Not to long ago I put out an ad on craigslist for a platonic friendship only. I made it clear that I was only looking for female friends. Thankfully no men replied. Anyways, I did get two responses from two women who are about 10 yrs. older than I am. One was single w/o kids and the other has a grown son.

They even liked some of the same things that I did! I was excited and happy at first, but now I'm sad an perplexed as I haven't heard back from them in over a week. One lady did write me back a second time.

The first one told me that she's an introvert too and that she just adopted a kitten. Naturally I asked her about the kitten and if she named it yet and what did she look like. She talked about having a dog and another cat too.

So I told her about my two cats briefly. I then told her that she could email me at my personal email account. I never heard back from her. Was I to forward? Did she maybe feel like she needed to give out personal info that she wasn't ready to share just yet like her email?

What did I do wrong? As for the second lady, in the second email she told me that a friend bailed on her for a concert. She told me that she had an extra ticket to an artist that I think is OK, but I wouldn't pay money to see them. I didn't say that of course. I said sorry to hear that, but although that artist is OK, I have to be more selective about what shows I go to these days due to finances or something like that.

I was stupid to mention money at all since a lot of people are really weird about money. Especially if they have money and you don't. Or especially if you have more money than they do and they're broke most of the time. I should've just said thanks, but I can't go at this time and left it at that.

I talked about some of the same bands that we like too and I kept things short and sweet. I didn't really ask them anything that might seem to personal or nosy I only asked one lady how old her son is since she mentioned him and that's it!

I don't think that I did anything wrong. I feel bad like I said and did all the wrong things though. I did email them within a day or two WTH What did I do wrong? I feel so rejected and worthless. I feel so lonely and depressed most of the time. I did this since the few real life friends that I do have rarely have the time to hang out with me much most of the time. This sucks! I feel like there is something very wrong with me to be rejected and ignored so often!