Could a couple have a fulfilling married life if they met and communicated only on the internet?

Question

I hasten to add I am not advocating marraige by net - it is just a thought provoking question...

Answer 1

A message will only give you part of the person. Marriage is when two people become one.
Without the inflection and body language a message can easily belie a persons true heart. If that is allowed in a marriage, we miss opportunities to come along side each other to support. Sharing vacations together, mourning loss together, there are moments in lovers lives when word nor even sounds convey their bond. silently connected. Touch is important too, A hug has a hundred different reasons. tickling or playing together make bonds on levels a computer cannot transmit. A stare, a glare, an intense moment shared between the eyes of two who send volumes between them and never do more than a subtle smile.
Nope. The computer is wonderful, but it is no replacement for being there.

Answer 2

I've never heard of one that has worked with all the people I know. It's usually a nightmare. Now if you get a real photo, and spend long enough talking, you may end up getting a clue to their character and personality. However, it is still best to do a personality profile, and see if you are compatible. Those who talk on the internet do so with a sales approach to themselves and are rarely ever giving their correct image. Best thing is to meet (in a very public place) spend the day together, then after that communicate over the internet with focus on a relationship.

Answer 3

I'm assuming that they met and communicated while dating only online and by phone... then they got married and moved into together at the same time without really getting to know each other in person.

My answer is yes, however the first few months of living together will require a good bit of adjustment as you haven't had the opportunity to really get to know how the other one lives in their space.

The great thing about getting to know each other only via internet and phone is that you are forced to learn how to communicate with each other and don't get wrapped up in sex and lust as the basis of your relationship. Granted you'll probably screw each others brains out for a while once you do get together but you will also continue to communicate as you've already learned how to do.

Answer 4

What a frightening thought. I complain that people have become very impersonal communicating only on email, and now you think a marriage. I would never give up the inner peace I have, just knowing my husband is in the same home.
We do not have to talk, just be in the same presence.,

Answer 5

Will they umm.....see each other in real life?
Well, I think they could, but they would definitely need to meet in person first. I think the internet is a good place to get to know ppl, because your defenses are totally down under cover of your "anonymity" so you would say things that you might never dream of saying in person. They might actually know each other more intimately than most for that reason...assuming of course that neither of them was a big fat liar and fake.

Answer 6

I met my husband on the internet but eventually it got old while we were dating so i had to move out to where he was...Ohio to Utah....We were married a couple of months later....very happy!
So marriage over the internet NOPE! eventually its going to become boring and you will want more then an internet connection/relationship. If you and her know you are right for each other then someone needs to move...otherwise you will go looking for other people to satisfy your physical needs and thats cheating and at that point there is no trust and no relationship!

Best of Luck

Answer 7

HECK YES! Why not? It's like meeting any other way, except on the internet you love them for the person they are not the physical appearances. I think it would feel like such a romantic kind of love. Meet her first though because sometimes the weidrest people pretend to be someone they are not, make sure she is all you imagined her to be.

Answer 8

I met my husband through the internet but it wasn't until I knew him in real life that I really knew I wanted to marry him. You should meet them and then go from there. I learned that people are not what they seem by just reading typed messages.

Answer 9

Hell no get off the computer and go out and meet people in the world ! It's not healthy to be cooked up inside all the time !

Answer 10

NO marriage requires both of you to live together and communictae person to person not on a damn computer. Watch out the pen is leaking in your pocket protector.