True story on how we met...

I know a dozen long term/married couples that met online. I think you two should be proud and happy of how you met. Meeting online in general is becoming a lot more common. I personally met my FH through friends (my BF pushed me quite forcefully at him when she introduced us), but we didn't start dating until 10 months (and a relationship in between) after. Sometimes details like that aren't necessary, and for me it's something I personally regret because whether I was ready or not I consider it precious time lost with the love of my life.

My FH and I Met online also but we was friends before we went out on our first date.. Now we're getting married in 6 months

@LaGrosera I do the same thing. And Craigslist haha

I'm always honest with how we met? What is there to be ashamed about. Own your love story. You're an adult.

There are a lot of details about the start of our relationship that we keep to ourselves. I think it's perfectly fine to keep some things private.

I think there is less stigma about meeting people online. That's just the world we live in now. It's more weird that you would hide it than you did it.

Hell, I invited someone to my wedding who I met 10+ years ago and have been great friends with since, despite the fact that I never met him in person!

All our friends and family know that we met on OKCupid. We were initially hesitant about admitting to this, but we talked it over and realized that it is nothing to be ashamed of. In fact, if more happy couples admitted to meeting online (if they did), people might start taking a bit more seriously.

In our case, his sisters and my friends were the one who pushed us into online dating, so they enjoy being credited with the success of our relationship :-)

We met on Tinder! I know some people use it for hookups but I actually know multiple people who are currently engaged or in serious relationships with people they met on Tinder or Bumble. Christian Mingle doesn't even have that type of reputation so I don't see why you should hide it. Personally I don't mind telling anyone that's how we met.

LG- we have found an ex of BIL's on backpage. I almost died laughing because as the page was loading a friend was like "I could totally see blah blah being on here. " sure enough...there she was..almost naked..

I can kinda relate to OP's position. I met my FH on Match. I pursued him. This is common knowledge to all of our friends and family EXCEPT our kids. FH has 3 kids ages 9, 12, and 14. I have a 14 year old daughter. Both of us were in the very early stages of divorces when we met 3.5 years ago so when we introduced the other to our kids, we said we met at a restaurant/bar while watching a sporting event. This is all true BTW, we just had been emailing for a couple weeks before our face to face. We decided it best to not let our kids know we were on dating sites while technically still married to the other parent even though in each case the other parent was the one who left us.

We will tell them when they are older but only if it comes up.

Lying and meeting on a Christian site doesn't seem to really go together.

Fh and i went to high school together. Graduated and didnt speak or see each other for 8 years after. He slid in my Dm's on Instagram and the rest is history! Lol he always makes jokes about it. We are not ashamed.

Me and my fh met on a date app called Skout

I met my FH on POF haha it was a little awkward to tell people at first just because POF is a little sketchy but its no biggy after 3 years

We met on Tinder and I'll tell anyone and everyone that. FH feels a little weird about it and says we simply met online. The only thing I've lied about is our first date because I invited him over to my apartment for dinner. Obviously not the safest idea but hey it worked out lol

I haven't told an untrue story on how we met but I definitely give the lighter version.

Light version- we met while both playing soccer for our University.

More true- Met first at a dance club (college grind dancing if you know what I mean) and then 4 months later I decided to drink a little too much and my best friends called him to come take me to Whataburger. Got food, went to my place, and apparently I just locked the door behind me and told him he was staying the night. He slept in my bed but literally nothing! nothing! happened. Hung out the next two nights and then finally kissed on our third night together lol. He always teases that "I trapped" him. It's such an unromantic story and obviously I was chasing him instead of the other way around. So yeah, not the best story but what can ya do?

FH and I met on Tinder, and he definitely doesn't hide it. How we met doesn't matter though.. how we treat each other is more important to my family

We met on match.com and have been pretty open about it. At first I started to tell people the restaurant that met at but it's actually more common for people to meet online.

I met FH when I was trying to hook up with his best friend. Everyone knows. He even had a picture on his phone of me and his best friend kissing - weird, I know - and then I started being into FH and we were friends and then we decided to be more than friends. I'll tell anyone, idc. His best friend and I still laugh about it. He always says "you can thank me for this relationship" hahaha

ETA: by "friends" I mean we were boning for 9 months before it was "official"

A few weeks ago at a friends wedding, the best man gave a toast (while drunk) that the bride and groom and met on a dating website. Only close friends had known, both families are fairly conservative so they chose to tell their families they met through mutual friends. I thought it was funny but the bride looked mortified. So my advice would be if you decide to keep it a secret, make sure you trust those you have told to not spill.