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 PETER AND MAGGIE
Success - You can certainly find love on the web!!
My wife had passed away a year ago last January. Prior to this (again thanks to the web) I had found my real father in Canada in 1998 after not knowing him at all from birth - and I was 51 at the time - but that is another story! Subsequently I obtained Canadian citizenship and it had been our intention to retire to Canada in 2002/3 when we would both have been 55.
Unfortunately this was not to be, due to my wife's illness. However I continued with the plan and started the process of having a new home built in Ontario with a view to retiring there in April this year.
Later last year I became a member of Classified-Romance.com and made a few friends but nothing at all serious. I spent last Christmas on Ascension Island with my two daughters, son-in-law and 3 grandchildren. On my return on January the 7th I found that there was a message waiting for me on Classified-Romance.com from a lady who lived within 8 miles of my home. We exchanged a few messages via your personal mail service and arranged to meet for lunch on Friday the 19th of January.
To cut a not very long story even shorter - I proposed to Maggie on Friday February the 2nd (yes a whole 2 weeks later) and she accepted. Not only that but she also accepted the fact that we would be heading for a new life in Canada at some point in the near future. The wedding date is set for October and it is going to be a grand family affair.
The house in Canada is under construction and will be completed by the end of September. For our honeymoon we are spending a week in Los Angeles then on to New Zealand for 4 weeks to visit Maggie's sister, then a week seeing friends in Australia before arriving at our new home in Ontario at the end of November! We are staying there over Christmas so that I can share my father's birthday with him for the first time ever on January 2nd and also my birthday with him on the 9th. We are returning to England in January in time for my daughter's wedding early in February!
So - yes - you can certainly find love on the web and both Maggie and I will be ever grateful to Classified-Romance.com for bringing so much happiness into our lives at a time when we both thought it impossible to achieve this again.
Regards,
Peter
 ROS AND CLIVE
My 24 year marriage had been very unsuccessful. I had two beautiful daughters but my confidence had been shot to pieces by my relationship with my husband.
At last, at the age of 44, somehow, I found the courage to follow my heart and moved from Northern Ireland to England to make a fresh start. I tried ringing chat lines and met a few people that way, but then I decided to register with Classified-Romance.com. I have to admit that it was a last resort but I'm so glad I did it.
Clive picked up my profile and joined just in order to email me. Mine wasn't a very detailed account and nor was his. I think it was the lack of expectation that seemed so attractive to me. We both took the attitude of "What have we got to lose?"
After a few emails we exchanged phone numbers and talked for 2 hours on the phone - enough to realize we were on the same wavelength. Checking out each other's photos helped too.
Then we met - a year ago last March - and we just clicked and my soul did a dance because it knew it had met its mate. I found it really difficult to keep still I was so excited. All the fundamental views and feelings matched and we fell in love....
Over a year on, I am making plans to move in with him. We are so unbelievably at ease in each other's company and he is so supportive of me. I know there is nothing I can do to put him off me. He loves me unconditionally and is so good to me.
We have just come back from Italy - a few days in a beautiful medieval hamlet in Tuscany - we rode tandem round the walls of Lucca and later, after a wonderful meal, watched the fireflies light up the hillside on our way home.
He's told me he wants to grow old with me and I can think of nothing I'd love more.
Thank you Classified-Romance.com - for helping my dream come true!
Ros
 PETRA AND MARK
Petra's Story
If it hadn't been for Pinky, I would not write this story today. Pinky, my Singaporean Chinese friend who met her husband of more than 3 years on the Internet asked me last August during my visit to the UK when I would finally move over there for good. "If you find me a nice bloke to live with", I replied, obviously joking. But then you don't know Pinky... She took it as a mission. Sent me the link to the Classified-Romance.com site shortly after I had returned to Singapore asking me about my "preferences" and volunteering to go on the hunt for me. Sounded like fun, but I decided to do the "hunt" myself and pasted a profile on your site some time last September. Reckoning I wouldn't stand much chances to receive any responses if I were to be honest about my location in the Far East I based myself in San Francisco. Besides, I had lose plans in my mind which were directing me towards a next job in the US...
