I have actually never been huge on msn chats or anything like that. So i don't even really know why I added Mia to my msn, seeing as I only had friends I knew in real life on it. But somehow it got too troublesome to write emails and so we ended up talking on msn. Also, I would never encourage anyone to meet people they only know via the internet, a friend of mine once did and it was a major bummer. The guy was nothing like she expected and actually quite different from what he seemed like on the net. With Mia and me it was different, it was surreal, actually. The first night we talked for over 5 hours, and after that we talked every night when we got back home. Usually for about 8 hours,sometimes more ( I usually would get about 4 hours of sleep, I think I merely existed on coffee and love during that first month
) and we never got bored. Our similarities were uncanny and freaked us out more than once. I don't know when I first felt the need to meet her in person, but it was pretty early on. She needed more convincing than I did, she was paranoid an scared not to live up to my expectations. Eventually I lured her with the promise of cookies and CSI (she hadn't been able to watch season 7 then, and I had half the season on my laptop
. Plus, she knew we were destined for each other
) and so we watched a couple episodes and then went to a gay club with some (straight) friends of mine. Turned out she lived up to my expectations, and even beyond...
I'm still constantly amazed by the way her mind works, the way she writes...everything.
Anyways, what I'm trying to say is that I believe our story is an exception and you need to be really careful if you meet people in person. As for the `looks are important, too´ part, we did exchange pictures pretty early on, so I kinda knew what to expect. I also knew (before I first saw her picture) that she fit my type to a T, hair and eye color wise. And I did hers, too. Before I met her I never thought I could be attracted to a girl my height (I'm 5'6, but I had only ever fallen in love with women who were a lot taller than me), but she changed that. I actually think it comes in pretty handy when you're kissing
. So I think we got lucky. But if you're comlpetely in love with someone's personality you should just relax and see wether you can actually become sexually attracted to that person. If you don't develop the desire to kiss her, I think it would be pretty futile to try and make it work, but if you hang out together and feel the need to kiss her, then go for it and everything else will fall into place.