Welcome to the "Met While Incarcerated" forum. Our goal is to provide those who met their significant other or platonic friend during his/her incarceration with a forum that offers insight about these relationships/friendships and interaction with those involved.

Among PTO's diverse membership we have many people who met their loved one/friend during his/her incarceration including those who met while working in prisons and hospitals, through penpal ads, community work, while visiting others, etc. Some received requests from incarcerated family members or friends to write to someone where a relationship later evolved, others still met before but did not develop a relationship until incarceration had occurred.

Relationships that begin while one partner is incarcerated have complications and intricacies that are magnified by the situation. Issues of trust and distance tend to be heightened due to the circumstances of incarceration not to mention the baggage each carries into any relationship. There are no shared memories of before he/she was incarcerated which can be both a burden and a blessing. Often,there are issues with both parties families to be worked out and in many cases the decision of where one can parole to and how to work out the homecoming process when that time comes as well. The couple often deal with the disapproval of family/friends/employers/landlords, etc. For these reasons and many others this forum is a vital and viable resource for the members of PTO.

Your participation is both welcome and encouraged and I hope that you will find this forum to be a refuge in good times and bad.

All the best,
Patty

Great new forum! I am looking forward to seeing this forum prosper!

GREAT forum! I love it!

I love this new forum! I met my bf threw his grandmother her and my mom are friends.

Fantastic idea Patty :) Smiled when i read about 'distance' hey - you think YOU got problems :D x x x

Love the new forum! Great idea.

:)
Heather

Congratulations on the new Forum- I am sure this will be a great help to a lot of PTO members:)!

Yipee our own forum, We have arrived.

Excellent!!!!!

Love The New Forum Idea!!:)

Fantastic :)

Congrats on the new forum!! I am so glad its here!!!

Rob and I met while I worked at the Regional Jail, and I quit to be with him!! :)
We are to be married this year we are hoping!!:)

great idea this new forum!!!!

This Forum is a great idea!!!!

This is great, Patty. Thanks a million.

Rose

:thumbsup: WOOOOO HOOOOO!! I'm glad to see Patty's hard work come to reality! I'm proud to be a member of Patty's team and looking forward to our future!

This is a great forum! It feels very comfortable, and a place we can discuss things unique to our position of having met our partners while they were locked up!!

Wonderful forum! Look forward to see it grow. Good job!

The way I see it, this is one of the things that makes PTO so fantastic. It has something for everyone. No matter what you are looking for, PTO is the premier site on the internet.

I am proud to be a part of Patty's team and by the looks of it this is going to be a popular forum.

I certainly do belong here and I look forward to meeting each of you.

:yay: :yay: This is an awesome forum idea. I have known my sweetie since 2nd grade, but we didn't form a relationship until after he was incarcerated! :yay: :thumbsup:

great forum

Well it is about time, LOL just kidding, but I am happy to see we have our own place now!!!

this is so great

::: claps and cheers ::: Love this forum and look forward to meeting everyone too !!!

Marvelous forum. Just what I needed. Thanks!

I know I'm excited! We need our own Forum, don't we? There are so many of us.

I met my baby while incarcerated. We started out as pen pals. I also have two other pen pals that I met while incarcerated.

Thank God for a space for the ones that did meet while still behind the bars..
I love it!!!!!
Thank you !!!!

Blessing
Tina

Now someone please help me change this screen name!!!!

Ditto what everyone else has said. I met my husband through a penpal site and had the advantage of becoming best friends over a two and a half year stretch before we got married. Let's see, we have been married...uh....

14 DAYS!!! :rock: :rock: :love: :love: :drool: :drool:

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

A great forum!! :yay: :dance: :yay: As pleased as punch over here!!

This forum "Met While Incarcerated" convinced me to become an official PTO member...Thanks, Patty.:)

Thanks honey you just made my day!!! Welcome to PTO, we're happy to have you with us.

Patty

THIS IS A GOOD FORUM...I MET MY BOYFRIEND THOUGH MY BROTHER THEY WERE LOCKED UP TOGETHER AT ONE TIME...CAN'T WAIT TO SEE HOW GOOD THIS FORUM GETS...

Love The New Forum!

Great Forum!

Wow a forum just for us.. Hi everyone

Hey Tias, good to see you here! This is a really fun forum... :D

I Love This Fourm! I belong.....:D

i'm very glad that this forum is here. meeting someone while they are incarcarated is a very different kind of experience. its nice to know that i'm not alone in this long, strange trip i'm on.

Awesome :idea: Patty:rock:...:beer: OUR OWN FORUM:thumbsup: Ahh :yes: :yes:....I feel right at HOME!!! :grouphug: :wave:
Everyone :) I feel good!(James Brown playing int the background) :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:

6 more months til the :cuffs: come off:D

Thanks so much for this forum!!!! I thought I was alone in the world, but now I know there are others like me. I really like what you said Ms. keepin it real moderator!!! thats some real shit!!!!

Thank you for the Forum idea Patty... Finally a place where I can find ppl who share a similar experience as an MWI...:D

Thanks Patti, Love the forum!