I am curious if anyone else does this.
I was home (as in the place I grew up) for a few days last week. Mom and one sis still live there; rest of us are scattered but decided to all roadtrip in and hang out with each other for a bit.
Through the wonders of Facebook, over the last year or so I've been getting caught up with people I haven't seen since the early '80s. Several of us got together for lunch at a restaurant one of the "kids" (now a middle-aged man, LOL) owns. It was great.
One of the guys I'd always kind of liked -- not really in a "crush-y" sort of way, but just liked because he was really nice to me, which not a lot of people were -- came to lunch. We'd been chatting back and forth via email and FB and I was really looking forward to seeing him.
He sent me a really nice email afterward, which I will excerpt here (having cleaned up his spelling
). It started out as a question about a book.
Quote:
you are seriously one of the FEW people I could have this conversation with Candy. I read the book look ago and have a signed copy by his brother Fred which is really dear (not signed to me) but still cool...
when you coming back??? ...
... it was nice to see you as well. Wish I wasn't such brainless idiot when I was growing up. You are a real treat to converse with. It was nice to remember why I liked you so much, knowledge and class (you have it all)... Let us know when you arrive on the Kansas shores again.
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My chronically low self-esteem undoubtedly has something to do with it, but color me dumb when it comes to relationships (I've tried hard to avoid them, for the most part): Is he just being nice, again? Because honestly, my mom is 80, my sister there has been bugging me for years to move back and help her with mom, and it's halfway tempting. But I do NOT want to pack up and go and pursue anything with this guy (he's divorced) if I'm just being seduced (as it were) by his feeding my starving ego. It's pathetic I can't tell the difference, but it is what it is. The last guy I got involved with because he was nice to me - on the heels of a crappy relationship I had just gotten out of -- ended up in disaster.
Help??
