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ORIGINAL: Alienmindsinc

Also recently, yahoo deleted his profiles/emails, etc. He called me and asked me to give him a gmail account, so I did. Now he is completely missing, no communications or anything in the last week or so. My question is how long I should put up with him missing training sessions and not emailing/calling me back before I shelf him and move on. Previously, he's been prompt and responsive for the 2 months I've been "training" him online, but since yahoo killed his accounts, I can't get ahold of him.

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ORIGINAL: cellogrrlMK

My question is essentially What's the point???? Being one who does not understand what fulfillment folks can get out of an online only relationship I'd like to hear people's viewpoints.

Long distance relationships are hard enough, but a long distance online only relationship? <sigh> Please tell me what I'm missing.

cello

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ORIGINAL: Gauge


Well, I have had one serious long distance relationship over the Internet. At first it was online only and we both knew that it might never get to be more than that due to obligations we had where we lived. It was frustrating to the point where I began to curse the miles between us. We fell in love, I couldn't help it, it happened. Our relationship was unlike any other I have ever had. This went on for about two years. The day came where she surprised me and said that she was going to hop on a plane and fly out to see me. I was an ecstatic, nervous, jittery, bumbling fool until the time that I laid my eyes on her for the first time in real life. She stayed for a little over a week. I was so happy, she was everything I had hoped for. She went home and at the airport the one security guy pulled us aside and said with tears in his eyes that our good-bye to each other was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. One month later I lost contact with her. I tried calling and writing emails to no avail. Sadly one night my phone rang and it was a lady that I didn't know but she said that she was a friend of this woman and that she regretted to inform me that a few weeks earlier my love had a seizure in her sleep and died.

Well, a sad story but you asked what the purpose of a long distance relationship was. Sometimes they start out being only online relationships, but can bloom into much, much more. I hope and pray that no one ever has to experience the pain I went through, but I do hope that others may find the same joy and love that I did. It can happen.

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A sweet but sad story Gauge, I'm sorry for your loss. I guess my question had more to do with people who say they have a slave or who say they are slaves to people they most likely will NOT meet, or who have no intentions of meeting, just keeping it strictly online.

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ORIGINAL: stormsfate

<giggling> I have done that when Master has been logged in a couple of times. He logs out of his account on the other side, and doesn't even post to the boards (very rarely at least), but for some reason, it leaves him logged in on this side.

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ORIGINAL: Gauge

Thank you for your sentiment.

When you put it that way, I guess it could come down to someone wanting to explore that side of themselves without the commitment that real life would bring. Perhaps it is a training thing where they want to be taught to be a better Dom or slave/sub. Whatever the reasons Dominating or submitting to someone over the Internet is kind of like masturbation, it might feel great but there is no substitute for the real thing.

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My question is essentially What's the point???? Being one who does not understand what fulfillment folks can get out of an online only relationship I'd like to hear people's viewpoints.