Did you forget to tell me something?

  As I had stated earlier, cyber dating is hard.  Each day I recieved a bunch of emails from different men, most stating what a great smile I had or some other compliment.  I decided that I would not answer anyone who did not have a picture attached to a profile. But of course I broke my own rule when a lovely email came from a man named Bobby.  His emais were witty and interesting.  He was the age I was looking for and we seemed to have the same interests.  I told him that I needed a picture and he said he would email it to me because he worked for the IRS and did not post his picture online.  That seemed reasonable.  So I gave him my email address and within minutes he sent his picture.  He was handsome, looked like someone I could be friends with.  Each morning, I started looking forward to his emails.  He would email several times a day, Bobby was very respectful and I felt a friendship beginning over the countless emails he sent. 
  After 2 weeks of emailing I noticed a pattern.  He would never email after 4pm and he never emailed on the weekends.  He suggested meeting, but always in the near future, something different than the other men who were writing.   
  One day as I was watching my well hidden addiction to Days of our Lives the soap opera,  A fleeting thought went through my mind, this man was married.  The way he acted, was just like the men on the Days of our Lives who were married and cheating!
  When I recieved an email after watching EJ flirting with Taylor on my favorite soap, I answered it with the question........Are you married?   A return email came back almost immediately, asking if I was married, or maybe a Cougar or Scam Artist.   This was far from the flatterring emails that he had sent. 
  I sent him back a response, saying I was not married, but a widow,  and if he thought I was a Cougar, I was flattered......that was kind of a compliment, yet we were the same age.  And no I was not a scam artist, but he was acting like one.

  He then responded with an email, saying he was so sorry, he was married.  He was so unhappy in his marriage, and writing me with the hopes of meeting me was getting him through his awful situation.  He apologized that he lied, but thought I would not want to be involved with a married man.  He said he was not in a physical relationship with his wife so he felt it was ok to look for love until he could divorce. 
  And they say soap operas were a waste of time,  EJ and Taylor taught me how a married man acted when he was cheating.  
  I sat and reread all the emails.  This man had started to stir feelings in me that I had forgotten.  On paper he was perfect.  He seemed to be everything I wanted.  The catch was I did not want a liar, and did not want another womans husband. 
  Writing him back that I did not want to keep in contact with him anymore was a little sad.  I felt stupid for not figuring it out sooner and falling for his lies.  Bobby responded by email after email pleading with me to reconsider.  My response was always the same, No.  I finally blocked his emails, a little wiser for the experience, but afterall, there was still hundreds of emails to answer.  Perhaps there was a knight in shining armor out there,......or maybe not.