How do I convince my twin sister that a relationship with someone from online is OK?
If you ask me your sister has a problem with style, not substance. She ought to be nicer and more supporting in how she expresses it, but it seems entirely reasonable for her to worry a great deal about you making plans, even tentative ones, to move in (near?) with someone you’ve never met in real life. Contingencies and safeguards are fine, but they still presuppose a base-case of move in, when the far more prudent thing would be to have no such presupposition. The problem with “but unless” decision to move in is that it biases you to see things one way, when you really ought to be eyes-wide-open objective about them. She is most likely aware that people are inevitably going to differ face to face from how they act and appear on line. Many of the most important things in relationships don’t communicate very well, or at all, such as (for example) non-verbal communication, respect for privacy and personal space, balance of time and engery among significant other, friends and family, pro
