Posted by SLS on February 2, 2013, at 22:19:21
In reply to falling in love with someone online, posted by Dr. Bob on February 2, 2013, at 22:03:31
Great questions!
I can easily understand how someone could fall in love with a cyber pen-pal or an unseen voice on the other end of a telephone.
I'll try to write more later. Time for bed.
- Scott
> Hi, everyone,
>
> Got a call the other day from someone who wanted to interview me. Curious what you all think.
>
> 1) What makes people abandon rational thinking - i.e. falling in love with someone they've never met or seen in person; giving money to someone they've never met?
> 2) Is it desperation to believe? What makes them emotionally vulnerable?
> 3) Why do people fall prey to dating scammers?
> 4) What do people need to look for in themselves so they don't fall prey to dating scammers?
>
> Bob
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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