yes the bowens are truley a wonderful couple and family i know because iam family congrats jake and terryann love u both lorraine provost

Such an awesome story! I was asking my daughter if she recognized any of the kids when I realized that "I" recognized a couple of them...I am (was) their bus driver!!! Great kids too! :)

My husband and I met on AOL 15 years ago. Coming up on our 13 year anniversary. For once we were ahead of the times :)

My husband and I met in the aol chat room The flirts nook 16 years ago and it was a taboo to meet anyone on the internet! Our family thought we were crazy! My hubby relocated to IL from KY to be with me. 3 kids later we are still going strong!

My husband and I also met on AOL in 2001. We got married in 2006 and are still going strong.:)

Love to hear all these stories!! Thanks for sharing :) Online dating has come a long way, but it's awesome to hear the Internet was making lasting connection all those years ago.

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Hi I love this story because it is so much like mine. I met my husband online in a chat room also called divorce only.. I had just went through a divorce 8 mo proior to going in this chat room. I stumbuled upon a man named Brian he was in the Navy in San Diego, Ca and also had just went through a divorce months earlier. He had 2 sons at the time ages 9 and 13. I had twins girls age 2. We dated for a few years and fianlly got married in 2004. We went through alot together, he went to Iraq for 8 months in 2007. In 2010 we were very suprised to find out we were pregnant. Reason I say suprised is he had under went a vasectomy years before that. We were so completely caught off guard but after the shock of how in the heck did this happen we welcaomed our first baby togther to complete our family. lots more to this entertaing story. thanks for letting me tell it. It just goes to show that internet/chat rooms can be succesful

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Brenda and I met long before AOL and long before personal computers! It was forty-three years ago that she sat in front of me in a Logic Class at what was then Plymouth State College. This year marks our 40th wedding anniversary and we still very much enjoy Valentine's Day. She called from Concord over a half hour ago and her legislative committee is still meeting. Nonetheless we still plan on going out for a special dinner when she gets home!

My husband and I met in an AOL chat room as well Dec 31 2000. We got married 1 year later Dec 31 2001 and we are still married.

My wife and I actually met on AOL in the fall of 1994. We were finally married in September of 2002. We like to tell people we were the first "You've Got Mail" couple. Ironically, I worked for Netscape when AOL bought the company, so I guess it came around full circle. For a short while, I was a Netscape/AOL/Time Warner employee :-) My wife used to tell my young nephews that I was the voice for the "you've got mail" message :-)

My husband and I met in 1998 on "Love on AOL". We emailed each other for a while, then spoke on the phone, met and never looked back. I had been widowed a year before, and we both had grown children. We married in 2002 and celebrated our 10th anniversary last fall. And this was before meeting on-line was cool, too.

My friend and I met on Love@aol in 1997 way before it merged with Match.com sometime in 2000 or something. Online dating was so simple back then , simple and plenty of sincerity and honesty. Of course, there were jerks too; something we can't help but deal with, then and now. Anyway, like the usual scenario, chatting online..plenty of it and occasional phone chats. He was chatting with other women and I was too with other guys, nothing promising for either of us in terms of our pursuit with other people. Then we decided to meet in person. First date was February 13, not the 14th which is Valentine's day.Yes15 years, wow! Nope, we are not together, per se, anymore since 2011. He has not been with anyone and neither have I for 2 years when we "officially" stop dating. We never lived together nor talked about getting married by the way. We talked on the phone from time to time however, small talks, hello and goodbye conversations. Aww.. ? Nope, strange but with all honesty to you 'we-met-online-still-going-strong" folks, it turned out, he didn't want to be with a woman. Yup, that's it, I just don't want to categorize.Something he finally realized after 13 years of having a relationship with me. Oh by the way,he is a widower and I am a widow when we meet and in our 50's.

I love the article. My husband and I also met on AOL in 1998 and married in March of 2000. How exciting:)

My wife and I also met 13 years ago on AOL. She was from Ipswich, United Kingdom and I from Albany, NY. We've been married 10 years coming up on our 11th anniversary March 23rd

AOL should arrange a big weekend get together for all the people who met on AOL and married. C'mon AOL...This will boost your PR image.

Met the love of my life in an "Over Forty" AOL chatroom on October 6, 1995. He was the only person who had a regular name - "ThomFL". I lived in Duluth Mn and he was in Ft. Pierce FL. We racked up huge phone bills (this was back in the day when AOL charged by the minute to be online), met in person on New Year's Eve and he moved to MN that following June. We were together until his death January 12, 2012. Still love you, Thom Burrell. Thanks for creating a great love story with me!

I wish we had a "Like" button on our comments. There would be a whole lotta liking going on! Thanks for sharing your stories!!!

I met my husband on AOL too, 18 years ago! We have been married almost 10 years! Where is my story?

I met my husband on an AOL posting board (remember those!?) 17 years ago. We married two years ago; within two months of Mr. Cuomo making it possible for us to do so....

I met my wife on AOL just after thanksgiving in 1994, I ran home to hear "You Have Mail" It is amazing. and yes. we're still together. She was in Orlando Fla. and I was in Oakland Ca. at the time.

My husband and I also met on "Love at Aol". We had our first date the day after Thanksgiving in 1999 and by January 8th we were engaged. We'll celebrate our 13th anniversary in May and we couldn't be happier!

