(Super long)
My story is a little odd, but it's becoming more and more common, well part of it is at least lol.
I actually met my SO, while I was still with my ex... it's not as bad as it sounds, so please don't mark me off as a bad person.
I had been with my ex for a few years, purely because of our son - I was completely miserable and had never really been happy with him, or intended to spend my life with him, but I felt like I had to because we had a child. He had talked me into playing an MMORPG with him that I wasn't even interested in, but it was a distraction and provided something to do since he was unemployed and my paycheck didn't supply enough money for a family of 3 to live on and go out with.
We actually both met my current SO while playing this game, and would sit and chit chat with him and others over Ventrilo. There was never anything between us though, we barely knew each other outside of the game's context. Our conversations all revolved around video games and the other people who played the game.
Eventually, I got tired of living a miserable life and I realized that staying with my ex was not doing our son any good. If anything it was just going to give him a skewed vision of what relationships should be like.
His father and I got into an argument one day, and he said "maybe I should just leave" - and I didn't protest. He was awestruck and that was the day we split up.
Later that night, after a lot vomiting and panic-ing and crying (not because I was upset, just because I was scared that I was now officially on my own even though I'd been the sole financial supporter of the family for quite sometime) I got on vent and the MMORPG that we had played to break the news to everyone that we had split up, and to let them know how to contact him if they wanted to.
The man who is now my SO wasn't even online at the time because he was at work. He logged on later and found out what had happened... he'd always been a very soothing person to talk to and so we chatted for a while over vent and things blossomed from there.
Now over 2.5 years later, we're living together and sharing our lives. He's been amazing and has supported the 3 of us alone for a little over a year, and has been incredible. He and my 4yo get along wonderfully, and those who meet us and don't know our story never doubt for a moment that the 4yo isn't his.
It's wonderful. A strange story overall, but I really think meeting on the internet is happening a lot now, just typically not when one person is already with someone else lol
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