No number, but sad. And.... what's the word for not angry, but something like it because things don't feel fair?
I don't lie. I don't manipulate. I don't push and push when I'm told "no, it's too hard". I was willing to wait for as long as I had to for the friendship to transition to in-person, even though I worried and worried that he'd decide that online wasn't real, because not overwhelming him was more important than my anxiety and impatience. I tried to make everything easy ("yes, of course I understand why I was misled for months" (just because I understood, it doesn't mean that I wasn't hurt. ESPECIALLY when I was told "no, sorry, it's not going to happen" and then he disappeared.
<sarcasm> That really made me feel like my friendship was valued for the sake of the friendship. </sarcasm>.) "It's perfectly ok that you keep disappearing with almost no warning and I have no idea when I'm going to hear from you. It doesn't hurt me at all. I love spending all my time waiting to be hurt, and then getting hurt when I finally relax and think that things are back to normal."). Then when I admit that yes, I was hurt and that it did take me longer to get over then I let on (I pretended to be a lot more ok than I was for a while because someone made me feel guilty for being hurt.
Protip: if you get people's hopes up repeatedly and then disappoint them, they will be hurt, and it's unfair to expect them not to react. One's actions effect people, and if you can't handle the pain that you cause, perhaps you should have thought more about your actions beforehand.
I do all that; I try my best to act decently toward him and not hurt him, other people think it's fine to push and manipulate regardless of whether he gets hurt or overwhelmed, and they end up happy, and I get hurt?
It's not fair.
and I feel guilty for being... something.... about this, because I'm still pretty certain that he was always trying to be nice and not hurt me, and I know how bad it feels to try to do the right thing and still hurt people
I wish that things would go back to how they were before the possibility of romance came up; that's when things were at their best.
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Music Theory 101: Cadences.
Authentic cadence: V-I
Plagal cadence: IV-I
Deceptive cadence: V- ANYTHING BUT I ! !! !
Beethoven cadence: V-I-V-I-V-V-V-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I
-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I! I! I! I I I