How I Met My Love [via OKCupid]

It had almost been a year since I became single, and I wondered what it would be like to use an online match website. This was in mid July, 2012. I wasn't really sure how it would turn out, and I didn't know where to start. My first thought was "Plenty Of Fish." So that is where I started. 

I met some interesting people. But the problem was the men who were interesting to talk to were too old for my dating preferences and the people in my preferred range were illiterate and infinitely uninteresting to converse with... and just not my type in general. My overall experience with PoF was that it creeped me out and yielded nothing for me. I then remembered another site that had worked out well for people I knew. So I made my account on OKCupid around a week after I started my PoF account. I finished up some conversations on PoF and said my goodbyes, then deleted my account.

The first day on OKCupid was better than my entire PoF experience. The profiles were better in general, people were more attractive (and more my age) and the matching system was more intricate and made sense to me. I sent out a lot of conversation starters, didn't get a whole lot of responses that showed actual interest in talking, and I got a lot of lame messages that I generally ignored. 

On that same day, though, I came across a profile of a man who became my favorite. So I sent out my message, hoping that he would reply and actually seem happy to talk to me. 

The pluses on first impression were that he was physically attractive, he was a Scorpio, he was just a little bit older than me (19, now 20), and we had similar basic interests, such as The Legend of Zelda. 

I did get my desired response, and we immediately hit it off. Some might say it went too fast, but everything was working out so smoothly and perfectly. It was the 18th of July that we began talking. A few days into our 'flirtation-ship' we were already pretty close and he was calling me "lover." 

We thought the same way about almost everything, and we began answering as many questions as we could in the match system, so that we could get an even more accurate match percentage, just to see how it would come out.

Behold, our glorious match percentage: 99.8% As well as our enemy percentage: 2%

Late September

Mid August. We're so fashionable!

6 Months Together (Jan 25)

One week after we began talking, we met up. July the 25th. This date has been chosen as the official relationship start date. It was also the first day we kissed, initiated by myself. ♥ Perhaps also a little hasty for some people, but again, everything was so right.

He lived in the SF Valley (CA), an approx. 2 hour bus ride from me, in West Los Angeles. We are now living together in Washington State. The current location is temporary, and soon enough we will be able to live in our own home, both with jobs, and the freedom to live our own lifestyle. :)

Here are some interesting/funny links.

• Other Success Stories (right on OKCupid.com)
• Tumblr's OKCupid Tag (screenshots and updates from users on Tumblr)
• Tumblr's "OKStupid" Tag (like the OKCupid tag, but this contains more un-success)