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When digital love faces physical reality

I fell in love with someone online during lockdown and we've never met in person, but now they want to video chat and I'm terrified.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Virtual connection allows for curated intimacy that may not survive the complete vulnerability of physical presence.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Falling in love — the neuroscience and the phenomenology?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.