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female
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chelly m
writes:Well where do I begin, at the beginning I suppose. Oh the wonderful, world wide tinternet. You can find anything you want on it. How to, Where to, When to, Why, the liat is enless. I came to web world in my 40s, always said would never bother with it more trouble than its worth, until a friend gave me a pc for free. Thats when my life changed for ever. I was switched on and raring to go.I think my first port of call was a certain site that re connected you with long lost friends, all well and good, until I discovered sitss that you could actually chat to people on. Now this was okay as a single mum and busy working my social life was zilch, this was a new outlet. I met some lovely people on line,, a few not so nice. I quickly came to realise that people would use these sites to be what they werent in reality, how naive was I to begin with.what you read isnt always what you get. People hide behind a facade, some are realists like I was, some dont have many social skills so this world allowed them to be something they werent in the real world. Fair enough if it doesnt hurt anyone. I also quickly began to see that there were a lot of people that depended on the internet to exsist. the chat rooms ere the be all and end all of their very exsistance and they guarded them with their life. Making their pages look like a safe cosy friendly place to be in, their world.Whoa but if you stepped on their toes did you know about it. Even though its a world on a computer screen, its a real world to them.I met my partner in one of these fantasy portals, we would chat, exchanged emails, txts, then phone calls then met up, and got together, but it wasnt easy. I the universe of internet world he was sought after, he had made a collection of friends too. While they were all happy to remainn in thier twilight world of mousescreen, and fantasy, I wasnt, and for better or for worse I made it my mission to get my man. Which didnt go down all together to well with one or two cyber ladies. Ive always been the when I see something I want it kind of girl, whether its good for me or not So as us women do I made my move.I woukd go to work, look after the kids, do the shopping, all the things in life that needed to be done then after the kids went to sleep in to internet world id go, ciggie,, coffee, sarnie, telephone in hand , moby on the side and off i'd go, trying my damndest to win the heart of the man I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. It wasn't easy. Now some would say it shouldn't be that hard, but the heart wants what the wants. We used to visit a particular room together we had laughs, tears,but then the owner of that room and by the way it wasnt a weird room or dodgy, just saying, took an interest in my new love. Now because we hadn't met in the flesh yet some might say well its not real. To me it was the minute he said hi I was smitten, he chased me by the way. I was building up to a full blown relationship I just had to convince him and I did. I knew once we had crossed over from fantasy into reality we could make it work. Problem he lived over 200 hundred miles away. He had brecome cosy in his make believe world and I had to coax him out of it, which wasn't easy.But who said love was. So eventually we arranged to meet up. I fell in love with him the first time I met him, he'a not perfect but then who is, but my journey had only just begun.Fraught with all the pitfalls of a whirlwind romance, entwined with fantasy and reality, oh the internet has a lot to answer for, good and bad.but before you embark on your journey into the world of chat, go prepared, loads of coffee, snacks, money to pay large phone bills, paracetomols for the various headaches you will get, basic comp skills or a very intelligent child that can help you reload right in the middle of a deep and meaningful, crucial point of your life and a very thick skin, patience perserverance. Like they say be careful what you wish for. I' going to leave my story there for now, maybe another evening i will continue because there is a lot more to my story but to be hones I'm tired and the internet doesnt consume my world like it used to, know your limits and besides got to go see what the other half is up to, yes we are together and therein lies another whole other chapter. nite all x
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