I love this thread
you bet they work (still reading the rest of the thread - will update this when done)
I'd never done well in the dating scene so ages ago set up an RSVP account.
In 2003, after spending a few days in Canberra with some friends and unsuccessfully hooking up with one of the others there, I updated the account when I got home on the Friday.
By Sunday night I'd received 4 kisses... 2 were from others whose profiles I wasn't particularly interested in, and the other 2 were well let's see. Bought some RSVP stamps and sent emails to them both.
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Onto Jen's side: She was visiting a male friend (business colleague - just good friends) were both single again (for a few months) and had both used RSVP in the past. They decided to both update their profiles and made a promise to both send several kisses once a fortnight. She has a web based business so was on the computer a bit
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That was Saturday July 19th 2003 when I sent my first email to her (I still have all the emails). She wrote back Sunday arvo and the email "war" started. I had just resigned from an IT job and she worked from home, so both had anytime access to email.
I think on the Tues or Wed the other person replied, but by then, things were progressing nicely with Jen. At some stage we worked out our families came from the same area (Tocumwal/Finley, NSW) - and turned out they knew each other. Her uncle used to play cricket with my grandfather. We had property on the Murray River with our own beach and it's possible they might have stayed there - Jen's mum had moved to Sydney by then, but her grandmother and uncle etc still lived in Finley
During the email war we told a lot about ourselves to each other (I've just been back to have a look at some of them and theres some fantastic banter in there)
The next weekend I had to return to Canberra for a dinner on the Friday nigth with some other friends - she sent me a message saying she was missing our email war already - but was down in Jervis Bay visiting a friend who was in the middle of his chemo treatment, but wanted to meet. I returned back to Sydney on the Saturday and the emails started up again.
We did meet under the harbour bridge (north side) on the sunday night (7pm July 27). I took 2 bottles of wine which we drank over a couple of hours - she even kissed me- I was lying on my back looking up at the bridge recpvering from a rather silly joke that she had just told. After cleaning up and walking along the foreshore towards Luna Park hand in hand we kissed some more before going our separate ways.
She SMS'd me when she got home asking to meet up again the next day... as I wasn't working, I went around after lunch and we went to Coogee for late lunch/early dinner and then returned to her place. Around 10pm I said I guess I should leave and we can talk tomorrow when she asked me to stay. From that point on we were virtually inseparable - unless circumstances prevented us.
In December 2003 she moved in and made my house a home. Had to kick one of the two housemates out, with the 2nd one leaving 2 years later (Jan 2006) once Jordy was on his way. Gary lives across the road now and is still a good friend. We got married nearly 3 weeks ago - March 25th
I get on really well with Jen's parents, and they are very happy that we are together, and my family all get along really well with Jenny too - cant get any more perfect than that
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