Dragon and I met in chatroom in July of 2003. We had many things in common and hit it off right away. To be honest, the first thing that got to me was his avatar. Silly, I know, but that is just how unreal somethings can be online and sometimes that is all it takes for a naive submissive to be taken advantage of. And boy was I naive!
After a rather unpleasant misunderstanding a few weeks later, he gave me his Yahoo IM so we could talk it out. We did, and that night he agreed to be my online training Dominant and then we would see if we "fit". I also was admonished sternly because I gave him my picture and phone number when he not asked for them and I got quite the lecture in online safety. To this day he jokes that he had to take me on to save me from myself.
It wasn't until October that we began to talk on the phone, and that was originally one night a week, although we chatted or IMed just about every night. I still remember how nervous I was the first time we talked. During our entire time we were an online couple, we never had cyber or phone sex. We dealt mostly with my training as a 24/7 submissive, what he expected and what he was looking for in a submissive and my many tasks and writing assignments to help me learn well. We didn't delve too deeply into BSDM play, other than to discuss my fantasies,expectations, limits and such.
Our first meeting in RL was February 12th 2004, seven months after meeting online. We met at a hotel in Minneapolis. I didn't have just one safe call...I had to make about 6 to friends both online and off who insisted I contact them often during the 4 days we had together. He had no problem with that at all. It was a blissfull time.
We did click, and as many of you know we are now married. I was one of the very lucky ones. It took me a few years of hearing horror stories from my online friends to realize how very lucky I was that I met Dragon and not some sex hungry instadom. I was blessed..... ~blizz~