[quote=Kill Bones]
I'd agree with this, because I've always thought internet relationships were bullshit. I mean, everyone else can do whatever the fuck they want, but there's no way I can feel anything in a relationship where the other person is for all intents and purposes completely intangible to me.
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If you can't feel a connection with someone without physical contact, if you can't develop a closeness to them, then I'd question whether or not any relationship would work for you. When you love someone, it's about far more than the physical contact, there's the emotional closeness you felt to them. And like I said before, if you aren't even working towards meeting and getting together in person, then why be in the relationship to start? I really connected with the girl I mentioned...we had so damn much in common, she was my damn rock, she was the effing world to me. She meant a hell of a lot to me, it didn't matter that we'd never physically touched...it didn't matter that I'd never been able to give her a hug, because I had planned on getting to her in person. Meaning there'd be time for that--it just had to be delayed! I think it's more than possible to develop a strong emotional connection with someone online, you just have to meet the right person.

And let me tell you something else. When a friendship that strong dies, it hurts just as bad as it would in person. It's not bullshit Kill Bones, when someone develops feelings for another online, be it romantic or just really close friendship (or both), those feelings are very, very real.