By Mercy Maliglig
A dream-like offer of love that sounded so real and hard to resist. It was a three month long tale or maybe more that happened to someone I personally know.
The girl who divulged the story hardly use the facebook but that one fateful day when she decided to communicate with a relative in Madrid, Spain to answer a comment, all of a sudden a handsome face popped up in the screen asking to be a friend.
The lady in question ignored the handsome face a few times but he was always there, never gave up until the lady in question who hardly use FB came to a point where she could no longer ignore the man with expressive eyes and a Prince Andrew smile in his military uniform.
His profile picture showed that there is no ring in his finger. Tell me what woman would not weaken her defenses to a pleasant and good looking face like that.
Finally the woman accepted to become a friend to the persistent guy. That’s when he got his chance to start his litany of words of adoration to the woman, relentlessly pursued her non-stop.
That was a new experience to the woman, promises of sharing the splendor of the world, mutual respect and great communications.
This is something new to the girl, though she can hardly believe what is happening to her, at the back of her mind, how could a man who only saw pictures of her on FB can feel so attracted to her that way.
The words of endearment were so powerful, everyday, or maybe every other day, the girl is bombarded with words of being loved and cherished, unbelievably touching
The girl came to her senses and realized towards the end, that these guys in FB must have gone to the same school to hone their communication skills. Words like feeling like a first crush in high school etc., etc has been used and abused.
For the girl, the exchanges of loving words lasted for over three months. It was something to look forward to for a bored lady who decided to just go with the flow.
Another thing is the man’s choice of words, he was pretty decent, not one time he used inappropriate words in his mail. He was so careful, probably to maintain the lines of communication going.
The girl suspected that these guys on FB must have gone to the same school to catch the attention of targeted women. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve heard of some successful relationships that developed from FB not all of them are fraudulent.
There are a lot of stories that ended happily ever after and I say they are the lucky ones.
In all his mails, there was no sign that he wanted anything material from the woman, nothing but words of love and promises that after he gets out of his job where he was planning to retire very soon he would come and marry the lady, he even wrote a letter to the ladies ‘daughter to ask for permission.
Big mistake on his part, none of the kid’s agree, they think he was a fraud. For the mom she is also feeling a big change, unlike before, some weekends. he would disappear, some Sundays, he might sneak in a few sentences in the mail, but mostly he is nowhere to be found on weekends and holidays. Is he a family man unable to get away from his family in the weekends and holidays?
So the testing began, some small questions, little exams which he was not even aware of. Questions like his favorite food and what kind of wine or champagne he likes to drink with his meal which he miserably failed. When one is lying no matter how smart he is, he is bound to fail simple tests like that.
For what he claims that he holds a high ranking position on his job;
he showed no signs of class or sophistication. At the end, we figured he must be a young man with a wife and children somewhere because as we investigated the mails were not even coming from where the location that he said he was.
Finally the story has to end, the woman just block his mail off, must be a shock to him, invested a lot of time and effort to put his nice cunning words together and ended up with nothing.
For the woman, it was like a dream, the words of endearments were missed but as they say, all good things must end especially if it is not real.
So girls, be careful, if you hear someone telling you he wants someone to share the splendor of the world, chances are, they are empty promises or nice words conjured up by a dreamer with no intentions of fulfilling it at all. ****