My response won’t be positive i am afraid. Before i met my lovely husband i had a long relationship with a man which was long distance and so we used email as our main method of communication. As can be expected, it all ended in – my – tears, and yes, i had built up an image of a man, even meeting him many times, which was entirely false. I fell in love with this image, which was not real. I only found out later, stopping communication and leaving him gave me all the symptoms of a broken heart, i was bereft, missed his letters. After i had recovered enough to start dating again, half a year later, when i started to do internet dating i made a rule of meeting prospective partners quickly, and avoided any long correspondence online. Never again would i fall into that trap.