It's only polite and reasonable to exchange email but it needs to be engaging...sounds like you in fact tried to do that.There is really not a whole lot you can learn about a person from email though...outside of becoming a long term penpal. You could call him and restrict your number. Some people simply don't come across well in email. If his first question of the phone call is ...where can we meet...it's time to end the call. As far as safety you should apply the same common sense rules to anyone you've never met regardless of whether you first find them on the internet or not.


As far as photos and meeting -don't take this the wrong way, but by way of statistics no photo means there is somethng to hide. The person is married, is in no way shape or form close to the physical description, is 15+ years older than their profile age. The other thing that happens is that women will string along communications because they are not really interested....but what the heck...if the weekend boyfriend goes south at least you can suddenly be available and still have a nice dinner, bottle of wine on Saturday night.I hate to be so blunt but it happens all the time.


Best of luck to you...you do have to be willing to sort through the nutjobs anddead ends mixed along with the decent guys ....we have it the same and probably worse ourselves