How did you meet your partner?

As someone who has never had a partner, I'm just wondering how other people with social anxiety managed to meet their girlfriend/ boyfriend.

What do they think of your social anxiety?

I met my boyfriend on the internet, but not in a chat room. I was surfing websites that interest me and at one of my favorite horror sites they had personals. I just had to check that out, nothing like laughing at wannabe vampires! But after I had read some really funny come to my castle drink my blood ads I found a great ad that was just straightforward and honest, said if you're here we already have something in common, looks not important personality is, with no superficial "must be a skeleton with breasts" type stuff. I never answer those ads but something about his touched me and so I emailed him. He knows I have anxiety issues and also the total of my trauma core history. Everytime I told him something that I thought would put him off he was actually very accepting and caring. A couple months into talking we started exchanging physical characteristics and turns out we're both pretty much what we'd prefer anyway, he like's 'em big I like 'em tall. He's the one! Social Anxiety? Very hard to Feel normal but when you realise there is no normal, and that those standards are set by such a small portion of the population things come into perspective. I have methods I use to deal with things and there are situations I completely avoid, but if a friend of mine makes me feel bad for any of the things I need to do to cope they can take their attitude and shove it. You are your most important asset. Take care of You. Sarah )

school basically, through a few mates.
he thinks im just shy.lol. wont accept the SAD, but accepts im not sociable..lol

I bought myself a Thai Groom....Nah, met my man online in a chat room. Met the last one through school.

how do people with partners cope with meeting their partners friends and family?! you see I have a partner of 4 years who has no idea i have SA, and im finding it really difficult to cope with seeing his family( he has 3 brothers ) I have major panic attacts when I know they are visiting, they think im a real fucking freak, it tears me appart I love my partner so much we have two children aswell!, I think one day im just going to have a major breakdown, afterall SA is a pretty big thing to try and hide! does anyone else have this problem or is it just me?! :? :? :?

I certainly have the same problem. I've avoided my brother's girlfriend's family for years! Goodness knows what they might think of me by now!!

I got my fiance to tell his family about my SP before I met them. He explained it all and they were really nice when I finally did meet them.