Being a divorced dad in my early 30's, I found it difficult to really meet anyone. I come from a small town and it seems that I have a hard time meeting anyone that has the same types of interests that I do. That all changed when I met this awesome lady on Yahoo Personals. I'll be the first to admit that I was skeptical. I had met her a few days before Christmas and we wrote to each other several times, getting to know each other better. In our letters, I found out that we had a lot in common. On Christmas day, we were chatting online. I guess we both we feeling kinda down because we were spending Christmas alone, our kids were with the exes. Anyway, we decided to meet and watch a movie. Now, we had exchanged pictures, so we had an idea what each other looked like, but when I saw her I was totally taken back, she was so pretty. We had gotten to the movie theater early, so we spent time talking. I couldn't tear my eyes off of her pretty green ones, which is very odd to me because I have very hard trouble making eye contact. We watched the movie and then spent some time afterwards talking. We hugged goodnight and proceeded our separate ways. As she lived about an hour from me, I kept thinking about her on my way home. When I got home I had a message from her thanking me for the movie and telling me she had a good time. I replied stating the same. Now, we have not seen each other since that night, but we chat quite regularly, lately it's been every night. I don't know where we are going in this, but I know I have made a great friend. To sum up my experience, sometimes the personal websites work, sometimes they don't. It all depends on how lucky you are in finding someone that really meshes with you. For me, I was one of the lucky ones. I did not expect it and it came as a shock when I did.