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Meet online friend IRL, feelings for him. What do I do?

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jo56731 · 28/02/2023 15:25

At weekend I went to meet an online friend I'd been chatting with for a long time. We'd been chatting online for well over a year. We met through a purely platonic site. We'd got to know each other well before our RL meeting and had been in almost daily contact over the time we've been online friends.
When meeting, we seemed so immediately at ease with each other, no shyness or difficult moments.
We're both single.
We live almost 200 miles apart, so met somewhere halfway and had a brilliant day out together before going our separate ways home.
We messaged all the way home on our respective train journeys. Both messaged each other all day the following day (as normal), saying how well it had gone and how well we got on. He's asked if I'd like to meet again soon, just trying to work out the logistics in terms of where to meet.
Since meeting him and having such a wonderful time I get bufferflies whenever his name pops up on my messages! Have been missing him terribly since we parted at the train station. Can't wait to see him again but how do I play this?

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Agreeable · 28/02/2023 15:35

Have your fun, meet up a few times, but don't expect anything long lasting unless one of you is willing to move near the other.

olympicsrock · 28/02/2023 15:43

I think you have been kidding yourself if you think this has been platonic all this time. Your contact has been far more frequent than simple friendship.
The question is do you both feel this way or is one of you leading the other on? Only one way to find out…

Ofcourseshecan · 28/02/2023 16:22

Meet him, enjoy yourself and see what happens! You (presumably) already know he's single and available for a relationship. You've met and you're interested in each other.

Would either of you be willing to move 200 miles if things became serious? Or move to another location that would suit both of you?

Other than that, as with any other budding relationship, you just have to see where it goes. Best of luck!

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