Fortunately for those of us incarcerated, pen-pal services are just what the doctor ordered.
While connecting with a prisoner may not be the first thing a person in free society might think of to combat isolation, Sigrid and Elodie know the benefits from experience. Elodie said that writing prisoners taught her to not take things for granted, to cultivate hope, and to seize every opportunity. Sigrid shared similar experiences, offering that “your pen pal will change your perspective on life, and you will gain as much as they do from the correspondence.
Some of those connections can become more intimate. For many people, romantic relationships are often complicated by either or both partners focusing on physical intimacy at the cost of the emotional and intellectual intimacy. Romantic relationships that start between a free person and a prisoner invert this dynamic, frustrating physical intimacy but placing a premium on matters of the heart and mind.Tracy Olson said that the dating world places a prominence on surface-level traits.
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