I know this might make me seem like an awful person but as the title says, I online date guys, sometimes multiple at once, without any intention to ever meet them irl or start an actual relationship, when I get bored of one guy I will just find another before winding down the original online relationship or just gradually reply less until he gives up.
I'm a law student so I'm extremely busy with my studies and don't have time for a real relationship, I'm also not big on emotions, I don't naturally feel strong or deep emotions and I'm not very good at comforting others when they do, but I do get lonely and want someone to talk to in a romantic way so this seems like the best solution and is it less obvious that I'm faking an emotional reaction to certain things.
I'm not some sort of sociopath though, I do care about these guys on some level and I avoid hurting them where possible. I never tell them that they are just there to entertain my boredom/loneliness or that there are sometimes multiple guys. One of them even messaged me a few months after we stopped talking and told me that I helped him a lot because he had just moved here from New Zealand and I stopped him being lonely in his first few months here.
Does this make me a bad person or is it just not that deep? I tend to think that the guys are probably also similarly "using" me or are also over exaggerated the depths of their feelings for me.