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It’s quite hard when a man you like, and have a few very nice evenings with, suddenly never calls again.
On my last date with X, which I thought had gone well, with loads of laughter and some intensity, he’d kissed me goodbye, passionately, and then said: -
‘I’ll call you tomorrow’.
He never called.
It’s been two weeks, and he still hasn’t called. I’ve stopped checking my phone for messages, and I’ve stopped checking the obituaries.
I’ve stopped myself from calling him, or texting him, because it was complicated to start off with (Read Chapter 27, he was the Dumpling guy), and I’ve stopped feeling hopeful that it was all just a giant mistake.
But I don’t get it.
He’d gone after me, pursued me with some persistence, had swept me off my feet and then ‘chickened out’. I never told you this, but he’d come back, soon after, apologetically and ashamedly, saying:
‘I made a mistake. I do want to see you. I’m sorry. Give me a second chance, please.’
I was the girl who even though I knew I shouldn’t, I let him back into my life, because he was interesting and different and I saw possibility.
But he did it again. After another few fabulous dinners, champagne, gifts, compliments, and intimate conversation, he disappeared. Second time round.
I’m trying to get my head around this. Was I played? Was he married? Was he a liar? The stories he told me, the ones that were so revealing, did he make them up?
On our last date, he’d asked me a question. ‘If I could do anything better, what would it be?’
I’d thought for a while before answering.
My answer eventually was ‘Communication’. If there is one thing I want in life, it is the ability to talk. To say how I feel. To express what I want. To be honest.
He liked my answer. Hugely. He said he would’ve given the same answer. Which made me smile, because I had thought he could communicate.
It was what had appealed to me. His honesty.
But then. He vanished. Again. In a puff of smoke. Gone. Without a word.
Definitely not communicative.
And I do not understand it. And it is why I keep putting my head in my hands, thinking ‘What the fuck was that all about?’
Whatever it was, I do have to think it was not about me. He had the issues. But it was selfish, mean, nasty and most of all, uncommunicative and cowardly.
And it’s also over. I shall never mention the dumpling man again.
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It’s quite hard when a man you like, and have a few very nice evenings with, suddenly never calls again.
On my last date with X, which I thought had gone well, with loads of laughter and some intensity, he’d kissed me goodbye, passionately, and then said: -
‘I’ll call you tomorrow’.
He never called.
It’s been two weeks, and he still hasn’t called. I’ve stopped checking my phone for messages, and I’ve stopped checking the obituaries.
I’ve stopped myself from calling him, or texting him, because it was complicated to start off with (Read Chapter 27, he was the Dumpling guy), and I’ve stopped feeling hopeful that it was all just a giant mistake.
But I don’t get it.
He’d gone after me, pursued me with some persistence, had swept me off my feet and then ‘chickened out’. I never told you this, but he’d come back, soon after, apologetically and ashamedly, saying:
‘I made a mistake. I do want to see you. I’m sorry. Give me a second chance, please.’
I was the girl who even though I knew I shouldn’t, I let him back into my life, because he was interesting and different and I saw possibility.
But he did it again. After another few fabulous dinners, champagne, gifts, compliments, and intimate conversation, he disappeared. Second time round.
I’m trying to get my head around this. Was I played? Was he married? Was he a liar? The stories he told me, the ones that were so revealing, did he make them up?
On our last date, he’d asked me a question. ‘If I could do anything better, what would it be?’
I’d thought for a while before answering.
My answer eventually was ‘Communication’. If there is one thing I want in life, it is the ability to talk. To say how I feel. To express what I want. To be honest.
He liked my answer. Hugely. He said he would’ve given the same answer. Which made me smile, because I had thought he could communicate.
It was what had appealed to me. His honesty.
But then. He vanished. Again. In a puff of smoke. Gone. Without a word.
Definitely not communicative.
And I do not understand it. And it is why I keep putting my head in my hands, thinking ‘What the fuck was that all about?’
Whatever it was, I do have to think it was not about me. He had the issues. But it was selfish, mean, nasty and most of all, uncommunicative and cowardly.
And it’s also over. I shall never mention the dumpling man again.
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