Oh the saga of online dating...

A while back I had a very brief conversation with this like perfect match guy online before he kinda ghosted me. I don't even know if it can be called ghosting because we barely chatted. I was bummed. Our percentage match was high, but also just our likes and interests seem to fall inline plus I thought he was attractive. Both of us are also coming off of hiatuses from running too and wanting to get back into physical activity, he's super smart and works in banking but is trying to write a novel. So he has artistic interests, which works for me since I work in the arts.

Anyways, after a break from online dating, when I came back, he showed up again in my matches so I sent him another "hello, and said, I thought we were chatting a while back but then I took a little break." It took him a couple of days, but today he started chatting with me and we actually had a great conversation, really deep and beyond the small talk, and not inappropriate or disrespectful at all. It was a little after 10pm and we'd only been chatting maybe 15 minutes when he abruptly said he had to go to bed, he enjoyed chatting, and hoped we could chat again later.

Anyways, ug, I really want this one to work out. I feel like we've both in the past few years have been through stuff and are now rebuilding our lives. I really enjoyed our conversation together, we were chatting about existentialism and finding meaning and purpose in life. He's coming to terms with going through an existentialist period, and I have come through one myself and feel very comfortable with being spiritual but essentially an atheist.

I just feel like he's going to ghost on me again and I'm not going to beg some guy to continue talking to me. I'm just not sure how to keep him interested or if there is any way to keep him interested rather than just being myself.

I feel like dating in my 20s was so much easier than it is now. There was so much less baggage. For me anyhow.

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