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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
That's an incredibly insulting thing to say to the people who have deeply meaningful relationships with limited or no face-to-face time.
Do you also claim that marriages where one spouse has been hospitalized aren't "real" anymore? Or that military personnel posted overseas shouldn't have personal relationships because they can't possibly be "real?"
I think we're talking at cross purposes here. I'm speaking about married people ignoring spouses to cultivate another relationship online.
1) Not everyone intends to get married and raise children. That has nothing to do with what I said.
2) What has an obligation to care for family got to do with what kind of friendships a person has? A lot.....IF that friendship takes away from family.
You seem to be saying that online relationships are all about "fun," that there's no other point to them. That they don't provide emotional support, or work towards shared goals, or help each other out in times of need. That they are entirely individual, not connected to a person's family life. (My husband knows where I hang out online. I know where he hangs out. We have some mutual online friends, and some where we don't share any interests in common.)
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Again, I was addressing a completely different issue.
If you can't follow that, ignore it.