What do you do when you fall in love with a pen pal?

I was playing an online game a few months ago. Which is something I’m not really into I’m not a gamer or anything. And I met this guy who I had heaps in common with.

We exchanged emails, and have kind of become pen pals. We have amazing deep and meaningful conversations, and I am always so happy when I see I have an email from him. It is just a friendship, we have never talked about it being anything more.

But the last few weeks I have realised something…I think I may be falling in love with this person. And actually falling in love. And I don’t get it…When I go out I have no interest in anyone. Its like no one can compare to my pen pal and the intellectual “connection” that we have. I feel ridiculous saying this, but I think there is something to this…I feel like if we met and there was chemistry, he could be the one.

He is the first person I have ever had this kind of relationship with. Ive never met anyone online before, and this whole thing is scrambling my brains. What should I do?

p.s. I’m in my 20s, so this is not just some teenage “myspace” crush or anything