There are some really great comments here and I appreciate everyone's input. I did want to clarify a couple of things.

First I want to apologize. I didn't mean to say that I think the guys at EH are psychopaths. I've been amazed at the matches I've been given and am really hopeful that I'll meet someone special.

Second, I don't want to be a permanent pen pal or even a LTPP. The guided communication to open communication was one day. Two to three weeks of emails and phone calls was more what I was thinking, not too lengthy, but definitely not one day.

Third, I think because a couple of guys through the Internet were pushing to meet immediately, I did get the impression that was the norm. I shouldn't have judged everyone by such a small sample.

I do think a lot of the people here are guilty of the same thing. Assuming if a person doesn't want to give up a picture immediately that they've got something to hide. It would be one thing if I had asked for a pic and then wouldn't give mine. There are a couple of reasons besides safety that I didn't want to display my pic.

I'm gorgeous and I don't want the attention of guys who just want to have a good looking woman on their arm and aren't so concerned about substance...Okay, so maybe I'm exaggerating a little bit “not bad” is probably closer to the truth.

I was also thinking that I wanted to test out the theory that I could be guilty of being swayed by looks and so I thought I would (figuratively) close my eyes and let my mind take the lead in this process. Just something I wanted to try.

Finally, I don't want to throw Mr. Right-off-the-bat under the bus. He may be just showing that he's interested and after the comment regarding me waiting five days to send an email...it's possible he may be thinking that I'm not that serious and doesn't want to put a lot of effort into it.

That brings up another question. I did send him a card the first day of OC that had my email...Why was it up to me to send the first email?

ScottK and BlueCondor...I would meet you for coffee anytime. Blue, you made my heart go thump thump.