Hey,
I accidently came across it a couple of days ago when I googled 'I am love shy'. It was really weird to read about what you wrote because that is exactly what happened to me. Exactly everything. Except in this case i'm the love shy guy. And I mean everything. From the description of the guy (including the weird eye thing), to the only being able to communicate through text chat, to the message saying that he wants to be alone AND EVEN THE DATES. But in my case she is a girl, whereas as you are a dude. Sertiously if you wenren't a guy I would have thought it was her that wrote everything you said.
Anyways, I know this sounds weird but this kind of phenomeenon has beeen happening through my entire life. Its called Synchronicity. A meaningful coincedence. Google it, its pretty interesting. Anyways, Can you tell what happened in your situation in the end? I know this thread is old and you haven't been active for months but as my name suggests I dont really know what else to do in my situation. So, I guess everything's riding on whether you enabled the 'email when someone replies' feature thing. Sorry, for writning so much, tbh I don't go on forums a lot and for some reason i felt like i had to reply. I guess it makes me feel better jus writing all of this. Thanks.