In many of these situations, a married man blocking you after weeks of long conversations and sexting is preplanned.
Dating apps have given many married men an escape from their marital issues.
Many of them surreptitiously join dating apps hoping to get something that they aren’t getting from their wives at home.
Famous or not, this is a human being.
Remember that.
People freak out whenever they see or talk to someone famous.
They are testing you to see whether you let them keep referring to you as “honey” or “dear”.
They are hoping you do.
This is his way of getting you to feel more special.
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It is not always a red flag or a sign of a scammer, but listen to your instincts.
If it feels too quick or soon for you both to be getting off the site and going straight to email, let that be known.
There are legitimate people who are very old-fashioned and aren’t too cozy with the prospect of chatting back and forth with a match on a dating app for any extended period of time.
Assuming that you have built a healthy degree of goodwill and camaraderie with this person over the course of these message exchanges, asking how long they’ve been single isn’t a faux pas in and of itself.
That being said, you shouldn’t take the fact that you have had multiple message exchanges with this person as your ticket to be too intrusive or invasive in how you go about asking this person questions.
You still don’t know this person.