For people in long distance relationships do the bond get stronger when you finally meet your online lover in person?

Yes, but then it went off the rails soon after.

It either gets weaker since you only know how to be together online or stronger since all the pent up romance and passion you couldn't fully express physically can finally come out.

This year was the first time I met my online lover in person. In a way it did.

I'll never know.

It did for me.