Virtual Story - Episode 1: Confused

She is a new girl in chat exchanging hi’s and hello’s with virtual friends for about a year and committed in a relationship with someone whom she thinks worthy of investing her time, emotions and devotion on that same environ she thought would help her forget a dark past relationship with someone in real. They’ve been hanging out for about 2 or 3 months already when another guy of the same nationality came along the way and proposed that he is willing to be a “kept man” in that same relationship.

But the girl, being naïve on the ways and things of relationship on the net, refused the offer and hanged on to the former. A decision that Guy #2 respected being a person of good nature and values.

Life moves on for everybody. In the long run, she found out that her boyfriend is singing some romantic tunes on that very same chatroom with her friend behind her back. Fool her once is okay, fool her twice can be understood but fool her thrice and over and over is a nutcase already. She then dumped Guy #1. Although until now, he still kept on annoying her and trying his best to relive the dismayed story of their relationship but to no avail. Several frustrated online relationships made her heart tougher than tough and promised herself that she will adopt the saying, “If you’re in Rome, you should do what the Romans are doing”. If they can play, why can’t she? Enough of the Miss Goodgirl personality. Retaliation? No, just being real in understanding the facts and fallacies of developing virtual intimacy.

While on the other hand, guy #2 had established a better and successful attachment to another Filipina whom he had visited in real. May sounds like a happy-ending affair, isn’t it? But wait, recent news says that they are not going along well and the relationship is on the rocks. How did the girl knows? Guy #2 approached her and hinted about it in between the conversation they had. She doesn’t want to sound nosy and fishing for information so she didn’t bother herself asking the entire story. The first interaction wasn’t the first and last of it. Until now, communication is still stable and whatever would be the outcome of it all, one thing will remain…their friendship is back on it’s track.

Now, for the sake of argumentation, if ever guy #2 decides to win her back again…should she accept it without asking if he is totally relieved of the burden in his past relationship? Should she opt for Guy #1 who is now willing to prove the truthfulness of his purpose to have her back and start a more serious relationship with her? Or should she not believe stories like this anymore and focus on the happiness she gain from having friends and building acquaintances without the burden of a complicated relationship?