How can I forget the day that was to change my life? It was the 11th of December 2000, the day I returned from a shitty business trip to Bangladesh. After a night without sleep on the plane it was kind of refreshing despite my tiredness to read Mark's note in my inbox: "Hi Petra, if you did not live 6000 miles away, I would ask you out..." Yes, I did live 6000 miles away, more than that in fact, but I still had to chuckle at the thought that Mark had obviously shot his arrow westwards not aware that it would land in the East...
The following weeks and months were kind of crazy. Writing up to 5 e-mails a day, chatting online at ungodly hours, phone calls either very early in the morning or in the middle of the night. Something had to be done and Mark was about to do it at the end of the month, on the verge of breaking into a new, the real millennium. But this one seemed to have the bug, since he backed out at the last minute. Second thoughts? Too crazy an idea to fly to Singapore to find out who was behind the words on the screen? His explanation made more sense to me than he dreamt possible believing that I would never talk to him again after having been stood up like that.
The conversations continued, even more than before. That "wobbler" of his had brought us closer somehow. Business plans had me booked on a flight to Europe in early March but suddenly it all seemed so long away. I secretly made inquiries about fares from Singapore to London. Quantas had a fairly good offer at the beginning of February so plans began to form in MY mind this time. Talking to him about me coming over for a weekend, Mark was enthusiastic straight away. However, no one else seemed to understand that crazy idea to fly from Singapore to London for a weekend on a blind date. But even though I also not only considered this remotely but completely crazy I knew that I was doing the right thing and that I would not regret it in the end...
I took off on Thursday night, 8th February touching down in Heathrow 14 hours later on Friday morning at 6 am local time. We met in Eastbourne the same evening and had some 60 hours together before I had to leave again to catch my flight back to Singapore on early Monday morning, 12th February.
What could describe better the weekend that would change both our lives forever than the card that Mark wrote in 2 parts, one while I was on my way to the UK, one while I was on the way back, the card that arrived in my letterbox the day before yesterday making me realize that sometimes, just sometimes, dreams do come true:
8/2/01
Dear Petra
As I write this, you are more than halfway through your flight. I haven't stopped thinking of you in the air, racing towards me, ever since you took off. I hope you are having a good sleep right now. I am about to try - don't feel tired, though. No surprise. Well, we're about to find out the answers to our questions. However well we've got on on-line and on the telephone - we both do still have questions. My main question is: Are you really what I have dared to think you might be? (And I don't have to tell you what that is). Now the answer....
12/2/01
You're about an hour away from landing in Singapore and we both know the beautiful truth. I don't have to write a single word about 'the answer'. I've tried today, several times, to fully appreciate what has happened and it virtually brings me to tears, it's so joyful. Our lives have changed forever, Petra, what do you think about that? The last thing you were saying on the phone was if I could handle a distance relationship. My answer is: after 40 years, now I know you are real and not just a figment of my wishful imagination. With that knowledge, I can stand another few months (just). Love Mark X
Mark will be moving to Singapore in July. From there we will take it together....
Mark's Story
No matter how many times you hear it said that the best things in life come to you in a way that you would least expect, it still seems incredible when, seemingly out of the blue, something wonderful happens. Why say seemingly? Because we ourselves almost always set the scene for that so-called 'out of the blue' thing to happen, whether we realize it at the time, or not.
When I looked at the DirectDating.com ads posted in the USA it was just out of curiosity. I wanted to know how many there were compared to the UK, where I am from. I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw the profile of a girl called Petra in San Francisco. This one was talking directly to me. I must have looked at that page for half an hour thinking that if she didn't live 6000 miles away I would definitely have wanted to go out with her. For some reason I can't quite figure out I sent her a message telling her just that. I thought little of it at the time, except that maybe it would be a nice compliment for her to receive and that I really did wish she didn't live on another continent. It turned out to be the best move I ever made.
