Stories of Hey-Ai couples!

I wrote a blog entry on my profile telling the story of how Yi and I fell in love. I posted it in time for Vday for him to read. I was going to link the story in the forums since it is far too long to put in a post, but there is no way to directly link to the blog tab. For anyone who cares to take the time read our story, it can be found in my blog.

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone and especially to you, Yi. I hope you can hear me say, "I love you" with every bite of the cheesecake I made for you for this day!

www.hey-ai.com/me/pr...erprofile/nanox

nanox wrote: I wrote a blog entry on my profile telling the story of how Yi and I fell in love. I posted it in time for Vday for him to read. I was going to link the story in the forums since it is far too long to put in a post, but there is no way to directly link to the blog tab. For anyone who cares to take the time read our story, it can be found in my blog.

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone and especially to you, Yi. I hope you can hear me say, "I love you" with every bite of the cheesecake I made for you for this day!

www.hey-ai.com/me/pr...erprofile/nanox

Ohh wow! your story is so amazing,i am very touched and i could not help the tears while reading.
All the best for u.

nanox wrote: I wrote a blog entry on my profile telling the story of how Yi and I fell in love. I posted it in time for Vday for him to read. I was going to link the story in the forums since it is far too long to put in a post, but there is no way to directly link to the blog tab. For anyone who cares to take the time read our story, it can be found in my blog.

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone and especially to you, Yi. I hope you can hear me say, "I love you" with every bite of the cheesecake I made for you for this day!

www.hey-ai.com/me/pr...erprofile/nanox

There is one major part of the story that was left out that I would like to add now. The friends that Yi and I made through Hey-AI not only watched this story unfold, but also suffered along with us during our struggle and supported us every step of the way. Rexy, Tamm, Petey, Rhys, Gabs, Brent, Ban, Cat, San, Aaron, Ade, Cheeby, Jade, Tiff, and Sara - to each one of you, thank you for everything! Each one of you played a role in helping me through one of the hardest times of my life. For this I will always be grateful and hold each of you in a very special place in my heart. You're all my Valentine's today too, because I love you guys!

I also blame everyone involved for making me such a big softie.

i thought u met on battle.net

nanox wrote: I wrote a blog entry on my profile telling the story of how Yi and I fell in love. I posted it in time for Vday for him to read. I was going to link the story in the forums since it is far too long to put in a post, but there is no way to directly link to the blog tab. For anyone who cares to take the time read our story, it can be found in my blog.

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone and especially to you, Yi. I hope you can hear me say, "I love you" with every bite of the cheesecake I made for you for this day!

www.hey-ai.com/me/pr...erprofile/nanox

speechless, have tears running down my cheek, but good tears,
I wish you and Yi the best for the future that awaits,

Now pass me that tissue!

I think I have posted on here before but eh, I feel like giving a nice update

So, in December 2012, I had joined Hey-Ai for the first time. I had just turned 18, was single and bored with life since I had just finished high school. I had always had a slight thing for Asian guys since I hardly had any Caucasian friends.

Fast forward a few months into 2013, I added a guy on here who happened to live in South Africa too. Not only that, but he lived in the same city as me! Small world, right? We spoke a little here and there but nothing really progressed from it. I deleted my account in the latter half of 2013 as I didn't have time to be on here and what not. However, a few months later- I came back, only to rekindle my friendship with the wonderful man I call my boyfriend.

So, we began speaking properly again in late 2013. Just chatting here and there, occasionally sending a flirty message. In no time, I could feel myself opening up to him and my heart being filled with this warm fuzzy, yet unfamiliar feeling.

Being both extremely shy people, we spoke about meeting up but were always too afraid. My boyfriend is a drummer for the Dragon Dance for Chinese New Year. Having a lot of Asian friends, I was inclined to attend many celebrations. Since I knew he'd be there, I kept my eye out for him. I did see him and he saw me. We shared an awkward yet long stare of awe. After he was done with the dragon dance stuff, I called him... only for him not to answer. Turns out he was too shy and chickened out! lol.

A week later, there was another New Year celebration. My mates and I were walking around and they were being strange. They just grabbed my hand and forced me into the direction where all the dancers were and practically pushed me onto him. After blushing like crazy, we finally spoke. lol.

