Well, to be fair, I met my husband over 20 years ago on an online game and we were friends for several years before we started "dating" and met in person. I was in a relationship when I was on that game and got to be friends with my husband. It wasn't until I ended that relationship that my husband said he would really like a chance with me. I wouldn't be able to do the internet dating thing either. Personally, I hated the dating scene, no matter which form it took....it's all varying degrees of awful and I'm so glad to not to have to deal with it anymore. But when my husband and I got together, meeting people on the internet wasn't quite as scary, and the people I met were people I'd been talking to for years, just like on here. You are going to be in a particular place, you meet to say hi or get drinks or whatever. I wouldn't have the nerve to date someone from the internet now. Yikes. But like I said, there was usually someone with me whenever I met someone, and I always met in a public place so if it was a creeper, I would never have gone anywhere with them. The worst experience I ever had was when we (my ex and I) invited some people for their spring break and the one turned out to be the most annoying, hyper, worst house guest ever. He brought this big pointer stick that he called a "sword" and he kept swinging it around in our tiny little apartment and I had to ban it inside....he was like a toddler. He ripped our bed sheets and didn't tell us....I discovered it after they left. We were poor college students and had carefully budgeted for food and had all the meals planned out and he went through our freezer and insisted on making dinner, but using things I had for 3 nights all in one dish, and then we had to go buy more stuff we didn't have the money for, but they hadn't brought any money with them, so couldn't contribute for groceries. And then he kept saying he was the best house guest ever because he made dinner one night, which was chicken breast with campbells cream of mushroom soup over it, and some minute rice. So it wasn't that they were creepers, just really annoying and rude...insisting we HAD to let them make this food because what we had planned wasn't nearly as good as what he could make, how Wyoming didn't really have real mountains...the mountains he was used to were so much better....everything he did/had was so much better. I couldn't wait to see the back of him. They wanted to prolong their trip and we were like "Oh, no, we can't let you do that...your friends and family will worry if you don't get home when you're supposed to!" Other than that, I've never really had a bad experience meeting a friend from the internet, and in a way, it was no different than having a pen pal that you finally get to meet. You correspond for years and really feel like you know them. I was fortunate in that MOST people were pretty much exactly like they were on the internet. But, in this day and age, I don't think I would do things the way we used to....it would just be a very short meet up because we happen to be in the same place, not that you work out a plan and go somewhere specifically to meet that person. More like "Oh, hey, I'm going to be in Disney then, too! Shall we meet up for a drink?" rather than "I'd really like to meet you.....how can we make that happen?" But I'm also a different person than I was when I was 20. My 20 year old self was not as aware of the dangers, and was much more social than I am now.
). But, I really liked being around all the other kids, and I wasn't an outgoing kid. Also, when I was growing up, if there was any homeschooling going on, none of us knew about it. All the kids on our street went to either public or private schools.
He has a few close friends who live close enough so that won't be too much of an issue. The one thing we found out that he likes is he can design his own phys ed. As long as he logs in a certain amount of activity each week he's covered. I like that he can pop in my workout or yoga dvds in bad weather, follow along and it counts as does going on any of my long walks or hiking in the woods. Bowling also counts. Right now we're taking in as much info as we can.
We miss you but also understand how busy you are, just check in when you can xoxo