Search Results: no response from him

A long time ago when I used dating sites, I would receive introductory messages by men who would say something like, "I love your photo, tell me more about you," or just plain old, "Hi."

At first I chose not to reply to any of the men I had no interest in. But I would get many of them pestering me with, "I sent you a message. The least you can do is thank me for it instead of leaving me hanging."

So I considered this, and decided to give all men from that point the courtesy of a reply. My reply was, "Thank you for your message, but I don't believe we are compatible. Good luck with your search." Sometimes it was merely a "I received your message. Good luck with your search."

But then I was sent angry responses back such as, "What's your problem? / You don't even know me. / Yeah. No wonder you're single."

As you can tell, I was damned if I did, damned if I didn't.

Even though I'm out of the dating pool, this has often left me wondering how GaG members handled first-approach dating app messages? Do you believe you should send all who are interested a response of some sort? Or do you think you simply don't owe everyone a reply? What do you say or not say?

So yesterday he was telling me that he had to work late. Doesn't make any sense because he had no reason to work late to my knowledge and I know his schedule pretty well. There's only certain times that he has to work late and from what he communicated yesterday it sounded like a usual work day.

Come the morning he's very standoffish response more as if we are friends rather than people that were dating each other or thinking of dating each other seriously and his communication is s***** in comparison to usual. Like it's not as engaging or anything.

Like by all assumptions you could say that he's been cheating. But as he's such a poor communicator - like it's not often he initiates text - it's hard to say and I really don't know if I should reach out or just sit and see what he does