Closure

I hate it when I’m right. My intuition was correct as I’ve had a message from my Match.com friend informing me that she’s been on a date with someone and it all looks promising. There was the usual set of pleasantries and then she was gone, back into cyberspace from where she came.

In a weird way, I’m now a lot happier. Sure, my list of Match.com disappointments continues to grow at a shocking rate but, rather than being left in the lurch, she at least made the effort to contact me and be honest.

If anything, it was the perfect closure (if you can call it such) because I felt that her sudden disappearance was not something her personality was likely to do. It was so out of character that I was kind of worried something terrible had happened so, even though I didn't have to read the message to know what it contained, I was never the less relieved to receive it.

So yet another valuable Internet dating lesson has been learnt. Never leave anyone on your favourite list too long before contacting them, otherwise someone else will, and you’ll find yourself back onto the Match.com scrap heap.