Why you ask only about the women? Men also do the same

But yes, I want to believe it is real

your right LOL, I'm sure alot of man are haveing relationships online woman after woman that are never real and they have no attention of makeing it real ,myself I look at online dateing as a great way to meet a woman , I feel that you can learn more about a woman in simple emails or textes that you might never know if you meet her and dated her , it seems woman open up more, there inner self in text more than in person and I to believe it works with man to LOL , learned my lesson for the night with you! Man and woman LOL