I followed Kalni's advice and just wrote him a very vague but nonetheless captivating 3-sentence e-mail about how I was doing really great, busy, and thank you for asking.
In other news, the NG has offered to cook me dinner later this week. I can already feel myself like--whoa! put on the brakes...going over to his house for dinner seems fast.
My problem with every new relationship I've ever started (and there haven't been that many) is that I feel somewhat reluctant about it once the guy really starts to pursue me, especially if I don't know them well beforehand. In fact, in the 3 serious relationships I've had in my life, each time I was ambivalent at first and broke up with each of them a month or two in and then got back together later (sometimes much later, with my H it was the shortest breakup--only a couple days) and then fall head-over-heels for them.
I feel like it's a long, drawn-out, fits-and-starts process for me to get to know and trust someone.
It is in the shelter of each other that people live.--Irish proverb
3-sentence e-mail about how I was doing really great, busy, and thank you for asking.
