I guess this sounds stupid to most people, but I text roleplayed my whole life starting from when I was 13 and have only stopped doing so within the last few months. One thing that would happen in some of these roleplays was of course dating. I never found it odd that adults would date my characters and once I became an adult I never noticed it strange that my character would date characters controlled by minors.

None of these, even when I was the minor were s***** or reaching into not safe for work territory, but there were more than a few innuendo jokes tossed around. Always character to character, never person to person as I thoroughly knew that the person was a minor.

Recently I have been bumping into people who have had adults roleplay with them these dating situations between characters, though most of those adults crossed a huge line by roleplaying s** or the like with them.

Even though I didn’t cross that line, I can see that people are affected by adults roleplaying relationship situations with them and feel awful about it. It never seemed strange to me because these are situations I’ve been in as a minor and I never felt much about it.

While most of them never knew who I was, there’s at least one who does, and I feel the need to say sorry to them, though will refrain as we haven’t talked in three whole years now.

So I guess I’ll say it here to get it off of my chest. I’m so sorry for roleplaying a relationship between our characters despite an age difference between us both. I dearly hope doing so did not affect you, and I now understand that just because something was a typical event to you as a child, does not mean it was correct.

Looking back it just gives me the creeps to think I did that without thinking. I think about all my friends who had the adult take a horrifying step even further and realize that what separated me from those people was a single post. Had I gone as far as them I don’t think I could ever forgive myself.

So yes, I know, all of that may sound stupid to those, not in the roleplaying community but it is a big deal to me.