Some times I do just out of exhaustion, or like others here, I am afraid I might really do something to hurt them. Then I know I have to take it cool. Right now I am going o try to start likning up again with some folks that I having really been avoiding, but I have simply been so brain dead from work that I have'nt been able to do anything social to save my life. Most of them know my trouble, so yeah, I can usually connect again. others it is more difficult, and the longer it talkes to reconnect, the worse I feel about having ducked out, then it's harder to get up the courage to connect. and so on... Hugs, if you are open, he will come back, though after a while you might want to signeal that you are still there.