Yes I did. I actually met her here on The Escapist, tomorrow it's been a year ago since she send me that first PM.
Leaving out the details, a few days after that message she added me on MSN (because she wasn't a very active member, not even sure she visits the forums nowadays) and we've been talking ever since, talking talking talking and talking some more. We got to know each other better and better, and after...gee I can't really remember, a few weeks, maybe a month or 2 I just confessed what I knew for a while already: I had fallen in love with her, I loved her to bits. She could (and can) pretty much read my mind, understand me and we just fit so well together; hobby and interests-wise, personality-wise, view-on-the-world-wise, pretty much everything. And I love our differences just as much, I can learn so much from her.
At first she responded in kind, but quickly after also confessed that she didn't want to go any further just yet; we'd never met before and she had bad experiences before with online relationships. It wasn't that she didn't like me, and she very much kept the possibility open for more but not online like that. It was painful, but I understood and agreed with her.
And we've been going strong ever since, getting to know each other even better, talking even more and occasionally gaming together on the PS3 (MW2 at first but after we both started to hate that Bad Company 2) and just having as good as a time together as possible in this situation. We're pretty much bordering on a relationship, technically being friends, technically not committed to each other but at least I know I'll never meet someone even remotely like her again. I have good hope that when we will finally meet (if I can gather the balls to do so) more will happen, but I do know that the possibility is there that it won't be anything more, it's just that I feel that she's the one for me but I could of course be wrong about that.
The only thing that really troubles me at the moment is that we've known each other for so long now and yet I've never actually spoken with her before. Sure we both got pictures of each other, but only I have shown my face on a webcam and talked to her. I'd really like to have an actual, 'real' conversation with her, but somehow she doesn't care about it so much. I'm not asking for it any more, I'd like her to consent on such a thing out of her own, not just because I want it. Not sure what to think about that though.
So TL;DR: fallen in love? Yes. An actual relationship? No.
She's her own person, there comes a time when you have to stand up for yourself and do things your way, instead of letting others make decisions for you.
