souvenir
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Online relationships that start online are fine, I have no issue with that and they have every opportunity to become real. It's the part before you've involved all your senses, including touch and sharing the same actual physical space, sharing real life experiences where you don't want to get carried away. Yet! I have met a handful of people that started from relationships online - one turned into me moving quite a distance. Relationships can start online, and grow and progress into something real. Absolutely they can. I have some experience with this - meeting people that you think you know really well for the first time, anyway. I try to meet and share the same physical space at least once. I like to make it real.
Sometimes you never meet them and there are never any plans to meet. It's the ones that stay online and never progress or plan to progress into reality I'm comparing to a film. The emotions are real and what you feel isn't fake, but there is still so much you don't know. You're indulging your fantasies with just what the person is presenting you just like a film and it won't go any further than that, until you do go further than that. Not going further than that is fine too I think as long everyone understands what they are experiencing and not kidding themselves. Also, I really want to stress that you not waste too much time on the romantic ones that you could be using to find a genuine authentic connection with someone real - which may or may not start online. I think that is my point, the most. Time starts to move fast. You get attached and fantasy a lot of the time cannot hold a candle to reality, and it's hard to let go. That is all.
I'm not saying that online only relationships are a bad or dangerous thing to experience. They're different. They can still be very special.
I am in no way saying that my online friendships aren't real or the people aren't real. I love my friends, and I plan to see the special ones I haven't met yet, obviously trying to make that work with some people now. No rush though. I'm at peace with that, knowing life will clear a path for that to happen someday. xx
Sometimes you never meet them and there are never any plans to meet. It's the ones that stay online and never progress or plan to progress into reality I'm comparing to a film. The emotions are real and what you feel isn't fake, but there is still so much you don't know. You're indulging your fantasies with just what the person is presenting you just like a film and it won't go any further than that, until you do go further than that. Not going further than that is fine too I think as long everyone understands what they are experiencing and not kidding themselves. Also, I really want to stress that you not waste too much time on the romantic ones that you could be using to find a genuine authentic connection with someone real - which may or may not start online. I think that is my point, the most. Time starts to move fast. You get attached and fantasy a lot of the time cannot hold a candle to reality, and it's hard to let go. That is all.
I'm not saying that online only relationships are a bad or dangerous thing to experience. They're different. They can still be very special.
I am in no way saying that my online friendships aren't real or the people aren't real. I love my friends, and I plan to see the special ones I haven't met yet, obviously trying to make that work with some people now. No rush though. I'm at peace with that, knowing life will clear a path for that to happen someday. xx