Questing4Aldonza -> RE: Cyber to the right...cyber to the left... (8/15/2004 6:25:19 AM)
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As someone who has recently been through a long distance relationship with a heavy cyber component, I thought I’d put my two cents in. As Charles Dickens once wrote: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. I was able to get to know and to serve an AMAZING woman whom I would not have even known existed were it not for the net. (Though in my heart I always knew she was out there) But ultimately, I think the fact that she was there and I was here undermined the sense of connection that is so essential for a relationship to endure. As to specifically “playing” online, in a chat situation, it was never as satisfying as when we interacted on the phone, but it wasn’t exactly bad, either. She had implicit trust that I was doing the things I told her I was doing, and I in turn knew that she was gaining pleasure from that knowledge. And while seeing the words “get the plug” was never the same as hearing them in her honeyed voice, it still made my heart skip a beat regardless.[;)] Anyway, I agree that such relationships are a lot of work, and can't be as fulfilling as real life interaction, but at the same time I don’t see it as being this inherently odious thing that so many seem to. As desperately as I may wish that things had been different, I will always treasure the time I spent as her prized “slut.”
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