Last year I decided to try the world of online dating. I tried both local and international sites but without great success. When I first tried matesmaster.com I managed to find and even had a date with the guy I can only describe as "The Narcissus Guy.", he worked in Moscow and we met right after two or three chats. During the whole meeting I only heard how all his ex–girlfriends were greedy and only wanted to use him and how handsome and wonderful he was. The words he used sometimes were far beyond my formal English vocabulary.
The next day he called me at work and at home, sent messages and wrote e-mails, at first asking why I did not answer, then calling me names and so on. That was terrible and the only stuff I wanted was for him to stop harassing me. Well the meeting was a failure and the results of it were with me for almost three months that I had to change my phone number to stop it all. So I decided not to meet anybody from the net again before knowing him at least for several months or preferably more.

I was a member of several dating sites, but my second mate was from matesmaster.com again, rather hilarious it was. Remembering my first experience, I choose only those who were not in my country. David seemed nice enough, cute and interesting to chat with and though he wasn‘t my type physically (I always dreamt about blond guy with light eyes, and he was even mixed)
I decided not to discriminate him because of that. The funniest thing was that I was not also his type physically. We started talking on chat and then later on the phone (only my cell phone because after that first experience I was not ready my home phone number so easily).

Now I see that I was really cautious, even too much sometimes. After chatting for more than three months and having already some feeling towards him, I was not still ready to talk about I was looking for in a relationship with him and all that stuff. I did not answer if I see us being together. Even thinking about it by myself I continued to tell him that we hadn‘t met yet and only after that we could move into a more serious relationship.

He finally decided to visit me in Moscow, but the distance was not small (he is from France) and the meeting was postponed for several times. Every time I felt the feeling increasing in me, but I still tried to hide them from him.

We finally met at the airport, seems I spent whole my month salary for a hairdresser, dress and all that girlish stuff, but I was looking like a stone outside, just in case))…but all my worries were in vain, he was so embarrassed and seems so much in love on that day and the days after that I stop torturing him and myself.

Now we are a couple and I am moving to France this spring (all the papers are almost ready) and like every other couple, we have our moments, but we also have strong feelings and friendship based on communication, that we talk through any problem coming up. I also want to let people know, that you SHOULD be careful, but just not to much and what is more it does happen that people find their life partners online, as we did.

Good luck,
Mariana and David.