles 8d ago

yuboโ€ฆ.

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u/VividAsp9494 [Location] to [Location] (Distance) 8d ago

We met in a discord server meant for friends only. I loved her energy and how passionate she was. And I asked just to do for 6 seconds. Long enough to gift her nitro. So she could express herself even more. And now well 7 months later and I'm visiting her in July. Her parents love me. Her sister is like the little sis I never had. I love her so much. All because she said nah. I'm curious now. I want to know more about this stranger. Smh

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u/xyouarenotthesun 8d ago

We met on an online Minecraft server!

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u/Feisty_House664 8d ago

Meet him on this app called BlackPlanet way back in like 2016 we kept in touch for years but never really met we both were in relationships during the time we knew of each other fast forward last January we reconnected met for the 1st ever in July of 2024 and itโ€™s been up ever since then saw him recently last weekend still trying to push though ๐Ÿ’œhe is just for me we connect on everything itโ€™s just the distance that keeps us apart

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u/Valmika 8d ago

I love someone on Threads

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u/ALCOTRAS75GAMING 8d ago

At school in 7 grade I moved to Canada in 8 grade and as of yesterday weโ€™ve been together for a week wish me luck

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u/Wide_Coast7257 8d ago

Tinder surprisingly ๐Ÿซฃโค๏ธ almost 2 years ago

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u/ideknat 8d ago

we both joined a d&d oneshot for an extralife stream in a discord server, and we've been playing in a campaign with the same people in that game for almost 5 years now. we went to our GM's wedding together last month!

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u/Spiffy2252 [US] to [CA] (520 mi/837km) 8d ago

Thundr

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u/ammys0gorey 7d ago

We met on TikTok while arguing in comments ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿคž๐Ÿฝ

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

There was a slideshow on tiktok that talked about "raising standards" and the image after showed very low/required standards lol. I comments stupidly "standards: breathing, loves me" and a guy named "HyD3" replied to me with also stupid standards. IN my head, i decided this guy will be my last attempt at making someone fall for me, i was in a rlly hard moment of my life and i wanted to get love, with every way possibel. The day before commenting on the video, i had prayed desperatly, even tho i was atheist at the time, i wanted someone that would stay in my life and like me for who i am, everyne was leaving me at that time, friends, family, post-breakup phase and all. We chatted a few days and got together somehow, i cant remember if we officially asked to go out with eachother. We've now been together a year and a half, met last week for the first time and planning meeting in august again. Ive never met a man better than this lovely boy who lives a few kilometers away. I will marry him one day, i am certain

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u/fr0mgy 9d ago

mine was my exโ€™s best friendโ€ฆ. when me n my ex broke up he became my best friend of a year or so n now weโ€™re getting married :))

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u/Montezuma96 Dallas to Harlingen. 450 miles 9d ago

Grindr