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I do not think that this site promotes emotional relationships in anyway actually -- I had never heard of this site and came here hoping to get advice from someone who had been in a similar situation and how to deal -- it was quite possibly the best thing I've done. I do have friends outside of the internet, that I also talk with, however, one is divorced and the other is planning a wedding -- so I felt they both might be biased one way or the other and instead of receiving the advice I had asked for, I'd get criticized. Here you can ask numerous people, anonymously, and either accept the advice that is given or continue on in your quest for how to deal with the emtions you're feeling at any one given time. Emotional relationships take weeks or even months to develop -- face to face -- over the internet I would imagine, would be much for difficult, and if that person was coming to this site, or another site, to locate people to talk to about an ongoing siuation in their life, chances are they didn't feel comfortable going to their "loved" one, if applicable, or friends to ask for much of the same reason I did or did not. Also this site enables a person to ask BOTH genders or only ONE gender depending on which preference they choose -- that's not something everyone can do on a daily basis with the people that are in their lives and get an honest, un-biased answer/opinion.
I also think, that if a "significant other" "Found out" about them asking for advice elsewhere, and got upset about it, it's more of an insecurity issue within themselves most likely because of being burned by a past relationship in a similar manner...I don't think people that get on this site, bravely opening up their problems to strangers, has room to be criticized for coming here "looking for love" -- quite opposite actually, these people (myself included) have come here just fresh out of love trying to get back on our feet by OURSELVES OR, if there is a way we can reunite with "the One" we're in love with already.
MySpace is more of a social networking type of site...I don't see people posting comments on each other's webpages asking about love advice -- and once again, if a person has come here to ask for non-biased advice, it is most likely they didn't feel comfortable going to someone else, or they went to someone else and didn't get the advice they were looking for.
Hope this answers your question. Ciao!
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