Met online-all good; photo sent then silence.

Stranger, I went and looked up your picture; there’s nothing wrong with how you look. Same for you, King Bobo (I’ve been at that continental divide!). I think all you can do is like everyone is saying, assume that your looks are not for the person who has dropped you, and not that there is something wrong with your looks.

Were you talking daily online, or on the phone? Is it possible he had a hard-drive crash (like a friend did last week) and got knocked offline…or maybe he forgot to pay his phone bill (like I did) and got his phone turned off for a few days to outgoing calls?

I’d vote for at least trying to contact him once…maybe he fell down the basement steps and is laying there, helpless.

Can you tell I’ve been rejected frequently and have a handy repository of plausible reasons for people not calling?

What an amazing bunch of people populate this site!

Thanks to all of you for your thoughts, encouragement and advice.

The consensus seems to be “move on”. So noted. You are all so right, I do deserve better.

He is history.

Maybe he forgot to log out and his wife caught him.

Or maybe he’s dead.

And he’s weeping in the afterlife because of how we’re treating him. :rolleyes:

I like this excuse the best :smiley:

See? Once you get on a roll, there is no end to the plausible excuses!

Actually, I DID have a guy die shortly after we ended our online relationship. We had met, and there was no spark, and we both moved on, but he had been so nice to just chat to that we had continued to correspond for a short while after. A few months after we stopped talking he died in a freak accident, which didn’t make the local news here until much later. but if we had been chatting during that time, I would have wondered the same thing the OP did, not realizing there was a perfectly good explanation for his disappearance.

So add “Stung to death by bees while mowing” to the list of Plausibles.

Oh, and during our pre-meeting chatting was the incident where my son got me kicked off AOL for life and I lost all my emails, and had to scramble to get another email account and use the library connection. So I was off-line for a day or two right before we met. Nothing awful or sinister in that…just happenstance. Cut the guy a break!

Perhaps he is trapped under something heavy?

Also, having looked at the gallery I am shocked to discover that you are all actual people. And here I thought this was all an elaborate ELIZA program…

:: looks at OP’s pic ::
:: sees good-looking woman ::
:: scratches head in puzzlement ::

He could have been kidnapped by the Russian mafia.

It still is. ELIZA does images now. After the next upgrade, it’ll do video.

There’s also the “I was dating several people online, but one of them got serious” thing.

I vote: Secret Agent! He was suddenly deployed on a critical mission to destroy a secret outpost in the Antarctic. It was built by the Soviets during the cold war, but now is the secret headquarters of a conglomerate of evil-doers bent on global destruction.

If he survives, I’m sure he’ll get back in touch once he returns. ETA: In the meantime, he may be trapped under something heavy while being stung by bees. (And antarctic bees are tough little f*ckers!)

no, no - I think you misunderstand me :slight_smile:

I meant, IME, OKCupid peeps don’t always post accurate pics of themselves. So even what you see is not what you get.

That’s why I did the monthly update thing on my account - people saw exactly who I was. When I met people in person, they were often surprised to recognize me right away - they were so used to the pics not reflecting people accurately.

Umm i think i preferred talking to women and meeting them online prior to pictures being available. I think their was more honesty then… but then i might be simply romanticizing it…

KB it might be that he feels you are out of his league… now that happens… also… he could be one of those dudes who likes to play along until pictures are exchanged… IMO women should never send pics first. There are guys online who collect the pictures… like baseball cards… Yessh… BTW you look great…

Let’s just assume he’s a 12 year-old boy who freaked out when it came picture time.

*The man clicked the email message and in front of his eyes appeared an attractive woman with eyes that twinkled and blonde hair that shimmered in the sun. She was more beautiful than he imagined.

He caught sight of his reflection in a cast-off piece of metal. He was part-man, part-machine, part unknown organic matter - an amalgamation of rusty parts and genetic freakdom. He realized he could never draw this delicate flower of a lady in to his moldy cave for a cozy dinner for two.

The thought of what she would say when she realized the twisted humor that “getting screwed” had become, as he stared down at the Stanley connected to his lap, and a single rusty tear drizzled down his horrific face.

He sighed and turned off the computer screen. It had been nice while it lasted.*

Warbot in Accounting

Funny, but the tie is disturbingly placed. . .

Or just met someone in RL, they clicked & he decided to go with that one.

Until you sent the photo, he’d assumed “King Bobo” was a man.