Ever found yourself involved in a "Cyber romance"? Well many people have and often give up hope of it ever being more than an online infatuation. Don't give up hope, if it's meant to be it will and here is a true story of two people who followed their hearts.
Sunday Herald Sun, October 19, 1997.
'Cyber pair to tie the knot'
Vicky Cooper and David Robertson did not meet under traditional circumstances. In fact, it is surprising they came together at all. He runs Williamstown Diamond Computers in Melbourne's western suburbs and she drives a school bus in Memphis, Tennessee. Five months ago Vicky started chatting to David via the Internet. They connected-and the couple plans to marry early next year.

'It has been a whirlwind romance,' said 41-year-old Vicky. 'But it is the real thing. He's everything I thought he would be.' Which is lucky, considering Vicky accepted David's marriage proposal before they had met in person. It was truly a cyber love affair- they met on the internet, he proposed in the internet, she accepted on the internet. 'That's the beauty of it' said David, also 41. 'You get to know each other very well and become friends before the romance develops.'

They stumbled on to each other after discovering a mutual interest in trucks. David was a truck mechanic before injury forced him to retrain as a digital computer technician. Vicky worked as a Tax examiner but harboured a dream to become a truck driver. She was attracted to his sense of humour. He enjoyed her wit and sense of adventure. But it was only meant to be friendship and the pair often talked about other relationships and their family. 'But within a month I realised it was developing into something more' Vicky said. 'I was becoming obsessed with him. I couldn't wait to get to the computer every morning just to hear from him. Because of the 15-hour time difference it meant many late nights and early mornings, often with me dashing out the door for work without breakfast or even a shower. That's when I knew this was becoming serious'.

David was also keen for the relationship to develop and invited the divorced mother of two to visit. 'My mother was against it' Vicky said. 'She argued that it was insane to travel halfway around the world for someone you had never even met'. But after exchanging photographs and making $1000 worth of phone calls to David, Vicky decided to take the plunge and arrived in August. She said she landed at Tullamarine exhausted and afraid David would not be there to meet her. And David said 3I was feeling nervous, too.' 'I had asked her to marry me. I thought we knew each other well but then we hadn't actually met. It was a big gamble but it has certainly paid off'. The pair hope to marry early next year and live in Williamstown. Vicky had to return to Memphis to settle her teenage children. 'But as soon as I can I will be back' she said. 'We'll get married and live happily ever after'.


True Love List
This list represents an outlook on what is required in a truly caring, intimate relationship with someone else. It's one persons opion on what love is.
1.A friend
2.One who needs a friend
3.A lover
4.One who needs a lover
5.A confidant
6.One who needs someone to confide in
7.Someone who occasionally reminds you uncannily of your parents at times although in different forms
8.A shoulder to cry on
9.Someone who needs a shoulder to cry on
10.Your image of heaven includes this person rather profusely
11.You can look back on the history that you created together and both cry and laugh, hopefully at different parts
12.You are not the same person, instead two seperate entities that can combine into a supreme being
13.You plan names for your kids
14.Someone with whom you can discuss anything from menstrual periods to bathroom talk to sexual preferences to life and death to philosophy to science and back
15.When this other person is asleep, you can't help it if you have a twenty page paper do the next morning, you just want to put the universe on hold and watch them.
16.They aren't a supermodel, yet they are the most beautiful creature that you have ever laid eyes upon, even after twenty years
17.You find yourself thanking God that S/He allowed you to stumble accross this other person
18.They can help you see things about yourself that you haven't seen before
19.You help them see things about themselves that they haven't seen before
20.You feel this uncanny sense of completeness whenever you are around this person
21.Each of your seperate concerns and victories become a shared concern and victory
22.You love them more than anything else in this entire world
23.When you look down at your hands intertwined, you get a rush
24.When you talk to this person, even on the phone, you feel butterflies. Especially after several years of knowing this person.
25.You are happy when your partner is happy.
26.When you hold your partner, it reminds you of something special you held as a child - ie a stuffed animal, a pillow
27.Your love for this person grows daily
28.You've seen your partner at their worst times and the best times
29.They've seen you at your worst times and best times
30.You ask yourself, "How did I survive without this person before now?"
31.You desire to be with this person the rest of your life (not necessarily marriage)
32.Your heart tells you it's right
33.True love is patient
34.True love is classified as delusional
35.True love is addictive
36.True love waits, (how long, I do NOT know!)
37.Your true love can define or destroy your world
38.Your true love will not change for you.
39.You will not have to change for your true love.
40.The eyes of the other is what make it worthwhile, for in them you can see the boundless love kept just under the surface.
41.The little voice in the back of your head will quiet its shouting and dire portents, for it will recognize that he/she is your true love.
42.Your true love knows what to say, how to say it, when to say it, and when not to, to help you along
43.Your true love won't leave you.
44.When you can hold hands and skip together in public and not give a damn about who sees you and what they say.

The most important thing is that these feelings must be mutual, not pressured from one another or out of guilt. Also remember, what is meant to be, will be. That is the true meaning of life.



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