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Funnily enough she actually slid into my DMs on Reddit where we were anonymous for 2 weeks before revealing ourselves. She was beautiful, but by this point I was already hooked on her vibe. We quickly moved to IG where we continued to talk for 3 weeks before we began to do calls.

I've never done this long distance thing before btw so this was all new to me. For an entire week after our first call she basically went silent on me, or went really cold and short with her replies. We eventually reconnected with caution. After a couple of weeks of texting and voice notes again, I started hinting at coming down to meet her on the train. She sidestepped it. At first I was like "hmm, maybe she's not comfortable yet".

So for the next 2 weeks I hinted once again, before she sidestepped it again. Then one day she finished work and told me she is moving to Spain for 2 years in August, and she's also out in Thailand in July. At this point, it's now or never. A few days later I give her the most direct "I'd like to meet up". She sidestepped once more. So I laid out my thoughts to her and asked why she's sidestepping meeting up.

She admitted that she isn't scared of meeting up but said meeting up before leaving for 2 years probably isn't the best idea. I agreed with her logic. But because we had such a good connection, I couldn't just discard her... of course I carried on chatting with her for the next 2 weeks.

Then yesterday she came out with something random, she said "You intrigue me so much", basically coming up with a way to test my outlook on life. She asked a question, I answered, and explained why this is my answer. She said "maybe my outlook on life is just bad on my part", I explained why I don't think her mindset is bad and that I like her ambition and drive.

She said: I think you may find it exciting now, but it wouldn’t be continuous. I’d need something that would want something so much more

I said: I know what u mean for sure. And ur saying u don't think I'm the type to "want something so much more"

She said: I didn't say that. Talking about me has no directional meaning towards you.

I said: Fair Enough

She said: Thank you

And I log onto IG today to find out she's blocked me after the end of our chat. 3 months of building a connection, and hoping to meet with her. Just for her to block me. I tried picking this girl up every time she was down or sick. I reassured her whenever she showed signs of insecurity. I complimented not just her looks but her character and her soul. For most of those 3 months we basically shared most of our world with each other. Family info, secrets, philosophy on romance/life, random updates about our day. Everything u could think of, we shared.

Yeah, I'm done with trusting people when it comes to dating tbh.

To clarify, we are a 4 hour train journey away. This wasn't a catfish like one person suggested. She never asked for money or gifts. She is the type of girl that doesn't like thirsty comments regarding her physical looks. She doesn’t like the superficial side of dating due to people preferring her looks over her actual personality and vibe.

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u/Better_Quality4360 — 8 days ago

Hi all, Male aged 25 here, from the UK. I'm looking for feedback or ways to improve my current prompts as I'm in the process of updating my profile a little bit.

I'm currently getting 1-2 matches per week on average, but these are coming from me initiating the matches by sending them a response to their prompts. I get a couple of likes on my pics but I've never received responses to my prompts.

Thanks in advance :)

u/Better_Quality4360 — 11 days ago

I'm currently in a predicament rn where this girl was sending me paragraphs of texts, sharing personal info to me, leaning into the banter, then when I send a meet-up invite she leans in with the message, then ends up disappearing for 3 days whilst still checking out my IG stories.

People that ghost or fade seem genuinely bizarre to me. It takes 3 seconds to say "sorry, I can't make this weekend" or something similar. If the guy can't take rejection then use the block button. Isn't that literally what the block button is for?

Instead, nice guys are sitting here wondering if I actually did something wrong like move too fast to ask for a date. The fact she's ghosting me makes me angry. I can take rejection because it's natural and honest. But being ghosted is disrespectful and is typical of this superficial generation of OLD.

It's the online version of spitting in someone's direction, that's how I genuinely feel! Because they lead you on to a point where you put yourself out there and make yourself vulnerable, only for them to disappear, which makes me think the entire interaction and connection is a complete lie.

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u/Better_Quality4360 — 12 days ago

I'm 25, I didn't date for about 4 years after dealing with some physical and mental issues. Now my confidence is the highest it's ever been so I'm back on the scene again.

I don't remember things being this messed up tbh.

I was talking to one person (we lived like a 4 hour car journey away), so we had to use messaging, voice notes etc to build up the connection. .. I start feeling a really strong pull to this person around 8 weeks in and suggested meeting up. The person breaks the news to me that they are actually leaving the country for a few years and thinks that meeting up before that wouldn't be the best idea.

That genuinely broke me because the person had every possible thing I look for in terms of personality, and the person even admitted they valued me a lot.

I had to come to terms with despite the person being amazing, I could never have her. So I moved on.

On comes along someone I shared mutual friends with from years ago. This other person literally wrote me paragraphs in response, they'd even share personal details about their family, and almost basically pinpointed where their location is now.

They gave me every possible green light in the book. So I hinted at meeting up this weekend for a drink to discuss music etc (they are a music teacher), using humour as that's my ​thing. Their response was "I can handle my drink quite well tbf, only goes downhill when I have shots or when I mix🤣 I am the musical genius x"

So I'm like, cool, I'll ask them if they prefer Saturday afternoon or night. Boom, left me on delivered for two full days after this message. Whilst leaving me on delivered, they viewed my IG story. Keep in mind they don't even follow me. So in order to actually view my story they'd need to either search for my profile, or go to our DM and click my profile pic.

Is this really what dating has come down to in this generation? What's the point in giving green lights just to then leave completely without heads up? Where has respect and honesty gone, or does that literally not exist anymore?

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u/Better_Quality4360 — 13 days ago

I'm 25, I didn't date for about 4 years after dealing with some physical and mental issues. Now my confidence is the highest it's ever been so I'm back on the scene again.

I don't remember things being this messed up tbh.

I was talking to one person (we lived like a 4 hour car journey away), so we had to use messaging, voice notes etc to build up the connection. .. I start feeling a really strong pull to this person around 8 weeks in and suggested meeting up. The person breaks the news to me that they are actually leaving the country for a few years and thinks that meeting up before that wouldn't be the best idea.

That genuinely broke me because the person had every possible thing I look for in terms of personality, and the person even admitted they valued me a lot.

I had to come to terms with despite the person being amazing, I could never have her. So I moved on.

On comes along someone I shared mutual friends with from years ago. This other person literally wrote me paragraphs in response, they'd even share personal details about their family, and almost basically pinpointed where their location is now.

They gave me every possible green light in the book. So I hinted at meeting up this weekend for a drink to discuss music etc (they are a music teacher), using humour as that's my ​thing. Their response was "I can handle my drink quite well tbf, only goes downhill when I have shots or when I mix🤣 I am the musical genius x" So I'm like, cool, I'll ask them if they prefer Saturday afternoon or night. Boom, left me on delivered for two full days after this message. Whilst leaving me on delivered, they viewed my IG story. Keep in mind they don't even follow me. So in order to actually view my story they'd need to either search for my profile, or go to our DM and click my profile pic.

Is this really what dating has come down to in this generation? What's the point in giving green lights just to then leave completely without heads up? Where has respect and honesty gone, or does that literally not exist anymore?

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u/Better_Quality4360 — 13 days ago