Raymond Merrill was in love and not regular love. Not, you know, sit on the couch, been married to my wife for 20 years and we're comfortable together and we've, you know, become one human being, you know, that kind of love you're in after a long-term relationship. No.

Raymond was an exciting love, enthralling love. It was that type of love that you can feel in the pit of your

stomach and it feels familiar, it feels accepting, it feels important, and you must follow it.

Sometimes when we're feeling like this, you know, we can really put other people on a pedestal

and, you know, ignore all of their bad traits and just only look at, oh, my God,

like, you're going to save me. You are going to save me from this experience of feeling unloved and

unaccepted. I will follow you into the dark. That kind of love. He was getting a lot older. He had

been married, but this time was different. And Regina loved him

just as much as he loved her. It had only been two weeks. But like I said, something was different.

He could feel it and he had to be with her. I say he had to be with her because they had never met

before either. It was an online relationship.

A lot of people meet online, but the problem with it is, is that when we meet online, we can hide

parts of ourselves, right? People love to only show the best parts of themselves. This was right

before they were due to be married. Raymond said, with each breath that I

take, I love you more and more. I have more kisses for you than there are stars in the sky. And Regina

responded, I have more kisses and affection to give you than all of the little drops of rain

that stay on your window for an entire dark night. The little drops have the sunlight's most

beautiful color. That's how my love is for you. Oh, he had never had anyone speak to him like this.

So beautifully, so poetically, so enticingly in love. He had to have her. He had to meet her.

That's the other thing about online relationships. It doesn't

matter if someone's hiding something or if you feel like there's still a few red flags along the way.

When you fall into one of these, you want to meet them so badly. You want to have that moment where

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