I fall for personality, and talking to Peter over the phone for 10 months before we met made me fall in love with him. You guys can say all you want that you can't love someone before you meet them, but I know without a shadow of a doubt that you can, haha. Meeting him intensified the love factor by like 438095834095834 but I loved him before I met him.
Hang in there, OP. You guys just keep working on your relationship and when you meet, you will see how worth it all of the effort really was.

Oh,
hmm.

Personally i'd never get into one,
I like to know the person in real life,
It's just not the same over the computer.

And I mean, anyone can present themself as something their not over the internet.

To be honest, I'd be paranoid the whole time. Where was he from this hour to this hour? Why hasn't he been calling me? What if he's cheating on me? You can never really tell from the internet. Also, its just hard to explain.
"I have a boyfriend, but you don't know him because I met him off the internet" ... my mom would kill me.
Its rare to see one actually last very long. But hey, if you are in one and its working out, more power to ya! I just don't think I would ever be able to be in one.

I think the paranoia would be a problem in any relationship.

Really, I avoid long distance relationships because deal with the person in such an ostracized way. The face that you don't get to hug and go on walks together is a big downer for me.

Not to mention you can't be sure that you're seeing the person or just a face they put on through the medium. Sure, that can be an issue in closer proximity relationships; but then you at least have body language to go by.

I can demonstrate love through the internet but that's because I love the person physically in my brain. I love plenty of people that I haven't met. I just have a relationship in which I haven't physically met them. That is not an "online relationship".

They are definately hard, but when it's worth it you feel really good about waiting to meet each other
(not that I would know, but i'm almost positive that it will be worth it..) =P

I'm assuming you're talking about online friends...
The love you would have for a friend in real life would differ from the love you would have for an online friend (although I personally find loving online friends quite strange).
If you love people on the internet equally or more than people in real life then....you need to spend some time away from the internet.

No, it's really not. Feelings and personality are involved.




Agreed, Steph. I fell in love before i met him, also. Personality and thoughtfulness and having tons of things in common and listening to their voices and talking to them on yahoo or skype or ovoo video chat, it's very easy. In a way, it's one hundred times better. The physical part isn't a factor and doesn't get in the way, and then AFTERWARDS the physical part comes into play. It makes long distance relationships so much easier, in a way.

I think...that they could work. I don't think I could do it. I'm too needy.

Once you join an online dating website, or have an online boy/girlfriend you have officially failed at life.

^I'm marrying my "online" boyfriend next year. iFail'd? haha

Haha Steph, we fail together.

LOL!!

:] I'm agreeing with most people are saying.
Of course they do exist, and if God says it's meant to be, it's meant to be.
I've met someone and became friends and fell toward in love with someone...ONLINE!
D: gasp! *SHOCK!*

Okay, so my relationship with Justin has NEVER been online, but was long-distance from last November until this fall. That being clarified, here's a bit of advice/reminder:

It's completely different in person. Justin and I were long-distance for 9 months and had a great relationship. However, let me tell you- it's ten million times better now that we see eachother every day But itt's weird getting used to. I wouldn't ever go back to long-distance, this is beyond amazing. But it's a BIG adjustment- people have quirks you just don't pick up over the phone or a computer screen or whatever.
As for the physical aspect- yeah, while you're apart it's not a deal but when you're together, it is. All that pent- up longing is extremely hard to keep under control. So that's really not a blessing in my opinion, you just have to know it's coming.

As long as you plan to meet each other and make it a priority to spend time actually with each other and as long as that's feasible. There's a difference between an online relationship and a long distance relationship. In LDRs, you actually meet up with each other. Online relationships miss out on a huge aspect of a relationship. An essential one at that.

I wouldn't advise anyone to take a relationship really seriously until they've experienced all necessary components of it, which includes being with each other. If you like someone online, then great, feel free to express it and plan to meet up with them. But don't think that means you know everything you need to in order to confirm yourself in a long term, serious and functional relationship destined for a committed future ahead. Relationships are part of life's experiences, and experiencing relationships with people 'IRL' is essential; romantic partner or otherwise.