oh please have some more news.......sorry he was married shiney, but would someone tell me how to read the penguin boy story cos i really need a laff....(and im sorry if thats brazenly laughing at shineys man misfortune but im so intrigued!

directions please!

Any more news?

My first thought was 'married man'. Sorry it turned out to be almost certainly the case.

You might be better to post this in Lone Parents.

what is a decent dating site online for single parents? Have been checking dating for parents but its a bit sex crazed over there!!! pls help.

I have too have done the POF thingy and have met some munters but also some guys who have remained friends. My friend met her future husband on there. Like everything there is a risk element.

shiney, I really do sympathise, I was told by friends at age 25 that I really should write a book about my awful experiences with the male species.
Unfortunately now I am alot older but things didn't really change until a year ago when I met a lovely guy.
Believe me its still not plain sailing and we have our moments. I think think it really is true that love comes looking when you least expect it, I had given up this time last year and was just out for a bit of fun ! then along came my guy and I cant believe it is now a year on.
Keep the faith lol

I shall check it out when home later...

Sheeta - I know, I still have a little smile to myself

Not all I dated a few who were ok, one I dated for a while was hot in bed but not bf material. And also met dp on there

I love that there's a man out there, who will forever be remembered by hundreds of mumsnetters as 'cock muncher penguin freak boy'

But I bet they're munters....

Have you been on plentyoffish yet shine? Loads of guys after a shag on there

Huh. At least you have the man there to shag!

Ten pounds says you won't think of the word ' shag ' let alone do it in the next 6 months!!!!

ahhh shagging, with me at 37 weeks PG my DH is lucky to get a snog - and he is a bit scared of me at the mo We were both saying last night that we cant wait to have a good old shag again.

<<summerbird wanders off into a shagging dreamworld>>

I am currently hanging out in lone parents, so thanks for mentioning it..

Friend of mine did mysinglefriend.com. Shall ask what she thought

no shiny was just trying to be encouraging really.

I have major bad luck with men generally (since age 15) !!!

Also read the penguin threads.

Shiney!

You could get a friend to add you to mysinglefriend.com - have heard lots of positives from people!

(disclaimer: haven't tried it myself!)

Raver - no!

Oh Shiney you do know hoe to pick em. At leats you found out now he was marries, I didnt find out for four years after turning up on someone doorstep that he was with someone

OOOHHH.

Have never considered lone parents before..

I will pop over to have a little look later.

Are you trying to make me jealous,lostinthecity?

Come and join us on where have all the fit, interesting and available men gone (part 8) on lone parents.

Where we discuss our internet dating and other experiences.

I did have a shag with someone I met online but it took six months to fix up afterwards he text me saying u r lovelyxxx never heard from him again. He was very fit though but lived too far away. And a bit more articulate in rl than his txts.

And have been seeing someone I met online for about a month/five weeks. He is def single (well I've been to his house anyway) and great sex. Have no idea where its going but don't really care atm

25, 45...I'm not ageist

See as you were on the lookout for plumbers and gas men up to 40 I thought my 25 year old friend might not be the one for you OTOH one of my friends (who is my age) is shacked up with a 45 yr old guy now so I really shouldn't make assumptions.

Oh and fwiw I'm 41 soon and met dp online (as I've said) although he's a fair bit older as I like older guys.

oh no what a dick, just read the car park incident. Think I'd have introduced myself Would've served him right but then again he may have thought you were stalking him (again served him right)

Don't worry Trill - I see you are a positively youthful 24.

I , at 37, am practically in my dotage. Ancient.

Anyway, off to polish the zimmer now...

( just realised I have no idea how old you are sorry, I tend to assume that MNers are 'grown-ups'because they have children but never actually put any numbers to my assumption)

They are rather less likely to be married though - if the fees come up on the credit card as 'match.com'

I know a guy who has joined match.com and he is definitely not a loser. Might be a bit young for you. And in the wrong part of the country. But they're not all freaks.

