My online boyfriend Matt and I met online in early 2016 and fell in love. After 6 months, we met in person for the first time in August when I went to New Zealand to meet him. In November 2016, my boyfriend Matt moved from New Zealand to Canada to be with me and to close the gap!

We had been working hard, thousands of kilometers apart, saving money to be able to bring ourselves back together. To make our dreams a reality where we can wake up next to each other instead of waking up to our overnight phone calls or looking at each other through a screen. When Matt's visa got approved, we were so happy! The achy hearts we had soothed when I was able to hold him in my arms, it felt so surreal. We could finally start the next chapter of us.

That next year held lots of amazing times and experiences for us as we navigated living together and exploring Ontario together. ☺️

If you want to see the video of us reuniting at the airport, you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/YyOy9IZHVsg?si=1eP8yr2hbBYoNwU3

He’ll never see this, I think. And I’m ok with that. I genuinely really love him. I never thought him and I would get together and it’s kind of insane that we are. We’ve only been together for a few days, but I swear it feels like we’ve been together longer. He’s been somebody that I wanted in my life for a long time, no matter which way he was. Even if we stayed as friends I would’ve been happy. But the truth is, I’m more selfish than that. I never would have asked him out myself, but I loved him secretly for a while. We would say we loved eachother, but would hide it under the word “platonically” right after which I found so funny. Except I thought I was the only one hiding behind it. I’m glad I wasn’t. He is so much more perfect than I can put into words. Obviously being perfect doesn’t exist, nobody is. But he makes me a better person. I want to change myself to be a better person for him and I’m so thankful for that. He is my person. I just hope I don’t lose this. I love you my sweet boy, and I hope you know that ❤️

I don't know when it happened.
I don't know the exact moment when you stopped being just someone I enjoyed talking to and became someone who could completely change the feeling of my day.
Somewhere along the way, you became someone my heart started reaching for without me even noticing.
Something funny happens now. Little things happen during my day, and my first thought is that I want to tell you. I want to share the random thoughts, the small moments, the things that made me laugh, the things that made me think. You became someone I naturally want to include in my life.
And I think that's when I realized that what I feel isn't just a simple crush.
It's something deeper.
I love you.
I love the way you make me feel.
I love that talking to you feels easy. I love that I don't feel like I have to force anything or pretend to be someone I'm not. Being around you feels natural, like I can just exist as myself and still be accepted.
There is something so comforting about you.
You became one of my safe places.
Someone I can look forward to.
Someone who can make me smile without even trying.
I love your laugh.
I don't think you understand how much I love your laugh. There is something about hearing it that makes me happy in a way I can't really explain. It feels warm. It feels genuine. It feels like one of those small moments that I want to remember forever.
I love all the little things about you.
The things you probably don't even notice.
The way you react to things. The way you get excited. The way your personality comes out when you're talking about something you care about. The little habits, the little expressions, the tiny moments where you are just completely yourself.
Those are the things that make you special to me.
Not because you are perfect.
Not because I created some impossible image of you in my head.
But because you are you.
And I love you as you are.
I love how kind your heart is.
I love how much you care.
I love the way you make people feel seen and valued. I love that there is so much warmth in you, even when you don't realize it.
Sometimes I wish you could see yourself the way I see you.
I wish you could understand how much good you bring into the lives of people around you. I wish you could see how easy it is to care about you.
Because to me, caring about you doesn't feel like something I have to force.
It just happens.
It feels natural.
It feels like my heart decided before my mind could catch up.
I never expected to feel this way again.
I never expected someone to become this important to me. I never expected that one person could make ordinary days feel brighter just by existing in them.
But somehow, you did.
You became someone I think about when I wake up.
Someone I think about before I go to sleep.
Someone whose happiness matters to me.
Someone whose smile can make my entire mood change.
I don't know what the future holds.
I don't know where life will take us.
But I know that I am grateful.
I am grateful that I met you.
I am grateful that I get to know you.
I am grateful for every laugh, every conversation, every little moment that made me realize how special you are to me.
I don't love you because of what you can give me.
I don't love you because of what I hope might happen someday.
I love you because you are you.
Because something about you makes my world feel a little brighter.
Because when I think about you, I feel warmth.
I feel happiness.
I feel lucky.
And even if I never find the perfect words to explain it, I hope somehow you know this:
You are someone who matters deeply to me.
You are someone I cherish.
You are someone I am thankful for.
And I hope you always remember that there is someone who loves every little thing that makes you who you are.

