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Rainfire -> RE: How long did it take?h (4/1/2009 6:01:12 AM)
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I think you'll find a wide range of experiences, lameduck13, since different people are looking for different things and there are so many different variables. Personally, I joined CM strictly for the forums at the strong insistence (ok, really pestering!) of a friend who thought I'd love the boards. I was happy with my life, was not interested in having a partner, content with my friends, critters and home in Idaho. I started posting regularly and met some great people. I was shy at first, it seemed like everyone had been here so much longer and knew everyone, so I kept myself a lot to Polls & Random Stupidity, a fun section. Within a few days, I was chatting (cautiously and carefully) with someone who seemed like a great guy. It was all on the boards, back and forth banter, until he joked about sending a bunch of the ladies pictures of himself. I jokingly said "HEY! What about me? I want pictures too!" and found some pictures in my cmail shortly after. I discovered that this man who already had my fascination for his sense of humour, personality and intelligence, was the most atttractive man I'd even seen. (His profile pictures really did him NOOOOOOO justice!) Since I wasn't looking for anyone though, and neither was he, I figured I was lucky to be his friend. Within a few weeks, I knew that this man had captured my heart forever and he told me he loved me as well. Within 6 weeks, we're were talking about me going out to Canada to him. Collaring was assumed, the bond was so strong between us. Then he asked me to marry him and the plans were on for me to move permanently to Ontario. So the timeline is - we met within a few days of me joining CM through P&RS, in April he asked me to marry him, in May I moved to Ontario, Canada from Idaho to be with him, July 4th he collared me and on October 31st, 2008, we were married at a local harbourside park on Lake Ontario. And every single day I am most grateful and thankful that I met him via CM. He has made me the most incredibly happy woman on the planet even though I thought I was happy. I was - I just didn't know I could be even happier with the man of my dreams. Ya - CM works for some of us! [;)]
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