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Topic: An Online Truism?
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Mon 06/08/09 08:21 PM


Why is it, that the most interesting potentials for dating are the people hundreds of miles away? I thought the whole premise was to find someone in your own backyard so to speak. Anyone care to comment?
bigsmile I just looked out my window and their aint nobody in my backyard:tongue:


I don't even HAVE A backyard.

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Mon 06/08/09 08:23 PM
one thing about papersmile and my relationship. since she is 1000 miles away give or take Ohio, we have been forced to take it slow and steady and have had much more opportunity to get to know each other. If we had lived closer we prolly would have already been married and she would have had to find out the hard way that I snore and drool and fart in my sleep

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Mon 06/08/09 08:24 PM
flowerforyou




Why is it, that the most interesting potentials for dating are the people hundreds of miles away? I thought the whole premise was to find someone in your own backyard so to speak. Anyone care to comment?


If they're farther away, you spend more time getting to know them, which often makes them more attractive to you.


Or does that make the whole experience just crazy???


Would you rather not get to know someone a bit before meeting?


Just asking rhetorical questions...ya never know when the unexpected answer will be profound!

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Mon 06/08/09 08:28 PM

flowerforyou




Why is it, that the most interesting potentials for dating are the people hundreds of miles away? I thought the whole premise was to find someone in your own backyard so to speak. Anyone care to comment?


If they're farther away, you spend more time getting to know them, which often makes them more attractive to you.


Or does that make the whole experience just crazy???


Would you rather not get to know someone a bit before meeting?


Just asking rhetorical questions...ya never know when the unexpected answer will be profound!


Both of you are asking the right questions though...

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Mon 06/08/09 08:30 PM

Why is it, that the most interesting potentials for dating are the people hundreds of miles away? I thought the whole premise was to find someone in your own backyard so to speak. Anyone care to comment?


The reason for this is simple. There are no good people in your back yard! Statistically speaking, if you have lived in one place your entire life (at least according to my own statistics ha) you would have had plenty of opportunities to meet the right one or at least a good one by the time you have turned 17.

However, since that didn't happen, you put yourself online and hope that the people you haven't met in your backyard yet will make themselves known. They don't. They are jack asses!

So you start talking to someone who lives hundereds of miles away (quite the beauty of being online, yes?) and find that you have a lot in common.

Sadly-------most people use the distance as a way of "punishing themselves" into never finding "the one". Because they will argue that the only possible "one" would have to live somewhere in their backyard. Does anyone else see the trouble with this kind of thinking?

Dating and love doesn't have to be some kind of sad, woe is me, Romeo and Juliet, Rose and Jack, we can't ever be together kind of tragedy. Love can be found anywhere. If two people who live far away want to make a commitment to each other and bridge the gap and are willing to really work and try hard for it--it can be just as golden as the story of the guy who ran into the girl in the corner of the hallway. :thumbsup:

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Mon 06/08/09 08:30 PM

she would have had to find out the hard way that I snore and drool and fart in my sleep


I keep finding out the hard way that pink_lady does all those things in her sleep! She is capable of waking me up with water in my eyes by doing any of the three!

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Mon 06/08/09 08:30 PM


flowerforyou




Why is it, that the most interesting potentials for dating are the people hundreds of miles away? I thought the whole premise was to find someone in your own backyard so to speak. Anyone care to comment?


If they're farther away, you spend more time getting to know them, which often makes them more attractive to you.


Or does that make the whole experience just crazy???


Would you rather not get to know someone a bit before meeting?


Just asking rhetorical questions...ya never know when the unexpected answer will be profound!


Both of you are asking the right questions though...


Now if we can just translate the Q&As into real life!

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Mon 06/08/09 08:37 PM

I guess now would be a bad time to Rub in the fact that my career allows me to go pretty much anywhere in the Lower 48 to go out on a Date?

Seriously though, back in late 95 two very good UO friends of mine whom started a relationship that stayed online for about twelve months.

He had gone to visit with her on his vacation. Tommy lived in Miami and Sue lived in BF Colby, Kansas... So there they are fourteen years later and two kids.

I guess the moral of the story is that you have to, at the very least, see what happens before you throw your hat in...

oh and get away from HO Hum profile if you are serious about meeting online... and use a picture of yourself. "D*mnit Bones your on a Dating Site not Fakebook."


I appreciate the insight. And BTW, I do have a real photo. All they have to do is checkout my profile & seeing what the person really looks like is important for most. I use the alter-ego pics for kicks.

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Mon 06/08/09 08:49 PM

I appreciate the insight. And BTW, I do have a real photo. All they have to do is checkout my profile & seeing what the person really looks like is important for most. I use the alter-ego pics for kicks.


I seen that after I viewed your profile, the "Damnit Bones..." line still stands as funny in my opinion.

Good Luck Dr. McCoy

tribefan73's photo
Mon 06/08/09 09:09 PM


I appreciate the insight. And BTW, I do have a real photo. All they have to do is checkout my profile & seeing what the person really looks like is important for most. I use the alter-ego pics for kicks.


I seen that after I viewed your profile, the "Damnit Bones..." line still stands as funny in my opinion.

Good Luck Dr. McCoy


Agreed, it is. LOL laugh I welcome all 7 any Star Trek or Star Wars jokes. What can I say? I'm a geek.

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