LOL...The Flirts' Nook! That takes me back. Julia (aka "Tangent" on PC-Link and AOL circa 1988-1997).

It's more common than you think. Me and my husband mate 10 years ago, married 6 years ago, have one son, and met on gothmatch.com when we were both gothic metal heads.

My husband and I met in Southern Charm chat room on AOL. Fifteen years ago today we were engaged and will be married 15 yrs 8/8. Our maid of honor was a girl I became friends with in the same chat room.

My wife and I met on AOL 12 years ago, and have been married for 9 years. We were 600 miles apart when we met, and I moved to another time zone to be with her. Congratulations to all the other happy couples that have met on AOL, I couldn't imagine my life without her..

Like so many others on here, my husband and I met online too, and we were certainly not young kids. He was 59 and I was 55. In the fall of 2002, I was going to give dating one last shot (after kissing a few too many frogs) so I signed up for Match.com for one month. Later I found out he had the same thoughts, but he signed up for a year! The running joke is that it cost him a lot more to find me than it did for me to find him. We started e-mailing for about a month, then phone calls, and finally met on New Year's Eve day at the zoo -- another running joke. By March we had decided to get married, which we did on Sept. 21, two days before his 60th birthday since I had said I didn't want to marry an old man in his 60s. (I was 56.) We're still happily married and will celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary this year.

My husband and I met on line at Love @aol.com. It was a strange way to meet someone back then. Much more common place now but I think in many ways it is scarier today than back then. We met in 1998, engaged in 1999, married in 2000, and our first son was born in 2001. We celebrated our anniversary last October and we are still going strong! Thanks AOL!

My husband and I also met in a chat room on AOL....we have been married almost 13 yrs as well. Back then, all you heard on the news was people getting ax murdered by people they met on the internet :) My friends were so worried. We talked on the internet and eventually the phone for 11 long months before we were able to make the trek to meet each other half way between our home states. We loved each other before we met in person. I can still remember the magic and strangeness of that day. Its something that a lot of people don't understand....unless you have met that same way. I think we have such a great marriage because we talked so much and learned so much about each other for such a long time before we met in person. Happy Valentines Day!

Thank you for reading our story and sharing yours! I just wanted to add that we have been loyal AOL customers ever since just because it's too sentimental to change. Thank you AOL for making it all possible! Wishing you all a lifetime of Happy Valentine's Days!

how depressing. im the only person in the us that hasnt met anybody on aol. not a single person. what an i doing wrong? and how do you meet there anyway? do they have a dating site, or something?

Ahhh, AOL chat rooms, and the virtual love affairs I had there! Never hooked up with anyone, but had my heart broken really really really bad. But it is all good, and the memory is actually sweet from those days. Except for the part where someone was using my pictures.

I met my husband on the AOL of the 70's ... a CB radio of all things !! My dad had one to listen to truckers and one night I heard this young guy talking with someone else. From the conversation I heard I garnered that he lived in Harrison just like me. I picked up the mike and started talking. A few weeks later I took my older cousin with me (by one year ...ha!..I was 16 she was 17) and we went into town to meet with this guy. And the rest is history ... that was in Jan 1971, we married in 1978 and 34 years later have 3 kids and are still together.. how about that !!

Met my hubby in Aol forty chatroom. Him Illinois me Indiana. We talked for 5 wis on phone before meeting. We planned on meeting at a restaurant in Indiana not far from il border. He said he would be in white truck. Inever saw him but he had my pic. Well when I showed up in the parking lot the restaurant was torn down lil I kept looking for his white truck. Thought for sure he got there 1st and thought I stood him up. All of a sudden a black car pulls up and a guy is rolling down the window saying its me its me. I'm like who are you? Its me Bob. We both got out of our cars. He looked me up and down and I asked what are looking at. He said nothing. I looked him up and down. He asked what are looking at?. I said nothing. It was love from there and here we are together 11 yrs. 2dating and married 9. The reason he was in the black car was because if he didn't like what he saw in person he was going to do a drive by lol.

Joining in with the AOL love stories. My husband and I met over 14 years ago on Love@AOL and have been happily married for 13 years. The surprising thing was how many real world connections we had - even though we met online. He worked 4 minutes from my house, we rode our bikes in the same place, shopped at the same grocery store, I'd met a cousin of his when I lived in another city - 10 years BEFORE I met my husband, and he and my best friend's husband worked at the same company for over 20 years. People often forget that we met online because our lives were so intertwined - even before we officially met. And online dating was still new and scary back then - but - we talked on the phone for 2 months before meeting in person and I think we were in love before we ever saw each other face to face. I thank AOL for bringing me the amazing gift of my husband.

My husband and I met on Love at AOL 12 years ago. I put my ad on there as a dare from friends. I stood him up the first time we were supposed to meet. I am glad he didn't give up, he is the best thing that ever happened to me. We have been married 11 years now and are going strong. I was tired of being set up with the wrong kind of person by friends and relatives. Of course you have to be careful because some people are not so desireable and honest. Just be smart about it. Glad to see success stories since everyone thought I was crazy to use the internet to date.

My husband and I met on AOL also!!!!!

I met my partner on AOL over 15 years ago and we are still together. Can't get married though, most states wont recognize us a legitimate couple. We don't care.