I have loved fictional characters more than any woman

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It's quite interesting. Yes, to give me some perspective I've been in love with a woman, my ex-girlfriend.

I just started thinking how much emotional attachment I've ever felt between certain characters and inviduals in my life. This didn't really shock me, but I came to the conclusion that my strongest feelings have always been towards characters not from this world. They're usually from books or cartoons. I've even felt stronger love (and still feel) towards a fictional character than my girlfriend who I really did care for.

Some would consider this weird, but it doesn't seem like so to me. It might look one-sided, but by following the story of the characters we're communicating with them inside our heads, in this alternative reality. We've been alot with the characters and in a way it feels very natural.

Any other similar experiences?
How do you cope or handle the aspect that the target of your emotions is not physically here?
What do you feel when the story this character is included in reaches its last part and ends?

well, although I don't agree with this, my psych thinks I love my idea of people much more than the people themselves... like, I have a false image of them and it's the image that I love, not the actual living people...

I don't know, I try not to think about it much. but it is a thought. you might be doing something similar here, no?

I was actually considering how I don't really love the people in real life. I create mental images about them that I love. In this thread I mainly tried to keep it as a straight-forward down-to-earth love and loving a fictional character, but that is an interesting subject too. I can totally sign your psych's comment when it comes to my personal sel.

I cannot say that I've felt more affection for a character than for my current girlfriend, but it has certainly happened in the past. It's not my fault that many characters have more to recommend them than many real people do.

I suppose we all hold affection, or whatever feeling, for our mental images of others. That's all we really ever can know of them. To be sure, some images of a person might be more or less pertinent than others. It soon becomes too philosophical.

I have done this in the past. There was a fictional character who my infatuation with was widely known. My boyfriend of the time asked me if the character were real, who would I chose? The boyfriend or the character? Without hesitation I responded the character.

I ended up choosing my current husband over the character, though.

I had a really big thing going for Tinker-Bell that lasted for years so I don't find this to unusual at all. In fact I'd say it's actually really normal.

I know how you feel, because my only friends are fictional characters. I'm happy this way, because real world relationships are too stressful for me to maintain. Romantically speaking, I find fictional men to be much more attractive than real world men, both in terms of appearance and personality.

No, don't see how you can " love" someone/ something that isn't even real, and if you do, I see it as false/ fake emotions/ attatchment

The reality of it all is in the mind of the beholder so who can say what is real or unreal.

well, look at the benefits; you get an ideal partner, any problems written into the character will be eliminated through character development, you can supply the dialog to fit your fantasies, and best of all, if you mess up, you can just flip back a few pages and start again.

Reality is so much messier, and much less predictable...

Exactly.

Reality is what one is experiencing subjectively.

People think they know what is real, but they don't = )

LSD and other psychedelics back up this notion.