Again for some reason I can't quite figure out, I wasn't at all that surprised to get a reply. And it turned out that she lives even further away on yet another continent, in Singapore. She had thought she would be moving to San Francisco with work, but didn't in the end. Anyway, in no time at all we were exchanging daily emails, distance or no distance.
I can see it now, although Petra says she saw it almost straight away. Everything that has followed has been utterly inevitable. I think that at some time in most of our lives, some annoyingly smug person tells us, "It's just that you haven't met the right one yet." We reply with a ritual snort, wonder how such annoying smugness is possible and file the thought away in the subconscious where it hibernates. Then, if and when you do meet the right one, out bursts the thought like a marching brass band and yes your smug friend is there; out front, doing the baton-twirling and winking infuriatingly at you.
My first message was sent early in December last year and by just after Christmas, we were ready for me to book a flight to Singapore to spend New Year. Without going into all the details about why, I got cold feet at the last moment. I know it upset and confused Petra at the time but, thank goodness, the 'right one' effect is as strong as anything imaginable. Just over two weeks ago, we decided that we couldn't wait any longer before meeting in person. We had been going to meet up in March when Petra was due to come to Europe on business and to visit friends and family but that was just going to be too long to wait. So she came to England on the 9th February for the weekend. Crazy? No. It turned out that it would have been crazy not to. I was crazy not to at New Year.
At this point I would like to say that neither of us has any particular difficulty with the opposite sex, or any reason to fall in love too easily with someone who just happened to be there. We are a pair of normal, attractive and up-together people who were not satisfied either to hang around on the off chance of meeting a dream partner, or to make do with second best. The thing is, we both feel now that we have met the love of our lives. We phone, email and text each other constantly. Over the next couple of months we have planned a week in Germany, where Petra is from, and two separate weeks in England. Then, in five months time, when my work situation allows, I will move to Singapore to live with Petra for good.
Thank you Classified-Romance.com for the well set up system that helped this to happen. As I'm sure you are aware there are masses of agencies out there. But when I saw yours, I thought straight away that it seemed that little bit more genuine than the others I looked at and that it had been designed with a rare sensitive touch. I'm sure that it must give you a little glow of satisfaction every time you read a story like this, and why not?
Here's one customer you'll never see again.
Mark Perucki
 ELENA AND AL
One would be hard-pressed to find a seemingly more unlikely match than Elena and Al. At first glance, an accomplished classical pianist and (standing a whole foot taller) a rock music loving biker appear a rather incongruous couple. The additional fact that one is a confirmed vegetarian while the other is an equally dedicated meat-eater is simply another example of the many differences between the two. However, supporting the age-old adage of "opposites attract", Elena and Al got in contact and (nearly five months later) are - to put it plainly - madly in love with each other.
Fortune seemed to favor them from the start, as Al found and replied to Elena's advert within a few hours of her having placed it. An initial exchange of e-mails led to phone calls, then to the first meeting. It became a standing joke that it would rain every time they met; fortunately the onset of summer finally broke the pattern! Within three months of meeting they'd been on holiday together, and - amongst other things - enjoyed attending numerous concerts - both classical and heavy rock. The rest is, as the saying goes, history...
Similar situations had prompted Elena and Al to consider an Internet dating service; both very busy with their work; both with a circle of valued friends, yet neither finding much opportunity to meet new interesting people. Each had found the Classified-Romance.com website by different means; one as a result of a newspaper article, the other from a referring link from another website. Both found the tone of the site agreeable - straightforward yet restrained - and so decided to try the service. Each open-minded about the whole enterprise, neither had a preconception about what might happen or where the situation might lead - almost certainly a contributing reason to things having worked out so well.
