I'm going to come at it from a different angle...
I found an extremely close life long friend here, and he lives nowhere near me. With no names mentioned, I can say that he lives in South Carolina and of course, I live in California. We usually talk a few times a week by phone, and text daily several times. We are there for each other when each of us are going through the good and the bad times. He is well aware that I consider him as close as a brother.
I have many, many other people that I have met here that I consider great friends. We may not communicate on a daily basis, but we call , text, or email each other frequently. A lot of them I see on cam on the chat board here often.
And then, I have also found a very, very special person, who has become one of the best things that has ever happened to me. I have totally and completely fallen in love. Unfortunately, he also is long distance :frown1:, but for now, we have developed ways of making it together.
I can't really tell you how I did it? I guess you would have to ask them. However, I can tell you that one of things that I feel is that everyone I meet, whether it be here or anywhere is a potential friend. If they don't take that opportunity, then that is their loss.
Just because this is a big cock internet site, doesn't mean that there aren't some very special and genuine people here. You just have to give them a chance and the good ones will find you :biggrin1: