I became friends with a man at work, absolutely zero interest on my side, he's 9 years younger and has a girlfriend, and even if those things weren't true he's not for me.
Worked together since January and then about months ago we started chatting more, I thought it was great, it's nice to have a male perspective and he was easy to talk to.
Obviously no flirting or anything whatsoever, I was actually telling him about a man I liked and he was giving advice.
Now he's faded me out. Before anyone says anything, it's normal to have friendly chats on Teams, nobody was saying anything inappropriate and pretty much everybody at our workplace chats on Teams.
Basically just started taking hours to reply to each message, writing very short replies and so I've waited to see if he does again. Been a few weeks and nothing.
The convo was balanced, I wasn't just chatting about myself. If I see him around he seems friendly but doesn't talk to me first anymore unless I talk to him.
His gender is irrelevant really, I'd feel the same if it were a woman. Just a bit of a shame when this happens, ahh well. Any ideas?