Your ex boyfriend wants to find a new girlfriend.
You are his ex girlfriend after all.
Hence, he may have an online dating profile because he wants to give himself the best chance at finding a new girlfriend.
Perhaps he already tried to find a new girlfriend in the real world but didn’t have any luck.
The both of you may have even been in the same social circles and had several mutual friends.
This may have made it that much more difficult for him to find a new girlfriend because he may not want everyone knowing his business.
There may also be several of your mutual friends who have picked sides.
In essence, some of those mutual friends may be against him.
This may have dramatically reduced his chances of finding a new girlfriend in that social circle.
So, he has gone to find a new girlfriend elsewhere.
Right now, creating an online dating profile on an online dating site feels like his best option.
He doesn’t have to deal with mutual friends being in his business or looking down on him.
On an online dating site, he can be as anonymous as possible.
He created an online dating profile because he wants to start getting attention on the online dating site.
He also wants to start searching.
He may not entirely know what he is looking for.
However, there will be a part of him that may be looking for a girl that has some of the personality traits that you have.
He may actually be wrestling with some of this.
On the one hand, he may want another girlfriend that has similar personality traits and even physicality traits that you do, but on the other hand he may not want to find a girl that reminds him of you.
If the both of you had a particularly bad breakup, he would have a higher likelihood of being in this mindset.
As a result, he may hesitate whenever he comes across an online dating profile of a girl that looks like you and has some of your personality traits.
He may initially be tempted to send her a message but then he may hold back.
As he continues searching for romantic matches through the search engine of the online dating site, he may ultimately decide that he wants to meet a girl that doesn’t remind him of you at all.
Again, he may come to this decision if the both of you had a particularly bad break up.
Once he finds said girl, he will most likely send her a message.
If the girl is to respond and suggests meeting on a date in real life at some point, he may hesitate.
This is especially true if he is still emotionally hurt by his break up with you.
At this point, he may actually come to realize that he only created an online dating profile because he is trying to get over you.
He may have never actually thought through what he was doing.
Perhaps, he tries to lie to himself and tell himself that he has gotten over you.
As a result, he meets with this girl in real life.
She really likes him but he realizes that there is something missing.
He can’t really open himself up during the date because he just feels so awkward and uncomfortable.
After the date, he politely says goodbye but in the back of his mind he knows that he has no intention of seeing this girl again.
This is when he finally comes to terms with the fact that he may still be in love with you and has never gotten over the break up.
If you noticed that your ex boyfriend created an online dating profile soon after the both of you broke up, this may be what he has either gone through or is about to go through.