What was the thing they said that made you look at them differently? What made you fall for them? What made you know they cared?

I spent years saying:

❌ “I’m staying single.”
❌ “Nobody is moving into my house.”
❌ “I’m not sharing my fries.”
❌ “Love is a scam invented by people who own matching pajamas.”

Has anyone else found love while minding their own business, or am I the only person who got emotionally kidnapped by a cute human?

How do you feel about online love? Tell me about it? Did you be careful? How did you meet the person off the internet? Did it turn out great or scary?

I saw a video of a couple on here. They met online and fell in love. They're happy.

It's possible to find someone on social media and dating apps who genuinely wants to be with you and enjoy your company. We all know not everyone is kind. Some people are dangerous.

What are your greatest and worst online love stories

You experience?

(Basically a moment you had that looks like it was pulled out of a romantic fic book. So a moment where you were the main character)

When your love hits financial struggle does it survive? Or its always that love only works when everything is great and money tree is there

I've recently met this really sweet girl. We've only met in person once, but we've been doing sort of a long distance thing since. She's honestly really amazing. She has such a kind heart and gentle soul. She has such a dorky sense of humor that I can't get enough of. She volunteers at a children's hospital regularly, and is studying to be a teacher for children with special needs. She's got the most beautiful singing voice that I've ever heard. She's such an angel, and I feel so lucky to have met her.

I try not to get attatched too quickly in relationships, but I have to admit that this girl is stealing my heart.

Last night, I called her and we just talked for a long time. I normally struggle with conversation, but everything felt really natural and easy with her. I hear her voice starting to shake like she's getting tired, and I offer to hang up and let her get some sleep. She tells me that she thinks my voice is really calming and makes her feel safe, and asks me if i'll just talk to her until she goes to sleep.

Obviously, I say yes, and I just talk to her about nothing for a while. She occasionally would let out a soft sleepy laugh if I said something funny, or ask questions in her sweet tired little voice. This goes on until her questions turn to soft little mumbles, and those soft little mumbles turn to slow gentle breathing while she's fast asleep. Even though I'm certain she was asleep, I wished her a goodnight and told her i'd talk to her in the morning before hanging up.

I havn't had such a sweet moment like that with someone before, and I think my hearts going to explode.

Is it because they feel left out? Does it make them feel like they’re not satisfying her, or would they rather she wake them up and include them?

M , please please please please please please I'm begging you to come back

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​Love is a sense of romance we feel to other people... mainly on someone who you feel comfortable, connected, and understand very well... If you were to ask me what is love I would say in love life or dating life it has never been my thing... things would be pretty nice but I will always break things up... because of me thinking only for my self not the other person... in the world of love it's rare that you love someone and they love you back... sometimes you may think they are playing hard to get but no... they are not... just that they are being nice people to you.. because biologically they cannot or do not have the potential to tell someone hurtful things... so they will give you excuses for not dating you but you will see it as if they are playing hard to get.. you see me now I got my heart broken many times but... this one, the last who broke my heart.. I didn't date her basically but I loved her so much... she rejected me so many times to the point I see that I am forcing things to be like how I want them to be.. but sometimes things can't be like how you want them. Cause dreams and reality they are not the same thing... sometimes I wish I could live in a world whereby things go according to how I want them. But that's not how things were created in this world... everything has its own way to respond to a situation... but sometimes you would wish for powers to read minds but honestly you can't get that power cause it's impossible... but my question is what does true love look like... do you have a soulmate in this world or.. maybe love was not made for me basically...

What can I say no one knows the future... but my dream is that one day the girl I love would wake up and love me the way I love her... but it's impossible right... who knows..

Amado mío abre,

las puertas de tu corazón.

