This story started back in November of 1998. Actually the funny thing is that indirectly Katy introduced me to my future husband Ian. Katy and I were co-hosting a chat room on ICQ, she brought a random chatter from Jersey, who later invited his friend from the UK Ian to join us. Ian and I a few days later ended up adding each other to our lists and we would often run into each other on line and message. I thought he was really fun and very sweet. Both of us were in other relationships and mutually respected that - he even gave me advice on how to handle things with the other guy I was "with". Ian's relationship fell apart and eventually mine did too, we spent a lot of time with each other and our friendship became something quite special. I would go on line "looking" for him and I soon found most of my time spent chatting away for hours. In time we confessed our love for each other, we stopped spending time on line in favour of long distance phone calls. In 2000 Ian and a friend made the long flight to Australia to meet me, we spent 12 wonderful days together. We both fell even MORE in love than we had been. Everything just felt so right and so perfect, like we had known each other all our lives, we are both certain we found our soul mates. Ian asked me to marry him, not long after he returned to the UK, and currently we are waiting on the Visa to be granted allowing him to return, and marry me. He plans to live here, giving up his whole "world" for me - family, friends, job, to start a brand new life with me. Words can't even begin to describe how important and special he is to me, and how much he means to me.