SacredDepravity
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Two things come to mind. As Oside said, real life happens. I don't spend every waking minute chatting with my kinky friends and neither do most people. Maybe someone's been in the hospital or have had some household disaster or just have crashed from all the holiday hoopla. No one can know. On the other hand, I am willing to hold surface level and conceptual conversations about this stuff with people from most anywhere. That doesn't mean I want to try to sustain a full relationship with them. I deal more or less locally. A few hours drive is a big deal to me. You stated that there is a three HOUR time difference between you and the person to whom you were speaking meaning that they either are on the other side of the country or even live in a different country from you. For many, that is unsustainable in the long term. Better to just not continue things while it is early than to do it when it will be more painful. This is a sucky way of doing it, but there you have it. Choose a cut off time, OP. After this time, you consider any potential of starting a relationship ended. This doesn't mean if they come back with a very real reason they've been gone so long that you can't revisit the issue then, but it gives you a way to close the book in case there never is a return and explanation. After say, two weeks or a month, whatever, you move on and what happens happens. Don't communicate that to the person. Just let it be a guide in your own mind both now and in the future. If they are having life stuff, burdening them with a time constraint can make you appear impatient and unrealistic. If they are not interested, continued communication can seem stifling and even stalkerish. Let it go. When the time you choose elapses, move on and let life go where it will. SD
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