You've Got Mail

My sister had some friends who were telling her about this great single guy who they wanted to set up with someone nice. Since my sister is a thoughtful person, she mentioned me. She gave these friends my email, who gave it to this guy. When he emailed me I remembered that we had once worked together! We were able to make some fun connections and seemed to have plenty to talk about. We ended up emailing back and forth every few days for a few weeks. When I went back and looked, there were 16 emails total, definitely nothing serious. Then, one day I got an email from him. It took me a few minutes to realize that he was email breaking up with me. What?! Apparently he had taken the whole situation much more seriously than I had. I honestly wouldn't have cared if he had just never responded. Instead, he went through the pain of writing an emotive letter explaining how he felt. After being baffled that he had taken the time to do this, I had a good laugh, told him not to worry about it, and haven't heard from him since. Just for fun I thought I'd include some excerpts from his "break up" email. Enjoy!

"For the past couple weeks, I've been just struggling here, not knowing exactly what I've been feeling... I think each time I begin a letter back as of late, I'm just not feeling that this is the right direction for me.

I honestly can't explain except for I think I just know how things feel when there is a deep enough connection happening to continue forward and that I guess I have just been feeling that less and less... in the past I have taken relationships too far, when I've had that type of feeling towards the beginning, and I feel like the pain that resulted really could have been avoided.

I guess by now, I just know the way I'm feeling enough to realize that I probably shouldn't continue this, even though I haven't wanted to fully believe or trust myself on it, I feel like I really should, as a service to both us."