Wacky Web Behaviors:Strange Things You’ll Encounter In Online Dating
An unanswerable question
It should be a pretty easy question to answer: “How long have you been single?” But, the online arena provides a perfect place for relationship hoppers—people who are terrified of being alone—to rush to and distract themselves by reading one profile after another, and sending one message after another, until they find someone else to cling onto so they never have to be alone. For that reason, you might realize when you ask that simple question, “How long have you been single?” you’ll either get a long rambling that doesn’t include a clear number, or they will answer every question in your email besides that one. The answer is probably some number that represents, “Way too short for me to have even possibly emotionally healed or reflected on things.”
