ARRRRRGHH!!!
Why, Oh Why, can't I meet a sane person!
I'm not sure if I am reading into this too much or if she falls into the crazy category.
A couple weeks ago, someone I grew up with and I caught up on facebook. Now, she's been my "friend" on facebook for a while, but we never really chatted beside the odd comment on a photo or status update. We met back in the 3rd grade, went to church together, and basically grew up together. We did "go out" once back in the 9th grade, if you count her coming over to my parents house to watch a movie and have pizza as going out. It never went further than that. We were friends. We lost track of each other when I moved away to go to college, I would hear bits and pieces from mutual friends and so on. Anyways.
She started emailing me on my off facebook email, and for about a week or two we just caught up with our histories since highschool (which was 19 yrs ago, if that gives you any idea how long it's been). Well, her last email on Saturday asked for my cell # so she could text me while she was at work, since we were trying to make plans to catch up face to face (completely platonic!) So around 7 pm last night the text started. It started off simple enough, trying to nail down a time to meet and where. Then....it got weird.
She started asking me how slow we should take it, when I responded "Slow?, this is just friends getting together and not a date." it's like my text was ignored. She kept it up by saying that she was happy if we took it slow and she's hurried all her past relationships and didn't want to rush this one? (I kept thinking, wha?)...so about 10 text messages in she begins her next text with this line:
"I don't want to sound completely psycho, when I say this,"
Now, it might just be me, but if someone starts off a sentence using that line...then whatever they are about to say is going to be completely psycho. So anyways, she hits me with this...someone she hasn't seen in 19 yrs.
1.) I was her one and only and she let me slip through her fingers...and that her life would have been happier is she would have been with me.
2.) She wants me to up front that she can't have kids, and that we should get that out of the way before getting to deep into our new "relationship"
3.) That she forgives me for not looking her up and she thinks given time we will know we are soul mates.
Now, that's a lot to throw on someone after a couple of days of catching up. It's an enormous amount of pressure to put on yourself thinking that all your life experiences would have been different based on one single choice in a multitude of choices.
So, I write a nicely worded email this morning. Letting her know that I would be happy to catch up and build a friendship, because in truth people change after 20 yrs and the boy I was in high school, is not the same person I am today. Well with the response.....was a pretty much a nicely worded F* off.
this has been a long day.
That's right Thor. Some days you are feast like a king, some days you are the licker of a creamsicle.
Why, Oh Why, can't I meet a sane person!
I'm not sure if I am reading into this too much or if she falls into the crazy category.
A couple weeks ago, someone I grew up with and I caught up on facebook. Now, she's been my "friend" on facebook for a while, but we never really chatted beside the odd comment on a photo or status update. We met back in the 3rd grade, went to church together, and basically grew up together. We did "go out" once back in the 9th grade, if you count her coming over to my parents house to watch a movie and have pizza as going out. It never went further than that. We were friends. We lost track of each other when I moved away to go to college, I would hear bits and pieces from mutual friends and so on. Anyways.
She started emailing me on my off facebook email, and for about a week or two we just caught up with our histories since highschool (which was 19 yrs ago, if that gives you any idea how long it's been). Well, her last email on Saturday asked for my cell # so she could text me while she was at work, since we were trying to make plans to catch up face to face (completely platonic!) So around 7 pm last night the text started. It started off simple enough, trying to nail down a time to meet and where. Then....it got weird.
She started asking me how slow we should take it, when I responded "Slow?, this is just friends getting together and not a date." it's like my text was ignored. She kept it up by saying that she was happy if we took it slow and she's hurried all her past relationships and didn't want to rush this one? (I kept thinking, wha?)...so about 10 text messages in she begins her next text with this line:
"I don't want to sound completely psycho, when I say this,"
Now, it might just be me, but if someone starts off a sentence using that line...then whatever they are about to say is going to be completely psycho. So anyways, she hits me with this...someone she hasn't seen in 19 yrs.
1.) I was her one and only and she let me slip through her fingers...and that her life would have been happier is she would have been with me.
2.) She wants me to up front that she can't have kids, and that we should get that out of the way before getting to deep into our new "relationship"
3.) That she forgives me for not looking her up and she thinks given time we will know we are soul mates.
Now, that's a lot to throw on someone after a couple of days of catching up. It's an enormous amount of pressure to put on yourself thinking that all your life experiences would have been different based on one single choice in a multitude of choices.
So, I write a nicely worded email this morning. Letting her know that I would be happy to catch up and build a friendship, because in truth people change after 20 yrs and the boy I was in high school, is not the same person I am today. Well with the response.....was a pretty much a nicely worded F* off.
this has been a long day.
That's right Thor. Some days you are feast like a king, some days you are the licker of a creamsicle.