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Diss, I think it's cool how this is even having a positive affect on how you interact with your mom. It really sounds like you have a reasonable handle on the situation.
Best of luck to you!
It's true, when I'm happy I get along great with my mom, when things aren't so great, I don't feel like talking to her.
Good for you man. I used to read this forum years ago, and remember you used to be always down on any possibility of meeting someone. Glad to see you have grown and left all that nonsense in the past. Congrats!
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Update: as much as I hate it, it does not look like this is going to work out. Me and her have not had much contact despite me making myself available and she never got back to me about actually meeting up again. I've gotten the sense she isn't really interested in a serious LDR and she was trying to fade and let me down easy. While this is a bummer and will sting for a little bit, I took shot on something and got outside my comfort zone. I even used this experience to find common ground with my mother which I've stated before has not been easy.
I'm actually going back to school at month's end to finish a Master's degree so I at least have a distraction for a while and you never know, I could meet other possible candidates there. But I really appreciate all the encouragement and advice I got from everyone through this experience.
Update: as much as I hate it, it does not look like this is going to work out. Me and her have not had much contact despite me making myself available and she never got back to me about actually meeting up again. I've gotten the sense she isn't really interested in a serious LDR and she was trying to fade and let me down easy. While this is a bummer and will sting for a little bit, I took shot on something and got outside my comfort zone. I even used this experience to find common ground with my mother which I've stated before has not been easy.
I'm actually going back to school at month's end to finish a Master's degree so I at least have a distraction for a while and you never know, I could meet other possible candidates there. But I really appreciate all the encouragement and advice I got from everyone through this experience.
So she wasn't serious about making a date with you after your return to DC? That's too bad. But you have this experience now, and some improved confidence, plus maybe an improved relationship with your mom.
I assume you'll be working still, while finishing your degree? Yes, you may find someone in grad school. But if not, completing the degree, and thereby qualifying yourself for a step or two up the ladder, could eventually bring you into contact with an achievement-oriented prospect who may appeal to you. And visa-versa. You're headed in the right direction, Diss.
Her loss Diss. Super proud of you taking the chance and how you've dealt with it!!
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Update: as much as I hate it, it does not look like this is going to work out. Me and her have not had much contact despite me making myself available and she never got back to me about actually meeting up again. I've gotten the sense she isn't really interested in a serious LDR and she was trying to fade and let me down easy. While this is a bummer and will sting for a little bit, I took shot on something and got outside my comfort zone. I even used this experience to find common ground with my mother which I've stated before has not been easy.
I'm actually going back to school at month's end to finish a Master's degree so I at least have a distraction for a while and you never know, I could meet other possible candidates there. But I really appreciate all the encouragement and advice I got from everyone through this experience.
I too agree with others that I'm sorry for the turn out. It happens.
I'm impressed with is the level of maturity and levelheadedness in this post here of yours.
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Figured I'd come back with an important update. There was a little of but of hope for this after the last post in September. She was down to meet in her parts again last weekend since I was visiting my mom in Indiana. But she left me hanging when I asked her to commit to coming. I was done not being a priority, so I unfriended and blocked her on everything. I regret not pulliing the plug on this earlier but it is what it is. Now that this has a resolution I'm going back in the dating pool full bore and not playing games.
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