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Despite online dating's popularity it turns love into a minefield and few strike it lucky. The Herald spoke to Kiwis who've had varying success finding love online. A Kiwi man proposed two days after he met his Filipino wife in her home country. Despite the fast start the couple have gone the distance and are happily married with two sons 13 years later. Malonie Harding met Brian Harding on filipinaheart. He was serendipitously travelling to the Philippines the next week.

Malonie arranged to show him her hometown on the island of Cebu. Two days after Brian arrived he told Malonie he wanted to marry her, she said. But Brian meant it, he talked to Malonie's parents, who are pastors, and they gave the couple their blessing. Brian brought Malonie to New Zealand to see if she liked the country. She did not know New Zealand existed before she met him. I thought it was part of America. They visited his hometown Dargaville, where they now live, for Brian's parents' 50th wedding anniversary. They got married on October 12, about eight months after they met in the Philippines.

The couple, now aged 35 and 49 have two sons, Joseph, 11, and Samuel, 8. Malonie said their relationship definitely had some challenges.

They had to adjust from singledom to married life and she had to learn to live in a new country and culture. But there are no regrets and the couple share unconditional love. I love it here. This is my home. I like the quietness of it and the nature.

I'm so thankful I've married a Northlander. Malonie was originally nervous about the men online. She thought they were a "bunch of liars who prey on that website to catch someone". And although there are probably some out there, she admits there are also nice men like her husband. Her advice to anyone using the internet to snare a partner is to take it slow. An American woman has a year-old son and lives in New Zealand after falling for a Kiwi man she met online.

Jennifer Sackett, 35, met Ben through a gaming web forum called Kopykatz where the pair were regular members in What started as casual chatting turned into flirting and two years after they made contact Sackett convinced Ben to visit California. Three weeks into the trip he asked Sackett what she thought about getting married. She said being 20 and "stupid" she went along with the idea. Sackett moved into an apartment with Ben and his sister in Auckland. However she didn't feel like her usual self.

I was just not myself. After a year in New Zealand Sackett found out she was pregnant. The couple tried to make it work but when her son was 3, Sackett moved out. Despite the relationship ending, Sackett, a self-proclaimed introvert, is not against internet dating.

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She is more likely to be social online than to go out and talk to strangers. So how do you feel about dating and never doing this again? The year-old fell in love with a fellow eco-warrior only to discover that she was a completely different person. Matt was sitting inside on a rainy Auckland day in September when he decided to have a look at planetearthsingles. He thought it'd be cool to live in Costa Rica so he looked through profiles there.

One woman stuck out as being attractive and lovely.

She was a year-old Canadian woman living in a remote eco-house in the Central American country. They launched into a month of intense communication. Matt said they were sending photos, calling and face-timing. NZDating's been in the dating and romance business since We go to extra lengths to ensure that our service stays clean and safe and take all reports of misuse very seriously. In short, NZDating provides a comfortable, safe and fun environment for meeting others in your area from the comfort and safety of your home or workplace.

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