I have noticed how the campus chat is never without a post by a girl or boy looking for a gf or bf. I was told most of them aren't really seriously looking for real life relationship -just a virtual one confined only in the PIMD. However, there are those who are serious about finding "the one" from here. Successful romantic relationship that started and developed online are not unheard of in this generation. It happens. It is possible. I know because my almost four-year relationship is a product of this so-called new age dating process. And just last September, I got engaged to the wonderful man I fell in love with while being oceans apart. It didn't happen like the fairytales, though. I have also experienced a lot of disappointments and heartbreaks. And if regular relationships takes a lot of hard work to be successful, this type of relationship takes about 4 times of everything that are essential in any working relationship. I plan to write more about what I have learned from my experience in the hopes that I can save even just one young lady or man from the heartbreak that they are blindly subjecting themselves into. But it'll take several posts...
Congrats! It's a pretty rare thing but it indeed it possible! I just stay clear of relations unless I know the other person is being honest.
That's true too, it's either desperate pervs that post on campus, or eager girls who want to find any kind of relationship to fill in the gap from their real lives
What do I do, if my boyfriend breaks up with me because he feels that I don't come to him enough with my problems?
Some people do come here to seriously find a real life relationship while others may not have intended to at first but find themselves falling for someone. Definitely right about the pervs and insecure girls. Marriane, if you're serious about the question, I may be able to help point things out to you. Not that I'm an expert...
My relationship began online, as well. In January, I met the girl I had only talked to via social networking, text messages, and with phone calls. She is everything she told me (and warned me) that she would be. We just celebrated our 7 month anniversary on Monday. On Valentine's Day, I proposed to her in a restaurant and she said yes. Granted, we've had our problems, just like any other relationship. And we've both wanted out of it at some point. If you ask either of us what it's like now, we'd both say its like we've known one another personally for years. No matter if your relationship is serious, yet completely online, or serious and face-to-face, as long as you know who you're involved with, some of their history, and you love one another, nothing else matters. I am pro dating people in your area and Im equally pro finding your match via the Internet. With the Internet, we have to be a bit more cautious and take extra care in protecting ourselves, just in case. If you think about it, though, you have the same possibility to be involved with a maniac creep psychotic individual if you meet them locally or online.
Thanks, Nicolas! Totally agree! And congratulations! I was supposed to point those things out but you posting here affirms I'm not just a lovesick hopeless romantic