I am beginning to think that some become addicted to relationships that are online, via email, chat, Skype, phone, etc. Kind of like porn addiction. Some watch porn and become so enamored of porn type sex, that they cannot perform actual sex, or at least can't have actual sex without porn as the catalyst.
I am not speaking of anyone I have interacted with on this site or the dash site. Just on things I hear from friends about "the meeting" that is promised and retracted again and again, and when it appears there is no other way out of "the meeting", the relationship comes to a screeching halt via well aimed arguments, leaving the person who is actually wanting to meet, feeling responsible.
Edited to add...I do think it is possible to fall in love via electronic communication, in the same way it was possible to fall in love in the days of yore via romantic handwritten letters.
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