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I don't think that it's nearly as likely as marrying someone that you meet in person. With the internet, everyone is very suspicious and demands to know so many things about the person before meeting them, dating them, etc. Relationships that start in person very rarely have that...usually you learn about the person as you go along. That way, their flaws and habits will come out gradually and you become accustomed to them bit by bit. When you flush them all out at once before even meeting the person (like online), it's much more likely that the cumulative effect of seeing them all at once will scare you away. Plus, when you start a relationship before seeing all of a person's flaws, you are able to develop something positive before you see the negative, and this causes you to balance whether it's worth it to give up a developed relationship because of a flaw you just found out about. Online, you find out about most of the flaws before you have anything invested, making it really easy to decide that the flaws outweigh the potential.

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