Fast forward 10 days later, he asked me to grab dinner as friends on Valentine's Day. Luck/fate/whatever you'd like to call it wanted us to be together. We didn't book a table at any restaurants since we didn't think to, yet we managed to find a table in a restaurant that looks over the whole city. The moon was out and there were candles on the table! It was beyond romantic! The night didn't end with a kiss. It ended with a simple hug, but we hung out the following week and decided to give it a shot.

We have been together for a year and two months now and I honestly am so thankful to have met my soulmate.

I'll update this one day with some wedding and baby pictures for you all! LOL

better catch up, rads already has a junior

Hey everyone! Here is our story:

I first joined Hey-Ai! with the intention of just talking with new people from around the world. I was also interested in the site because it was designed specifically for Asian men to meet non Asian women. I don’t have a preference when it comes to race but I had read on some forums that Asian men were less desirable to women than other men.

One day I came across the profile of one very cute girl. I started to read her profile and noticed that she was shy like me and also played video games. I sent her a short message just to say hello because I was interested in talking with her. She didn’t reply for a couple days but I didn’t mind because I was still new to the site and I was messaging a few other people. I never really had any conversations with anyone else on the site, just a few messages here and there.

On June 3, she replied to my message and we started talking about video games and movies. After a few more messages, she asked if I had Facebook and we both agreed to talk on there because it was faster. Our first conversation on Facebook lasted around 8 hours. That was a first for both of us. We spent the next several days talking on Facebook. We started to learn more about each other and found that we were similar in many ways. I remember thinking that she was the female version of me. I liked her more and more each day. I asked her to be my girlfriend on June 12 and she said yes! ^____^

We started playing lots of video games together like Left 4 Dead 2, Minecraft, Divinity, Torchlight 2, and League of Legends. We first started talking on Skype on June 16. We were both shy at first but after a few more calls on Skype we started to feel more comfortable talking with each other. We even tried a couple “24 hour challenge” Skype calls where we would video chat with each other for as long as possible even while sleeping. One time we Skyped during a 4 day weekend for a total of 58 hours!

Our relationship is long distance since I am in the US and she is in Mexico but we both love and trust each other and we are willing to do anything to make it work. I plan to visit her a lot in the future once I renew my passport.

Today is our 1 month anniversary and we just wanted to share our story with everyone here. By the way, for long distance relationships, Skype and Facebook are really good for keeping in touch. So far we have a total of almost 12,000 messages on Facebook and 215 hours on Skype. It will be a few more months before we can meet in person but we are already in love <3

I love you so much Alejandra <3 ^_^

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(ally909 version)

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I knew the existence of this website because once I was reading a post about asian people and someone mentioned it so I decide to create an account. My intention in the beginning was just talk to people and practice my english.

As days went by I started to receive messages and of course I replied to them. There were a couple of guys who looked to be interested in me and to be honest I wasn’t sure what to expect. But as days went by our talks were less until we just stopped talking to each other.

Because of college I left the site for a couple of months.
When I was more unoccupied and came back to hey-ai I see that there were more messages of people but happened the same as before a few messages and then stop.

One day, I see I had a couple of more messages from users and there was one in particular were a guy kindly introduces himself (it doesn’t mean that other guys were not kind but I don’t know for some reason he attracted my attention). I looked at his profile and the first thing that I checked was the pictures and to be honest I was a little surprised because there was a particular pic and my first thought was “Hmmmm… That’s a little weird” (sorry honey :3), I see also “his about” section and when I read that he liked to play videogames I think that it would be nice to talk about that.
I didn’t expect any answer of him because I just visited the site a couple of times per week but I was wrong he replied. We had a nice talk in the site about video games and we decide to continue our talk in Facebook.

When we were on Facebook knowing each other I started to see that we had a lot of things in common besides video games, I was kind of surprised because I never thought in the possibility of met someone really similar to me. I remember our first talk on Facebook was around 8 hrs.

A couple of days went by and I realized that he was a good person with a great personality so I started to feel more comfortable and also I started to have feelings for him. By that time we called “dear/darling” and we say how lucky we were to find each other.

The past June 12th as we used to we were doing so many questions about us and before we we went to sleep he told me that there was one more question to do… The question of course was “Do you want to be my girlfriend?” and without thinking twice I said “Of course ”. I was shaking, happy, in shock and more… I didn’t expected because as I mentioned before we were doing a lot of questions.
Since that day I couldn’t be happier, I feel so lucky to find just a wonderful man and everyday I’m more in love with him <3.

