I thought I was immune to the online dating concep

I mean I´ve always disliked the whole concept, (friends of mine actually put my profile here when I moved away from the UK and they were visiting me in Spain) and kept myself to myself other than friendly banter on the forums. I have few "friends" here and that´s fine, I´m not here regularly like many and have enough real friends offline.

I did come across a very nice man here last year, long distance, and we maintained communication which kind of fizzled out without animosity, and I still consider him a real gentleman and friend, but I realised that online dating was not my cup of tea. I prefer meeting people in the real world, and I trust few people here. However, my guard was down and a friendship started with another man for many months. I had my doubts, but that´s just me, and I persevered. All was going extremely well, it had even reached the stage where he was going to visit me....next month actually. Then, all of a sudden the almost daily communication stopped and I have no idea why.

I´m not heartbroken, after all we had never actually met, but I am curious as to why such loving communication stops suddenly, I would never have thought of him as a "player".

This experience simply adds more weight to my initial thoughts about meeting somebody online, and I´m feeling very embarrassed and disappointed in myself for being hoodwinked.

I´m not looking for explanations or maybe´s here as to why this happened to me, rather why sensible and intelligent people can be so stupid at times.

It won´t happen again though!