Allen there is one other thing I notice, and don't know if it is a male/female thing or a personality thing...
I see Marie mention a fear, "What if he reaches out to me, and I don't respond, so then he pulls away forever because I wasn't there for him?"
I think that is something a lot of us ladies (and perhaps gentlemen too) have worried about at one point or another. With the man/boy who cries wolf, there is a tendency to fear, "What if THIS time he really meant it, and I wasn't there for him?" However I have to believe that if they wanted that connection badly enough, our ignoring them would not drive them away. After all, in any other area of our lives, if we want something bad enough, we keep striving for it, don't we?? ACTIONS, not just words...
