I'm not going to quote statistics here, since I have none, but given my own experiences, those of my friends, and given the enormous numbers of folks engaging in on-line romances and partner searches, does anybody want to speculate about why these things appear to have such abysmal odds? I finally concluded that part of it is that many of the judgments we make about people are unconscious - stemming from our past experiences, our family-of-origin issues, prior partners, current desires, etc. - and that these judgments simply can't be made until you meet in person. Then there is the whole question of learning information on-line, or on the phone, before meeting the person, and "projecting" onto them the image of what you hope they will be, or what you conjure up based on the info they give you.
Are there any other alternate viewpoints out there? Thanks for the responses.
2007-01-07
10:42:47
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