A very gutsy write Eileen, I think in this day and age there will always be two schools of thought on this complex subject. Love the way you write! love and peace...

Carole

It's always been hard Eileen, even without the net, but now we have cyber love

Yeah, but I remember it being equally hard before the Internet as well. :-) Provocative writing as usual, Lady Eileen. ~~Nordette

Tiddlywinks! Lol, Sorry, Eileen, forgive my filppancy. This is excellent, Love comes in many ways. The net has for some become a means to an end. Unfortunately it's easy to get lost in cyberspace where innoncence can be corrupted.

Paul;-)

"wonder why life and love have become so hard to play"

Because most people have no idea of the higher power of life and love. The ones who have spiritual chemistry can so POWERFULLY align on the internet and of course all other places too. There's just a feel to knowing. It is intuiton, an intuitive resource only the wise sages tap into. They are wiser individuals who would only place truth and honor above all else for spiritual love. Everything has to align with the stars, the natal charts having great meaning and the constellations having a linkage. Lies come from somewhere way down below, the Devil's territory. I do not live in fantasy. I experience what I write on the page! Period! This is a good write, Eileen. It addresses many things inside the crater of everyday living.

Sage

Spot on ....sometimes I think there is no such thing as love....only lies upon lies....and love the biggest lie ever!!

Thanks for sharing sis!!

Love Tinka

for we have "progressed?" to a higher cave

Glad you put that question mark there, Tiger Lily, since I often think we've gone backwards in many ways, not forward. And there truly are many predators out there - everywhere.

Ain't it so true sorry to say. Well done Eileenwith 60% of marriages ending in divorce, makes one wonder where love vanished too.

Andy this isn't just about the internet. I have great friends for years made online. It's about our changed society as a whole. We should never fear to reach out, but we should always keep our common sense and not be caught up in fantasy replacing reality. I've known many people who have suffered greatly from internet affairs, mostly due to lies and wrong assumptions. That neighbors daughter I wrote about, has brain damage from her suicide attempt, and will never be right. It could have happened in any event not just the internet, but cyberspace is just one more way, and a very easy deceptive one, for, especially young people, to be hurt by predators.

Thanks to the net, I've found the sweetest, caring and most unselfish lady friend, as have other peeps. Peeps I hold in high esteem.

And made such great friends who've blessed and enriched my life.

Some people are wired to go for it in life, whilst other are life's spectators. There is more threat in a pub than wisely making new friends from the world over. Life is just one big risk. Fear can damage us holding us in a state of suspended animation.

At every positive opportunity it is good to respond.

What the heck life is for living and loving. No greater power than love love love...

We live in an unforgiving and surreal world these days, where all the accepted norms have been vanquished, to be replaced by the easy come, easy go society that we all now have to endure !
No wonder moral, social and family values have been eroded to the point of no return
The future does not bear thinking about Eileen !
Thanks for having the courage of your convictions, and spilling it out !
Peter

I think you have hit upon the crux of the matter with this one. I do believe you have.