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Old Feb 01, 2006, 03:28 PM
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I moved this thread to Relationships, because now that's what this is all about.

I haven't replied to my friend's last email to me from Friday, where she apologized and asked for a fresh start. I've been thinking about this a lot, and am becoming increasingly annoyed at the whole thing.

The vast majority of her 'crises' were about her boyfriend announcing that he doesn't want to talk to her anymore, and that it's over. It would send her into a full-blown panic attack and she would be hysterical - trying nonstop to call him, driving 3 hours to his house, obsessively searching for him online so she could beg him to reconsider and to apologize for... things she had no reason to apologize about.

Now with me, she simply sent a short request asking for a fresh start, and that's it. She hasn't tried to contact me since then. I didn't notice it until yesterday, how ironic it was that my advice to her has always been to "respect his decision", and now that she's following my advice and applying it to ME, I'm feeling as though she's not really all that upset about our potential "breakup" as friends. However, if she were any other friend, I suppose I wouldn't jump to that conclusion -- I guess it's just out of character for her to not display major separation anxiety.

One of my RL friends said that it sounded to her that my friend is probably embarrassed and ashamed for going against better judgement. I don't know, but that's a more comforting explanation than any I had come up with on my own.

My options are:
A) put it all in the past and email/call her saying I'd like to start fresh
B) let the whole thing die by not replying to her
C) email/call her to discuss "feelings" (this is not my forte and therefore is my least favorite option)

Anyone care to cast a vote?
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