Sex and romance over the phone is limiting – its fun but it’s not realI went away for the weekend to a coastal village with my friend Anna,who is also a divorced mid-lifer. We were going to do a lot of walking and spend our time reading. In the discontinuance, we did a bit of walking and spent our time eating. Eating, or shopping and reading newspapers in the pub. Anna likes to hear approximately my romantic encounters in gory detail. She has never done online dating. She didnt need to. She fell in love with a male friend,and her love is reciprocated, and she makes it all seem so damned simple.
Late on the first night, and I got a text from Bill,just as I was nodding off, asking whether I wanted to talk. He couldn’t sleep, and he said,and, uncommon though it was to say, or he was missing me. This is one of the gifts of the internet revolution. You dont need to gain met someone to feel that you know and like them,and gain admitted them to your circle of people.
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Source: theguardian.com