Today is our 1st month as anniversary and we wanted to share with all of you our story and we decided to write both versions, mine and his .

So it is possible to fall in love with someone and as you might now all depends on how committed and serious you take a long distance relationship. I know that so far 1 month sounds to little but we know that we can do this relationship work .

I love you so much Andrew <3 ^_^

<3 our story <3


So I don't know how to go about writing a blog.. especially on a topic so close to my heart. I would even say that the topic IS my heart. And his name is Isaac. I met him here in late February/early March of 2013. We had an online/long distance relationship for a whopping 3 months. And then just like that... it ended. (Or so I thought.) Those three months were the months that shaped and molded my heart with his. And yes the line is crappy and cliche, but it's true. Because one thing I will say, if you do find your partner online, is that the only way to get to really know them is simply this:
JUST. BY. TALKING.
So many people are convinced that talking is not enough to know a person. And I don't mean about hobbies or your favorite color. I mean finding a person who connects with you on a level which is so deep that it may seem intimidating. You'll know the feeling when it happens, becauase it touches the part of you that no one says much about; your soul. The kind that you don't hear about these days... unless it's from old relatives, (probably your grandparents... I know it was mine.) When Isaac and I started talking, we couldn't stop. It was for hours, everyday. And somehow, one of us would lead the other into a different topic and it never failed to toss us into another blissful conversation. I think it's partially true that opposites attract. I mean, the reason we had so much to say is because we felt different over so many things. And yet, we still felt magnetized to one another. We opened our eyes to a world of different opinions. But our core was the same. And that was, back then, we were both hurt and lost for a multitude of reasons. Just as we all are at some point. Despite different views, we understood one another. And we understood each other's feelings. (Even though sometimes our differences can be confusing, it somehow finds a way to make us better.) It's easy to find someone and laugh and become best friends. It's much harder to find someone in that same way and successfully spend the rest of your life together...
Eventually, I told my parents. I was 18, and he was 27 at that time. Nearly a decade apart. Some of you may raise your brows, and I don't blame you. That's what most people would do. It's what my parents did. It's what my whole family did... And eventually, it tore us apart. He brought it up one night. Thrown into a long message that I knew was goodbye in the first sentence. I remember one line, he eloquently said, "I am like a cheap can of beer, next to an expensive high class bottle of wine. You deserve someone better than me." I never did read his goodbye all the way through. Because it hurt me too much. Some little voice in my head was telling me to let him go; if you love him, let him go.
So I did. And I wept. Throughout the night's entirety. At that time I just moved to Arizona with my mother. Funny how Bella Swan found her love after leaving Phoenix. I lost mine shortly after arriving there. (God they butchered that story. Anyways...) I deleted my Skype, my facebook, hell, I even gave my phone over to my Aunts who took it to a store and had the memory wiped clean. They kept it from me for at least a few weeks before wearily handing it back. I didn't abuse it. I didn't go running back. I convinced myself this was right for the time, no matter how much it hurt. Or how empty I felt. One thing I couldn't shake was the sound of his voice. And how, more than once, he would say things to me as I "slept." Yes I pretended. Yes I told him. And yes he fell for that more than once. June 5th was the day we split. I remember the day we split. I can't remember the day we met. Because to me, every day after we met was just as precious if not more so. But the day we split, there's nothing that can describe how wrong it felt and how much it upset me. He used to talk about taking me places. To the mountains, the lakes, the beautiful rivers. But no... things didn't go as planned. Instead I was in a desert. And my heart felt just as dry. The poetry I wrote was sad and morbid, (as it always is since it serves as my outlet.)
I missed him. And I thought of him everyday.

For two years...

A man who I had this deep connection with for 3 months, I couldn't forget for two years. That's 730 days. I thought of him at least that many times, probably more. Throughout that period of time I moved to Maryland with my mother, brother, and dog. I worked at riteaid, tried another long distance relationship with a Californian, worked at Riteaid, and basically felt miserable. Not just because I didn't have Isaac in my life anymore, but because I was trying to force a relationship to work with the Cali guy that wasn't meant to. I didn't feel a fraction of what I felt for Isaac towards him. And it was neither of our faults. But I always had a stomach knot sensation whenever I woke up. It was basically God saying something is wrong with this. It's not meant to be, it's not right. He was snapping his fingers at me, but it continued for a few months until I listened. The reason? Mainly that he wasn't who I wished he was. The second reason?...

