Thoughts on online relationships?
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Thread Topic: Thoughts on online relationships?
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Would you ever have an online relationship?
If you have already had one, thoughts on the experience? (Not on the person, just how the whole idea of it worked.)
Do you think it counts as a real relationship? Why/why not?
Yay or nay? Give reasons.
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I'm not too fond of the idea for myself personally, nothing against others who do however. Just curious to hear others thoughts, especially since I think some of you have already tried it before -
funking dumb
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christina_love Newbiehonestly its the worst u can ever do because it ruins who you are and you never know who they are. their real age. anything all you know is you cant trust
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Bad.
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Honestly? I'd say out of the few relationships i've had, around 60-70% of them were online relationships. Hell, the best relationship I ever had was with someone I met online, specifically on GTQ. So if i'm to be completely real here, I prefer online relationships.
Meeting people in real life is nerve racking and I often never have the courage to do it due to my social anxiety and lack of self confidence. But online, the person i'm wishing to interact and potentially date judges me by my personality, not by looks. That's a plus in my book. I feel like some people date solely for how the partner looks and only a little for the personality if at all. It's shallow that way. Online the person, assuming you go out long enough to trust them, sees your appearance afterwards and judges you based on your personality AND THEN your appearance.
On top of that, the social anxiety is less of a problem. You ask someone out online and they reject you? Lol k at least I know now. Someone rejects you in real life?
Wow look at that f---ing loser who just got their ass rejected
f-----, he/she/they is/are out of your league.
The best an internet troll is type words that you can choose to read or simply just block the dickhead.
Ya can't choose to not hear the people around you.
Of course, there still is the problem of people not being who they say they are. But at that point you just have to make sure all the dots align when they say things. Maybe ask for a picture later on in case they might be lying about appearance? There's only so much you can do about that.
The BIGGEST issue about a online relationship is the distance. You can't hug, kiss,bump ugliescuddle, or any of that. You can only dream. And that's when it really hurt me personally, especially since the person I was dating had depression. All I could do was sit around and type and try to make them feel better. I felt so useless because of how little I could actually do. I couldn't take them out to lunch. I couldn't play games with them. I couldn't kiss or even hold their damn hands, no matter how much I wanted to. All I could do is dream about how it would have felt like when we were to meet. But in the end, the lack of feeling, that lack of physical communication was our downfall. But if we could have touched and felt eachother, I honestly believe the relationship would have lasted longer.
All that said however, I still prefer online relationships because of the experiences I got from them and how they introduced me to the love of my life, even if we aren't together anymore.
Hope this answers your question a little if any. -
Thanks for the answers guys!
I'd still love to hear more, if anybody else is willing to take a shot.
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Got more questions, if you're keen to answer
Christina and Jayfeather: Do internet relationships strictly ruin who you are, or is it more suitable to assume relationships in general change a person? And like other relationships, isn't it possible for yourself to heal over time? Granted that, some things may still be different.
Absol: Would you ever say online relationships have the possibility of lasting, without, as you said, being able to touch or take your partner out?
And if not, wouldn't it be more beneficial to take the time to meet somebody irl, who you know you can be there to love and support, rather then placing yourself in a position which is destined for failure over and over again?
Sorry, I'm not trying to attack you guys or anything, just curious for different responses -
I certainly think they do have a possibility of lasting. However, both partners need to be very faithful in each other and willing to wait.
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