The Classified-Romance.com website provided the opportunity for Elena and Al to be introduced which, given the disparate natures of their lives, would have not otherwise happened. For that, both are extremely grateful.
 KATHERINE AND TONY
Reunited with a long lost childhood sweetheart
Katherine had never ventured on the Internet before. It was only due to a split from a long-term relationship, and commitments to her children and job, that Katherine found herself with a serious lack of time on her hands. So after surfing the web for a while she came across Classified-Romance.com's site and decided to join.
After a while of receiving messages from Classified-Romance.com members, Katherine clicked on Tony's profile. Everything seemed very familiar to her, he had recently split from a long term relationship, had little time on his hands due to working shifts, and didn't get the chance to socialize much.
Tony sent Katherine a message, and she decided to take the plunge and emailed him back. After several emails Katherine and Tony realized just how much they had in common, and discovered that they only lived a mile away from each other!
The next step was to talk to each other on the phone, which they did. Katherine was surprised at how familiar Tony sounded, and it was later in the conversation that they discovered that they had been to the same secondary school and knew the same circle of friends. Katherine began to wonder whether this was the same Tony she had a crush on, and had unfortunately lost contact with when moving schools.
After a couple more days of several phone conversations, they decided to meet. Katherine found herself staring into the face that she hadn't seen in over 20 years; it was her long lost childhood sweetheart!
 KAT AND MARK Mark's Story
Well... where to start?
So how are things in the world of Kat and Mark? Great. We are expecting a baby around May 8th (no, that's not the reason we got married!) and all is going swimmingly. We've packed so much in to this short time that most couples would only encounter in several years, changing jobs, moving in together, getting married, having a baby not to mention getting to know each other, that the time has just whizzed away. Kat will be leaving work soon and I'm still jetting of around Europe with my job so I can't wait for the baby to be born, I'll get a week off work!
KATHY AND MARTIN Martin's story
Kathy and I are madly in love, having met Via Classified-Romance.com. As professional marketeers, we are delighted at how easy it all was.
Isn't it amazing what you can find on the net.............and we only live 9 miles apart!
Kathy's Story
I've canceled my membership today because I've met a wonderful man called Martin through your service and we've fallen madly and passionately in love. He's asked me to marry him and I've said YES.
He only lives a few miles from me (Stratford-on-Avon, said to be the most romantic town in Britain!), so we've been able to progress a deep relationship very quickly through living so close. That and the use of daily emails has led to a very fulfilling romance and we're both happy to tell our story.
I hope that through our taking part in publicity, it will bring hope to the tens of thousands of other singles out there that you can find true love through a 21st century media. It's certainly worked for us and we're very happy.
Thanks for making two people very happy. As we say, 'it's amazing what you find on the Net'.
DARREN AND JENNY
Love waiting less than a 100 yards away!
After little joy of finding true love in their hometown of Bournemouth, Darren and Jenny made a decision that they didn't want to spend this Valentine's day alone, so they both joined Classified-Romance.com. Little did they know that love was waiting for them on their own doorstep!
Within a day of joining Classified-Romance.com Jenny received an email from Darren. After a week of emailing each other, and realising they had so much in common, they decided to meet up for a drink. The attraction was instantaneous and the evening went swimmingly. It was not however until they decided to share a taxi home together that they realized just how close they lived to each other - their houses were less than a hundred yards away! Love had been just across the street all that time!
Needless to say, Valentines Day this year was a good day for both...!
GERALDINE AND ALAN
Life turned upside down
With Geraldine's dubiousness at the use of dating services, and a lack of trust for anyone following her divorce, the last thing she expected to do was find love on the web. However, Geraldine thought that she would give Classified-Romance.com a go. Despite several replies from emails she sent to other members, it was Alan's that really stood out for Geraldine, and it wasn't long before they were sending each other long emails. This soon led onto phone calls and eventually a meeting. Before they knew what was happening they had fallen in love with each other!
