Is it possible to love someone that you met online but never met in person?
Absolutely, it is. Not only do I have a number of close friends whom I've talked to for years and never met online, but I met my husband online too. We knew each other for 6 months before he came here. At that time, we were both sure enough of our feelings that he bought a one-way ticket and gave away or sold nearly all his possessions first. The first time I saw him in person was when I picked him up from the airport and he came home with me. That was five years and two kids ago.
I will say that it's only possible inasmuch as the people involved are honest -- much like in real life. If you're genuine and upfront about who you are, there's no reason people can't form very real feelings about you. Just as in "real life," if you lie or hide your true personality, then the feelings that form might not be real because they're not around a real person.
Absolutely. Personally my feelings and thoughts are it may be a good idea if the individuals, especially in the case of a coupling, have a shared definition for love first. I say absolutely offering testament of Love with a person I have never met, have had a three year relationship mainly online via email, and etc, and have the perspective of Love being eternal.
However, for purposes of understanding Love we both share a mutual agreement and acceptance with both trust and faith with the explanation by C.S. Lewis and his published work - The Four Loves as a guide. And, the understanding all exist each as love while all must not be present for love to exist.
A) Storge - affectionate love
B) Philia - friendship or sisterly/brotherly love
C) Eros - romantic love
D) Agape - unconditional love
When questioned by some with social interactions of our relationship of being Loving I always ask questions for offering explanation, which seems to work for me. Simply any of these following:
1) Are you an atheist?
A) Yes
Next, then love is only a process of stimuli, motivation, behavior, commitment, and having acceptance of those with trust and faith in your relationship with experience and reason.
B) No
Then,
1) Do you Love God no matter your definition?
2) Have you ever met God?
Most likely many will have more to share with views of difference and likeness, so I ask this only be of acceptance being a subjective perspective and not necessarily universal.
tim
It happens all the time. Prior to personal computers people were known to have fallen in love via 'Pen Pal letters'. Falling in love involves establishing an "emotional connection" with a likeminded person.
Having said that it may turn out that a person is not whom they presented them self to be or when you are together in person the chemistry is not the same. However it's not uncommon for people to fall "in love" with someone before they really (know) them.
This happens during the "infatuation phase" with couples who meet offline or online.
Perception is reality. You're "in love" because (you) 'believe' you are.
I think this is a new phenomenon - online love - laptop amour - and will help to re-define LOVE as we know it over the next few generations. From a few words, sentences, paragraphs, a connection is made that grows rather like an etheric flower, fed on the thoughts, feelings and opinions of a stranger tapping away on the plastic alphabet thousands or a few miles away.
If music be the food of love....if keyboard rhythms be the food of love.....
Online love is happening because basically we humans have become infatuated with the ether. People are writing out of their desperate minds; their inner worlds are being depicted described and analysed and offered to the global audience as never before.
Is this a good thing? I'm not one to judge. At first I was a cynic and laughed at those poor sad online junkies who fell in love with some other besotted addict too distant to really care but who could, through the medium of writing, tempt the other in to believing actual LOVE could exist between keyboards and screen!!
Nowadays I accept it for what it is: another form of communication and connection between fellow humans who need each other. If a couple want to call it LOVE who am I to object or criticise or scoff or deny?
Love could exist between keyboard and screen <<< i like this and agree
Definitely, it happens all of the time, and I personally think it's a really good way to start a relationship.
yes it's possible, I've been talking to a man online for the past 9 months and in the beginning he started saying that he loves me. I asked him how can he love me when he doesn't even know me, but now I feel a connection with him that I have never felt before with any other man. I love him more every day
by aspiretoinspire 12 years ago
Have you had a relationship with someone you met online?If so, how did it go?
by Megan Cianfaglione 11 years ago
Can you love someone you've never met before?You know everything about this person, youve seem pictures and skyped them, but you havent met each other in person.
by Joan King 12 years ago
Is it possible to love someone and dislike that person at the same time?You often hear the saying "I love you but I don’t like you". Is this at all possible and if so how?
by Christa Swope 7 years ago
Can you name someone you have never met that you know you don't like?
by rexy 13 years ago
Do you have hidden secrets or desiresor love someone that you have met on the internet?...How...far did that love get you?... how well do you know that person?...and do you go wild with yourimagination with regards to your sexual fantasies when you talk to your lover man/woman?..... lastly...is it...
by Kelsey Tallis 15 years ago
First of all, for the record, I understand the inherent ridiculousness of this... the fact that I am mourning someone I've never met. I am also extremely mindful of how easy it is to play tricks and fool people on the internet. I am also very, very, very sure this is not a joke, for what it's worth...
Copyright © 2024 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. HubPages® is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.
Copyright © 2024 Maven Media Brands, LLC and respective owners.
As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.
For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy
Show DetailsNecessary | |
---|---|
HubPages Device ID | This is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons. |
Login | This is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service. |
Google Recaptcha | This is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy) |
Akismet | This is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Google Analytics | This is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Traffic Pixel | This is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. |
Amazon Web Services | This is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy) |
Cloudflare | This is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Hosted Libraries | Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy) |
Features | |
---|---|
Google Custom Search | This is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Maps | Some articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Charts | This is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy) |
Google AdSense Host API | This service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Google YouTube | Some articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Vimeo | Some articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Paypal | This is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Login | You can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Maven | This supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy) |
Marketing | |
---|---|
Google AdSense | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Google DoubleClick | Google provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Index Exchange | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Sovrn | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Ads | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Unified Ad Marketplace | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
AppNexus | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Openx | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Rubicon Project | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
TripleLift | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Say Media | We partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy) |
Remarketing Pixels | We may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites. |
Conversion Tracking Pixels | We may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service. |
Statistics | |
---|---|
Author Google Analytics | This is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy) |
Comscore | ComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Tracking Pixel | Some articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy) |
Clicksco | This is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy) |