Oh yeah I can afford it... but I know I'll just get a more expensive kinda loser

Yes it is worth it, go on, try again. Can you afford to sign up to a good dating website?

Oh God, you all see me as someone who is hideously unlucky in love! I'm not, honest! Well, OK I am in some ways - but my life is not a bad luck tale - promise!!

I meet men no trouble really. But the knock backs lately make me wonder if it's bloody worth it!

I will pass on 60 year old boiler fixers but anything under 40 would be considered.

one of my friends seduced the gas man when he came to fix her boiler <ooer> doesnt quite work if he is a 60 yr old fat balding wrinkly tho

Unless you belive the chick lit verson that says that as soon as you stop looking you will magically bump into the manof your dreams.

Do you have any particular daily activities that involve meeting men?

You owe it to MN to give it another go on the dating front. We need another penguin thread.

[sticks out tongue and wishes for a :-P emoticon]

Give it another go. Why not? You do seem to have bad luck (and you should write that book, stop putting it on MN or else they can use it and you don't have copyright) but what do you have to lose? It's more fun to try than not, right?

Ah, right. Sorry. Let me re read it...

<< Re reads >>

<<< Nah, still rubbish! >>>

You were supposed to pretend I'd said somehting good. <pouts like a fish>

But I don't want a fish, Trill. I want a man .

<< wails pathetically >>

Please imagine that I've come up with something inspired and not-gin-influenced to say in an encouraging kind of way - plenty more fish in the sea.

Thank you for those words of support! Am debating on whether to give it another go on the dating front .... Hmmm... decisions, decisions..

Shiney - sorry mate... another twunk bites the dust!

ROFL @ t-shirt boy...

Good Luck with finding a 'bloody shag, preferably with a guy who looks halfway decent, is not thick as a house brick and is also single'... keep us posted!!

<thunk> at t shirt fanny magent guy. but thanks for sharing. did you buy him that drink? i think i might have done, blinded by the sheer awfulness of it all

you soooo have to do it, maybe you could get commission from the zoo for each knob'ead you send to them?

Oh go ON...

I'm even thinking about moving to the Cotswolds just so that every time someone displeases me, I can set them up with a fake blind date at the penguin sanctuary.

Parking ticket - "hello I'm Jane"

Surly bank clerk - "do you like penguins by any chance?"

Snotty Dr's receptionist - "bring bring, hello? Oh, you've got a nice voice, are you single ..."

mwahahahahahahahaha

That has to be a resounding NOOOOOOOOOOO to re enactment of penguin boy...

on dear Shineon. Can't believe you ever want to talk to another man after the chick tik man though.

There's only one way to cheer you up and for him to get his comeuppance. Yep, arrange to meet him at the P p p penguin sanctuary and re-enact that fabulous Good Friday you gave us all! Go on, you know you want to.

Thanks Valley - you know I was just joshing when I called you an old bag - I appreciate your input, and whilst I have to disagree with you on the BB tendencies ( as I explained yesterday, these are my THOUGHTS to YOU, not spilled to him! - I'm a very measured person, on the whole ..) you at least have attempted to give me a kick up the arse.. Sadly, I need no advice on how to get a man- that has never been the problem. It's the err keeping them that is the issue here... And you're probably a decade younger than me, so there!

Thank you Summer - I know he's a knob. Pity I didn't know it yesterday!

er valley are you saying he was so freaked out by her emailing him twice yesterday that he immediately went out and found a woman to go shopping with and pretend to be his wife...?

seriously though what a knob!!! i am sorry as i was convinced it was all innocent (you all see now how it took me so long to find the one, i am the aforementioned hopeless romantic)

and as for fanny magnet guy - what a delightful chap, i see chivalry is not dead!

chin up shineon without wanting to sound like a walking cliche 'they are not all like that' bla bla bla

get back in the saddle and join a dating website, i did it years ago and had a great laugh

what an utter dickhead!

