Happiness… Or Drama… Is Only a Click Away
Social networks are quickly becoming a very common way for people to find one another and connect. It’s fun to see what other people are doing, and people are finding old friends and lost loves all the time. So, what’s the danger? How about those in committed relationships searching online for past loves? Can publicly socializing and flirting online be dangerous? If you are single, the decision is all yours to make. If you are currently in a relationship, you may want to also consider your partner when it comes to befriending old lovers on social networking sites.
As social networking explodes, many relationships will be confronted with a new set of challenges that were virtually nonexistent a few years ago. Married couples would never just casually phone members of the opposite sex for a private conversation or go hang out with them one-on-one. It would be considered inappropriate and unwise to do so. Now many couples will search out and friend past flames on Facebook and have private chat sessions with each other thinking it is totally harmless. You can chat with your ex-lover on your lap-top while your spouse is in the same room! An innocent exchange can turn into an attraction or even a Fatal Attraction very easily. It can be very powerful. If you friend a former lover, even if you are not actively sending them personalized email, you are passively reminding them of your presence with every wall post. Even if you aren’t seeking contact with your former lover, you will passively receive a reminder of their presence every time they post. Can we be trusted to
maintain appropriate boundaries? I believe one doesn’t have to have physical sex to be in an affair. An emotional affair results any time that you are communicating intimate feelings, thoughts and life events that are not being shared with your spouse.
We tend to idealize the former relationship and fantasize “what could have been” without realizing that what we have is better than the fantasy. Looking for old loves online can feed our fantasies with the potential development of love, creating erotomania in lots of desperate individuals. These are the people I worry about the most. Due to their loneliness they often misinterpret a little casual flirting as a deep romantic relationship. They have an illusion that they have made a strong connection for a significant long term relationship. The are devastated after the other person moves on, they are can’t understand what has happened to the relationship that never existed in the first place. They are almost impossible to
console. This is very sad.
Nancy Kalish, author of the book Lost & Found Lovers: Facts and Fantasies of Rekindled Romance, says that most people begin looking for these lost loves fairly innocently, just for curiosity. In her estimation, these online romances pose the greatest risk to real-world relationships.
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3 thoughts on “Should You Re-Friend Your Ex on Facebook?”
IMHO –
the internet since the mid nineties has made the statement “small world” even more ture.
when a loved one passes on we try to connect via psychic help or dreams, meditation and prayer.
we never give up he hope that maybe one day we will reconnect with a loved one that has passed on.
so in this plane of exisitance why is it a bad thing to want to stay connected to those we love and loved?
intent is very important here in the mindset of not getting hurt. if a person we friend on facebook or myspace or other social media is not wanting to connect with us – and i talk from experience on both sides of the fence – it does hurt. it also can be delightful and a way to catch up on old times. depending on how long you have not been connected and also age factors in as well as to how successful the reconnect can be.
no expectations no disappointments.
~~~metta waves~~~
-quinn
I’d say the chances of an actual, tangible, physical romance emmanating from re-connecting on Facebook are 50/50.
From my experience in readings….some reconnections work out fantastically….while others do not, leaving one party sad and bewildered.
That is when calling a psychic , at the very beginning of the re-connection, BEFORE you get in TOO deep emotionally ,can help you, by the way.
It is difficult to confirm the validity of a relationship until you meet face to face and feel the energy between you two. That is why Facebook relationships, or for that matter any Internet relationships may be misleading.