Sweetheart you absolutely should NOT feel badly about having plans!!! You can always re-visit and say something like, "thanks again for my birthday gifts. I'm sorry we didn't have dinner together. My friends and I had already made plans by the time you asked."

You asked him out and got crickets ... could mean a few different things, M ... what hit me was that he might have been so surprised he didn't know what to say.

I think your aunt is right, that you need to do what is right for you. I wish you a wonderful weekend.

I'm right there with you on the "standing or tolerating" podium. Actually I feel like I've moved. I'm now at the "all hope is lost and am I treating my memories to revisionist history treatment?" cafe.

Have a wonderful weekend M xoxoxo

M 20+ T25+
S ~15.5 (BD)
BD 4/6/15
D 12/23/16

"Someone I loved once gave me
A box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand,
That this too, was a gift."
~ Mary Oliver