My own personal story:
I discovered myspace due to my friend Laura. I had always made fun of her because of the hype of it all that people made it out to be. I never believed in online love, or dating online and had always warned her about the warnings of it all, until the day I experienced it for myself. Let me go back to the beginning. Thanks to my wonderful friend Laura, I had joined in with millions of others on the website www.myspace.com. It was about six months ago that I had met Ben Wallace online through myspace. I was searching other myspace members through the browse toolbar that it has to offer. I didn't put in any specific location, and ended up finding a members profile: "Texas Surfer", who I thought was pretty good looking, as well as someone who seemed legitimate to want to talk to/communicate via e-mail/chat. He sent me a message that read "if you aren't going to talk to me, I can't be your friend." So, I replied stating that I was real. Our online emails had continued over the months, which led to talking on the phone. We have been talking on the phone daily for about 5 months now. Our once friendly conversatins lead to something more. Something more as where we began to ask more personal questions and began to have an attraction for one another, physically and emotionally.
After all that time getting to know one another, he finally decided to come down to St.Louis from Tyler, TX to meet me. This was a little over a month ago. I brushed it off because I didn't think he would really come down here to meet me, but all in all he was sincere. I was really nervous to meet him face to face. I talked with many people before hand, and had three of my friends on call in case something were to go wrong when I was in his presence. Everything turned out just fine. We had a really good time. I showed him all over town because he had never been here before. I enjoyed his company.
Since Ben had been here, and left we have talked on a daily basis like before, but more times a day than before. We both have had outrageous phone bills, and good talks. He is planning on coming down once again this upcoming weekend. July 13th - July 16th and I'm really excited to see him again. Things are going good between us, and hope for the best. Long distace relationships like any other aren't that easy, but with open communication and honesty, it helps to make things go smoothly. We haven't talked about the future too much, but we both know that we want to be with each other and we're doing all that we can do for this to work out.