Testimonies: The dangers of dating an idea rather than a reality 19 Articles

by Ted Sherman

Dating someone you idolize and place on a virtual pedestal is not always a physical danger, but it invariably leads to an emotional disaster for you, the clueless worshipper. The further that person is beyond your reach, t...read more

by Mary Tyrer

Dating seems to be an idea rather than a reality in recent years. This is what has happened to today's dating scene since the introduction of the Internet. Dating before the Internet people would meet face to face and that...read more

by Samantha Vee

Dating an idea rather than a reality? Isn't that something we've all done? You know, where you are so caught up in your idea of someone, that you can't see things as they really are, and refuse to see that person for who/w...read more

by Christina Pomoni

People have fixations, which they rarely admit. Particularly, in love issues they often mistake their obsession for love believing that having someone on their mind 24/7 means they are in love. Obsession could be mistaken ...read more

by Violet Fortune

Many of us are in love with the idea of love itself - for some, it is "love at first sight" more likely "love at first idea!" In the dating game, it's important to distinguish between the idea and the reality before crushi...read more

by Kim Sterling

Dating an idea rather than a reality can sound flat out attractive sometimes. Every woman spends a certain amount of time buried in a time warp with Ben and Jerry or a wonderful man named Greg Norman, wondering if there wi...read more

by Paul Lines

Testimonies: The dangers of dating an idea rather than a reality I had a dream, a fantasy. In these simple words is described one of the really big problems associated with dating, this being the fact that in many cases...read more

by Mary Way

What if I had cared more that he was an illegal immigrant? What if I had taken his drug problem more seriously? What if I had realized sooner that his tendancy to fight wasn't a demonstration of bravery? Yeah, what if. ...read more

by Laura Leigh Fields

The dangers of dating an idea rather than a reality aren't as obvious as crossing the road without looking both ways but can be just as hurtful. Just as a big red truck in the road can hit you, you can get hit by a big dos...read more

by Sideon

There's nothing like falling in love with the idea of someone. It's an exquisite experience in self-torture and self-abuse, the kind that in hindsight makes you wish would grow hair on your palms or make you go blind. Cous...read more

by E.D. Cameron

Prince Charming. I had him. I had walked through the door at the ball, fit the glass slipper on, and gotten a semblance of a happily ever after. To me, my college boyfriend was the ideal man. He was handsome, int...read more

by Hyacinth Gump

It usually happens when a woman is on one of her desperate phases -seeking for an "ideal man" and choosing one far from the ideal. Thus, the only solution is self-delusion - to imagine that the man is actually your ideal m...read more

by Royce Radcliffe

I have had my heart broken by the best in the business. Women who were perfectly sexy, interesting and personable. Whose physical flaws were wonderful because they proved they were in fact human just like me. Whose less th...read more

by Harold Hall

This is an excellent topic. First we have to break down the sub-categories of this type of dater. The first of this type of dater is the long jumper as I like to call them. These are people that become infatuated or fall i...read more

by Kqueen

They would always ask me "What did I see in him?". My response was never right. Then someone finally asked again, and I decided to go home and think about it. I mean really, really think about it. Then, it came to me; and ...read more

by Currie Jean

I want a bodybuilder with perfect blue eyes, a whiz with money and a fantastic cook. I want him to be of my ethnicity and my religion, and I'll never, ever fight with him. He'll be sweet, he'll have gorgeous hair and perfe...read more

by Vicki Phipps

Need, lust and just a bit of temporary insanity are the keys to dating an idea and refusing to see the reality of the one you are dating. For me, his name was Mario. I spotted him from across a crowded room. He was so i...read more

by Michele Crick

Wounded Lovers I thought she was the Goddess of Love who had been lost and by chance or Fate had ended up on the shores of my life. I was inspired by her playful nature and her uninhibited sexuality was something I'd o...read more

by Michelle Alexander

It may have something to do with the fact that I was working at Disney World at the time. For nine months I worked for Disney as part of their College Program, and working for a company that has made billions of dollars of...read more