Disasterous Internet Relationships

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"Horribly, horribly awry" is subjective, I know, but if it made you feel enough like complete and utter crap that you

a. cried more than three times
b. lost an entire period of time to your angst

or

c. cut or dyed your hair in a way which you do not normally do

then it was probably horribly, horribly awry. Even if you didn’t, and you still consider it to have gone horribly, horribly awry, feel free to vote that way.

BTW feel free to share horror stories.

Edit for clarification here: Yeah, I went through this (loathe though I am to admit I was that dumb) and NO this is NOT a reference to Thamogizer, who is a. not someone I met on the net and b. who things are still going well with/who I am still dating.

Last edited by Serissa on 05 Dec 2005, 8:59 pm, edited 2 times in total.

I don't form many actual relationships online (and none of a romantic nature), which is probably for the best.

EDIT: And if you were in a relationship like that Serissa, that sucks and I'm sorry to hear it. One thing I can proudly say about myself is that ever since high school. if someone starts making me feel like crap or seriously disrespects me or takes my friendship for granted, I immediately cut them off and out of my life. No one should have to tolerate second-class behaviour from others. My motto is that its better to have no friends than have bad friends.

I think online dating is a joke. Sure, you can meet nice people, but what's the point in dating if they don't live near you?

I have broken alot of hearts. I have not been interested in any guys i'v emet off the internet even though alot of them were.

I've had a couple internet relationships that fizzled and some crummy first dates. But nothing too horrible.

I've never had an offline relationship, and I've never considered trying online instead. An in-person relationship seems so much more rewarding.

I've gone a date with a girl I met online. The date, believe it or not, was really fun. We went to a Swing dancing lesson, and then got something to eat at a nearby cafe. Unfortunately, it didn't work out. In retrospect, it was more my fault than hers, since I showed too much desperation during the date. Oh well.

I was able to meet one girl online from about 90 miles away who I really clicked with, and she was so far into me...and she was hot, if her pictures were real! Then her sister made up a story about me. That has cleared up but it has been more difficult to contact her than previously. She gave me her phone number and I called it until her father started being an a**hole.

We'll wait and see.

Both my ex and current girlfriend were met online. Ex lasted 8 months. Current going on 3 weeks. Bliss.

Every single time I've met a girl IRL after forming some kind of relationship with them online, it got disastrous. A few of them just stopped talking to me completely after I met them IRL. With others, I still maintained contact with them for a little while, but they made it clear that their impression of me had lowered after meeting me in real life, and a lot of it was clearly my social awkwardness. So I've pretty much given up on online dating because I need to find someone who will fall for my real-life personality. The only time I might consider forming a relationship with someone online is if it's with an aspie.

Hmm, I've met two girls through the singles thread here

The first one fizzled, I made effort after effort to develop some kind of meaningful rapport, but it became clear that there was just not going to be any kind of spark. Eventually I decided "ok, why don't I wait to see HER try to make an effort". A month later, she still hadn't IM'ed me and I decided to drop it.

I've started talking to another girl fairly recently, things were going quite well I thought, and we seem to have a rapport. It got to the point where I looked forward to having the opportunity to IM her and my day didn't really feel complete without that... but she hasn't signed on for about three days now

i think i would like to try one. IRL relationships have never worked out for me. but i thnk most women would want some contact. who knows, if i get into a good r-ship, i might want some too.

Last edited by Neuroman on 08 Jan 2006, 8:16 am, edited 1 time in total.

I'm 22, when I was starting to enter the teenage dating years I was using the internet heavily, daily, as my social outlet.
Since then, exactly three relationships have come about after meeting the guy in person. Every other relationship has been initiated via IM. I've had some brilliant relationships, and some not so great ones that were great at the begining but just went wrong after a few months.
Without the internet, I'm clueless.

If it's the right person, you can still have a very good relationship -- and if things go really well between you, you can plan to move together later on. That's exactly what happened to my RL best friend and his girlfriend -- she's from California but now she's moved in with him here in Leeds. And now the same thing is happening with me and Nortala -- because of our courses of study we're stuck ten thousand miles apart for another year, but after that we want to get together, and if you find the right person they're worth waiting for.

I've had a lot of online relationships to women. But after a while either the distance between us makes me deciede to break it off or the fact that I'm just interested in getting a free hooker gives me cold feet.

I have had several internet relationships that have ended with destruction. Probably more than I can count, actually.

I talk to a LOT of people on messenger, but not as many as I used to. I remember having several different internet girlfriends at once, all of whom were sincerly interested in me.