Wearing your heart on your sleeve

Like most blog readers I get caught up in following other blogger's love lives and in particular their relationships. There are two types of bloggers though, those who remain anonymous like Jared over at Completely Naked, Alex at the The Great Cockhunt and Narcisuss at Synthetic Ego.

But the other type of bloggers are the ones who are almost completely open about who they are, to the point if you didn't know them, you could walk by them in the street and recognize them.

Bloggers like Brenton, from Aussielicious, the NSSG from Single in the City DG from Now Back to the Future all are very open about who they are (they all have pictures of themselves on their blogs) and they are incredibly open about their relationships online.

NSSG and DG have just celebrated their first month together, while Brenton and Mike from SF have decided not to pursue the long distance relationship thing. All this has been put out on their blogs in all it's gory details.

It got me wondering two things, whether the public nature of discussing your relationship online puts more pressure on the relationship to succeed or fail.

We all get the idea that being a famous person and trying to have a relationship is pretty damn hard, as evidenced by Britney and Ex-Fed's recent breakup in the media spotlight. And quite often when a famous couple divoirce or break up they site the intense media interest as a key cause.

But does this translate to the blogosphere as well?

I know that some of our friends read my blog, not many though, and I know the boy also reads my blog. As I have discussed before I don't put too much personal information online more so to protect our privacy that anything else.

I personally would not discuss my relationship on a blog like mine, maybe because we have both been together for many years and we tend to be very private people.

I also don't want the added pressure of my relationship being discussed online, I like and fiercely guard my relationship!

I think it comes down to timing, as far as my website and blog have been concerned I have always been in a relationship so to start talking about it could be perceived as a breach of trust.

So it's with a feeling of hypocrisy and living vicariously though others that I follow the ups and downs of my fellow bloggers relationships, I don't know whether it's good or bad, but discussing your relationship online like this is a very modern concept!

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