Based on emails and chats from two Danish online dating sites, this paper explores how users negotiate romantic connections via the flirting strategy of ‘imagined togetherness’, linguistically constructing imagery of a shared future. Employing the concept of the chronotope, turn-by-turn analysis shows how users, embedded in the activity of getting to know each other, tenuously communicate romantic interest by hinting at future points at which they might be together. Pivotal to the strategy is a sequential pattern of evading closure and thereby retaining the imagery’s implicitness.