Perfect?

When I said here that Hunter from The Great Wife Hunt was my perfect man that was not quite true, of course that he is safely on the other side of the world makes it easy to say.

A throw away remark that I used in my draft, then retracted, then used I can't say he is my perfect man because we've never met, we've never spoken on the phone and we've barely interacted online. His blog is too new to show the depth of his feelings I'd feel I would need to make such a call and lets face it, that could just be one side of a personality.

What I meant by that line was that the idea that I have formed about Hunter on such a brief showing is one that is attractive to me in many ways, he's someone that if I had the opportunity to meet in real life I would want to get to know further.

I've had a few emails calling me fickle, saying that I profess to be a "loyal one man woman" yet will openly talk of having a crush on The Platypus at the same time as 'admiring' the depth of feeling and commitment shown by Hunter.

Part of me shrugs and says 'it doesn't count' its only online, its not real life but another part of me knows that sometimes its very possible to build up a connection with someone online, to exchange the deep and M's that would take much longer to be brought out in the open in real life face to face meetings but yes there does come a point where we have to meet in real life to see if the thoughts, emotions and ideas that flow between the keyboards can survive in the real world. And that's a scary time.