What do you think of long distance people who meet online?

Like all relationships, it depends on the individuals enterìng into it. How old are they? Do they have careers? Are they ready for a serious relationship? Are they willing to make a large move to be with the one they love?

Starting a relationship online is easy enough. It's a great way to meet likeminded people you wouldn't necessarily meet in everyday life. Most people are capable of having lengthy video calls to get a sense of what the person is like before that first meeting, which needs to happen.

Eventually, one of them will have to make a long distance move and that would only be possible with the proper financial means. It helps if at least one person has a stable career and living accommodations first because they might be supporting two people for a while until the moved person finds a job.

My brother met his wife online and they have been very happily married for years and have kids. They met online when they were in their mid-twenties and had jobs.

When there's a will and the means to close the distance in a long distance relationship, anything is possible.

It could work if they moved to the same place, but not likely if they continued to live far away.

I think it's kind of sweet, it feels universal.
A part of me thinks it's a little unrealistic, but it can be made realistic by spending enough time together.

I think online you can know a person's mind but not their heart. Only by spending time with someone in person can you truly know their heart.

The internet is a great way to meet people.

Establishing a long-distance relationship for the short-term would be fine if there's the intention of shortening that distance fairly soon after.

Long-term long-distance relationships rarely work, however. Most people need frequent, physical interaction in their romantic relationships to feel fulfilled.

IF they are able to meet later. I met a boy irl who moved away and I thought I would marry him and live happily ever after, but life is never that easy! Our paths slowly diverged and then we realized there was no way we were going to meet in real life and be happy, and bam, it ended. There was nothing holding that relationship together other than love and eventually the strain (and reality) became too much.

I have had poor experiences with long distance relationships and am never entering one again, but still hope everyone in one has a better resolution than I did! Everyone is different.

7 years ago, I was just out of a long term (8 years) relationship and had moved to an area that was new to me to be close to family. I went on a dating site and met several local men with whom I didn't develop any satisfying relationships. A man from across the US found me on the dating site and started communicating. I found that I related much better with him than I had with the guys in my area. (And actually even better than I did with the man I had been involved with for 8 years). We both spent a lot of time emailing and phone conversations with each other for 6 weeks before he flew to my city to meet me. By the time he arrived, I was much more excited about the next step in our relationship than I had ever felt about anyone I'd ever been involved with (three marriages over a 40 year period of time). When we met, it was like we'd known each other all of our lives. Sex was the most wonderful of any I'd ever had. We got married three months later and are still together. I won't say we didn't have some problems mostly with where should we live. But he liked the area where I lived so we finally have a home here and love it.

Very hard on both people but especially on the person who cares more

Let's take the romance out of the equation and ask again. How would you feel about finding any kind of friend in this manner?

It rarely works. Most of the people I know that were in an online relationship aren't in one now because they either found someone that lives closer to them or they were dumped by the internet boyfriend/girlfriend for the same reason.

I think it would very, very rarely work, I knew a couple who got together in high school, they made me think of Lily and marshall from how I met your mother l in that they just clicked, I've never seen two people better suited, her family moved to America. It didn't work out for them, the were constantly on the phone, vlogging texting. Still didn't work out. If long distance didn't work for them it'd take a pretty special connection for it to work for people who have never met each other