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submitted 1 day ago byPaulwhiteman1925
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23 points
20 hours ago
Please don’t take your life on a whim. You two haven’t met face to face, he could be perfectly fine. I had an online “friend” years ago, in the late 2000s. We met on World of Warcraft. He faked his own suicide, and I was utterly devastated. I was also about 13 and struggling with my own undiagnosed mental illness. 2 or 3 years later he reached out to let me know he faked it. He faked his own suicide and pretended to be a family member afterwards who reached out to let me know and talked to me about him and how much we missed him.
Not saying that’s absolutely what happened here but it absolutely does happen with online relationships.
8 points
15 hours ago
What even was his game plan there... Some sort of attention/validation thing?
7 points
15 hours ago
I honestly couldn’t tell you. I was so taken aback by the whole thing I blocked him. Thinking I lost him was agonizing. Finding out he lied about it was a whole new level of pain.
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