Everyone else is doing it, so I will, too!
About a month ago, I broke up with a guy I had dated since the first of the year. Basically, he was just very clingy and high-maintenance, and I couldn't deal with it anymore.
So, these last few weeks, we've been attempting to be "just friends," and have hung out a couple of times. Last night, I went with him and another friend of his to see this band (another friend of my ex-bf is in the band).
It was a nice evening, and we went and had dinner after. After we dropped my ex's friend off, that's when the drama ensued.
As we were driving back, I sensed that he was upset about something. I figured he was having a hard time being around me after the break-up. And since I thought if I tried to be comforting or whatever, that would just make things worse, I didn't say anything. So, we're stopped at a red light and he turns to me and asks me to come home with him.
I let out kind of an annoyed sigh which let him know that wasn't something I wanted to do, and we continued on to my house. The rest of the way, he was sighing and sniffling and making it known (without saying anything) that he was unhappy with my response. Or at least that's what I thought. So, we got back to my house, and he stops the car in the driveway and says "Obviously I shouldn't have asked. I expected to get a yes or no, but I didn't expect a snort of disgust." Now I was really ticked off. The whole ride home, he had been working himself up over what he imagined my response to entail. Before I got two words out, he angrily huffed "I can't talk about this now. I'll talk to you later." I got out and went inside, and he went home.
He sent me an e-mail late last night, and we talked. I thought things were okay by the time we finished and I went to bed, but now he's sent me another e-mail basically saying that he thought about our conversation and now doesn't believe my explanation.
Argh!! This is the kind of high-maintenance crap that caused me to break up with him in the first place!! So now I'm rethinking being friends with him.
To top it all off, I go on gay.com and the only guys who'll talk to me are old (my ex is 50, and I'm 26...I don't want to deal with that big of an age gap again) or fat. The guys that I contacted that *I* thought were attractive wouldn't talk to me.
Plus, I hate my job and am not ready for the weekend to be over, even though I was just on vacation for a week. Woe is me, indeed!