What classifies as a romantic relationship nowadays?

I think online relationships are just people living out a fantasy of what they would like the other person to be. You have no idea who someone is if you've never even met them.

in my eyes yes, online relationships are real relationships. but it really just depends on what your own definition of a relationship is - ive been in an online relationship w one person for a total of over a year now, and i'm just as committed and loving towards him as i would if our relationship was in-person. i suggest talking to him about it and whether you'd both like to consider it to be a relationship

We ended whatever we had two years ago but people asked me if I dated again after my first boyfriend and I don’t know how to answer that really

I wouldn't call this a relationship, personally

If after 5 months it's still just flirty chat, it's not a relationship. There was no real-life interaction, nor any discussion on meeting up or what the talking would lead in future. You were attracted to whatever character he presented on a screen. If you cared that much about each other, why didn't it go further?

It was an online friendship.

We lived 50 minutes away from each other and I don’t drive a car. He worked part time and was a college student and I was a senior who had gone through a traumatic event- sexual harassment from two guys mainly one and this occurred for 6 months, death in the family- my dog that we had for about 5 years and had other drama going on in my life. It’s not that easy to meet in person when all that stuff is going down as well as working yourself and worrying about studying so I could go to a good college. It’s easier said than done

What would you call it then🤔

...I don’t know if that’s considered a relationship or not especially since we never really talked about if we were considered to be dating or not...

Besides I didn’t tell my mother at the time that I was talking to a college guy I met online and I most definitely wouldn’t have asked her to drive me to see him because she would say no anyways. She said it was weird for a 21 to court a girl who was still in high school, I was 18 at the time so technically according to the law I was an adult but I didn’t have a car and I didn’t want to be in a situation in where I meet him and for some reason he acts like a completely different person besides I never had a huge interested in driving that much especially back then when I had gotten in a minor car accident when my dad drove me to school. No one was hurt but the woman was yelling even though it was her fault anyway which is why she got fined. I had gotten in car accident when I was little too. Please do not judge a situation when you don’t know anything about him or me.

We ended whatever we had two years ago but people asked me if I dated again after my first boyfriend and I don’t know how to answer that really