"apart from the old bag who called me a BB"

LMAO@ "old bag"!

Oh come on! Admit your bunnyboiling tendancies!

FFS woman your upset over some bloke you've never met and your obsessively checking your email account. All these other posters are giving you cyberpats but lets get real...

More than likely he freaked out because you were emailing so much. Let them chase you a bit eh?

Yes, it's true. I'm a fairly truthful person really. Find it helps in my job

No book writing, I'm afraid.

Write the book. Immediately. It sounds ace.

Is that really and honestly true? Why would anyone appear in public wearing a shirt that proclaims them to be a prize cock?
At the same time though, sorry to hear that you're plagued by such gimps.

It's a bit boring. Sorry.

Blind date, we had chatted on phone, he seemed nice but maybe a little opinionated. Anyway we meet at a pub. Go in. Stand at bar, he unzips his jacket whilst nudging me and saying ' You gonna get first round in then? I hate tight women- unless it's where it counts ' - with a big leery wink as I cringe.

He takes off jacket. Is wearing a T shirt with a huge rosette emblazoned across it and the words ' PRIZE COCK- WINNER 4TH YEAR RUNNING '

I ask him to put jacket back on. He says, in bemused fashion, ' Count yourself lucky I didn't wear my fanny magnet one .... '

I leave.

The end.

i would pay good money to hear about the fanny magnet.

People have been telling me to write a book for more years than I care to remember..

I could divulge all about JK, the AA man saga,the hassidic Jew episode, the hotel window thing at 5am, the ' fanny magnet ' blind date, the guy who, apropos of nothing, emailed me explicit pics of his err, bottom..

Those are just off the top of my head.

It sounds unbelievable to some people, probably. But if you knew me, you'd soon get used to it all.

Oh noes what a twunt.

Well that is two wastes of skin you have been involved with lately shiney, maybe third time will be the charm.

Onwards and upwards.

On the plus side, I think you should consider writing a book you know. These two specimens plus the ones you mentioned on the 'traumatised for life' thread - there is a rich seam of fuckwittery there waiting to be mined.... gwan gwan gwan gwan.

bastardo !!

At least his wife/girlfriend is going to give him sheer bloody hell for the forseeable.

She might even kick him in the balls for you .

Not really such an amazing coincidence really. He really is very local to me. Am now thinking that's a really bad thing.

I can only think that she found out. Why else would my emails bounce back?

Also I never found out what he did for a living. I asked him and he said ' I sit behind a desk in a job I loathe. ' No further info revealed.

D'you reckon his wife found out? Maybe she insisted that he close down that email address, and that's why it's bouncing.

Oh dear, the car incident really doesn't look good. Amazing coincidence that you spotted it, but it's good in a way that you did, as at least it resolves the wondering. I hope a nice, shaggable man comes along soon.

Vinegar - He didn't see me, no. And I know he won't email again - think the reason my emails bounced back yesterday was because he has closed his email address down. I mean, a server in a work place is not down all day is it?!? Maybe his wife/girlfriend found out. We were just getting into a pattern of mailing and it was all very, well, nice.

If he mailed again, would tell him that I had seen him. Or maybe just ignore him. He won't though. Not really an awful lot to say now is there?

so he doesnt know you seen him does he?

what will you do if he emails you again?

Thanks Posh.

There has been a technical hitch alright

Oh I hate all the ''does he? Dosn't he? Why hasn't he called? I really should be doing something useful and pretend I don't care but can't because i'm worried he hates me milarkey.'' You have my sympathies.
He is probably fine and there is a technical hitch. If it dosn't work out you will find
--someone else to worry about-- a new man!

I have had enough now for a little while I think.

All I want is a bloody shag, preferably with a guy who looks halfway decent, is not thick as a house brick and is also single.

Why is that so fecking difficult?

