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The chapter investigates the transition from online to offline relationships. It shows that when online cross-cultural relationships begin to move offline, the legal systems of the nation-state become involved. Love and intimacy across distance are neither fully independent nor left entirely in the hands of individuals. Instead, every nation-state has a system of rules and immigration laws that establish the framework for what is permissible and what is not. Moreover, the chapter illustrates how the role of time and distance in international online dating—which is significantly different from local online dating—makes the process of romance potentially more intense and fast moving when progressing to the initial encounter offline.
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Pananakhonsab, W. (2016). The Movement from Online to Offline Relationships. In: Love and Intimacy in Online Cross-Cultural Relationships. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-35119-3_5
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