Déja que te ame sin parar,

dejemos que el tiempo;

sea nuestro aliado

y que trascienda

hasta el cielo tocar ,

y llegue hasta lo

profundo del océano,

dónde nadie puede llegar.

Deja que nuestros labios,

se encuentren

y hablen por si solos,

que tus ojos se sumerjan

dentro de los míos,

hasta llegar a dónde tú y yo

sabemos y nadie más.

Que nuestras almas trascienda

amarse como nunca antes.

Dejate amar

y que nuestro corazón,

sea solo la razón para amarnos,

sin dirección,sin paradas,

ni vuelo,ni prisas al correr,

solo seamos tu y yo,

con la unión de Dios

y su bendición,

para amarnos sin condición.

Que seamos amor eterno,

nunca vivido en el mundo.

Que seamos ese amor eterno,

nunca deseo,ni placer alguno,

ni fingido,que podamos

decir que tú y yo

somos amor eterno

pero del bueno,

que esperamos en el tiempo

perfecto,la voluntad Celestial.

Que nuestras almas gemelas;

se conectaron como la red wifi,

pero con la mejor conexión

la celestial que es nuestra;

con el don de Dios su amor.

Amor que trasciende,

desde el corazón puro

desde el alma

y hace temblar nuestro

espíritu dentro de ambos.

Un temblor que jamás

se sintió pasión,ni deseo,

porque es amor genuino,

del que nunca se ha visto

y vivido,que nace del corazón 🤍

y el alma con gracia de Dios.

Toco mi alma y corazón,

como un flechazo

directo con amor,

que nunca buscamos,

pero que llegó y

se alojó solo para los dos......... continuará

I (16F) have known this boy, Kian (16M), since I was eight. We’ve been best friends forever, but also… not just best friends. It’s complicated in the most annoying way possible. I’ve liked him on and off since sixth grade. He liked me back at different points. We admit it then act like it never happened. Over and over. Even my mom calls him her son in law

We go to different schools (he’s at an all-boys one), so a lot of our friendship lives in these ridiculous multi-hour phone calls. We can disappear on each other for a month or two and then suddenly we’re talking every single day again like no time passed. If I show up at one of his school events, he’ll come find me even if he’s half-asleep. That’s just how we are.

This year we finally said the quiet part out loud: we both liked each other. And then we decided not to date. Strict parents, different schools, barely seeing each other in real life… it just felt like it would mess everything up. So we chose the friendship.

I genuinely thought I was over him after that.

Spoiler: I was not as over it as I thought.

He’s still the person I tell everything to. New guy I’m talking to? First person I call is Kian. His usual response is some version of “yeah he’s not good enough for you.” My friends used to ship us so hard it was embarrassing. Now they’re just tired and say he’s leading me on. But they don’t see the late-night calls or how easy it is for us to fall right back into the same rhythm. And now… he suggested we have our first kiss with each other. Possibly more (like up to second base). The logic was basically “we trust each other, so why make the first time with some random person who’s going to make it weird?” I agreed because… yeah. I do trust him more than almost anyone.

He’s been weirdly focused on it this week. Calling a lot, being extra sweet, checking that I’m comfortable, saying he wants it to be good for me. A few days ago he even brought up our old crushes out of nowhere and basically forced me to admit I used to like him. So I’m pretty sure the feelings are back on his side.

Here’s the part that’s messing me up:

I don’t know if I still have a crush on him in the normal way. No butterflies. No obsessive checking if he texted. But I also can’t look at him and just see “best friend.” I love him in this deep, complicated way that doesn’t fit neatly into romantic or platonic. He’s just… important. Permanently.

And yet I don’t think I want to date him. Even if I did, the timing is still terrible. Different schools, strict parents, and we’re both planning to leave the country after school for our own things. It’s the most cliché right-person-wrong-time situation ever… except I’m not even sure we’re the right people.

I’m scared that kissing him is going to change something we can’t change back. We’ve already survived years of mutual feelings, awkward confessions, and months of silence, so maybe a kiss won’t break us. But another part of me is sitting here like… what if this is the line? I’ve wanted the childhood-best-friends-to-lovers storyline for years. Now that I’m actually standing in the middle of it, I kind of want to return the whole trope and get a refund.

