Ooh, something I can relate to, finally.
Now, I don't know how many of you have had online 'relationships' (read: clingy faux-sexual pseudo-friendships), but if you have, you may know the situation.

You might meet in a chatroom, or a forum, or even via a friend of a friend on MSN. They'll be lovely at first, because you don't have many people to talk to and they seem funny and into the same kinks. You might talk for weeks, months, or in my case, years. You might even strike up a roleplay relationship, and do your main discussions out of character while your alter ego is in the middle of some great fight or stunning 'orgasm'.

You might even let them talk to you out of character. Fine. They might get a little obsessive. Not so fine. They might insist you be online as much as they are, and fake depression or worse to illicit your sympathy. You might even play along in the hopes they'll get bored and go away.

What do you do when they don't disappear after three weeks of you not being online and being 'invisible'? And when you don't want to block them, as they have so few friends but can't stand another 'Pity me!' whinge?

Help me, guys. This guy won't leave me alone and I'm too nice to tell him to fuck off after five years of contact :(

/Apologies for lack of proper story. May be edited later.
( Bats, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 16:17, 9 replies)

somebody "hacks" your msn...
...and deletes your contacts, you could get all your friends back, but not him, because you only talk to him on msn

;P
(baldpig pee'd in your pool on, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 16:22, closed)

Ugh, but that means telling him that.
I'm so tempted to just block him but I'd feel awful.
( Bats, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 16:27, closed)

^
what, as awful as you feel having him constantly there?

Do it. You'll get over the awfulness and feel much better.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 16:28, closed)

Lies!
Lie as much as you can, get someone to prettend to be your boyfriend and add him and say "If you dont stop talking to my BatDyke I'm going to stove your face through the back of your head."

Or prettend you're male yourself, send fake pictures for authenticity.
(Vikingheadache, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 16:34, closed)

^ correct
I went online pretending to be my 'boyfriend' and went on a rampage about hwo I worked for a computer company and I could track him and kill him. That worked very nicely indeed.
(Ryfelwr can't stop here... this is bat country, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 16:43, closed)

Keep quiet..
Just responding to them less works for me. The abusive ones and the pervs(*) get blocked.

(*)'Perv' here is defined as 'someone who tries to force something you don't want onto you', rather than say respectful kinkster or likeable eccentrics.
(EssY, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 16:56, closed)

Lady, grow a pair and block him.
He's only pixels.
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Thu 5 Jun 2008, 20:56, closed)

@BatDyke
Maybe you should explain to him that you find his clinginess creepy and that he should learn to get a grip on himself and get over his obsessiveness. He should just learn to go with the flow and not whinge at you for not being online enough (read: he needs to get a life).

If that still doesn't work, grow a pair of girl-balls and block him.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 21:25, closed)

Block him
A 100 other people will also have blocked him, don't think you're special to him, he's done this before, they always have. Once you block him, he'll find someone else.

And I know it sounds harsh, you'd like to talk him through it so he doesn't do it to anyone else, but it just won't work because stalkers are never actually interested in what their stalkees want, only what they can get out of them.

Don't feel guilty about it either, you are not responsible for someone else's feelings.
(Jugular, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 10:16, closed)