Why on earth would someone agree to send explicit . . . I just . . . the mind boggles.
I can't even begin to wrap my mind around that.
I have a firm line regarding in game relationships with guys - I don't do it. As soon as someone even hints at flirting with me, or asking what I look like, they are shut down.
I fancied myself in love with someone when I was 19, online. He turned out to be a 56 year old grandfather who died of heart disease a year later. He let me down "gently" by telling me he was a woman, at first. Either way, I had my heart completely broken, and I vowed from that point on, online stays online, and no romance goes there.
It's ten years later and I'm married to a wonderful guy who doesn't touch FFXI that I met at a real life party, not an in game one. But I still remember that emotional trauma.
Whenever anyone asks me for romance advice about ingame relationships, I tell them the best advice I can give them is to stay the fuck away. That's the advice I would have given most of the girls who were being preyed on. And that would have, unfortunately, meant leaving the shell and blacklisting the leader.
It's a pity that such a good organizer turned out to be a bad egg.
I can't even begin to wrap my mind around that.
I have a firm line regarding in game relationships with guys - I don't do it. As soon as someone even hints at flirting with me, or asking what I look like, they are shut down.
I fancied myself in love with someone when I was 19, online. He turned out to be a 56 year old grandfather who died of heart disease a year later. He let me down "gently" by telling me he was a woman, at first. Either way, I had my heart completely broken, and I vowed from that point on, online stays online, and no romance goes there.
It's ten years later and I'm married to a wonderful guy who doesn't touch FFXI that I met at a real life party, not an in game one. But I still remember that emotional trauma.
Whenever anyone asks me for romance advice about ingame relationships, I tell them the best advice I can give them is to stay the fuck away. That's the advice I would have given most of the girls who were being preyed on. And that would have, unfortunately, meant leaving the shell and blacklisting the leader.
It's a pity that such a good organizer turned out to be a bad egg.
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