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Internet and the Love

Posted: Mar 16, 2010

Do you think it's really possible to fall in love over the internet and stay that way after meeting?

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Guess anything's possible - but...sm

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People tend to be a different person online than they are in "real life." Falling in love, sight unseen, IMHO is doubtful...but hey, like I said, anything's possible :)

My ex-husband - Crazy

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met someone online while we were still married. Long story short - he "dated" her the last 2 years we were married (married 7 years). We got divorced. He married her. They had a kid and got divorced. Then they remarried. They've probably been married for about 10+ years now.

So in answer to your question - yes, it's possible.

Absolutely it is possible because there are those rare instances (sm) - anon

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where both people are being completely honest about who they are, etc. I am a great example. I met a man from the UK online over 10 years ago, he came to the US a year after we first started chatting and it has been an amazing whirlwind with him ever since. I never thought that I could love someone so much and while I never believed in "soul mates" before, I absolutely do now. We have been married for 8 years and every day is just like the first day that we met, amazing. :)

Maybe - Stalked, lol!

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I stopped for gas one day and had a brief chat with the guy manning the register.

A few days later I got a friend request on MySpace from him after he had sorted through all the single women in my city with the same first name until he found me. We got together for drinks a couple of weeks later.

That was 3 years ago. I married him last Halloween.

Not sure if this qualifies as "internet" romance because we actually met in person first and didn't communicate much over MySpace, but the internet definitely made it possible for him to locate me to ask me out.

I thank him for stalkerishly hunting me down on MySpace all the time...He's the best thing that's ever happened to me.

I did. - In Love

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Met my current boyfriend 2 years ago on the internet. Being through a terrible divorce and being isolated in my job, I found the internet an easy way to meet people without having to disclose too much right off the bat. We chatted and emailed and stuff for a while before we actually met in person.

We've been together ever since and recently moved in together. It gets better every day! I honestly couldn't imagine my life without him in it.

Internet relationships - Euro sepsis

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I absolutely think it is possible since it happened to me, although it takes 2 people with the same goals, personalities, etc.

I met my fiancee on line 11 years ago in a chat room. It started out just joking around and talking about our kids. We moved on to emails for about 6 months and then started calling each other once it a week, which gradually turned into just about every day. He truly became my best friend.

He was in college at the time (at age 45) and I told him that if he graduated with honors I would fly out to meet him (I lived in New Orleans and he was in Salt Lake). A year later he graduated with a 4.0 so I flew out to meet him. Everything was exactly the same in person as it had been on-line. Luckily we were both very honest and up front (something you have to be careful about). He even offered to send me a certified copy of his driver's license to prove he was who he said he was.

After that once a year we would visit each other for a week and every now and then would go on long weekend vacations together.

After Hurricane Katrina I lost everything (my house, my job, everything). He was moving from Utah to be closer to his daughter so he asked me to stay with him a month here to see how things went. My kids were both going off to college and moving out so I picked up everything and we have been living with each other ever since and we are now engaged. I was in a horrible marriage for 25 years so I can honestly say I have never been happier in my whole life.

Again, it absolutely can be done but you have to be very, very careful. You can't help loving someone you meet on line, but I would advise against falling in love until you have an established relationship and have extensively met and found out about each other. Look for a friend first and see how things go. It's too easy to lose your heart on here. There are too many fakes and dangerous people out there.

First and foremost I found my very best friend who happened to turn out to be the love of my life. If he hadn't, I still would be happy and treasure his friendship forever. Like I said, we met 11 years ago so we have been through a lot with each other and have had plenty of time to prove ourselves to each other. Taking your time is probably the best advice I could give, although waiting 7 years to commit might be a bit much (lol. My kids were little at the time and I was too scared to include them in anything that could be dangerous (you never know).

I find it hard to swallow though it would be a good - sm -

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to "meet" someone and get to know them. They could be "great on paper" but stink upon meeting. Not everyone is honest on the internet. I think when people "fall in love" over the internet it is more love of an ideal (or infatuation or lust), not the person so much. You can obviously love how they present themself via email, IM chats, etc, but reality may not nuture that feeling of love to full blossom so to speak. I am just skeptical of it obviously. I am a visual person though and need to meet someone first to feel that spark/click, I don't think the internet even with pictures could induce me to ever fall in love on line if I was ever in the position to try it.

Of course! - LK

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Is meeting in a bar better? Even face-to-face, people can be deceptive. My 20-year-old daughter met her Scottish boyfriend on line 3 years ago, when both were 17. He comes here to visit every year and she goes there to visit each year. He is an absolutely wonderful, kind, hard-working young man, and if the two decide to marry, I will be thrilled to have him as a son-in-law. He meets my approval much more than some of the boyfriends my younger daughter met in high school.

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