Is falling in love with someone online really possible?
Or is some fantasy we make up in our heads to escape reality?
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JakeShade · 61-69, M
yes, and yes.
I have one particularly close and important friend who I met online. We have been close for literally almost 10 years... we even met in person once (in Rome of all places!), avoided all physical intimacy for lots of reasons, but cemented a virtual intimacy with a more physically real one.
I have also indulged in escapist fantasy using online friends. I have one in particular who meets me there quite adeptly. We have been in lust and are in fact pretty good friends too, I can't say we are properly "in love" or ever will be... yet...
The virtual is a very strange and wonderful place. I am, in my own right, a bit of a pioneer. I once printed my business cards with the following title: [i]Ingenue en Virtu, Engineer en Verite[/i]. If anyone got it, they didn't say anything to me about it! I finally dropped it as inside jokes aren't very funny if they are "too inside".
I have one particularly close and important friend who I met online. We have been close for literally almost 10 years... we even met in person once (in Rome of all places!), avoided all physical intimacy for lots of reasons, but cemented a virtual intimacy with a more physically real one.
I have also indulged in escapist fantasy using online friends. I have one in particular who meets me there quite adeptly. We have been in lust and are in fact pretty good friends too, I can't say we are properly "in love" or ever will be... yet...
The virtual is a very strange and wonderful place. I am, in my own right, a bit of a pioneer. I once printed my business cards with the following title: [i]Ingenue en Virtu, Engineer en Verite[/i]. If anyone got it, they didn't say anything to me about it! I finally dropped it as inside jokes aren't very funny if they are "too inside".