I wrote recently about a date that I’d manifested. I figured I should update you all about how it went.

Have you heard of Candlelight events? Where there’s some type of classical music that’s played in some pretty venue and there are a million candles laid out? That’s what he invited me to. A Bridgerton Candlelight event. It sounded amazing. I said ‘yes’ without even thinking about it. And then I got excited about it.

And then he called me. And said casually, oh, and you and I are meeting up this week? like maybe he’d got the week wrong and he needed clarification? And I said ‘yes, we are’ but a bit of doubt creeped into my voice then. And the conversation carried on and eventually he said maybe we should reschedule for some other time. And he had his reasons for saying that. But those reasons (to me) sounded like he’d had a better offer and wanted to get out of it.

Especially when at the end of that conversation he said ‘let’s catch up next week’ and I knew that was the end of things. We’d messaged daily before. And then I knew things had tailed off a bit around the time of the date but we hadn’t gone this long without messaging before. So, fine.

You don’t want to take me on a date and you don’t want me to message you. Message received loud and clear.