AG, you say keep trying?....
That means I keep never leraning my lesson. As I said, my attitude was moving in the right direction until what recently happened with a good friend I've known online only for the past four years. This has to do with basic friendship. I've gotten to know her through her own forum and now the one we're both part of now. She made the offer to meet for lunch or dinner and I thought it was great I'd finally meet her. I decided to take a chance and send her my photo in which she replied with compliments. It was soon after that when she suddenly started ignoring me in this forum we both post in. It deals with current events but we also talk about off topic personal things now and then as well. She's always responded to my posts in the past and she's still her usual friendly self with all the other members. This is too blatant how she's no longer responding and someone with an IQ of 50 could put 2 and 2 together and see what's going on. Thing is, she is one of the sweetest people I've met and I thought by now something like this wouldn't happen with her. It's quite obvious knowing what I look like has now changed the positive opinion I knew she had of me. Now I'm afraid she has no intentions of meeting me. Something is going on and this pattern of rejection of friendship for this reason just never fails. I have other women friends in regular life who I know like me but avoid getting together in any situation which means being seen with me in public. It's just too obvious to be anything else and this whole thing hurts like you will never understand.