That moment when you talked to some stranger randomly. Next, you're talking on a constant intervals sharing a part of who you are and goals in life. Everything went smooth and right, just when you thought it couldn't get better, that stranger suddenly went MIA. Poof! Nada! No explanations as to what you did or said wrong. In the blink of an eye that ephemeral encounter suddenly disappear.

Anyone felt the same, at least with some stranger whom you thought you have a connection with?

Don't take it personally hun. It happens A LOT! lol

People are usually talking to more than one person over a period of time so sometimes they click with someone else more than you. And they are usually too cowardly or don't care enough to bring closure to the one they didnt choose. Or sometimes the person is a scammer and tired of waiting around for their pay day. The important thing is to not let your heart get too invested until the person is consistent in their communication for 6 mths or more and until you guys meet in person. :) Good luck to you

Welcome to Mingle. You make an intresting post. I have had files I've worked with of people's encounters with what I call walk-ins. Similar to what you are saying. Join the forums. There is a section for paranormal. You could open a running post. Get people's opinion.
Upload a picture so people can trust you. Good luck.

I have experienced something very similar on another dating site some years ago, but they eventually asked me for money after about a month of exchanging emails, then they disappeared after I said no money was to be sent.

As others have said, until you meet them in person it is best to keep it friendly but at a distance with no personal details, I have learned from it . Good luck in your search.

Ah, yes. Among the most common questions/observations on all such websites.

Best advice to one and all, which should probably be automatically posted whenever anyone signs up, is that

* you never can know who is real on any website. That is, they might be, and they might only be similar to what you think they are. Increasingly, they could be a 'bot.' An artificial internet "lifeform," which parrots just enough human speech to appear to be a person, usually just long enough to gather salable information from the victim.

* Even with real people, you can't know anything for sure. Lots of people have actual real life going on around them. I had one such person vanish for example, for over a year, and then suddenly they were back again. Turns out they'd suffered a severe accident, and been unable to communicate for a long while. I thought they's decided I was defective, and moved on.

* More than anything else, realize that people are just the same in so-called real life, as here. That is, since in every day social life, no one is provided with training to tell people "I've decided to stop talking to you, because I've lost interest, or met someone new, etc" so too here, you wont get any explanations.

So your "without any explanation" fuss, isn't remotely realistic. Think back through your life, of all the people who have come and gone, how many have ANNOUNCED that they were going, and explained why?

I think there is a learning curve with online dating.
I don't believe anyone has had a unique experience here.
I can't imagine anyone trying it that hasn't gone through the same thing at some point.

I just wonder what's going to happen now.

Did you just vent via the forums, got that stress off your chest, and plan on just going back and repeating your approach, and have it happen again and again and again, each time leading to a new frustration, or complaint, aka venting via forums?

Or did you figure out what you have to do and/or what you have to accept in order to avoid going through that, or at least mitigate the stress?

Or are you giving up online dating? Or at least telling yourself you're giving it up, going away, then coming back again?


What next?

Yes, it happens.
Gone.
And when it does I assure myself they were probably
a serial killer anyway.

Experienced it RIGHT HERE ... Ironical ... :)
Still wonder why does that happen ... rather why do people do that. The least that can be done is "give a fair warning" ...