► SubtleHush wrote:
dollMaker{SaViDa}
'Two months of online does not make a relationship. It can feel like one but until you are in the day to day it's all fantasy and filler.'
"For you that may be so, but for many two months online actually translates to more emotional intimacy, deep communication, and connection than many who live together will have in six months, even longer. "
(Well Doll I guess I hit a nerve in whatever your situation currently is. If you need to see disrespect in my response, that is on you. None was intended nor implied. But by all means justify your position however you need to.)
"Just because you don't understand, or it would not work for you does not mean you should use such disrespectful language, and for those of us who are in successful, fulfilling online relationships, "
(I understand completely. I understand far better than you wish me to. Two months is two months and it is true in many situations I have been involved with or supported people through. Online has virtues but is not, and it will never be real time.)
"what you said was very disrespectful to us and the OP.""
(Us? Who is us? What army of new subs do you speak for? New women online often have the experience the OP had. It is far more important to me that she get a variety of information with which to grow than to be stroked and encouraged to believe that knowing a man for two months was as important to him as it was to her. Clearly she had doubts and clearly they were enough for him to walk.)
(You? I owe you NO explanation at all.)
(But I am curious why there is no age or location listed on your page? Care to share)
Exactly the response I expected, more disrespect (online will never be real time) That says it all.
Us was those of us who don't find online the way you do, including my own relationships, and respect others choices. And before you judge I am as active in the physical world as I am online, or at least I was in the physical world before Covid 19, so respect and hold value in both approaches/medium.
To answer your question, which is none of your business by the way, the Cage is open to Google Bots and data scrapping, in fact Cage admin regularly link to blogs and forum threads via twitter, so I do not consider this a safe place to be open about my personal information, in my profile, or in blogs, or forum posts. Anyone with personal face photos up (google and the way back machine/and others now have that) in my view are taking risks with their life that is not worth it to satisfy the drive by curious, or those who demand such things before trust is earned. So my profile contains all the relevant info I am willing to hang out in public view. Want to know more get to know me, and over time I may let folks in. Of course I don't let everyone in, when they want me to, only when I decide its time.
Privacy is surely a thing to be respected, even in as you call it 'real time' or I call the physical world. Privacy is sacred in the kink world, or should be and being careful with personal information, in particularly on a completely open site, is surely being wise. I open up to those I get involved with once I feel I can trust them, whether just a friend (same in physical world/saved myself grief there too) or a possible kink involvement.
I used to trust far too quickly (what an idiot I was) in the past, and got seriously burned (an ex stalked me, harrased me and caused me major, embarrasing issues in my vanilla life) so my policy from that point forward is trust no one until I feel I can, and that takes time, being slow re this has saved me from a number of what would have been awful situations.
You think that a location or age displayed on here, on any site, can't be a lie? Are you suggesting, hinting that it is some sort of useful proof re who someone might be? I hope not. Paper refuses nothing as some used to say and virtual paper even more so.
Anyway I was responding to your disrespect of online not anything else.
I generally find trying to engage with 'Gate Keepers' and the 'One Twue Way' brigade a waste of time and energy, your response certainly indicates that, so I won't be responding again.