FindSomeone

Chris and I are celebrating our engagement next week. We met on FindSomeone in November 2 years ago.

I lived in Nelson and we had a boarder from Canada who introduced me to FindSomeone. Chris's friend encouraged him to "try it out". Both of us were a little skeptical, but we had met up with a couple of people prior to chatting to each other. After upgrading my membership I was able to message people and managed to sneak a message to Chris after reading and smiling at his profile. He got my message just one day before he was off on a missions trip to Cambodia with his church life group. Whilst he was away on his trip we stayed in touch every day. He would make a trip to the internet cafe across the road and check his facebook messages. Before the end of his trip we had arranged for me to visit Wellington to meet him only 4 days after he was to return from Cambodia. We spent a whole weekend together and really enjoyed each others company, with no physical contact until he kissed me at the airport when I went home. He came to Nelson a couple of weeks later and spent time with me and my children, who loved him. We found it a little hard to admit to others that we met on find someone and started off saying that we met through a "mutual friend". Now we are one of FindSomeone's success stories. I have also supported two very close friends through the navigation of their FindSomeone long distance relationships. It's a different journey to a local relationship and nice to experience it with friends who understand. What we liked about FindSomeone is that we could ascertain whether we had the same values as each other before we even chatted. Both of us have an active Christian faith and felt it was important to share our lives with someone who would support that. Before we even met, we found out that we had long standing friendships with our high school friends. This showed us each others loyalty and helped to establish a relationship of trust between us. I moved from Nelson to Wellington (a city I previously never wanted to live in), after one year of long distance dating. Now Chris and I work together in his property management business and he has supported me to start my own Facepainting business with a few casual staff. We have shared many holidays together and experienced many happy times along with some difficult hurdles to overcome. Throughout it all we have supported one another and really become best friends. After an emotionally abusive first marriage, it is amazing to be engaged to a man who treats me with respect and value. He's down to earth, wise, funny and stable and he believes in me. My family love him and are so happy for us. If it weren't for FindSomeone and the really good profile system and search tools they have in place, then I don't think I would have met Chris. We both thank you for your commitment to changing the "image" of internet dating and creating a place for people to meet that's not in a pub or party with all the "unknowns".