Love: my question of the week

I was having a conversation with someone a while ago that prompted me to start wondering about something.

Can you love someone that you have never met face to face? I don’t mean loooove them like can you be infatuated or can you form a romantic relationship.

What I mean is, can you form such a delicate attachment to someone through conversing without ever meeting face to face that you can form actual feelings for them? Can you become best friends or think of them like family or even fall in love with someone without ever meeting them?

What are the implications of this? If you ever do meet, will they be the person that you first came to know?

JS Riddle I couldn’t live without the dry humour you provide. I would literally die, or at least I would want to.

Wyndy! I worry over you when you go missing for a day or two! You are family.

I can honestly say that there are some fellow bloggers that I love. I mentioned one of them in my Author of the week post. Sarah C. you are such a good friend and I have the utmost respect for you:)

There are a handful of people that I have met (okay more than a handful) that I consider part of my daily life now. Without them I would not enjoy doing this nearly as much as I do. I would not get all the laughter and the smiles and joy. (Even you Ben.) I would literally be devastated if anything happened to them.

So what do you guys think? Can you develop real emotion for someone you have not met face to face? Inquiring me wants to know.