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Originally Posted by gibson311
Thanks to everyone who took the time to read and respond to my original post. I appreciate all the advice. I would like to say a little more in response. At this point I am really just confused and would like to understand what actually happened over the last few months. I want to know if at some point she was interested romantically and that just faded, or if there was never any interest at all. If the latter, why did she agree to go out with me several times, and continue to text? On the 4th date, when I was explaining how I felt, one of the things I told her is that, it seems like I am forcing her to go out since it takes so much work to get her to make the time, in response to this she told me that she is a grown woman and that she doesn't do things that she doesn't want to do, and that I was not forcing her. Don't really know what to make of that.
In the beginning it was VERY hard on me. I would get sick to my stomach trying to guess at how things were going, or what she was thinking. I am past that now. I am not nearly as affected as I was a few weeks ago over this. Now I am just wondering if there is any chance left at all of this going anywhere. If there is any move I could make to turn things around. I had considered coming completely clean to her and explaining that she is the first girl I have ever asked out, so that is why I may have been acting a little out of the ordinary, although my guess is that this would just make me seem pathetic to her.
It just doesn't make sense to me. We got along great during the time we spent together. I am very attracted to her and feel that I could be very good for her. She seems to be dealing with a lot in her life right now in terms of work, and getting her career together. I feel like I could make life better for her, both emotionally, and not that she is looking for it, but also financially. Although one of the things she told me on that 4th date was that she does not want to be dependent on someone. So the big question in my mind really is, what happened here? Is it worth asking her to explain to me exactly what was going on in her mind throughout our relationship, if for no other reason just so I can have an understanding of what occurred?
I am several years younger than her, I am a good guy, I would be very caring for her and make a VERY good living. I have to assume she had some level of attraction to me to let things get this far. I just don't understand why she would not be interested.
Thank you again to all who take time out of their day to give attention to this.
I need to catch up on the thread and really am in no shape to respond to posts atm, but I couldn't let this one go.
Instead of responding analytically, which I will do at a later time/tomorrow night/Monday, I am just going to bold all the places in your post that you need to seriously reevaluate... aka I'm going to bold all the places you are going/went wrong.
Bold and blunt cliffnotes of my analysis: you were obsessive, over-emotional, subservient, needy, clingy, passive and probably started spewing creep vibe pretty hard. You basically acted completely opposite of every way you should have acted in every situation.
I don't mean to sound nasty, but you asked for our blunt analysis and that's pretty much it.