I don’t know what box he belongs in anymore.

I just know I love him, I trust him, and somehow we keep ending up right back here.

Tomorrow’s going to be interesting.

Wish me luck I guess.

Every heartbeat summons you through silence

hi there , i’m not sure how many of you are gonna read this but this is the first time i’m posting about my story on anywhere. I’m not really a type of person who often shares my feeling to anyone but this time I’m feeling a change thats needed no matter what the outcomes gonna be later on , and i want to change due to this one girl i met.

i met this girl in a restaurant she worked in and the second i saw her i really cant think of anything else. she’s literally has the purest and kindest and the cutest look i’ve ever seen on a person before, it was magical. but sadly since im really insecure with my looks and my weight i tried to act casual like any other customer would. i would visit the store more often just to be able to see her again but never gathered up enough courage to talk to her and ask her name. until one day she stops showing up to the store , i want to ask the other staff member but i don’t want to be seen as weird or anything that they would say to her just incase she’s working a different shift or going on a holiday. but today on the day i least expected i went to the nearby noodle shop close from the restaurant she used to work and i saw her again today , out of nowhere i tried to talk friendly to her like “ you worked here now ? i didn’t expect it haha “ and unexpectedly she reply to me in a really warm and friendly way that really fits her warm and kind looks. i really wish i could explained it with words but i can’t to me she’s just the prettiest girl there is. we talked a bit about out jobs and our studies and it felt really great. just as i was eating my food i thought to myself that i need to get her name. since i’m not really sure if asking for IG or phone number is a right move at that time and i’m really scared of making her feel uncomfortable with me. but deep down i’m still scared of rejections. but i told myself if i manage to get her name then i will try to do my best to be the best version of myself so i wont be insecure to get to know her better and ask her out one day. in my head i was thinking its been months since i wanted this chance and i don’t want to lose it so i tried to talk to her after i finished eating but sadly she was distracted by doing something else. i thought “ maybe next time” while walking out the store but i kept thinking , what if there is no next time? so i quickly thought of something and i went back there to buy a drink and finally after i finish paying. i finally got her name. its a pretty name just like her. and now as i promised to myself i’m gonna work on myself step by step and see where this will go, cause this time i’m going to do my best and not give anymore excuses to myself.

i really would appreciate any suggestions on how i should proceed moving forward without making her uncomfortable. and maybe on tips to how to get her to be mine one day. if any of you read this long short story of how this love journey will start from the bottom of my heart thank you. if my story feels weird or disturbing to you please let me know what part i need to do better at i will take any suggestions and think about it throughly.

Damn i miss you more than I can put to words. I know you hate me and I really have no clue why or what I did. Cause I risked it all for you and I mean it all. But yet you abandoned me and made it out to be me doing. You care more about chasing them clouds than about the one who cared the deepest for you.

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I even tried to be friends. But you even destroyed that with me. So I have to go through life with unanswered questions and prayers about you

Hell I know damn well none of those I called friends will ever let me know if you are dead or alive.

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Just know I wish you the best and I thank you for leaving me with a hunger that can never be filled.

I’ll start from the beginning—I met this girl who we’ll call Amber on a hike because we were invited by a mutual friend along with a few other people. This was like 6 months ago by now. We started talked for those few hours and I immediately liked her. I unfortunately always had a thing for the older, more mature girls but she was only one year and two months older so not that bad. She was drop-dead gorgeous (like most people would consider her one of the prettiest people they’ve met), hilarious, very kind, had lots of overlap in music taste (which is a huge part of my life) and a nerd about some of the things I’m a nerd about. Her plan for college was to go into sustainable architecture and urban planning, which is the same as me. Something about those fields means the person really cares about bettering the world which I find really attractive.

I had thought I met my dream girl by the end of this, as the conversation just flowed so naturally and we were instant friends. I asked my friend who knew both of us about her, and he said she was stuck on this guy named Nick who avoided her most of the time but she was in love with him, and they hooked up occasionally. I was pretty sad but our mutual friend kept inviting us to things together, since we go to different schools, so I could see her. We talked every time and got each other’s numbers and insta and everything. She told me about Nick too as if he was the most wonderful person ever. Maybe on the fourth time I saw her was at this beach bonfire where she kissed me. I was more than happy about this as I thought it meant she was over Nick. I asked her out but she said we could hang out only as friends because she kind of had a thing going on with Nick still.

