Posing as someone i'm not online...
The thing is, I told this man I was someone I wasn't because I didn't expect to talk to him ever again. I was bored and annoyed when he first messaged me so I didn't really care. Somewhere in the conversation, I started to get interested in him. But since I had said I was someone I wasn't (wrong name, age), I kept on with it. I started dodging questions about me, and when I did answer something, I'd make it up.
By the end of the 2-hour convo, I felt like talking to him again. He was funny and interesting, and cute in a strange way, MUCH older... totally different from anything I'd go for typically.
He caught me online again and I just couldn't turn him down, and I didn't want to tell him I'd lied. I think he'd stop talking to me if he realized that I was only 20 (he's 43 and not the type who would seem comfortable talking to someone younger)
So this has been going on for a few months now. He wants to meet me in person, but I don't have the heart to tell him that it won't happen because I'm not who he thinks he knows.
I'd love to tell him the truth, but I think it'd offend him more than anything at this point. And I think we're so far into it that there's no just abandoning our conversations.
I know it's not 'normal'... but I'd rather talk to him than hang out with my friends usually. It'd just be nice if I wasn't the only person out there.