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 Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:23 pm
BookWhore I don't know but I think I'm calling bullshit on this. 2 years is a long time for something like this to go on and if she spoke with him on the phone how did she not know who it was? Not only that but did she call him or did he call her? It just seems weird and maybe she was trying to give a lesson to the masses. I agree. It's clearly fake. If her grandparents really had done that, they'd be pretty sick people. I hate these kinds of "lessons" anyways. It's JUST as likely that some person you know in real life is totally lying about who they are. I met a guy in highschool whom I dated off and on for years, and after highschool he became a cop...but then it turned out he was never really a cop, he was just insane and believed he was a cop, and he'd bought a uniform and badge out of a catalogue and a cop car from a police auction. And all his family and friends and neighbors believed he was a cop and we never found out until he got arrested. Yet I've met tons of people from the internet in person, and not one of them has turned out to be lying about who they are.
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 10:22 pm
ChaosRocket BookWhore I don't know but I think I'm calling bullshit on this. 2 years is a long time for something like this to go on and if she spoke with him on the phone how did she not know who it was? Not only that but did she call him or did he call her? It just seems weird and maybe she was trying to give a lesson to the masses. I agree. It's clearly fake. If her grandparents really had done that, they'd be pretty sick people. I hate these kinds of "lessons" anyways. It's JUST as likely that some person you know in real life is totally lying about who they are. I met a guy in highschool whom I dated off and on for years, and after highschool he became a cop...but then it turned out he was never really a cop, he was just insane and believed he was a cop, and he'd bought a uniform and badge out of a catalogue and a cop car from a police auction. And all his family and friends and neighbors believed he was a cop and we never found out until he got arrested. Yet I've met tons of people from the internet in person, and not one of them has turned out to be lying about who they are. You make some good points here. We seem to live in the shroud that Online people=evil and IRL people = safe. In reality we're not as safe as we like to think in person either. I guess when it comes to net people I always remind people that if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. I mean come on, if someone has a "hottie" picture up, why are they hitting on you online when they could go out to a bar and have 15 women cling to them? I guess what disturbed me about the story was the age gap. Not that age gaps are wrong, but one would question why a grown man would want a child. Maybe they made the thread just to see how people would react to such a hot button topic. Or just to get attention.
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 2:53 am
It is like the Song in GTO,
"I'm in My 40's and shes just 16, I'm in my 40's and she just 16 "
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:03 am
Interesting. Now if only I can figure out a way to convince my sister to leave the 40 something guy shes with.
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:44 am
BookWhore I don't know but I think I'm calling bullshit on this. 2 years is a long time for something like this to go on and if she spoke with him on the phone how did she not know who it was? Not only that but did she call him or did he call her? It just seems weird and maybe she was trying to give a lesson to the masses. Agree. Either she wanted to stop people from replying to her, or was lying from the start to get attention.
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:00 am
I don't know. I think bits of it may be true, while others are exaggerations. It's a good thing she didn't actually wind up meeting some 40 year old. Still, if someone did something like that to me, I'd be thoroughly ticked and probably never trust them again. I've trust issues to begin with, so if I ever feel betrayed by someone it doesn't take much for me to push them away entirely. I don't even trust my own mother anymore because she's pulled too much crap throughout my life. So, yeah, those grandparents would be in the dung heap if I was that girl. Don't get me wrong though, I'm not saying I approve of a 13 year old and a 40 year old having a relationship. That's just wrong.
My uncle was 15 years older than my aunt and they eloped when she was 18. They had a long loving marriage until my uncle passed away a couple years ago. The differance is that my aunt was already past the whole teen self discovery thing, was more mature than most 18 yr olds, had graduated from high school and was considered an adult.
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:32 pm
chrystiana I don't know. I think bits of it may be true, while others are exaggerations. It's a good thing she didn't actually wind up meeting some 40 year old. Still, if someone did something like that to me, I'd be thoroughly ticked and probably never trust them again. I've trust issues to begin with, so if I ever feel betrayed by someone it doesn't take much for me to push them away entirely. I don't even trust my own mother anymore because she's pulled too much crap throughout my life. So, yeah, those grandparents would be in the dung heap if I was that girl. Don't get me wrong though, I'm not saying I approve of a 13 year old and a 40 year old having a relationship. That's just wrong. My uncle was 15 years older than my aunt and they eloped when she was 18. They had a long loving marriage until my uncle passed away a couple years ago. The differance is that my aunt was already past the whole teen self discovery thing, was more mature than most 18 yr olds, had graduated from high school and was considered an adult. Well said friend.
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:28 pm
chrystiana I don't know. I think bits of it may be true, while others are exaggerations. It's a good thing she didn't actually wind up meeting some 40 year old. Still, if someone did something like that to me, I'd be thoroughly ticked and probably never trust them again. I've trust issues to begin with, so if I ever feel betrayed by someone it doesn't take much for me to push them away entirely. I don't even trust my own mother anymore because she's pulled too much crap throughout my life. So, yeah, those grandparents would be in the dung heap if I was that girl. Don't get me wrong though, I'm not saying I approve of a 13 year old and a 40 year old having a relationship. That's just wrong. My uncle was 15 years older than my aunt and they eloped when she was 18. They had a long loving marriage until my uncle passed away a couple years ago. The differance is that my aunt was already past the whole teen self discovery thing, was more mature than most 18 yr olds, had graduated from high school and was considered an adult. I know looking back at myself when I was 15, I could not have made a rational decision about my love life. I look back now and it's like a curtain of insanity has been lifted. But I couldn't have even made a decision like that when I was 18. However my mother got married when she was 18 and my father was 19. In August they'll have been together for 30 years. Some people are ready earlier than others, but that point before which we consider someone too young to make such a decision for themselves is really necessary. I don't understand why kids are always so anxious to grow up. I guess the grass is always greener... I don't know. I would trade places with them in a second.
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