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So I met this guy through e-harmony. He suggested faster communication so I accepted secure call. ,we talked on the phone for about three months. sent me flowers a couple of times and everything seem to be going well. After a month of talking on the phone and e-mailing ,told me he was coming to visit me since we live in different states. flight and hotel was booked .he called me the day b/f saying that he felt bad and that he was not coming b/c he had met someone b/f me and he felt bad doing this to her, in the mean time he was calling me everyday and talking to me for hours on end, telling me how he was feeling a strong connection with me and that he loved me. I thought that was odd since we had never seen each other in person. He always told me about the other lady and that he had a couple of doubts about her and that he was confused whether to stay with her or start meeting other people, so he finally told her that he was going to start dating other people and she cried and told him that she loved him very much and that he was the one, so she flew to where he is from and stay at his place for two wks. meanwhile he was texting me and calling me everynight and telling me that he was thinking about me all the time while he was with her. I was very confused and told him that we needed to have a serious talk, I called him and told him how I felt about this situation , that it was not fair that he had not put any effort in our relationship and he just got quiet, so one day he call me and asked me for pictures and we agreed to send pics to each other. I kept my promise but he never sent his so I called him to let him know that I did not get his and he was very cold and told me that he was going to pull off b/c he wanted to stay dating the other girl for now and he didnt want to lead me on. Asked me how i felt about it and I was so confused that I just said,, it was not meant to be, the next day I emailed him so he can for once tell me why he pulled off all the sudden and he responded telling me that he was not going to correspond anymore and that he did feel a great love for me , that I was a great woman that any man would want, and left it at that. I never wrote back and its been two months now. Later I found out through FB who he was dating b/c he has a couple of profiles opened with different names and she is his only friend in one of them , I am in one of the others. gave me one e-mail address and another girl a diff. one. After all I kind of miss his lies I guess and his sweet words and flower arrangements. Sometimes I would like to call him but i have pride. what do you recommend?
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forgetting about him and never looking back is what i recommend. sorry.
 
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first of all, you didn't have a relationship. words on a phone and email don't count if you've never met the person. and he sounds like he was cheating anyway- this girl is probably his girlfriend. either way, it was tacky telling you the details of their realationship. he wanted a phone buddy.

next time, don't allow one person to dominate your time with several hours of phone calls daily without meeting ASAP. it just creates a emotional bond that really is based on nothing.

get over him. go out with friends, get back into dating. just be wiser this time.



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So I met this guy through e-harmony. He suggested faster communication so I accepted secure call. ,we talked on the phone for about three months. sent me flowers a couple of times and everything seem to be going well. After a month of talking on the phone and e-mailing ,told me he was coming to visit me since we live in different states. flight and hotel was booked .he called me the day b/f saying that he felt bad and that he was not coming b/c he had met someone b/f me and he felt bad doing this to her, in the mean time he was calling me everyday and talking to me for hours on end, telling me how he was feeling a strong connection with me and that he loved me. I thought that was odd since we had never seen each other in person. He always told me about the other lady and that he had a couple of doubts about her and that he was confused whether to stay with her or start meeting other people, so he finally told her that he was going to start dating other people and she cried and told him that she loved him very much and that he was the one, so she flew to where he is from and stay at his place for two wks. meanwhile he was texting me and calling me everynight and telling me that he was thinking about me all the time while he was with her. I was very confused and told him that we needed to have a serious talk, I called him and told him how I felt about this situation , that it was not fair that he had not put any effort in our relationship and he just got quiet, so one day he call me and asked me for pictures and we agreed to send pics to each other. I kept my promise but he never sent his so I called him to let him know that I did not get his and he was very cold and told me that he was going to pull off b/c he wanted to stay dating the other girl for now and he didnt want to lead me on. Asked me how i felt about it and I was so confused that I just said,, it was not meant to be, the next day I emailed him so he can for once tell me why he pulled off all the sudden and he responded telling me that he was not going to correspond anymore and that he did feel a great love for me , that I was a great woman that any man would want, and left it at that. I never wrote back and its been two months now. Later I found out through FB who he was dating b/c he has a couple of profiles opened with different names and she is his only friend in one of them , I am in one of the others. gave me one e-mail address and another girl a diff. one. After all I kind of miss his lies I guess and his sweet words and flower arrangements. Sometimes I would like to call him but i have pride. what do you recommend?
thanks for any advice.
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I recommend you forget about him. How much nicer it will be to have sweet words and flowers and a bond with a man who isn't playing games.

Next time, don't spend so much time getting involved with a man over the phone/email. Just talk a little bit, until you know whether you want to meet him, and then meet.
 
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Fantasy relationships like that are fun... I had a couple. Yes they can also lead to pain (A lot sometimes!!).

But just remember it is a game, illusion, whatever and learn from it. Now go find a real relationship- like the previous poster said, if you want to avoid this in the future... don't invest so much (time, emotion, etc) before meeting!
 
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If you miss him play that out to the end: say you get back 'together'..do you really want to be the one he's visiting while he's talking on the phone telling another woman how much he misses her? Do you want to sit around and try to guess which lie he'll tell you next?

The flowers and nice words may be pleasant, but to me the uncertainty and shadiness overshadows that. Are the flowers and nice words worth your sanity? Try to remember that the next time you are missing him and in the meantime, try getting out of the house and exploring some interests/making some friends/finding ways to occupy your time.
 
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