How do we manage internet relationships?
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Sounds like you want to hurt. Unless you have no doubt--forget him politely if he lives too far away.
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I happen to agree with cuteiepie. Keep it alive by phone, emails, snail mail...keep all communication channels open. If you have serious intentions for the future with that person, it is most important to physically spend time with each other at least once or twice a year. I think long distance relationships only work for so long. At one point or another you have to make it a "no distance" relationship. Good luck!!
830309
As in anything, use caution. If you are easily talked into something, and from what you have said you do not seem to be that way, then internet can be very dangerous to young inexperienced people.\n\nTo say that the internet is totally dangerous I cannot agree with that. I have personally met some very nice people on the net. I have talked to them extensively for months before thinking about meeting them. In fact I met my wife on the internet, and I am not the only one to do so. We have been happily married and together for over 7 years. (we are both retired)\n\nThe best advice I can give is to be very very cautious and level headed about those you talk to on the net and never just jump at what might look like a good strawberry shortcake there can be some bad strawberries in the mix.
679978
With so much going on on the Internet now days it's hard not to form strong bonds with people you've met or even only known on line. Meeting people on line is interesting. There are some that see the Internet as a media to be whomever they've always wanted to be. Others use the Internet to truly be themselves, either way talking to people on line seems to be without the barriers that you find in the real world..which understandably leads to strong feelings at times. Unfortunately I've found that heartbreak on line is just as common if not more so than heartbreak in the real world.
527052
Get out, make your experiences, meet real people. Love is about success and failure. It's not something you order on the web. Confront yourself to reality, you'll learn a lot more, even if sometimes thru pain.\nLove and kisses
1175598
I personally do think it works at the moment I'm in a relationship which started over the Internet, although i have not met him yet, we have such a connection and i really love him. we have been going out around 7months now and its been 7 of the best months of my life.
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It seriously depends on what are you doing online, who's with you and what internet filters you have.\n\nOnline chat and emails can be problems though.
790051
I always thought the same kind of people used them, until one day I got curious.  I met the most amazing person online and now we live together, very happily, I might add!  You just have to be REALLY careful about who you give your personal info to, and how much of it to share until you know the other person is OK.  Use good judgement, that's all.
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There are still plenty of people who meet the traditional way.  It's just that for some of us, the net gives us a bigger pool to choose from.  If you search 2 continents, you have a better chance of finding someone who has many interests in common with you than if you search one city.  It's up to the user to exercise common sense and judgment in getting together with people they meet through the internet.
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You still have e-mail,telephones and the postal service.\nEven if you can't be as close to the person you like as you want to be,you can try to keep his friendship by staying in communication. It's always good to have friends and maybe the situation will change in the future.
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if you feel confortable, get each others phone numbers. \nYou can talk to him and see what he is really about. \nI personally met my boyfriend of so far 2 years online, we talked online for 2 months, and things have been going perfectly by now. \nIf you decide to meet him, make sure you know enought of him and feel comfortable. Bring a friend along for safety
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i throw back this question to you:\nHow did you make your friends? Through talking right?\nPeople chat in the internet so as to make more friends and be able to have someone to talk to when we are at cyberspace
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I do not.\n\nInteracting with "people" on the web is strangely compelling to most of us. We are usually at work or in a room, basically alone, at home or a cafe. We look at a screen and type.....read a response.....and perceive a relationship developing. It may be a banking relationship or an instructional relationship, a buying /selling/ questioning/ answering relationship. We may have cyber-friends and/or cyber-enemies. Our perception is one of a group (or couple) engagement of ideas and dialog.\n\nWeb-sites are commonly filled with declarative statements, rhetorical questions and "sticky" links and crude Q&A response threads. When you plug yourself into a more "human" question and answer session with a "live" human individual you begin to feel like the screen and keyboard in front of you "comes alive".....almost like a telephone call. With the advent of one and two-way video feeds the web has finally created the "ambiance"  of a real meeting of two or more people. You may still be alone in a room but your mind begins to "lean" towards believeng you are sharing a "moment" with another person.\n\nAs mentioned.....buying a car or doing your banking  or getting/giving advice to a client or a friend is made easier and more convenient by using this technology. However, it will never replace intimacy. And many types of relationships require a truly intimate experience.....not only a sexual relationship.....but a truly healing relationship requires intimacy. Compassion requires intimacy. Reassurance requires intimacy. Real friendship requires intimacy. The web will never be able to replace holding someone's hand in a time of need or a time of reassurance or a time of congratulations.\n\nBut we short-cut that true intimacy and many times settle for something APPROXIMATING intimacy with our love-life. We all have FLIRTED on the internet at some time. It's fun and basically harmless. I love to try to answer questins and imponderables while bettering my typing skills and self-editing abilities. We all do something that is fun while using the web to be our buddy/tutor/ soapbox/journal or scrapbook.\n\nSex..........as we have allowed ourselves to view/experience it.....has become a daily cat-and-mouse game for many pepole. Some of us have forgotten what makes sex so wonderful and ALIVE so we become so jaded and "mechanical" that we surrender the most intimate part of ourselves to be corrupted by a typed word and/or a pretty picture.\n\nThe Defence Department created the internet.......the sex industry and the people who pay into it have FUNDED 90% of its growth and develpopement costs!!!!!\n\nLet's enjoy the fruits of what pornography has built (this cyber-infrastructure).... but let's also resist becoming a slave/zombie to it. The REAL people in your life are an arm's length away. \n\nTOUCH THEM.
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i think you know yourself what is going on\n\nconfront him with the facts before he can delete it all\n\nthe internet is now the biggest cause of relationship breakups
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When your friends are online
630019
brilliant....absolutley....marvelous  darling.....\n\nYou need to make babies.......make them Internet lovers.\n\n\n\nGeezzzzzzzzzzzz.
26882
I was married to a german national. we had a long distance relationship before we got married. but (and this is the key thing), because you cant interact in person with someone in a long distance relationship, you lose the inflections of the conversation and the body language and all the other small things that complete a persons definition. because i couldnt see that with this person, she got her citizenship and then blew town. Divorced me and left me with an empty bag. Im better off now, and am better off without her, but the point is that without the personal interaction and receptives of being in person, the relationship is doomed. be it 6000 miles like mine, or 6 miles. if you dont see the person regularly, you will never really know them. The same applies tenfold for internet relationships. The internet is now in its early teens and I have never once seen an online relationship that ever worked. Nuff said.