I found out because she logged onto msn as him and i started chatting as usual, i guess she must have suspected him to have done that in the first place

I never actually met him but he was very full on, called/texted me every day, sent me flowers on my birthday etc... i told his dw everything, even sent her some of the emails he had written to me telling me how much he liked me, she wasn't angry at me as i genuinely didnt have a clue, but she was gutted at what he had been up to, he fooled us both

Oh, how annoying. There are real men out there, I promise, I know someone who met her now DH online, it's just that the anonymity makes it easier for married men to fuck about as well. Bastards.

That sucks Vinegar. How did you find out?

This was only emails for a week, so not so bad really. Just that ' crushed ' sort of feeling!

There won't be any repeat of penguin sanctary's, thats for sure!

Yes, bit disappointed but that's life innit?

Onto the next fuck wit, I feel..

This happened to me a few years back with a guy i meet online, we chatted and emailed back and forth, had phone convos that lasted for hours late at night for about 6 months before i found out he was married to a nurse who worked night shifts

He was a policeman aswell, and went on about how i shouldn't trust anyone online, ironic.

I'm beginning to think it may well just be me! Feel fine about it really, just disappointed as I really liked him << to be said in a really whiny voice...>>

Like I said, he lives about two miles from me. During our emails we talked about all sorts of things and it turned out we have the same car, however his is brand new and bright red and also a convertible.

So, I drop off children this morning at school and nursery and stop off at Focus to pick up a Rug Doctor. Focus shares a car park with Sainsbury's and I'm walking across the car park when I see a bright red car, same as mine - and it's convertible. No one in it, just parked a little way down from the supermarket.

All thoughts of carpet cleaning out my head now... went back to my car, parked it diagonally opposite this red one and waited 40 minutes.

Have only seen some photos of him, but was definitely him. Came out of supermarket with some woman,she was pushing a trolley full of stuff. I just sat and watched as they put shopping in car and drove off.

Do you think there is any chance this is his visiting sister? Maybe his neighbour? Cousin, per chance?

Or do you think that yet again, I've played it wrong and made a mistake?

Married? Bloody hell. What a bum face. I unreservedly apologise for implying you were being a bit of a nicompoop yesterday. I hope you aren't too disappointed, and feel sad for you. Are you going to spill about how you found out?

Oh Shiney, sorry

What an utter twunt.

How did you find out

Right. I read the first few posts then skipped to the end....so he married? fucker.

Cocks like this and the penguin twunt is the reason why i'm still single

<joins the cantfind_a_decent_singlebloke society>

You know you want to tell us...

(sorry by the way, but you have to make the best of it by telling us the story)

Ah fuck it.

Married.

And I found out in hideous way.

Sigh...

Balloon - pmsl - we know the drill.

Any news Shiney?

Shineon, hope you are OK today.

I do hope there's a good explanation and he turns out to be a nice guy.

However. If he does turn out to be married, I have a suggestion.

You could say that this doesn't bother you at all, and suggest you meet up. At a certain penguin sanctuary. You'll be waiting outside...

We all know the rest.

So?

In the meantime why not tell us some more about this man.

I don't understand people who enjoy the flirtatious stage of relationships. I hate it. It is hell. When I was still in the dating game I had a friend who would force me to delete blokes' numbers, texts, logged calls off my phone - anything that would enable me to contact them when pissed and horny at all - she said you have to make them come to you. She was right was well, it really and truly works. But it is a pain in the arse.

<< Clutches at tissue - and a random, passing straw - and feels slightly better>>

Will update soon

Aww <passes tissue>. He will.

Thanks Monty. I hope you're right. Will update tomorrow.

<< dries eyes >>

Shineon - p-p-p-pull yourself together. His e-mail's down. He'll be back.

Yes, we'd like first refusal

I don't have the answer to that one Shiney, if I did, I'd be very rich .... and have a lot of friends!!!

You are one step better off than me though - at least you don't give a toss when you're not too bothered about a man... I'd of still been very upset about Penguin Boy, even if I hadn't been bothered about him!

Anyone out there with a couple of decent brothers or BIL's - let us know!

