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Tim_Tex
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24 Sep 2006, 11:36 am

oddfellow wrote:
I ended up marrying someone that I had originally met online.


Congratulations!

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24 Sep 2006, 12:41 pm

Meeting someone online then met her for real is ok !

but i am talking falling in love with somone that you never met before thro the net.



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24 Sep 2006, 1:30 pm

well i suppose it could happen, but i would think there are too many factors that you might not pick up on about someones personality through just chatting online. i mean, they might have terribly unbearable personal habits, or any other number of factors which could affect matters.

i suppose it might depend on whether you ever intended to meet them in real life at all


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24 Sep 2006, 6:29 pm

LePetitPrince wrote:
i am talking falling in love with somone that you never met before thro the net.


Just be friends, or very good friends. Do not allow yourself to fall in love with someone that you do not know properly. And if you have never met them IRL, then you do not know them properly.

Also, if the person lives far away, long-distance relationships are really crap. So that is another reason to just be friends.

Take it slowly. Love formed quickly is usually an infatuation or crush, not real love at all.



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24 Sep 2006, 11:32 pm

I've done it. The only relationship I was ever in was done through the internet--Instant Messaging and what not. And though the romantic relationship crashed to a truly bitter end years and years ago, the two of us remain close online friends. The whole experience really changed my perspective on love, and made me think a lot.



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27 Sep 2006, 11:16 pm

Maybe. Depending on what you call love. Personally I don't even know what it is.

I know that I've developed a fair number of online crushes. But I'm not sure I'd call any of those 'love'. I imagine many of them would turn out to be horrible in real life.


That being said, even when you meet someone in real life, it's uncertain if you can ever really know them. All you hold is an image of them. Which is something that one would form online as well.

Though a lot of the really valuable things relationship wise are the physical varity.



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29 Sep 2006, 3:31 am

My wife and I met online. Lived 1500 miles apart and met pretty much at random. Been together now for going on 9 years, married for 6.



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29 Sep 2006, 5:02 am

My best freind met a girl on a chat site,fell in love with her and visted her in california (over 1,000 miles away from him).


They're getting married next july.


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