Hi!! My name is Andrea and welcome here!! I wanted to share our story of love with all of you. I know that many people are skeptical about love affairs formed on the Net but we are testament to the fact that they can and do work. We usually only hear the bad stories of Net meetings but I can assure you, ours is a GOOD story so I hope you enjoy it. If any of you have met your true love on the net, email me; I would be glad to hear your story and I will eventually put in a link page to all of you so other's can share your stories too. Happy reading!!

I am from a small community just outside of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. I never owned a computer before and one day was watching a friend of mine talking on mIRC. I thought it was the most coolest thing I had ever saw and then decided to get a computer. The first provider that I was on was a free service offered in Halifax (no graphics etc) so I decided to get on another server. I joined one on December 13, 1996 and then next day, a friend of mine who works in computers, came and got me all set up to chat. He downloaded mIRC for me and then taught me what to do. I went online and met a few people. Then the following Saturday I got a message from this guy whose nick was "jfett". He sounded really nice and I enjoyed our chat. It was one of the first people who didn't beg for "cybersex" within the first five minutes of talking to them. Actually, he never did!! He was just a really sweet guy and we ended up chatting quite frequently.

I knew that after all the long hours of chatting with him, which by the way I should tell you his name is Jeff, that I was feeling something for him. I didn't know exactly what it was but I knew that I couldn't wait to talk to him each and every day. He told me first that he thought he was falling in love with me but he didn't want to scare me away. I told him that there was no way that he would scare me away by telling me that but I also told him that I couldn't say that to him because I didn't feel that way. I was already in a marriage, but it wasn't a happy one and hadn't been for years. I have two children from this marriage too. But then something terrible happened. A good friend of mine who I had known for years, suffered a great loss in her life. Her 23 yr old daughter had been killed in a car accident. I came online and told Jeff about it. He was great through the whole ordeal. He called me to see how I was doing, he sent me a virtual card from Blue Mountain that was just beautiful and he was there for me anytime I needed him to be. He just listened to me. There was no doubt in my mind after this that I was indeed, falling in love with him. I eventually told him that this was how I was feeling and he was ecstatic to say the least!!

Well, this is when things started getting a little rough for us. My "husband" wasn't overly thrilled with everything that was going on. I had sat him down and told him that our marriage was over and I was going to be leaving him. He decided that he was going to try and put a stop to our "love affair" and he got our phone turned off. So there went my only means of communicating with Jeff. I thought my world was going to end. But due to my very understanding and patient sister, and many good friends, I was still able to talk to Jeff thru their computers and I eventually took my computer to a friend's place and talked to him from there. Our phone calls still continued by means of him calling me at someone's house or me going to a payphone and calling him from there. We were two determined people let me tell you!! We dreamt of the day when we wouldn't need to bother anyone else to talk, the day when we were finally going to be together.

Then the day finally came!!! We decided that it was going to be easier for me to come to the US instead of Jeff coming to Canada. The US goverment doesn't allow dual citizenships where as Canada does. I couldn't and wouldn't ask him to give his up. So Jeff and I arranged it all. I was going to take a train up to Windsor, Ontario and he was going to drive from Sioux City, Iowa to Windsor and pick me and the kids up to take us to OUR home together. It sounded like such a wonderful idea. The kids and I had a hard time leaving behind the only life we ever knew but we looked upon this as an adventure. My family was pretty cool with the idea, much to my shock, but yet they were having a hard time dealing with the fact that we weren't going to be able to see each other everyday. We boarded the train and off we went. My stomach was so full of butterflies!! Finally after 2 days of travelling on the train, we landed in Windsor and sure enough, there was the man of my dreams waiting there for us at the train station!!! We loaded into the car and headed for the border. Sounds like this should be no problem, right?? WRONG!! The US border men wouldn't let me into the country!!! We were stunned but managed to drive back into Windsor, get a motel and try and figure out our next move. We decided to go back home, get my passport and then try again. I have always thought that there was a mightier power involved in this because this gave my family a chance to meet Jeff. This made them alot more settled in seeing me leave home. We then drove to the US via Calais, Maine and had no problem getting into the US. We drove straight for 2 days and landed in Sioux City, tired but in one piece and all together. This started our life together. We have been together for 2 years now and last July, we added a new child to our family. Jared Murray was born July 29, 1998 and is the joy of all our lives. We now live in a small country town just outside of Sioux City. We are planning on getting married late this year or early next.

So you see, not all Net meetings are bad and we are living proof of it. We have overcome alot of obstacles that were placed in front of us but as the saying goes "Love Conquers All".