OrlandoMars
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Joined: 7/7/2005 Status: offline
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Here's the thing about online relationships in my experience - depending on the value you put on the relationship they can be way more work then a rt relationship. Any relationship tends towards chaos if its left unattended to, btu with rt relationships, you have body language and human contact to counteract that. That context is lacking with online so you have to work hard to compensate (think about how many times you have seen an email or a post in uppercase and thought, why is that person shouting?). Now while cams, phone, IM etc can help, it is difficult to compensate for the lack of human contact that we take so much for granted. That is not to say that online relationships can't be successful, they can, but not if you're not both willing to work at it. I was in a LTR for four years with a beautiful woman that lived in Texas, and we used to talk on the phone at least once a day and usually more often. We would also email each other, IM and would see each other every couple of months. The great thing was that when we did emet, we cherished every single minute and never took it for granted because we knew that every single minute was precious.
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