Kerjin -> RE: Just curious (11/28/2012 10:26:38 AM)
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ORIGINAL: MyMasterStephen I'm English and I encountered a woman, also English, on ALT who became a good online friend. I first met her face-to-face when she asked me to be the witness and photographer at her wedding to someone (from OK) who she'd also met via ALT. After that, until she emigrated to the US, I spent several long weekends with her. Six years later we're still good friends and talk almost every day on Yahoo. Shortly after her marriage, she put me into contact with someone else (living in Spain) who she knew via ALT. This "someone else" was later to become my current partner Shey, and we've been together over four years now. That being said, I can fully empathise with the OP. In all the time I've been looking online, here and on FL and IC, both before and since I met Shey, I have written several thousands of messages, most of them individually crafted to reflect the other person's profile and to contrast it with my own. In response I've received maybe a thousand replies, which have led to hundreds of correspondences of varying lengths, scores of which have resulted in phone conversations, which in turn have led to dozens of face-to-face meetings being arranged, almost all of which were no-shows. In eight years of online searching, I have actually met seven prospective subs in real life. Of course, if I were more gregarious then I could have gone to more munches and events than I have, and met a great many more people. But the OP was asking purely about online encounters. The answer is yes, real relationships CAN happen through sites like these, but you have to work bloody hard and be very lucky, and even then you might need the help of other online contacts. Thank you Stephen, I appreciate your words and thoughts.
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