It is very fascinating how interest and intimacy can be cultivated online

I have a cousin who met her husband online.
I know of a voice actress who met her current husband online.

However, if it is true love that you seek . . .

Stats say ,1/3 of all Relationships start online now days.

However, many never Meet in person and if they do, the separation and divorce rates are still over 50%.

Check it out.

Love isn't a "stand-alone" function. It's what we call the collective vague mess of things we feel and want and do with each other. Or not.

So it's another one of those things where "love" isn't true or untrue. It just is or isn't going on.

Love is always true, it's what you and the other person chose to do with it that may corrupt it and reduce it to some cheap feelings akin to jealousy and vindictiveness.
Feelings are pure until the flesh drags them through the mud.

It is fascinating......

So what's the difference between "true love" and regular love? ... Crap, where's princess buttercup where you need her?

True love is selfless, and usually found when you are Sincerely seeking.

isn't that called love?... It's hard for me to get because I don't love, that's why I'm asking...

I just love nowadays tendency to put qualitative adjectives on self-qualitative words.
"True" love.
"Real" man...
Its cute. Brainless but cute.
And now we have
"Alpha" male
"Beta" ...
Nice manipulation by words.
I just hope the morons who designate themselves as such know that they're being compared to animals. Not very flattering at all.

we are animals... We just happen to be the Apex, top of the food chain... For now, anyway....

I have two kids, both grown and gone....I have been alone for three years now and sometimes it get so lonely, I have a house in Houston .where I have fun when I am on mining trips. I just want some attention and someone to share everything with

Love is Always true.
Its true because it is a real feeling that is experienced within.
It may not be practical, justified or make sense but it is a true feeling.
It happens in the 'now'.
We have the capacity to remember the past and predict the future but we only ever live in the 'now'.
When we feel love, its true.

Its our expectations of how others show their love for us that dictates whether their love is true or not, in our own definition of what we think love looks like.

Love is not a definite thing. Its mutable by the individual to fit their own definitions. When two people have the same definitions of love, they think its true love. Differences in the expectations of love cause people to think it was not true love.

yeah.... it's sorta true that real love is always "True," but it's interesting.

It seems that as soon as a person decides to try to USE real love, as a sort of tool or a free pass to get something ELSE that they want, that it vanishes in their hands as though it never existed. Or maybe it's just that you can't ask EVERYTHING of love, no matter how "true" it may be.

Most obvious example: I can love someone from the very core of my being, to the end of the universe. But if they ask my love for them to carry me along as they "try out" various other dalliances, all that will happen is that my soul will be crushed.

Love does NOT conquer all, or make all things possible, no matter how real and true it may be.

I agree.
People ask some very strange things of their emotions.
Its like happiness.
People seem to think that if they are happy all the time life will always be easy.
Its like expecting an apple to write a poem.
Love can't be pushed into another person.
It resides within and only within.
Its truth is established in our own perceptions.
Love is a one-sided view.

When my perception of you fills me with love
and your perception of me fills you with love
We love each other in loving our own perception of each other.

By contrast, If love were able to be given to another, I could make you love me.
As silly as it sounds, there are a lot of people that try to do just that. It usually involves sacrifice of something that makes them who they are. Then they wind up miserable in a life that isn't their own.

If you love me, being me and
I love you, being you, what more do we really need?

Yes!

In todays society it is very seldom the love we all dream and fantasize about.
Modern society has made it more a situation of......meet someone we like and can put up with. Someone who can give us a home and help pay for the finacial costs of life. Someone who can mother/father our children.
Its more a case of convenience than love. Sounds sceptical i know......but honestly look at everyone around you....couples now act more as independent people that coulles.

So many couples are roommates, no true love just convenience.
Shacking

We call a lot of things love and it can be confusing. If you want romantic love or someone to meet your needs, you prioritize attraction in body and personality and hope it’s mutually sincere. Online is as good as any place to start if you are careful. A lifetime love though requires unconditional love on your part though and a generous dose of Grace. No partner will be able to go a lifetime without letting you down, but forgiveness is an incredible antidote to bitterness and frustration. If you seek someone worthy of your lifetime of unconditional love, be cautious. Online may be a starting point but it’s easy even for the sincere to be less than forthcoming.

Instead of seeking to be overcome by love or a victim of love, seek someone worthy and choose to love them regardless of what you get in return.