They were however somewhat of an unlikely coupling. With Geraldine at 5ft, and Alan standing at 6ft 2 respectively, their first meeting was interesting! It was the last thing that they noticed though, so overwhelmed were they by their first encounter! Another factor was the distance between them. Geraldine originates from South Wales, whilst Alan is based in Hampshire, meaning the likelihood that they would have met under normal circumstances was pretty slim.
The couple however are happier than they have ever been before. Geraldine is intending to move down to Hampshire to be with Alan; and for that same person who had little faith in the use of dating services, wedding bells look set to ring out!
CHRIS AND LAURA
Chris's story
Thought we should drop you a line and tell you about finding love through Classified-Romance.com
I decided to give Classified-Romance.com a go last October. I spotted Laura's profile and decided to email her in early November. After the initial swapping of e-mails through Classified-Romance.com we swapped email addresses and carried on getting to know each other via email. Things were going really well and we both couldn't believe how well we got on. The first time we phoned each other was pretty amazing, we talked for hours and still found that we could have talked and talked.
Our first date was in London at the end of November (29th to be exact). Without pictures we had to rely on what we had said about each other. We agreed to meet up outside Covent Garden tube and when the day and time finally came around I think I can speak for both of us when I say we were both nervous. As I walked out of the station I spotted Laura and went over and said hi. Initially the nerves got the better of us both but eventually we settled and soon started talking and joking with each other. The day was spent walking around London just getting to know each other. The date ended with us kissing and I knew then that Laura was the one for me. The rest as they say is history. Laura agreed to move in with me in the middle of December and we having been living together ever since. Although, in early February Laura suffered a brain hemorrhage, I was at her bedside like a shot. It has to be said things were not looking good when she went into cardiac arrest on the 9/02/00. The Doctors gave her a 5% chance of recovery and after performing emergency surgery to remove a blood clot she was brought back onto the ward.
This has been the most traumatic time for her family and myself but thankfully Laura has made a remarkable recovery to date. She still has a way to go yet but hopefully with her family and myself giving her all the encouragement she will make a full recovery. Whilst Laura was still recovering in hospital I asked her to marry me on Valentine's Day. Yes the most romantic day, but not in the surroundings I had planned. I'm glad to say she said yes and when she's fully recovered we can continue our plans to get a house together and plan the wedding.
I would just like to thank you all at Classified-Romance.com for without you we would never have met.
SARAH AND THOMAS
Sarah's Story
I would like to say a big thank you to all concerned.....
I received an email from a young man about 7 months ago. We met the same day in a safe location and I fell for him straight away. We went to his parents the first weekend we met and saw each other for the first 3 months everyday without fail. We couldn't stay apart and the relationship blossomed.
Well it is 7 months on and we got engaged after 3 months. We are planning to get married and we have a house together. I never thought I'd fall in love but I have 100% I wish everyone good luck in their search for a partner. I just want to tell everyone that I am the happiest and luckiest girl in the world!!!!
JACKIE AND MIKE
Mike's story
Thank you for providing the service allowing me to meet a very special girl.
Also I have made some very good female friends through your agency with whom I keep in touch with through emails.
I actually met two girls in my area with whom I got on extremely well but chose to take my relationship with Jacky from Carlisle further and we are now extremely happy together once again thank you for the service you provide.
After my wife died I thought my life was over but thanks to you I have met a very special person and am now looking to a very happy future.
PAULA AND JAMES
Paula's Story
It's only been 4 weeks since we met but the subject of marriage has been talked about from the beginning:
"...I also have my little quirks, such as being a Dr Martens wearer - so much so that I intend to wear them down the aisle! (I always say to myself 'if he doesn't like the idea - I'm marrying the wrong one!')..."
"...I know it's a bit premature but I wouldn't have a problem if you wore DMs down the aisle so don't worry!..."
The date has not been set yet, but we are looking at around mid October 2001. If you have any ideas of where I can find the perfect DM's, let me know!
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