[BrightFuture]

Vge, thank you so much for stopping by and giving me some encouragement.

I’ve so busy with work and the side work recently, that I barely have time to read the threads, not talking about posting my thoughts…

I have make some effort now to remember what I wanted to post. My interaction with H is not so exciting (meaning stressful) anymore, so I just forget the details and have to go back and read the e-mails and texts again.

So, I was almost sure that my mutual friends already talked to H and told him what I said about the vacation home and the whole situation. I was expecting H to get mad and become rude again. I received an e-mail yesterday with the updated file (which I asked for for an audit today.) It that e-mail it was just a file attachments without any word, just like he would do at some point two years ago. I immediately thought that we were back at square and he started to treat me like I’m nothing again.

Then I opened my other e-mail account, from which I forwarded the info about the audit to him. He replied nicely on that one (addressing me by name and signing his name), answering my questions and wishing me luck with the audit and telling me that he would have his phone on (in case I needed to contact him for any questions.)

I had an auditor at my house at the scheduled time. It turns out that the audit was triggered by an inconsistency of a quarterly return form that I submitted in 2013. I missed one line and didn’t fill the number in. No wonder… I was under a lot of stress back then. I’m surprised I didn’t make more mistakes and didn’t miss any deadlines. The auditor didn’t find any other problems and said that we are fine and don’t have to worry about anything.

I was driving to work a half and hour after the end of the appointment, and H texted me, asking how the audit went. I replied that it was good and they didn’t find any issues. He replied “Awesome, congratulations on good bookkeeping!” I replied with some details about my mistake on the form which caused the audit and inserted some light humor in there, with smiley faces.

I got no reply to that. So, my experiment trying to engage him in more conversation failed. I don’t think he wants it. He is not ready. Or, he didn’t know how to reply. A few min later I received another text from him asking me if I had to make any changes to the QB. I replied that I did not. The end.

Sooo, just like Wonka posted on Cali’s thread, this is just plain business for H.
The good thing is that he didn’t get into nasty/indifferent mood, and I still got to go to the vacation home, as planned!