How long?
Details?
How are 'internet relationships' viewed in the UK?
I've seen it go from awkward and taboo to mainstream within a few years, now, probably 2 out of 3 couples I know met through the internet. It's interesting how fast technology actually affects something like social lives.
Would you imagine, without RIU (internet), you'd of never met?
Post a pic of yourselves together (for science), you happy fucks lol
Hmm... well we've known eachother on RIU for at least a year or two but of course talking as acquaintances. We started really getting to know eachother since April. April was the cruelest month for me this year... At the time Clonex had propositioned me (since February) but as explained in the other thread he just fucked me around alot, we never ended up meeting and he never took my calls so...
We met when I became stranded in a strange town because Clonex never came to pick me up... I was at my wit's end, feeling really frustrated, then wondering what was so wrong and undesirable about me to deserve being treated that way. (repeatedly getting all done up and packed, being told to come down to his or wait to be picked up then on the day completely cut off, and being snappy with me all the time)
I turned up on 2 May and for two people who don' really like other human beings all that much, we certainly liked eachother. Things just happened. It took a while to work out its official and use the 'L' word.
I don't know about the UK but I always thought internet dating was only really about hookups and you know I have my views on things like that. I see many advertisements for Match.com and eHarmony and dozens like them. I think dating sites are a bad idea for a real relationship anyway because if you talk a person with the possible goal of making them your mate in the back of your mind you are only going to tell eachother what you think they want to hear. Getting to know someone in a forum environment, where they are speaking to you and others is just like meeting someone in any other communal situation like at work or school. I don't really get just randomly picking people up in bars like everyone seems to do. You just waltz up to a person interested only because of their appearance then have them in a position of as much emotional intimacy as your family despite having known them for five minutes in comparison. We got to know eachother as friends, not just slipping a number and saying 'hey, we're dating now'.
That being said, the assumption often is that someone is just so undesirable or lacks the social skills that they have to search for love via the internet. That may apply to me. Then there is the possibility that more people spend time online so they could just happen to find someone they like chatting to offline more often. Also applicable. Then there's the people that just want to filter through the bullshit and time-wasters. May apply to me aswell.
Not really surprising. Telecommunications have been around a long time and always existed to facilitate us connecting with eachother. Its still real people, just many miles away. This is precisely why I said I am honest on the internet and remember you are all actual human beings at the keyboard.
Absolutely 100% certain there is no way we would have ever crossed paths if it hadn't been for RIU. Especially as he told me straight he probably wouldn't call me the first time i gave my numer; can you imagine if we met in a bar or something??? XD
Hmm... can't be posting his face, he doesn't like that
I've probably already divulged too much personal information for his liking..
I will post a picture of our feets, though
Him stroking the nice pony
He is probably going to retaliate for my blabbing by posting embarrassing pictures of me XD
I'm really liking the internets now, Padawan x
I found white eyeliner rather than powder, so was able to do the flag how it should be
