Internet love........???

[quote]That's the key i think - I liked Laura a lot, but then I fell in love with her in August when we had met for the 3rd time and had been with each other every day for 1 week. Sometimes I look back and think "perhaps I was in love with you before that" but it's probably fair to say that before that it was a sort of close friendship but nothing more at that stage.

Many people think they fall in love over the internet but I can't see how it is anything more than falling in love with an edited version of a person. No matter how honest you think you are being and how much you are being yourself, you're not when the other person can't see how you react to different situations, what your immediate emotions are and reactions are, rather than ones where you might have weeks, days, minutes, seconds to think about what emotion to display.

Sometimes I think also that on the internet falling in love is almost done for the sake of it - and by that I mean it is done with a knowledge that you can fall in love and get words of comfort etc without ever having to go through the difficult part of a relationship, and with a sort of knowing that you will never have to meet and go through that difficult part.

Yup - a 'connection' before that, and one not based on Bon Jovi, but it wasn't love until we met, and even then it took 2 meetings, plenty of time together and then finally a week-long stay together. It didn't take long after we got together for us to know it was love, and it wasn't difficult to say it or express it to each other, but no, it definitely wasn't through the internet that we fell in love. It was through the internet that we 'met' if you will, but even then: Ostende 2 days, Wolverhampton all night, Manchester @ my house, London 3 days, Finland 9 days...

I think if we had fallen in love through the internet things wouldn't have worked out the way they have: there'd be constant disappointment I'm sure (not sexual :P ) - but I mean there would be a building up of expectations that you can't possibly live up to when all you've had to do beforehand is post and type on a keyboard, or even through a phone - you've always got something hidden.

hows the wedding plans coming along?

Any baby letitrocks in the pipeline?