Online, before "the internet as we know it."

We'd known each other online for two years before we ever met face to face, and it was a year after that, when I was going through a divorce, that he confessed he'd had a crush on me since that first meeting.

It was weird, because we knew each other's personalities very well from the online forum, but people would ask me things like, "How old is he?" "Does he have siblings?" "What do his parents do?" - the normal things that people usually find out about each other right away when they meet the old-fashioned way - and I'd have no idea.

I was very hesitant about getting involved with someone else right after breaking up with my first husband. But I liked and respected my now-DH, and took a leap of faith. 17 years later, we're still together.