One woman feels she has formed a connection with a man she has never met in person, and is considering asking him to be her boyfriend.
On this weeks So You Think You’re an Adult segment, a woman told that she believes she is in love with a man she has only ever talked to online.
“I’m not like these people from the TV show ‘Catfish’,” she told Moncfieff.
“I know this person is real, and I know how stupid my situation sounds.
“My best friend was at a wedding last year and she got tagged in the picture with a guy that I found very good looking.
“I clicked on his profile and liked what I saw, so I hit the follow button.
“He followed me back a few moments later and after a while we got chatting. In the first couple of messages, I quickly established that he lived in Australia.”
Long distance
The woman went on to say that while this did put her off, the two continued talking, and formed a connection.
“I'm now at the point where I'm thinking of deleting the dating apps and asking this man to be my boyfriend.
“My question is, although we've known each other for a year, do you think you can fall in love with and hold down a relationship with someone you've never physically met?”
Meet in person
Broadcaster Barbara Scully said she couldn’t understand why the two hadn’t tried to meet up if the relationship was so serious.
“You cannot, I don’t think, have a proper relationship with someone you’ve never actually met in real time,” she said.
“I think you have to sit and breathe the same space in order to have a relationship.
“Instead of deleting the dating apps and asking him to be the boyfriend, why doesn’t she book a visit to Australia? That'll tell you if it’s real or not."
Romantic
Actress Mary McEvoy agreed, but said she could relate to the situation.
“When I when I was a young woman, I was completely obsessive about men as well,” she said.
"You’d see somebody across a crowded room and you'd have this lovely sort of idea in your head.”
She cautioned that anyone can seem like a ‘Prince Charming’ when you are only seeing them in a heavily curated setting, and warned that the woman may have overly romanticised the man in her head.
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