Your secret is safe with me Chip. I am super cool and don't give a toss when I am not too bothered about a man- or feel ' in control ' or like I have the upper hand- as bad as that sounds. But when I am ' keen ' on someone and it matters to me, then I drive myself mad. Made worse by the fact that I obviously hide it from my victim new man, and keep it all in, so to speak. Hence, I was fine with penguin boy because I didn't really care- with this one, I have allowed myself- in my head- to get carried away.

Why is it so hard to find a normal, funny, decent guy? Who is single?

Answers to me, please.

You are a cow - LOL - now I feel a trip to Leicester Square coming on!!!!

Shusssshhhh Don't tell anyone, but I am exactly like you when it comes to men!! Not a Bunny Boiler by any stretch - just a bit anxious!!

If I was a bloke, you'd be just my type of girl - hang in there, kiss a few frogs and you'll find that amazing ONE

FWIW i dont think you is BB either, i used to be exactly the same before DH, in fact i was a bit like that with DH - he recently admitted I scared him a little at first must have worked tho

I will reserve judgement til tomorrow then Summer.

Then I will know for sure, I think...

Ah thanks Pic. I know I'm not a bunny boiler - I have spilled stuff on here that I wouldn't tell many people in real life, although am lucky enough to have a couple of best pals in R/L who know I'm a nightmare when it comes to men. I appear v cool and confident, but prone to anxiety. Only with men though. Odd, no?

Will paint nails with Rouge Noir and think ...' What WOULD Uma Thurman do...?'

shineon - as i said earlier i think you are fiiiiiine, today was a technical hitch, either his hotmail has crashed or his office have told them off for using it or something. its only one day and i dont reckon he is married (not that i know anything about him mind you but i am a bit of a hopeless romantic )

Aw, I'd be exactly like this, if I even HAD someone nice to email. You're not a bunny boiler, heh.
But chill about the fact you haven't been able to reach him for a day...it's really not that long. Sometimes with blokes, you just have to take stuff at face value - his mailbox has a problem, and tbh I wouldn't set up a new mail account just to email someone while I'm busy at work, no matter how awesome they were.
Oh, and plenty of people don't have email from time to time at home, it's not that unusual.
Have a glass of wine and paint your nails

He he- yes, kids tonight or I would be out, deer stalker at a rakish angle on my head, trawling the one pub in the area he lives in, leaving no stone unturned in my quest for the truth. Posting notices on every lampost I come across, handing out photos to passers by...

Sorry, did someone say ' bunny boiler?!?! '

Kid free this coming weekend - I shall seek replacement object of affections. Or just eat lots of that new limited edition Haagen Daz and stay in bed, mumsnetting and chatting to my pals on the phone...

But still, I will wonder

shineon - you are as well suited to a closed convent as I am!! PMSL You do have a real thing for black and white don't you!!!

anything + men = hassle!!!

PMSL - more defective than detective....

Shine - your knight in shining(s) armour is out there, sadly there's a bit of toad kissing to do first...

I guess you have the kids tonight or you'd be out there - after all it's only a 2 mile radius !

Y'know, I am vaguely thinking wife... I WILL find out. I may be more defective than detective half the time, but I feel the need to know now...

I will report back. I know it's gonna be another loser though.

Just don't decide you need an energy boost and pppppick up a Penguin!!

Shine - I am in awe of how quickly you are 'back in the saddle' after the Penguin Boy drama!!

Waiting is HARD isn't it!! Bet you it's all a technical hitch though!! (Well, actually, a tad worried he has a partner/wife who has found out he's up to no good.... but glossing over that for the time being.... la la la)

Not had contact with him since my last update on the actual thread - he rings from time to time, but I have evaded him so far..

Maybe he has scarred me for life?

I am going to take some vows and join a closed convent.

Me plus men equals hassle!

I'm hoping she mis-typed 'penguin boy is now completely out of the picture'. Tell us that's the case Shiney!

