let me tell you two stories of my success with women on the web. first, there was a woman who instant messaged me as i was signing out of "Christian" chat. my ideas impressed her. my ego believed that. and we started the completely other-worldly thing called a cyber-relationship. we would talk til late at night. she sent me her picture. many, in fact. and we seemed to be getting fairly close.
   about this same time, there was another woman claiming to have some interest in me. i certainly didn't have any commitment to the first woman, and the second sent pictures and seemed very interested in my thoughts and sense of humor. i hadn't spoken of marriage with either, but we were having fun in each relationship. then one of them decided i wasn't someone they were willing to share. without consulting me, she told the other one to leave me alone. they were neither one going to give in and i was in the middle. i was sent transcripts of instant message sessions where one was threatening the other with bodily harm. they were supposedly showing each other my letters and using that to "prove" that my loyalty was concentrated on each of them.
   a night came when one was e-mailing me telling me that the other one was on her way over. i was worried to the point of panic. then she said, "ha ha. i was both people. i do this to fill my time cuz i am dying." my intestines wrapped around my stomach and made me want to scream. i am reasonably intelligent. yet i bought into this rouse.
   far more recently, i met another woman in where else? Christian chat. she was delightful. everyone loves her. she thought i was funny and i thought she was sweet and she came to visit and my family loved her and i thought i had found the other half of me. once again, i was informed that i wasn't what she needed. i was not fond of love before this treacherous cannon to my heart left me breathless and speechless. 

   love is three dimensional. sometimes cyber-folks meet in real life and it increases their love. apparently i or my house or my pets were a crappy third dimension. we had shared pictures. we had fun while she visited. but just as i had been warned, i was dumped like a toxic chemical. you are sitting there saying, "you are an idiot. if you had learned with the first one, the second one couldn't have flushed your butt." sure. i could say that about wives, too. love is eternally optimistic. to avoid it you must become a jerk. i can't do that. life is short. i enjoy it. but maybe saying it out loud to you will make me believe it. be triple careful on the net. love can scorch your tender parts. i have the recent scars to prove it. see ya.