Real0ne
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ORIGINAL: Real0ne What I find frustrating is when the emails are not handled in a manner that matches the profile target. If someone wants to meet another then the emails should imo reflect that and move in that direction instead of digress to endless novels about every detail of live. You are consistently missing my point... They don't feel that if they want to meet somebody offline, that the emails should reflect that by quickly moving into the direction of an offline meet. They feel that it's necessary to spend extensive time, potentially even months, limiting the interaction to online only communication, before there's consideration given to an offline meet. They probably feel you are pushy, and are moving waaaaay too fast if you suggest arranging an offline meet in less than a few months, a hundred emails, and 25000 words written. You and them, are fundamentally incompatible when it comes to getting to know each other via an online venue. You feel that if a profile says X, then that should mean that Y follows, and in order for Y to follow, the interaction needs to follow an ABC path. You feel that. Other people feel differently. Other people have different goals, different motives, different tactics, different paths. So, when you're communicating with somebody, and it becomes clear to you that things aren't following an ABC path, you should take a clue and realize that you are incompatible with this person. They don't have the same values you do. They don't follow the same path you think is right. They don't feel the same way you do. Persisting, in the hope that you'll meet them in person eventually, isn't going to change the fact that ya'll are incompatible. Because as soon as that meeting turns into a date, and that date turns into a relationship, and that relationship turns into play, and the play turns into sex, and the sex into moving in with each other, etc, it's going to be clear over and over again that you think all those steps need to be taken in an ABC pattern, while they think it should be handled in a 123 pattern. But instead of realizing that you're not compatible with people who don't follow an ABC pattern, and that you don't enjoy communicating with them, and that you should cut your loses and move on, you're here ranting "They're doing it wrong!". They're not doing it wrong. They're doing what's right for them. What feels good to them. What they enjoy. How they believe their goals are achieved. They're getting what they aim for out of the interaction. It's you that's doing it wrong by trying to insist that everybody ought to be following your ABC pattern, because that's what's right for you. Go find people who agree with your ABC pattern to talk to. Enjoy your interactions with them. And stop wasting your time trying to change everybody who doesn't like an ABC by trying to make them fit your mold. Stop believing that you have a chance at finding a compatible partner in somebody who's tactics of communications are such that you do not enjoy them. Communication is the most important thing in any relationship. If the style in which you enjoy communicating is fundamentally incompatible with theirs, because they way in which they like to communicate, and the time table they have for taking action versus continuing to consider, makes you feel impatient and like it never gets to the point quickly enough, this will reflect in every way they like to set up their lives. I dont believe am missing your point. as I said in the previous post, writing a personal biography often before you even see their face yet they demand a periscope up your ass in the first email is unreasonable. I do believe that 95% of these people fakea and posers pretending to want real time and simply leading people on, or they want as CB said a home run out of the park hit or nothing at all. Dont get me wrong I am not trying to short change the process, however when the convo gets to the point all the main issues are generally addressed its decision time, either move forward or move on. Also its not a matter of how I feel, its what they say they are seeking in their profile if it doesnt use words that imply or express a RL relationship as part of their venue I dont bother from the start.
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