I don't feel very witty or charasmatic tonight Chip. I feel d d d dumped.

Have rallied slightly on reading the posts from Felch though. Highly amusing.

Penguin boy rings from time to time. Caller display is a wonderful thang and he is yet to catch me out...

Thanks for your support. Feel bit better. I will search out another victim man to stalk pursue.

Shineon - come on!! You know someone with your wit, charisma and general zest for life isn't going to get dumped overnight... not when the last thing he said was... well, whatever cheesy looking forward to tomorrow thingy it was....



Poor sod is probably dying with the frustration of not being able to get hold of you... f'ing hotmail has a lot to answer for!!

Email Jane - see what she's up to tonight

BTW - what did you mean when you said Penguin Boy is not completely out of the picture??????????

<< Shiney wells up at how lovely you are - apart from the old bag who called me a BB - and cheers up a bit..

Thanks ABDAB.

We still luv ya!

That's good then. Hope there's an explanation and you get to meet him as you obviously like him. For what it's worth I could be the same about a guy until he made me think otherwise. You're not the only one

We were working up to that! Honest! And not a dating website, he wasn't signed up to anything, he responded to a post that I put somewhere.

It's all irrelevant really though. I don't know why his email address is not receiving my emails but I feel chucked I think

I will get a grip.

I've heard loads of stories from the men's side of net 'dating' Even one's I've dated have said stuff and were royaly dumped and yet seem surprised as to why? Luckily dp is very respectful of women but he was a hard find.

Like I said I hope he is ok for you shine. Bit surprised at all the emails and no texting or asking to meet even if he's so close?

firstly, you've been chatting to this guy for five days, haven't actually met and already he's saying "looking forward till tomorrow" and you're fretting that you haven't heard from him? You need to chill.

But secondly...

He spends a lot of time on the internet, enough to sign up to a dating website (presumably) has a hotmail account which he emails from on a regular basis (twenty times a day to you) and claims he doesn't have email at home? Yeah right.

I would put money on the fact he's married. Anyone who is that computer literate and spends that much time on signing up to websites/emailing would have a computer at home. Why wouldn't they?

He IS local... lives 2 miles away, which makes it even harder..

It is hard work,yeah.Have spent all day thinking about it.I'm not a BB though-honest..

Glad you found your DP

So is he local to you? If he gets back in touch is there any chance of a relationship do you think?
It's hard work isn't it? I met dp on the net but after kissing a few frogs and meeting a couple of ego maniacs.

Valley- The things I have told you on here are what I FEEL not things I have told him...

Bunny boiler!

Shineon, Is is possible that he has come to the conclusion that you are bit of a bunny boiler? You're a bit full on tbh

Summer - hmmm, it's a distinct possibility

shineon just skimmed the 'cock muncher freak penguin boy' story - a classic story if there ever was one! did he ever find out you were Jane?

He he balloonslayer..

Nah, different. Penguin cock is not out the picture totally.

Yes, I am once more on the look out.

I feel this thread could be the tip of a very large iceberg in Shineys quest to find a man..

Thanks Effie

I know that makes sense.

I am not usually so pathetic. Only when it comes to men

- Just a thought though . . . this isn't through the same route you met penguin-fancying-cock-muncher is it?

He couldn't have sent round a warning about you could he?

"Beware she who calls herself Shineoncrazydiamond. She may engineer a situation which leaves you soaking wet and freezing cold, standing in the rain outside a penguin sanctuary while a couple of hundred madwomen cheer on from cyberspace."

Pull yourself together, woman! If he were not responding to emails, you could fret. But you know he's not even getting them! You would be justified in feeling rejected by hotmail in this situation, but you cannot feel rejected by the bloke over this.

Try to think about something else and see what tomorrow brings.

Mummy dragon - please check mumsnet classics - you will see two threads in there about the penguin boy. Enjoy!

You really think he would close an email account overnight? And if he did, would my mails bounce back? Suppose they would.