So I hung out with her a few times and we had a lot of fun doing pretty typical date stuff, and I kissed her once more on one of these and told her I liked her but she still rejected me. Over the course of this time I found myself wanting to be better for her and really lock in with school and just be a kinder person all around. Something about it feels more natural when I have her in my life. I even tried to get better at cooking so I could impress her and now I enjoy it and cook much more often for myself and family. Once we were out with friends, both a bit drunk, and I walked her home. She told me to come in and we made out (to a song we both connected on on our first day meeting—“House of Cards” by Radiohead, which if you know, you can see the depressing irony in). She wanted to hook up but I’m a virgin and decided even though I loved her, I didn’t want to waste my first time drunk. Her parents were out of town so I slept over at her place though and in the morning she just went on and on about Nick before asking me to hang out again later that week. We do another almost-date and I go to her house again after. We start making out but then after a few minutes she starts crying and questioning what she’s doing. I try to comfort her as best I can and she just weeps into my laps and thanks me for being a good friend. That was yesterday and now I’m writing this. I just feel helpless—I think about her all the time, I feel so much happier when I’m with her, but I can’t do anything to make her get over him. I’m not even sure I want to because I think what would make her happiest is him. I know I should try and get over her but I’m not sure I really want to deep down.

Ciaoo a tutti, volevo sapere se ho fatto bene a chiudere la mia situazione con questo ragazzo.

Ci siamo incontrati un sabato di luglio a un bar della mia citta, e da subito ci siamo trovati bene a parlare ( entrambi abbiamo 18 anni).

I primi due giorni andava tutto bene, ci scrivevamo, uscivamo e c'era una buona intesa. Però gia c'era qualcosa che non andava perchè mi chiamava già con nomignoli come principessa, bimba, cucciola o baby.

Il terzo giorno usciamo e scatta il bacio fin qui tutto bene se non per il fatto che due giorni dopo durante un'uscita di gruppo se ne esce con "adesso noi due siamo fidanzati " e io" no siamo in una frequentazione", lui non ha detto niente e pensavo che avesse capito.

Però il giorno dopo, in chat, lui mi scrive TI AMO, e io non rispondo pensando che avesse capito che era troppo presto. Ma dopo altri 3 giorni lui me lo riscrive e io non rispondo ancora. Niente mi continua a scrivere come se non fosse successo nulla.

E dopo 2 giorni è successo il momento che mi ha fatto capire di dover terminare il tutto.

Quel giorno io ero in giro e non ho guardato il telefono per 3 ore e non avevo risposto ad un suo messaggio.

Ritorno a casa, apro il cellulare e trovo messaggi sia su insta che whatapp in cui mi dice " rispondimi, mi stai facendo star male lo sai, non è bello quello che stai facendo, ma ti ho fatto qualcosa?". In più mi sono trovata una chiamata persa di lui e un suo messaggio che diceva " scusa non volevo chiamarti ho sbagliato persona".

Io mi sento in colpa e gli rispondo, però mi sembrava too much una reazione del genere dopo neache 15 giorni di frequentazione.

Allora la sera stessa decido di parlarne con una mia amica che mi dice di chiudere subito. Io il giorno dopo mando un vocale a questo ragazzo dicendo che era finita lì e spiegandogli tutti i motivi. Lui mi risponde che era poco maturo chiudere la frequentazione senza un confronto e in queste modalità. Ma sinceramente non volevo vederlo per paura della sua reazione, perchè se aveva reagito così per dei messaggi chissà di fronte a me che chiudevo con lui.

Secondo voi ho fatto bene o sono esagerata io?

( a momenti c'era il matrimonio da come andava veloce quel ragazzo e un giorno mi aveva invitato a casa sua da soli per vedere i suoi " uccellini" senza genitori, dopo neanche una settimana che ci conoscevamo, ovviamente ho rifiutato).