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Online dating... is it a real relationship?
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slacker2114
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I vote no as well.
LD_Tickler
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I mean, I'm sure an online relationship can generate real emotional support and connection.
But I think everything it offers is less than can be generated in real life, and that it misses a lot. So no.
But I think everything it offers is less than can be generated in real life, and that it misses a lot. So no.
milagros317
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No. Online should not be confused with the real world.
Mephistopheles
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Without any face to face contact, no.
But if you meet someone online and after that start banging, I'd say yes.
But if you meet someone online and after that start banging, I'd say yes.
Does online dating miss something, yes does online dating give you the physical things you need, no.
Can online dating effect your real life relationships, yes. It is real it does have reprucussions and can hurt other relationships.
There is a fine line and many people cross it thinking that online relationships do not count. I feel it extremely wrong of someone to cheat yes I said cheat with an online affair.
Can online dating effect your real life relationships, yes. It is real it does have reprucussions and can hurt other relationships.
There is a fine line and many people cross it thinking that online relationships do not count. I feel it extremely wrong of someone to cheat yes I said cheat with an online affair.
Just to be on the other side, i´ll say yes!
It can be a relationship. Altough it´s certainly a difficult one and of course it only becomes a real relationship if you ever end up face to face and bring it somehow to the real world.
I lived a kind of on line relationship almost 10 years ago. It started quite casually, none of us ever intended to become in love with each other. But with time, we got completely in love and to a point which i see today was not even sane. teenagers!!!!!!! she was 17 and i 19 🙂
All in all we were only together once in our life, for 22 days we lived in the same house, sometimes sharing the same bed...so you can discuss if we had a real relationship or not. It´s arguable when our "on line relationship" started and when it ended so i cant say how long it lasted. But i´m quite sure almost a year of true love with just 22 days that we did share live.
To this day it still remains the strongest bond i ever had with someone. And almost 10 years past, we still keep in touch and she´s always asking for my girlfriends in spite of being married and having a kid.
So....what do you think Annie? what would you say...did we have a true relationship?
It can be a relationship. Altough it´s certainly a difficult one and of course it only becomes a real relationship if you ever end up face to face and bring it somehow to the real world.
I lived a kind of on line relationship almost 10 years ago. It started quite casually, none of us ever intended to become in love with each other. But with time, we got completely in love and to a point which i see today was not even sane. teenagers!!!!!!! she was 17 and i 19 🙂
All in all we were only together once in our life, for 22 days we lived in the same house, sometimes sharing the same bed...so you can discuss if we had a real relationship or not. It´s arguable when our "on line relationship" started and when it ended so i cant say how long it lasted. But i´m quite sure almost a year of true love with just 22 days that we did share live.
To this day it still remains the strongest bond i ever had with someone. And almost 10 years past, we still keep in touch and she´s always asking for my girlfriends in spite of being married and having a kid.
So....what do you think Annie? what would you say...did we have a true relationship?
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Then you have a wrong yes in your poll...sorry 🙂
I so obviously agree with you Annie that i couldnt even think on the other option.
Altough...if i have to remember my relationship, we were in love before meeting each other. But i know it was a different level. Actually when we really got together there was more or less a few hours to adjust and kind of a weirdness feeling. I take it that both of us were sound minded people and we were hit by what we were really doing there together. True that we solved this quickly and on the second day both of us were happy to call the other has boyfriend/girlfriend....still there was a clash when reality came finally into play.
So i stand by your side.
The unavoidable chemistry we will only know of it once we hold the other person in our harms.
Then you have a wrong yes in your poll...sorry 🙂
I so obviously agree with you Annie that i couldnt even think on the other option.
Altough...if i have to remember my relationship, we were in love before meeting each other. But i know it was a different level. Actually when we really got together there was more or less a few hours to adjust and kind of a weirdness feeling. I take it that both of us were sound minded people and we were hit by what we were really doing there together. True that we solved this quickly and on the second day both of us were happy to call the other has boyfriend/girlfriend....still there was a clash when reality came finally into play.
So i stand by your side.
The unavoidable chemistry we will only know of it once we hold the other person in our harms.
I certainly beg to differ with all the 'no's but I guess we need to define what counts as an online relationship.
My boyfriend and I met online two years ago. We were friends for a good eight months and we visited every so often. When we decided to date, we were living across the country. I decided that I wanted to make it work and I was in a very in between stage in my life, so I decided to put some funds together and move to where I live now. I would come out and see him for a week every six weeks. After six months of that, we moved in together.
Under normal circumstances, I would understand people saying, "Holy crap, that's a terrible idea" but we've been living together for a year and it's the best relationship I've ever been in. We have our problems, but I had far more problems than guys I had dated "in real life."
Now if you're talking about relationships that are strictly online and never have face-to-face contact, they can only go so far and are generally doomed to fail. Truthfully, my boyfriend and I probably would have too if we didn't make some changes and sacrifices. But to say to someone who has legitimate feelings for someone else, regardless of the locale, that their relationship isn't real, sorry, tough on ya? That's a bit cold and inconsiderate to me.
All relationships have value and meaning, and you can't define them without being in them. Do they all work? No, of course not, and people who have online relationships have the absolute toughest jobs. I don't see them working in the end until the distance has been closed, because that's human nature, but it's still a relationship -- you're still relating to someone else.
Sorry if this came off insulting, but that's just how I see it.
My boyfriend and I met online two years ago. We were friends for a good eight months and we visited every so often. When we decided to date, we were living across the country. I decided that I wanted to make it work and I was in a very in between stage in my life, so I decided to put some funds together and move to where I live now. I would come out and see him for a week every six weeks. After six months of that, we moved in together.
Under normal circumstances, I would understand people saying, "Holy crap, that's a terrible idea" but we've been living together for a year and it's the best relationship I've ever been in. We have our problems, but I had far more problems than guys I had dated "in real life."
Now if you're talking about relationships that are strictly online and never have face-to-face contact, they can only go so far and are generally doomed to fail. Truthfully, my boyfriend and I probably would have too if we didn't make some changes and sacrifices. But to say to someone who has legitimate feelings for someone else, regardless of the locale, that their relationship isn't real, sorry, tough on ya? That's a bit cold and inconsiderate to me.
All relationships have value and meaning, and you can't define them without being in them. Do they all work? No, of course not, and people who have online relationships have the absolute toughest jobs. I don't see them working in the end until the distance has been closed, because that's human nature, but it's still a relationship -- you're still relating to someone else.
Sorry if this came off insulting, but that's just how I see it.
ive said no, it *is* a real relationship but its a real online relationship... which is all it really counts for unless you meet and escalate it into something more...or find that you dont get on afterall... which is why it only counts for what it is.. if you want it to be a real personal relationship then you need to know if you get on on a personal/intimate level
Agreed.
