A little background:
I am still good friends with my best friend from highschool, even though she lives in Texas and I live in Pennsylvania. She's lived there since two weeks after graduation (we graduated in 1994). Its been a great friendship and has stood the test of time and distance. The internet has really helped us stay connected more than anything else.

My friend is currently going through a divorce. Her husband did something terribly stupid and she went from thinking she had the perfect marriage to saying she didn't know the man she was married to. She filed for the divorce early last summer, and it will finally be final in a week or so.

In the past year, she has started going to chat rooms and meeting all sorts of men throughout the country, and even met a few from Europe. She's apparently head over heels in love with one man from London. He's the perfect man - intelligent, handsome, witty, sensitive, successful, humble... not to mention that wonderful accent! Its all sounded too good to be true to me but I let her gush on about him, figuring it was harmless because they were so far away. I chatted with her last night and he's buying her a plane ticket so she can fly to London and meet him.

Woah... warning bells!

I said that sounds odd, why can't he meet you in Texas? She gave me a list of reasons - his work primarily. Well, what about the girls??? (she has three young daughters) and she said her mom or step mom will take them for the time she's gone.

I know someone from message boards who works for the police in England, and I asked her if I could at least have this person do an informal background check on this guy... and she said NO. I told her that she's being too blind to the risk and she said "no, he's good. I know it." Yeah, a lot of women had said that and then ended up in serous trouble. Doesn't she watch tv? All those Lifetime movies about this very thing?

Seriously though, she called me a hypocrite because I met my husband online and had no problme meeting him in public. That I had no problem revealing myself to him. Yes, but I only had an hour drive to meet him... NOT a 12 hour flight. I needed a tank of gas to get there, not a passport!

I'm feeling really uneasy about this, but she is so completely certain that he's a good guy and that I'm the one with the problem.