tasha_tart
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Joined: 2/20/2004 From: Ontario, Canada Status: offline
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As one who has been on both sides of this issue (yes, I've been guilty of tardy email responses!) I'd like to throw in my 2ยข worth. There are a myriad of reasons that email replies may seem too slow. Personally, I've experienced all of these at times: -ISP problems (much better since I dumped the phone company) -family illness (gave my mother's heart attacks higher priority) -demanding work schedules (12 hour shifts, 4 on, 2 off for weeks at a time in my case.) I've always managed to catchup eventually - except with the "why are you ignoring me?" types. These have never been people that I had met in the flesh....mmmmm, flesh....ooops, sorry I digress...but rather people who I knew only casually, even by online standards. I've also had people who stopped responding to me, even when it seemed (to me anyway, their view may well have been different) that something promising was developing. I'd like to think I avoided the "why are you ignoring me?" responses, though I probably didn't do as well as hindsight is telling me now, but I know I never demanded closure. I think that the end of correspondence is its own answer after a while. Just as some people take rejection badly, some are bad at rejecting another, and just not replying can seem so easy, especially if there is something in the messages they are getting that is unsettling in any way. When this has happened to me I've shrugged my shoulders and moved on. That's life. Who hasn't experienced "I'll call you" after meeting someone, perhaps even casually dating them, and not gotten that call (or worse, been the one who didn't make the call?) Wow...I do ramble on...so, in conclusion...if things drift apart that easily, that early, for whatever reason...my guess is, it just wasn't meant to be. Re-examine yourself, and your correspondence, just to ensure that you didn't do something that raised warning flags for the other. If you can honestly say you didn't, then move on...you weren't right for each other. But if you see something that may have been the problem, learn from it, fix it, and do better next time. tasha
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