CreativeDominant
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ORIGINAL: Mercnbeth ~ Fast Reply ~ In a long distance relationship, when the internet is down, is that considerd having a partner hospitalized in a coma? Is the deletion of all photos and email a long distance divorce? Is hitting 'Alt-Ctrl-Delete' equated to euthanasia anywhere? There is no doubt that people get something out of a relationship with someone who they have never met. The brain is magnificent at creating dialog. Whether with a make-believe 'friend' or a persona mentally generated from internet contact. The contact is always saying the right things, always there, always saying and doing whatever the brain needs satisfy it at the time. Between sessions, the partner is always in tune with your needs. Unlike what is commonly assumed on threads, reading minds IS possible. The strictest Dom doesn't have that same ability and control over a person seen regularly in person. The most mailable, self denigrating, automaton, submissive can't act preemptively from thoughts not expressed in words typed or spoken. 'SMACK!' typed bold and black can not convey the intercourse of an exchange between partners. Mutual masturbation shared via web-cam, isn't intercourse. It's not a waste of time. It isn't worse/better. It isn't bad, or good. It should never get in the way of real life experiences. It isn't life. That said, there isn't a person I know who isn't in a long distance relationship. As I type, I'm 6.8 miles from beth. When the distance extends beyond arms length that's my definition of long distance. Maybe the issue isn't distance, but time. Separated for days, weeks, months, years; the ability to exchange sentiment and information is made easier by internet and phone communication, but given the option would anyone seek it instead of a touch? Given the option, one second of touching fingertips is preferable to a week long cyber chat. I'd submit that comparatively more 'information' is exchanged in that one second. Tomorrow she leaves for the east coast, longER distance, but not pragmatically different. Feeling the lost tomorrow when separated is debilitating. Were we so inclined to do so, IMing, or Webcaming, would generate more frustration, not less; Friday's homecoming not made sweeter. Distance between partners sucks. To me it is a constant, like the speed of light; time and distance, doesn't change the value. The value comes as a product of both. Maybe it's just my warped sense of cynicism, but without meeting, without any hope of meeting, you create a hollow shell of a relationship. Beyond the distance where a touch is possible your relationship is 'REAL'; but much of the gaps, like what would it feel to kiss, hug, touch, make love to, are all self assumptions. Is that "prejudice" or a reflection of reality? You can 'kill' electronically generated images and dialog. It is much more difficult if not impossible, to create, or kill, the memory of a touch. Nicely said, Merc...and it goes back, at least partially, to my original post. When I have been interested in someone, I would so much rather have the person I was interested in right here in front of me...right now or at the very latest, that evening. That wasn't going to happen, no matter how much I would like it to or they would like it to. Too many other things in the way that had to be accomplished first. Which is why, in interested in someone from a distance away, I always took pains to get to know them not just online, not just on the phone, but when I finally met them, I got to know them all over again along with exploring new areas I had not been able to "meet or get to know" over the phone. Things like "she likes to be touched here, she smiles when she sees this or that, she gets all balled up when we watch something scary, she moves when she listens to music, she arches her neck when I bite her, etc". In a way, it does make it harder to have had that touch and then have to send them home and live without it but at the same time, it made it easier because now when I talked to them I could "see" them, their body movement, their facial expression, etc.. in my mind's eye.
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