Those Crab Claws! I'm Confused.

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Three strikes here: she's straight, she's half your age and it's an online affair. Online affairs are not real. It's all mental fantasy island, which makes it feel so compelling. People in that situation can pretend to be anything you want and you don't have that oh so necessary day to day contact to see if it's real. I'm sorry but you need someone your age whose geographically accessible and out of the closet. Furthermore, she's committed to someone else and that makes you a player in the triangle. Not good, regardless of sexuality. Save yourself for someone who wants what you do and is ready to commit.
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Three strikes here: she's straight, she's half your age and it's an online affair. Online affairs are not real. It's all mental fantasy island, which makes it feel so compelling. People in that situation can pretend to be anything you want and you don't have that oh so necessary day to day contact to see if it's real. I'm sorry but you need someone your age whose geographically accessible and out of the closet. Furthermore, she's committed to someone else and that makes you a player in the triangle. Not good, regardless of sexuality. Save yourself for someone who wants what you do and is ready to commit.



True, online is not "real" but personally, I would not reduce it to a level... anyone can pretend themselves online as much as offline. It is not a question if it is genuine or not. The Sun, the Moon and the Truth is always obvious behind the clouds 😉
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I don't doubt the feelings are genuine but I doubt their realness. It goes further than pretending to be someone your not but rather living in a heads space that is not real. I believe you gotta spend real face time together before you can start to separate fantasy from real love, and compatibility from chemistry....which is also a challenge in real-time relationships, I'll admit. But I do believe "online relationships" live in an ether of rarefied love that does stand the light of day. Of course, there's always exceptions to every rule. But this scrappy cat is diggin' in her heels on this issue......

What's an online relationship?