This can be difficult for me to explain in English (I'm Swedish), but I want to try. My boyfriend since soon one year and I had been together twice before, 1980 and 1986. We were together just for short periods and both times bad things happened which we couldn't handle so we parted. But I had never really forgotten him. Even if I didn't think about him so much in daytime and not when I had another boyfriend, he often popped up in my dreams. He has lived quite near where I live (15 minutes by car!) but we seldom met and when we did we were too shy to talk, we just said hello! Then one day I just got tired of it all and sat down and wrote a short letter to ask B how he was and if he wanted some contact. I gave him my phone number and also my mail address and a few days later an answer came by e-mail. We started mailing and using ICQ but first I was quite uncertain if I really was so interested as we didn't seem to have much in common (now either). But by and by things happened there on ICQ… We talked more and more about how it was when we were together, shared old memories etc. We talked about meeting but were both unsure if it would be a good idea. As for me I was also afraid because… you know: "Third time lucky". I admit that love has scared me! We had contact only on the net for half a year but eventually we met and soon I realised that those old feelings were still there… and now we've also found that we do have a lot in common. What I wanted to say (I think…) was that e-mail and ICQ (or other chat programs) can be very good ways to talk about things you shouldn't dare talk about in real life. As we both have always been shy (at least for each other, because of the strong feelings) we would never have made this without Internet, I think. That was my little story! Berit
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