<<< off for a wank then >>>

you definitely need to take a chill pill

have you considered masturbation

anything to take your mind off becoming all-stalkery

Sorry Shineon, my guess is that he's married and DW has found out, hence panic-stricken closure of email account.

Sorry

To save me trawling through MN, could you fill me in a little on "cock muncher freak penguin boy"????? He sounds lovely.

THIS is why I am not keen on relationships anymore.

I get stoopid.

fret fret fret..

I may have some sort of anxiety disorder.

Nah, don't think he has been near any Mexican pig farmers lately.

I'm just confused as my emails are failing to his address today. This indicates he is not ignoring them - they have not reached him. So maybe it stands to reason that he can't send them either.

I don't know

hotmail has prob crashed, mine does all the time.

I think you are fiiiiiine

Could he be off sick?? Has he been to Mexico recently?

Oh, I know Chubby.

I just can't understand why my emails are failing.

he could be working

seriously, you are going to have to wait way longer than one day to decide a man is not interested in you.

Hi Quint - no, I'm not suspicious, this is early days really. He last emailed yesterday with the words ' looking forward to tomorow already ..'

and now... nothing

Sadly, it's in my nature, control freak.

I am fine if I am not too bothered about someone. I am prone to anxiety if I am ' into someone ', if that makes sense. I DO hide it though, it's very deep down - you lot only know because, well, this is anonymous really.

Could his work have pulled him up on all the private emailing during working hours?

If the workplace has a webfilter, he could now have been blocked from accessing hotmail from work. (so his mailbox may have filled up)

I find it hard to believe that a person who is so into using the internet at work, wouldnt get a connection at home, how do you know he is not married? I would be suspicious....

you're investing an awful lot of emotion in someone you've not even met! calm down love!

My first thought was the same as tkband3's - server down at work. If it's definitely the right email address. If it is a server issue, he wouldn't be able to set up a new email address to send you a mail from. I wouldn't worry about it until at least tomorrow (then you can go ballistic!).

hmmmm....well could be anything. give it til tomorrow before you feel dumped!!

No, Tiff, not yet, so no exchange of numbers, just 20 plus emails a day talking about all sorts.

I feel dumped.

not got to the texting stage yet?

He is emailing FROM work, but using his own hotmail account.Will this make a difference?

<< Wails.. I thought he liked me! >>

<<<<Wails again - I need to get a grip. Am checking my email so often, I'm in danger of getting my very own syndrome >>>

If he's mailing from work, it could be that the server's down at his office. My work mailbox used to frequently fill up and the IT dept would tell me to empty it. So it could well just be that he simply can't email you today for technical reasons.

As you've been having such a laugh over emails, it would be strange for it to suddenly stop, so I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation, although having lurked on your penguin threads, I can entirely understand your slight paranoia .

I think it is fine shineon he might be off work (sickness maybe?) and if so then his work mailbox will get full, mine does at work and sends the same bouncy message back. Ergo if he is off sick then he is at home and not able to email due to broadband issues etc.

I would leave it a day or two, it def doesnt sound like he is blocking you IMHO.

After the cock muncher that was penguin freak boy, I have been 'off' men a little. Finally decided to give it another go, and for the past 5 days have been emailing back and forth with a guy. We have exchanged photos - and he is nice! - and we have a great laugh over email, it all seemed to be going really well..

Today I didn't hear from him, so I finally emailed a ' Hi, how are you?' at lunch time ish. It immediately bounced back with a ' failure notice, saying it could not be delivered as there is a problem with the recipients mailbox. I think this could be because it's full? He hasn't blocked me as I mailed him from another email address and the same thing happened.

Feel bit anxious, like we were getting on so well and then no contact today. He can't mail from home at the moment due to no broadband, so he was mailing from work.

Why hasn't he set up a new email account to mail me from? He's dumped me without meeting me, hasn't he?

Please tell me I am being pathetic.

Thanks.