Ns and the Net

“He had a secret online life that he led involving meeting other women in our town for sex, I signed up for AOL on my own account and got a screen name and began chatting with him and oh the heart break of watching a pic that you took of your husband download…he worked so hard to convince me he wasn’t married.”

 

“Anyway, I never answer the phone anymore. I just let my robotic sounding answering machine do the job. Since I quit doing that, he has started sending me anonymous emails and has been visiting my favorite website posting messages under names that are intended as specific negative messages to me. Makes me sound paranoid doesn’t it? Anyway, he posted something Saturday night on the site where I usually get homework help and I made the mistake of posting something back to him under the screenname of Leave_Me_Alone_Jerk. Now he is calling here again. Big mistake on my part I suppose. I have not posted on the site to get homework help nor have I answered the phone in the past couple of days because I don’t want to reinforce his inauthentic self any more than I already have.”

 

“I can relate to internet stalking.......the stuff you describe is common...The worse is the cumulative effect....As far as I can see, a person would only have to hit you with postings like that a FEW times before you start feel that ANY weird thing is part of it...Because you have no way of knowing which ones aren’t, and there are always plenty of odd things around on the internet. That’s what makes it such a playground for stalkers and bullies...The effect of everything you do sort of naturally doubles itself.”

 

“Remember one thing - N’s love to provoke and every time he throws out the bait and you lunge for it, it’s one for him. Unfortunately when we are intimately involved with N’s they know every hot button and never cease to press it when they feel threatened. Obviously you have succeeded in threatening him otherwise he would not be going to such extraordinary lengths to rattle your cage.”

 

 

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