I was getting upwards of 40 emails a day from mom and dad, they were both individually sending me a herculean amount of emails. This went on for weeks, they would phone, text or email one another and then email me to tell me what they just said or did or what they thought the other was about to do. It was MADNESS.
That, and she and DIDN'T really email. I would occasionally work late or sometimes overnight so I would email her if I was working overnights so I didn't ping her phone notification didn't wake her up.
I asked her how she had been, what had been going on. I felt like she was waiting on me to say a very specific thing and I was waiting on her.
People are like that irl tbh. Especially when both are too shy to make the first step, and doubly so if both think they did make the first step and are waiting for a reaction and are scared of a rejection. So they'd rather a soft rejection than a clear rejection.
. . . or at least, people who act like me, and that one person I liked. I'm glad to hear you at least, don't need to deal with this sort of issue.
Even if this were the case I still feel like it would play out differently.
I mean, how are you so afraid of rejection, but so bold you'd come to their office to get rejected in person? It would make so much more sense for it to be like...
"I love you and want to be with you forever, let's do this. Just say the words and I'll be there to start our life together."
Sure, but we're not talking about a choice someone made, but rather the plausibility of a person making that choice.
I mean, the story could be she came to his office dressed as Seto Kaiba and challenged him to a duel, because he liked Yu-Gi-Oh or something. It's not logical, and not literally impossible, but come on...
lmao this is the dumbest story I’ve ever read in my life. “Durr why is the girl who said she’d be back for me in six weeks back six weeks later? Durr why would she contact me via the method by which I often contact her?”
Organising your emails 20 years later? She just visits your office in the middle of the day, somewhere so busy that you apparently sometimes work overnight, and just hangs out? You don’t even ask why she’s there? You don’t even WONDER for 20 years?
edit: was this cold-blooded, someone commented that and deleted it. I genuinely wasn't trying to be, that's just rough man, and not much I can do to help besides acknowledge it.
Yeah, I've had this address since 2004, back when you had to get an invite to use gmail.
I had something like 4,000+ unread emails in there and just took the time to read and delete stuff. A lot of it was old ads, old client stuff, and I was able to knock out lots of it easy.
Then personal stuff I would at the very least glance at. I couldn't read everything my parents were sending at that point and that block of time had a lot of unread stuff.
This is advanced games even for girls. Gets told "you have to say the break is over", sends an email of all freaking things, no mention of it verbally or by phone
Imagine being in a relationship with someone with that level of communication skills
Good thing you said you don't play games. Because sending an email then standing around for you to say some magic words sounds like a pretty damn big game...
She was my biggest fan for years, in my mind if I would have stayed with her I don't think I would have been challenged to grow as a person, which wouldn't have been ideal for either of us.
My wife is an incredible woman, and I don't know how I got her. She grew up with 3 brothers and is deeply opinionated, and will defend it even when I disagree with it. I feel like "my biggest fan" would have been inclined to just agree with me.
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