A phone call from my dad, saying I now had the opportunity to fly to Colorado if I wanted, to live with him and make up for the time I didn't have with him when I was younger. I did not jump the gun. I actually took my time in deciding whether or not it would be right to move. But my first thought was of Isaac. Yes. Because he lives here in Colorado. Coincidence? Honestly, we know it was more than that.

So I decided to fly here, after weighing out all the options. Thoughts of him snuck into my mind throughout the long snowy flight. Especially during touchdown. I had gotten tears in my eyes at one point. That was in February of 2015. A couple months goes by. And then the dreams come to me, late at night.

"Have you seen this man?" I walk the streets in my dreams asking strangers and everyone I met where he was, where I could find him. Each dream was similar in that sense. But 9/10 times I never saw him. I was never able to find him. The dream which pushed me over the edge was the one in which I did find him. I walked to his door, he stepped out, I have him a handwritten letter. An apology. His eyes skimmed the lines, then he looked at me and said "It's too late. Don't apologize." I tried to protest but the dream ended. A far cry from a dream I had in Phoenix. One in which it was a birthday/welcome party. And my family was hugging him, and shaking his hand. I remember holding him tightly in that dream. When I woke up, I tried so hard to dream it again. But this... this dream of him pushing me away was a nightmare. If have debates with God. If one can ever debate with God. In the end you know who would win the debate. I would always think or mutter to myself on my walks: "he is probably married by now. He could have a child for all I know, given how long I've been gone." And then I beganto cry at night. Silently. Weeping in my bedroom. Asking for forgivness for dissappearing the way I did, as if I were never there. And then, April 19th, I couldn't stand it. I contacted him through facebook, with shaking fingers. And typed out a long and genuine apology from the heart. Which is how we always spoke to one another. Then I shoved my phone in my pocket....
Two seconds later I checked it. And kept checking it for the next few hours. Then I see his icon bubble on my screen. And I about had a heart attack. I didn't think he'd actually say anything. Surely if he did it couldn't be good.. right?

Wrong.

It wasn't just 'good.' Imagine yourself lying on bed at night and weeping whie praying to God that person finds happiness. And that you didn't mess everything up for them. And that they find love. Even if it's from someone else. Even if you never get to touch them or hold them. Even if you become a fleeting ghost of a memory, and they remain as bright and warm as sunshine in yours... that was how much it tore me apart. His response wasn't "good." It was astoundingly gentle, kind, and yes, it was loving. It had shown compassion, heartache, and nostalgia of the days when we would take that much time to write a message so long. And it evoked emotions in me that can't be put into words. Not in the English language. Probably not in any language. He told me that at first he thought the message I sent him was one of his old ones that he tried sending me long ago after I dissappeared. We always had a similar way of wording ourselves. It didn't register that I just shot back into his life like a bullet. To me it didn't seem real either. For a while I did reactivate my facebook in maryland. When we spoke of this and of what time frame that was in, we both were shocked that very night we happened to be viewing each other's Facebook accounts at the same time. Yet neither of us made a move to speak back then. It had already almost been a year by that point. 1 year without was miserable. 2 was too long.

That following Monday, April 21st, a young handsome man waltzed into the resturaunt where I work, and gave me his number. Still I was thinking of Isaac. On the way to where I was going after work, I was texting the gentleman, yet wondering why the hell I hadn't heard from Isaac For hours that day. Then muttered under my breath "damn exes" and walked along my way. Chuckling. I was so happy to have him in my life again. But something told me, I had a gut feeling, that friendship couldn't be just it for us. That it was a part of a bigger whole, and that neither of us wanted to be with someone else. So...

That night when we talk, I told him that funny little story of me mumbling on my walk.. And he says.. "But we aren't exes now, are we?" It was a statement, not a question. So I didn't think twice before taking the plunge. How could I, when he told me that he had been praying for the right girl to come into his life? Two weeks later I send him a message. I was just grateful to hear from him. I couldn't have imagined that I would actually get to go to the mountains, lakes, and rivers with him like we wanted. Or that I could hold him or touch him. But I can. And here we are just over 8 months. 11 if you include when we dated here. I'm lucky to have you, Isaac. And I thank God for you.

-I love you.

P.S.~ it isn't about whether or not the site works. It depends all on the people that use it. And in what fate has in store for you.

Such a beautiful story
Hope you guys stick together happily ever after.