There is this person, his name is Sean. Sean met someone named Mary on the internet in 1996. They talked off and on. In 2000 while Sean lived in Detroit and Mary lived in Kansas City, Sean drove from Detroit to Kansas City to meet Mary. This was a 12 hour drive for him. In 2002 they were married, and in 2003 they had a child.
Now they live together and struggle like all married couples to be happy and pay the bills and raise their son.
How far would you drive to meet someone you met?
Oh, religions? Mary is Roman Catholic, and that Sean guy left Roman Catholocism to start jim_darwinism,
2006-08-10 03:01:54 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
you havent seen anything,i have crossed continents for a blind date.
2006-08-10 03:10:13 · answer #1 · answered by Obino 10-10 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What a sweet story, Sean, I mean Jim. That sounds like Sleepless in Seattle come true. I hope you and yours enjoy the kind of happily ever after that most people only dream about. Hopefully, your difference of religious preference isn't too much of an issue between you. My husband and I are of the same mindset, when it comes to religion, but are at odds in many other parts of our lives. Most people think we are a perfect couple, and sometimes we are. I don't want to get anymore personal, when there are some people in here who don't appreciate my humor and seek to be mean.
But, I would travel very far to connect with someone whom I felt I couldn't live without being near to.
P.S. Thanks for the points and compliments on my intellect. It helps make the day brighter for me.
2006-08-10 03:14:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A couple of years ago I drove 1080 miles to meet a friend that was in the states from India. It wasn't a blind date but it was worth it. I have lived in Florida many times but I got to see it in a whole new way. He was Hindu/Christian and I have no religion. I stayed a week and it was an OK time.
Love & Light
Sharon
One Planet = One People
2006-08-10 03:11:16 · answer #3 · answered by Soul 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A blind date is not someone you meet on the internet, but someone a friend or co-worker sets you up with whom you have never had a full conversation with. I would drive up to about three hours to meet someone I met on a dating site and quite liked, but less if it were only a blind date.
I am not sure I could date, much less marry someone with very strong religious views. I think they would have to be either agnostic or atheist. Pagan would be okay, but there aren't really too many pagan guys out there. I would not raise my children with religion, nor get married in a church, so he would either have to have similar views as me, or be a doormat. And no one wants a doormat.
2006-08-10 03:11:21 · answer #4 · answered by reverenceofme 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
as Einstein would say , every thing is relative.
the distance of driving correlates positively to the level of desperation. the more desperate the further the drive
as far for your friend , it is not fair to call it an entirely blind date , since the couple have communicated for years on the Internet
the religion part should not matter , because all smart men will prove to their spouses that Darwinism in the only logical path
2006-08-10 03:13:27 · answer #5 · answered by thinking man 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All is well I hope? I didn't travel far for my wife, but I did get arrested the night I met her. I borrowed a friends car, which had dead tags, no insurance, no registration... you get the idea. Religion would not matter for me, and luckily didn't matter for her. I had been engaged to a girl previously, religion didn't matter to me, but it mattered very much to her two years into the relationship. It all depends on the people. Knowing what I know now, I would have traveled to the battle zones in Lebanon to find my wife. I love her very much.
2006-08-10 03:19:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think a true blind date requires not having had contact with the person before. For that, I'd drive 20 miles from my small town to the nearby city.
If I had been communicating with them for a while, I might fly out to visit. I like to travel.
2006-08-10 03:08:12 · answer #7 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well religion is major because if one is always in church and one is in church or synagogue or a mosque or what so then they will be apart very often. Personally I am Roman Catholic Barissimo Italia De Toretho! But I would drive for 1 quarter of that time because she could be ugly or really fat.
2006-08-10 03:08:31 · answer #8 · answered by Dr. Lecter 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What a sweet story! I love happy endings!
For me?
I have had to drive to a Starbucks (5 Miles?) for all the wrong guys.
For the right one? No telling!
2006-08-10 09:50:08 · answer #9 · answered by Katy_Kat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you are implying that they aren't happy now. The Internet had nothing to do with that. People meet all kinds of ways. People travel farther then that also.
I am not in a position to answer. I guess my answer is, I'd rather not say. That's an opinion, isn't it?
2006-08-10 03:13:40 · answer #10 · answered by Lily 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't drive at all. I'm still rather old-fashioned in some respects and believe it is the man's duty to come and pick up a lady from her home.
Religion matters not.
2006-08-10 03:13:33 · answer #11 · answered by ·!¦[·ÐarrÁ·]¦!· 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