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[quote=Anonymous]I have been online dating for the first time for a little over a month now. One guy I exchanged a series of messages with (3 or 4 messages each, we hadn't talked about meeting in person yet, but I thought it might be headed that way) just stopped responding to me a few weeks ago. Up until then, we'd been sort of going back and forth daily – e.g. he wrote me on a Monday, I responded Tuesday, he wrote back Wednesday, etc. Anyway, I had a busy weekend and didn't reply to his Thursday night email until Sunday. After that, he just didn't reply. I figured he met someone he liked better, or I had broken some cardinal rule of online dating etiquette by taking that long to reply.
 
Anyway, in the weeks since then, I have seen him frequently checking out my profile, and tonight he emailed me again. No mention of how he disappeared for several weeks, and it's not a reply to my last email, either – he started a brand-new email.

Is it possible he forgot he'd already been emailing with me? (If it matters/gives some context to how many women he may have been chatting with, we're not in DC but in a metropolitan area of 1+ million, and he's (according to his profile) 34.) He didn't use my name in the new email, but it was much more familiar in tone than the initial one he sent 'introducing himself' to me almost a month ago.

Is this typical for online dating? Do people message for awhile, then disappear for a couple weeks, then start messaging again with no explanation?

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