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foreverblue06 is offline foreverblue06 Post #1  October 5,2010, 6:54pm
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Hi everyone,

I'm new to the boards and am hoping can get some advice from some of you. I was matched with a guy a couple of months ago, and we hit it off really well. We moved quickly through all the eharmony communication steps and started emailing. Over the course of our messages, we discovered that we have just about everything in common - same favorite music, movies, etc. That's never happened with one of my matches before (let alone someone I've met in the 'real world'), so I was super excited to finally meet the guy and see where things went. We exchanged emails almost every day for a couple of weeks before he asked me for a date, and I responded that I'd love it. I gave him my phone number and full name so he could find me on facebook. He added me as a friend, then I didn't hear anything more from him. I waited a few days and sent him a message just asking how he'd been and whether he still wanted to go out. I was used to his quick responses, so I thought it was weird that I hadn't heard from him within a couple days. Now it's been a week since that second message and still nothing. I'm pretty confused since we got along really well...I wonder if he may have seen something on my facebook that he didn't like, but there's nothing bad on there. He's still my friend on the site...if he's no longer interested, why wouldn't he delete me? What's the deal with him? I know others have had this same general problem.

Here's where I need the most advice: I know I should probably just let the whole thing go, but it's really hard since I got my hopes up so much with this guy. Part of me wants to send him another message and ask him to tell me if he isn't interested anymore. That way at least I'll stop hoping that maybe he'll eventually get back to me and I can put the whole thing to rest for good. Is this a bad idea?
 
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I think you should call him or email him (not text or Facebook message) and not ask anything. Instead, TELL him that if you don't hear from him in a couple of days you will assume he is no longer interested and you will recommence communicating with other matches.
 
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Sorry about your luck sounds like a "poofer" I would not send any more message if he interested he knows how to get a hold of you, try not to question every little detail of what happened or you will drive your self silly and get no where, best to luck to ya ! and welcome to the boards
 
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I have to ask if he had seen pics before? I met a guy through a FCW event here, and the easiest way for him to see photos after we made it to OC was sending him to my facebook page. He sent me on message on FB, asking "Is this ******* from EH ?" and I never heard from him again.
Apparently I was what he was looking for after all!

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What Red said.

I was getting along well with someone on a Free Communication Weekend, who wasn't a member. Even our first few off-site emails went well. I struggled a little with wondering if I could be attracted to him, decided he had kind eyes, and was willing to go forward. But he hadn't seen my pictures. I sent them....and never heard another peep!

(I almost wish he'd just sent something like "thanks but no thanks...I've decided to date locally instead of long-distance" or whatever! It would have lead to less wondering, and a quicker sense of being able to move on to someone else.)
 
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Hi everyone,

I'm new to the boards and am hoping can get some advice from some of you. I was matched with a guy a couple of months ago, and we hit it off really well. We moved quickly through all the eharmony communication steps and started emailing. Over the course of our messages, we discovered that we have just about everything in common - same favorite music, movies, etc. That's never happened with one of my matches before (let alone someone I've met in the 'real world'), so I was super excited to finally meet the guy and see where things went. We exchanged emails almost every day for a couple of weeks before he asked me for a date, and I responded that I'd love it. I gave him my phone number and full name so he could find me on facebook. He added me as a friend, then I didn't hear anything more from him. I waited a few days and sent him a message just asking how he'd been and whether he still wanted to go out. I was used to his quick responses, so I thought it was weird that I hadn't heard from him within a couple days. Now it's been a week since that second message and still nothing. I'm pretty confused since we got along really well...I wonder if he may have seen something on my facebook that he didn't like, but there's nothing bad on there. He's still my friend on the site...if he's no longer interested, why wouldn't he delete me? What's the deal with him? I know others have had this same general problem.

Here's where I need the most advice: I know I should probably just let the whole thing go, but it's really hard since I got my hopes up so much with this guy. Part of me wants to send him another message and ask him to tell me if he isn't interested anymore. That way at least I'll stop hoping that maybe he'll eventually get back to me and I can put the whole thing to rest for good. Is this a bad idea?
do you really need another message sent to him to *know* that he isnt interested?

good golly girl dont put your hopes in one guy like this no matter if you have *everything* in common with him. never ever put your life on hold. you should have been meeting others even if not on eharmony. if you were i dont think you would even be here asking this question
 
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Getting through the preliminaries quickly doesn't necessarily mean anything special with regards to compatibility, it could mean he hates appetizers and bulldozes his way through them as quickly as possible to get to the main course, which he'll leave on the table and sneak out without paying for when he decides he's not so hungry after all.

Was it an FCW? Those always strike me as a bit of an odd thing to have, if a guy isn't willing to pay for the service then he's not really that interested in it, if he communicates on FCWs then chances are it's not really real, he's just racing through as many as possible as quickly as possible while it lasts with no real investment in any of them.
 
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I feel your pain since I have mastered the art of getting my hopes up and then ending up disappointed.

Contact him again if you want, but the unfortunate reality is that many people vanish into thin air even when the other person feels a connection. I know this from experience. My assumption is that if he has stopped communicating, more communications from you will not bring him back unless it was a very extraordinary circumstance that has kept him from communicating. Unlikely, but possible, I suppose.

My advice is to move on. If he eventually contacts you again, great, but try not to read too much into it. And try not to get too attached to future matches until you're absolutely 100% positive that the attraction is mutual.

I sound pessimistic. I don't like being that way but do think it is better to manage expectations than to get disappointed over and over again.

Good luck. You deserve someone who is not going to vanish on you and I hope that you find that person very soon!
 
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I think sometimes people will kinda put all of their eggs in one basket so to speak even. I think so many of us want to be honest and be monogamous in relationships that we focus on only one person at a time - even online - even when we have never actually met that person. This will set one up for huge letdowns. When I was actively doing the online dating thing I starrted that way and then was like what am I doing?

Could be the guy didnt like something on your fb page OR he could have decided dating is not for him at this time OR his mom's sick etc etc. Either way he is not interested. Since you have never met he is not at all invested in you and figures he will not be seeing you so just doesnt bother to answer you - probably figures its easier.

I would not give it a second thought. For all you know he is a convicted felon living with his mother and owes child support to 4 ex wives. You dont really know anything about a person you meet online except what they tell you.

If you ever saw the movie Surrogates think about the beginning when the cute young girl that dies while kissing a cute guy outside a club is in fact a very very large, kinda gross MAN.

Everyone that dates online should watch this movie. This is really what it is dealing with online people. Some are for real and some are not. That is why I always want to meet early on and if not I am not interested.

By the way, I dated online for a few months but to be honest I have found it very difficult because I am a single parent, my child's dad died. Anyway, I am having a blast raising him and I have decided if I meet someone really great and they fit with us wonderful. If not no problem I will just keep going like I am. IT seems the people I have met are either not what they have advertized or they are really looking ot jump in with both feet quickly. I went along with that once and it sucked! He was a completely different person than I thought. Anyway, I decided I just dont have the energy required for online dating. THAT could have happened to your guy, when it got close he just thought nah, "I like my life the way it is" OR the equally common, "this is going to be too much hassel, think I'll just back out slowly"
 
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