Your holiday sounds amazing FS, even if it's a working one

Your new chap sounds promising! I can kind of understand the running away thing actually. My new man wanted to come over for the weekend when the kids were away and I panicked and backed off (it was also after the few days feeling terrible about H and just generally quite emotional). And then my friends told me to talk to him and I did and he was lovely about it and we agreed to just meet up near his and then I ended up staying the night at his place anyway and it was great. So my advice would be: if you panic or feel trapped or otherwise unsure and you know it's YOU not him, talk to him about it. Tell him what you're feeling, because if he's decent he will be understanding and if he's not decent then you don't want to be with him. It's hard though when you're used to hiding your feelings for so long with a H you couldn't be honest with. I completely identify with that, old patterns are hard to break.

My teens only communicate with me via text in emojis or in code. Most of them are unintelligible. That's teens for you smile Let's just hope they grow out of it eventually!!