I'm currently talking/skyping with someone deployed.  He's been gone since March and won't return home for good until Oct-Dec.  We've been talking now for approximately 6 weeks, and we've talked almost everyday.  When we do, most of the time we're able to see each other through skype, and it's common for us to talk at least an hour and much more.  We're really looking forward to meeting in person when he comes home on leave in approximatley 2 weeks.  He's actually asked me to pick him up, and then to go to his mom's with him when he surprises her.  I'm very excited and honored that he likes me enough to want me to pick him up.  We've spoken briefly concerning the "dating" subject.  We've decided to just see how it all goes when he's home.  I guess I'm wondering if it's a good, bad, or indifferent on whether we should enter a relationship while he's deployed.  I'm thinking more out of concern for him. I'm curious on what others would do.  I really do like him, and pretty sure that he likes me just as much.

May I ask how you met?

Waiting to see what happens is a good thing to do, rushing into something can work sometimes but not others. Especially if you haven't really seen each other face to face. I am not doubting that relationship at all because I went through it myself so I understand it is possible (from the time we met until we were married over 16 months, we spent maybe 25/26 days together, all the rest was through phone calls and letters as email/skype weren't possible then). Picking him up and driving him to his mom's house might be a good option because then you could see how it would work and if there is that magically connection then you will both know it.

Thank you.  We met on an online dating site.  I had been prior in a 7 year relationship, and just decided this summer that I was ready to see what's out there for me.  It's been 1.5 yrs since my relationship.  I didn't want to jump into dating because I didn't want to hurt someone due to rebound, and wanted to really figure out what I want.  I was just about to cancel my profile on the dating site just because I didn't want to pay anymore, and he sent me a message.  We started talking, and so I decided to keep it one more month so we could see where it went.  We ended up skyping, so we didn't use the site much anymore. 

I would be cautious, in my experience dating sites are usually a recipe for disaster..are you positive he is no longer speaking with any one else on the site?
I met my husband on a dating site, we met and married...almost 4 years later, dispite loving him with all I have, we are divorcing because I kept finding him on those same kind of sites. Not saying that that always happens but I know a lot woman who have found there husbands on sites such as these...the attention they receive online often seems to hard for them to resist.