Thanks for taking the time to share your input as men and as people who understand the unique challenges of suddenly finding yourself single after many years of marriage and not really knowing how to navigate the single world.
I don't really think this guy is interested. Today didn't go well actually. I asked to do the meeting today so the CEO of my company could join before he leaves town. Then this guy said he's busy today asked to change the meeting to tomorrow to be just me and him. Good sign right? Then my boss asked me to cancel the meeting tomorrow because I'm new at our company and he said we can't trust this guy and his company because they're our direct competitor. This was a totally unexpected mentality because two nights ago we were all friends having a great time together. Maybe he observed we were interested in each other and thought there'd be collusion?
So I e-mailed my friend and said we need to cancel the meeting (everyone was copied to the e-mail). Then I called him privately and said my boss doesn't want me to have the meeting alone with him but I said I still want to see him. We talked about meeting for lunch tomorrow or tonight before he goes to a dinner with his college friends. We kind of settled on tonight because I said I didn't want to be too obvious heading out tomorrow in case people figure out I'm meeting him. Then a few minutes later he sent me a message saying the dinner is earlier than expected so tonight won't work. He said he'll be back in a few weeks so we'll meet then. He said the other guy with him would still like to see me tomorrow.
Sorry to bore everyone with those details. I don't think he's interested though because if he was he'd make time to meet tonight. I'm also disappointed that the CEO of my company ruined what was a great dynamic between our teams. I don't know how that'll affect everything moving forward.
Now my husband is here so I hope to have a few minutes to respond to others' threads.
