If you are so a horrible person and mistreat her children so, strange she wants to hang out with someone like that?
I know. I usually stay away from horrible people if I can. And I certainly wouldn't subject my kids to one. I don't want to be someone to hang out with anymore. I don't want to be just friends. If I can't have everything a relationship with her entails then I don't want it.
Don't worry about pursuing. This time I truly intend to not initiate anything.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt