Would you fly to a foreign country to meet a possible soulmate?

An experience of mine came to mind. Many years ago I met a girl and we dated a little, but I was in the process of moving cross country.

We continued the relationship by phone, the only electronic means back then. And became convinced we were right for each other. I got her a plane ticket and she came to visit for a week. That was enough, it was a mistake, nothing disastrous just when spending that much together time it wasn't right.

Point is I knew her a whole lot better than I think anyone would know someone online, and it still didn't work. Seems to make the odds low for the online thing.

Don't know I could be wrong, but thought this experience might be of some interest.
 
Nathan said:
I think my wife would disapprove. šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø
Click to expand...
Seriously though... what is a "soulmate"? Someone that likes the same things you do? Someone that you are hot for? A combination of the two? Don't we all always start out that way, in a new relationship?

In answer to the question: "Would you fly to a foreign country to meet a possible soulmate?" I'd have to say No. If that person lived in a foreign country, how much real interaction could you possibly have with them? Phone conversation? Even Skype or Facetime or Zoom?

I am a frequent flyer with internet technology but I think that in order to qualify as "soulmate" a person would have to be actually "in" my Real Life, in real-time.
 
Alligatorob said:
An experience of mine came to mind. Many years ago I met a girl and we dated a little, but I was in the process of moving cross country.

We continued the relationship by phone, the only electronic means back then. And became convinced we were right for each other. I got her a plane ticket and she came to visit for a week. That was enough, it was a mistake, nothing disastrous just when spending that much together time it wasn't right.

Point is I knew her a whole lot better than I think anyone would know someone online, and it still didn't work. Seems to make the odds low for the online thing.

Don't know I could be wrong, but thought this experience might be of some interest.
Click to expand...
they do say you don't know someone until you live with them....
 
Jules said:
Today my answer would be no as I just finished reading about a BC girl, 19, who flew to England to be with her online boyfriend. He stabbed her to death.
Click to expand...
Are you kidding?
It should not surprise me since the USA alone is full of parents and grandparents starving their own toddlers to death. Online news recently not only presently.
Daily humans are for that check which I am now worried about my grandson that is systematically being kept from me by estrange daughters and his father his mom died 2016. My daughter.......
 
I don't believe there are such things as "soulmates" but sure, I'm traveling now but for personal reasons and seeking love isn't one of them. I think that I've probably met several women through the years who could I could have spent more time with but we had different dreams, or so it seemed at the time. I don't regret my past and I'm looking forward to my future but I seriously doubt that any love connection, long term, will be a part of it.
 

Would you fly to a foreign country to meet a possible soulmate?​


I think that my soulmate would have to fly from overseas to me now, my wings don't work nowadays, and when I try to flap my wing-arms, all I get is loud slapping noises. šŸ˜Š
 
never got the term soulmate...in my day...you know when we all had barely left the comfort of our caves...anyway...back then you looked for a good provider or at least your parents wanted to make sure you did not move back in....somehow it must have made sense because marriages lasted for decades and not a couple of years...
 
timoc said:

Would you fly to a foreign country to meet a possible soulmate?​


I think that my soulmate would have to fly from overseas to me now, my wings don't work nowadays, and when I try to flap my wing-arms, all I get is loud slapping noises. šŸ˜Š
Click to expand...
Marge-upper-arm-tattoo.jpg

"when life gives you lemons, make lemonade" - Elbert Hubbard
 
Well, almost every time I visit certain social networking sites, I get slapped in the face with banner ads featuring women from Asia, Czechoslovakia, or the former Soviet Union who are just dying to meet me! They all are young enough to be my daughter, and are poised there in leggy reclining poses with ā€œcome hitherā€ expressions. Occasionally I get spam emails from imaginary ladies who read my profile somewhere, and think that we could be ā€œsoulmates.ā€

I respond to none of them, of course, although Iā€™m tempted to meet one from Czechoslovakia so upon our first encounter I could greet her by saying, ā€œCzech mate!ā€ šŸ˜ø

5F8C61EB-6C91-43E3-BAB1-F0D03646BF20.jpeg
 
I have been married twice. The first gal was from Europe. I actually flew there met her and returned the following year and married that gal. Of course, I was 26, finished University and ready to get married. My 2nd gal was a good ole' Canadian born and raise kind of gal. She was wonderful too. Now, being a senior, no, I would not fly overseas to meet some lady. Why? There are hundreds of really nice looking ladies right here in Canada. Maybe I'm getting on in years but I don't see myself even going to another province to find someone. I might drive 2 hours but that's it. I believe in long term dating so being nearby is pretty important. Of course, if your young at heart, fly to Australia or South Africa if you want to. I'm sure there are a lot of nice pretty
ladies in those countries. Each to their own way of thinking.
 
When I was in college I took a few exchange students out and the culture differences were just too much. So no. As other have pointed out, whatā€™s a soulmate anyhow. I think its just an idealistic concept and not necessarily a loving working relationship. There are many aspects to good union.
 
1955 said:
When I was in college I took a few exchange students out and the culture differences were just too much. So no. As other have pointed out, whatā€™s a soulmate anyhow. I think its just an idealistic concept and not necessarily a loving working relationship. There are many aspects to good union.
Click to expand...
Quite true!
 

You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top