<human>: I'm 24, Female. This weekend, I discovered my SO, 28 male, had an active dating site account for the majority of our year long relationship. In January of this year, I asked him to take his account down. Saturday, I discovered it was down for one month, then back up again for the past seven. 

He has been somewhat activley messaging women and getting banter going, telling them how attractive they are, and then making dates that he never goes through with (and said he never intended to go through with). He has given out his phone number,  but he says he blocks their numbers almost as soon as they intially text. 
His explaination for his behavior is that he has not had many friends growing up, and that he wants that extra human interaction. He says that he knows he has me, and we talk about everything, but that I have friends on the side, and he doesn't. He says doing this gives him some interaction that he's been used to for the past four years that he's been using that site. 

I told him that flirting did not equate friendship, and that secret friends were not friends. I said that he had to delete the account and discontinue the behavior, and that we would make friends together. 

He has recently moved to my home town to be with me and to take a job. He spends his spare time with me when he knows he doesn't have to. We live together, and though I try to give him space, he usually likes me to go along for the ride with him. 

Our fight took place over the phone, and we were both tearful. He came home, appologized, and promised to correct his behavior. I promised to do better as a friend, and to listen to him, no matter what. 
Since the fight, he has been extra loving. 
My instinct tells me he loves me, that he knew he was wrong, and that he will correct himself. He says he deleted the account, and I havent' questioned that thus far.

Give me the gist of the text in a nutshell
<bot>: My boyfriend flirted with and asked out other girls via internets, never went through with the dates, appologized, took down profile, and promises to do better.