The Guy I Met online

4- The friend request

"On the 16th November 2015, I received a friend request from a player. The avatar that the person was using who sent the request look really good looking (I don't know what I was thinking at the time). I accepted it and thought nothing more of it. I thought it was going to be one of those, "I need loads of friends on my friends list, but I'm never going to talk to them". I'm sure you who's reading this can think of at least one person who has done this."

"But to my surprise I got a message from them minutes after accepting their request."

"I think my first message to them was about meeting up in a chat room to make it easier to talk. Which was what we did in the end."

"When we met up in a chat room and we started talking, I started to get quite relaxed around them, which is weird because it was over a computer haha."

"We started to talk more and more each day, and we started to get a lot closer. What made us connect was that we were both struggling with anxiety and we both listened to each other when one of us needed to talk to someone. We didn't know each other off screen, but we were still there for each other. Which to me, at that stage of my life, was a great feeling to know I had someone there for me when needed."