Is It Possible to Fall in Love With Someone You Have Only Met Online?

[dududud]

No.

[Quiro_Brianza]

It cannot be something serious, it’s not natural.

[Lousianaboy]

Yes

[PaleoEuropean]

Love is something you create together over time, no such thing as falling in love; that is just infatuation. You can't love someone you haven't gone through hell with.

[El_Abominacion]

No

[TheOldNorth]

unlikely, psychological studies show that we tend to create a distinct online personality that isn't 100% like the real us, so if you fall in love with someone online, you're not likely to get what you see or feel in person

[Carlito's Way]

I guess it depends a lot, I think the great thing about having an online relationship is that you can build a mental connection with that person
of course you will eventually have to meet that person sooner or later

To me, a mental connection is a lot more important than a physical one

First of all, you don't fall in love with a person that you touched, that just doesn't happen
Seeing, well that would mean you are simply physically attracted to that person and a physical attraction vanishes because it is not enough to hold a stable relationship


My wife and I, we had met in Amsterdam at a friend's party
I saw her and I thought she was a very beautiful woman, but we really didn't talk
Her on the other hand, she thought I was arrogant (already a bad impression)

We started texting once I came back to California, and that's because she texted me when she found out about my cousin passing away
From there, we would text every day, she got to know me more, and we developed a deep connection, she became my best friend
She is still my best friend, now my wife and the mother of my child

Even though we saw each other in person, we actually got to know each other through online and texting
We had a long distance relationship, she was in Amsterdam and I was in California
It was hard, we had our ups and downs, but I wouldn't have traded any of the emotions she would give me from far away
Best feelings in the world, all without her touch, and that will always be a lot more special to me

It all depends on what you define love
obviously touching, seeing and maybe even having sex is what you consider love

For me, a mental and an emotional connection is the way to real love
Love is through the heart, not through physical

[Arsen_]

It is quite possible. I remember once in my younger years I accidentally got on a phone an unknown girl by some mistake of connection. And I really liked her voice so much that I asked her to talk to me. Apparently she liked my voice too and we started to talk to each other by phone without seeing each other and without having the slightest idea of how we look. Almost half a year we talked to each other like that almost every day and for long hours. We might even talk all night until sunrise. And it was truest mutual love!

Finally we got the courage to meet. She turned out to be a very young thin and tall girl quite good-looking and I liked her but anyhow I could not say that I fell in love with her. Apparently she liked me too, and we started to meet. She often invited me to her home when her parents were absent.

Then some unpleasant episode happened. She liked to take photos of me and she had many photos of mine when I was at her home and some photos were very intimate, like me almost completely naked lying in her bed. And I don’t know how it happened, but her father found these photos. And as she later told me, her father was very angry at her and for the first time in her life he gave her a slap in the face. And though I was not guilty but I somehow felt not very pleased that she had suffered from her father because of me.

[Quiro_Brianza]

I guess it depends a lot, I think the great thing about having an online relationship is that you can build a mental connection with that person
of course you will eventually have to meet that person sooner or later

To me, a mental connection is a lot more important than a physical one

First of all, you don't fall in love with a person that you touched, that just doesn't happen
Seeing, well that would mean you are simply physically attracted to that person and a physical attraction vanishes because it is not enough to hold a stable relationship


My wife and I, we had met in Amsterdam at a friend's party
I saw her and I thought she was a very beautiful woman, but we really didn't talk
Her on the other hand, she thought I was arrogant (already a bad impression)

We started texting once I came back to California, and that's because she texted me when she found out about my cousin passing away
From there, we would text every day, she got to know me more, and we developed a deep connection, she became my best friend
She is still my best friend, now my wife and the mother of my child

Even though we saw each other in person, we actually got to know each other through online and texting
We had a long distance relationship, she was in Amsterdam and I was in California
It was hard, we had our ups and downs, but I wouldn't have traded any of the emotions she would give me from far away
Best feelings in the world, all without her touch, and that will always be a lot more special to me

It all depends on what you define love
obviously touching, seeing and maybe even having sex is what you consider love

For me, a mental and an emotional connection is the way to real love
Love is through the heart, not through physical

I think that you at least need to see her physically first live. Then you can get in love by chatting with her online, but falling in love just by chats and social media is kind of unnatural and by nature you need to find qualities for mating and create a new family, pictures can be modified and sometimes they don’t portray completely, we are very visual, specially we men. Attraction is a whole, ideali we should be attracted the way you describe it, but in reality we have still instincts, we want also women with good qualities for procreate a new generation, this is why visual has a part and it has to do a lot with our own nature, at least 95% of the men fall in love by how attractive, and attractiveness has a lot of to do with physical features:

[Aldaris]

Every other girl is pretty, that's no big deal for me. BORING.