We're not talking about Star Trek continuity here. The human experience is a complex thing, I will not try to set rules for everyone. When I was talking about "all aspects of the human experience", I meant "all aspects of the human experience", that was not a dig at blind people.
Then fiction doesn't exist. It's all "lies".
My sister and her boyfriend met on the internet and have been living together for two years and are trying for a baby. My dad is in a relationship with a Japanese woman he met online. She's been over here to visit him a few times and my dad is talking about marriage even though he swore he'd never remarry after my mum. And my brother has an online girlfriend in America but they haven't met yet.
Two things to be learnt from that - 1) it can and does happen and 2) my family spend way too much time on the internet
No, a lie is meant to deceive. Fiction isn't.
My sister and her boyfriend met on the internet and have been living together for two years and are trying for a baby. My dad is in a relationship with a Japanese woman he met online. She's been over here to visit him a few times and my dad is talking about marriage even though he swore he'd never remarry after my mum. And my brother has an online girlfriend in America but they haven't met yet.
Two things to be learnt from that - 1) it can and does happen and 2) my family spend way too much time on the internet
HAHA those are very cute stories!
When I was first in an online relationship I had a lot of trouble talking about it because most of my friends did not use a computer at all. A couple of them were online but it was their husband's thing, maybe they were just getting into emailing a relative once in a blue moon. The papers were full of horror stories of women who had given all their money to online scam lovers. I could not even explain to these people what a "mailing list" was, they couldn't even visualize it. It was kind of horrible actually, the look people would get on their faces when I said I had met my boyfriend online.
Fast fwd 12 years and their own kids are flying overseas to meet online loves, marrying people they met on WoW, going on dates from okcupid etc.. and it's all nicely mainstream.
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and even went "window shopping" for a certain finger-ornament just after Christmas 
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I could tell you a really long story about this but I'll try and keep it brief. I met my current girlfriend on the trek site House of Tucker, as Trip and T'Pol fans, after first encountering the Enterprise fandom here on TrekBBS about... 6 years ago, in 2005 right before Enterprise was cancelled.
She's English, and lived in the UK at the time. We really hit it off but figured - what were the chances of us getting to meet? Well we got very very close at first and then as it does, life got in the way for awhile. She started seeing someone in the UK and we didn't speak nearly as often for awhile, but the connection was always there. We corresponded over email intermittently. I continued through college and graduated, went into the military briefly, worked for a spat, then returned to graduate school. Right around the time I was admitted into grad school, we had begun talking again and she received a research fellowship working for the Library of Congress in Washington, DC - for about a year.
We met for the first time last fall when she flew out to meet me and it was... well, I guess it was love at first "type" (
So yes, it absolutely happens
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I could tell you a really long story about this but I'll try and keep it brief. I met my current girlfriend on the trek site House of Tucker, as Trip and T'Pol fans, after first encountering the Enterprise fandom here on TrekBBS about... 6 years ago, in 2005 right before Enterprise was cancelled.
She's English, and lived in the UK at the time. We really hit it off but figured - what were the chances of us getting to meet? Well we got very very close at first and then as it does, life got in the way for awhile. She started seeing someone in the UK and we didn't speak nearly as often for awhile, but the connection was always there. We corresponded over email intermittently. I continued through college and graduated, went into the military briefly, worked for a spat, then returned to graduate school. Right around the time I was admitted into grad school, we had begun talking again and she received a research fellowship working for the Library of Congress in Washington, DC - for about a year.
We met for the first time last fall when she flew out to meet me and it was... well, I guess it was love at first "type" (
So yes, it absolutely happens
T'POL: Do you ever miss me?
TUCKER: You mean?
T'POL: Yes.
TUCKER: You know how long it's been?
T'POL: That's not what I asked you.
TUCKER: Well. Yeah, I guess, sometimes.
T'POL: I haven't thought about those days in a long time.
TUCKER: Benefit of being a Vulcan.
T'POL: After speaking with Chef, I realised we may never see each other again.
TUCKER: What are you talking about?
T'POL: We're taking different assignments. There's no way of knowing.
TUCKER: There's every way of knowing. I can guarantee you we're not going to lose touch. Stop thinking like that.
T'POL: However long it may be, I believe I'm going to miss you.
And THEN T'Pol takes an assignment to Earth and they live happily ever after in Washington.
Not unlike Wagner.
I think the most important thing is to not let them affect your way of thinking. If you're happy with something the way it is, try not to let other peoples' misgivings get in the way of that.). I definitely don't buy the whole 'you have to meet to be boyfriend/girlfriend'. It's personality that causes a real connection between people and (unless someone actually is faking) that comes through whether online or in person.
