A pair of gamers from opposite sides of the Atlantic fell in love when they met through an online “survival horror” video game and spent four years in a long-distance relationship before getting married over video call during the pandemic and finally moving in together.
Lewis Relfe, 22, from Wales, was playing Friday The 13th on Xbox One, a video game based on the popular slasher movie series of the same name, where players must work together to escape a masked killer, when he met Ameila, 30, who was living 3,700 miles away in Saltville, Virginia in the United States and who would become his wife after more than five years of long-distance dating.
The pair, who now live in Talsarn, Ceredigion, hit it off in 2017 after they started chatting online and playing dozens of video games together for several hours a day, with Lewis having to stay up until the early hours because of the five-hour time difference between them.
