Response and Commentary on "only five years"

Submitted by Straight_Talk_Luigi (United States), Jul 10, 2010 at 18:16

Let just first say that I agree that five years is really not that long to get know someone over the internet who is in another country.

A lot of what Charlotte says, I suspect, is directed at me. Her comparisons and broad generalizations of American men are no doubt done to try and anger posters like me to go off on a tiff about how "bad" Muslim and Turkish men are in order for Charlotte to feel better about herself.

Listen, if Charlotte was truly happy and trusted and loved her husband as much as she wants to lead us to believe, she would not be searching for this information on-line.

People just don't "stumble" onto this site. If you are on here, you are clearly looking for information. And if you are interacting with posters for the purpose of defending your relationship, you are on here because you are not all that secure with what you have.

A significant other does not have to be a scammer or a liar for their to be issues in the relationship and Charlotte is just one of many posters who comes on here from time to time to make sure we all see her man is so terribly wonderful.

He might even be compared to some of the men she's been with, but it still does not mean that an on-line, international relationship has lead to a utopian existence for Charlotte or any other married woman on here.

You'll notice this on a lot of blogs---people saying that things are well and they are happy, when they storm on here, don't even the blog title or the introduction by Dr. Pipes and approach other posters and their questions with a confrontational style.

Really, it's just a ploy designed to get me all riled up.

As you can observe, it really has not worked.

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