Can You Block Someone on eHarmony?

Yes. eharmony says you can block people by going to a profile and clicking the Remove contact option. The site warns that once a member is removed this way, the step cannot be restored, so be sure before you click. A second route, Remove partner, deletes someone from your Discover list, and that one cannot be undone either.

Go to the profile of the person you want gone and choose Remove contact.

There is no trial version of this. eharmony says the profile cannot be brought back once it is removed, so treat the click as final. If you are only annoyed, wait a day. If you are sure, do it.

The other route works from a different place. Open the Discover section and click the person's profile. Open the menu in the upper-right corner, choose Remove partner, and confirm.

eharmony says a member deleted from your Discover list is no longer shown to you, that the step cannot be undone, and that deleted members cannot be unblocked.

This is the quieter option. It clears someone from your own view without a confrontation, which suits the woman who was a poor fit and did nothing wrong.

Whichever route you use, the result is the same: it is a one-way door. You cannot unblock the member, and you cannot get the profile back.

That matters for the kind of mistake men make late at night, after a bad evening. A woman who stops replying for two days, or whose last message annoyed you, can look like a candidate for removal at midnight and look like a perfectly good conversation by morning.

A good habit is to sleep on it. Anything you would be unable to reverse should wait at least one night.

Some men try to solve the same problem from the other side by hiding their profile through Data & Settings. That is a different tool, and it does not do what blocking does. eharmony says hiding your profile does not stop members you already communicate with from seeing it.

So if the goal is to end contact with one particular woman, hiding yourself will not work, because you have already been talking to her. Blocking her is the step that does.

If the goal is to see fewer people in general, hiding is the option. They solve two different problems.

It helps to keep the tools apart, because they are easy to confuse.

Remove contact, used from a profile, ends your side of that connection and is permanent. Remove partner, used from Discover, clears the person from your list and is also permanent. Hiding your own profile in Data & Settings lowers how many members see you, and it leaves your existing contacts able to see you.

None of the three tells you to be rude, and none requires a message. Pick the one that matches the actual problem, and you will rarely need to explain yourself to anyone.

Block when someone is hostile, pushy after you have said no, or looks like a fake account. In those cases, the cost of a one-way door is nothing, and you do not owe her a reply.

For the ordinary cases, skip it. A woman who chats for a few days and fades is not a reason to use a permanent tool. a dating coach's advice for the apps is to spend your time on the women who respond, and a quiet match has taken herself out of that group without any help from you. Leave the conversation where it is and move your attention.

Blocking is also a separate act from reporting. If someone is breaking the site's rules, a report goes to the people who can act on it. Blocking only removes her from your own view.

Time spent managing the women you do not want is time not spent on the ones you do. A short routine keeps the list useful.

Each day, start with the women closest to setting a date. Move through the ones you are still getting to know after that, and finish with the ones you only just connected with. a dating coach uses that order himself and spends only a short block of time on it.

Removing someone from your list is cleanup, and it belongs at the end of that block, not the start. The messages that turn a match into a Thursday drink matter far more than the ones you delete.