Meeting a quality partner can be like finding a needle in a haystack—if that haystack were filled with bad pick-up lines, unrequited booty calls, and occasionally mortifying moments, that is. But if we're being honest, online dating gets a worse reputation than it deserves. Plenty of people have found success on dating sites and apps—and some have even found lifelong partners. We asked you guys to share your online dating success stories to prove that finding true love virtually is possible. And guess what: It really is. Below are 11 real-life stories from women who found success in the land of the casual hook-up.

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Online Dating Success Stories - Real Couples Who Met Online
Dating apps: Can't live with them, can't live without them. But seriously, sometimes things go so wrong—like endless date with a cringe-worthy guy wrong—that you can't help but wonder why you're on the app in the first place. Well, SELF asked to hear your dating app horror stories, and you guys answered. So the next time you go on a seriously awful date you'll know that you're not alone.


10 Heart-Warming Mature Online Dating Success Stories
You may have figured out by now that online dating takes a little sprinkle of dedication, a pinch of hard work, and a heaped teaspoon of open-mindedness. As these Dating Experts show below, there are wonderful examples of online dating success stories. They met online. They were skeptical at first, but decided to try it out.



The way we met was actually a happy accident. I had not changed my location settings or my age settings from the default, so Matt kind of snuck in there, because there's a year age difference and we lived 50 miles apart. So we got a match, but neither of us was really taking it seriously. Matt messaged me, and we talked a little bit, and just kind of got everything big, all of our baggage, out right away so we could see if it was even worth continuing to talk. I gave him my phone number and he texted me, "Hi, Hannah, it's Matt.