: mutual respect, trust, honesty, support, fairness/equality, separate identities, and good communication. It seems reasonable to assert that if two people have the ability to bring these qualities into a relationship and/or the ability to let these qualities develop and grow once in a relationship, then 'where' the two people meet, be it at a movie or a tennis game or a church or a club or even in cyberspace, doesn't really matter. Genuine love will grow because it arises out of certain qualities of personality, not where people meet.
Of course, being 'online' means that people are, at least for a specific amount of time, not physically interacting with one another. In other words, they are separate in space and in some cases even time. However, Schneider, Gruman and Coutts (3005: 35-120) report that social psychology research on proximity has shown that while it is certainly more diff
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