Oh and Happy New Year, thread. Lovely to hear such great news from Western and Velvet - way to start the year with a bang, eh?
Have decided not to see Shagman again. Feel a bit of a heel but I just don't think we are compatible, and now that I've got my groove back I quite fancy sowing some wild oats. Although, like I said logistically speaking don't know how that will work out but where there's a will there's a way. He is a nice bloke though so I hope we can stay friends (he has a lot of women friends so hopefully yes).
Had a bit of a weird fb conversation with an old mate yesterday evening on fb before I went out - we were chatting on a status update and then he pm'd me so we chatted for a bit there and he turned the conversation round to years (and I mean YEARS) ago when we had a bit of a 'thing' going on. Said that he had been serious about me and had hoped that things would go further than they did (it just sort of fizzled out in the natural course of things). I sent a message back saying something along the lines of weren't we daft young things at the time etc and then he messaged back saying yes and he wasn't sure even now how to play relationships. Then I left it because I felt uncomfortable and also had to go and get ready to go out.
Now. He is married and has two kids. I don't know if he was just trying to wrap things up and draw a line under things. Maybe it was just because we never said anything to each other at the time. But, I think it's very 'off' to send messages like that to someone when you're married and if I was his wife I wouldn't be happy about him talking to an ex in that way. Maybe he was just getting maudlin but it's not appropriate, right? I kind-of feel that I should remove him but like I say he's an old friend and it was genuinely nice to bump into him again on-line and I have enjoyed hearing all about his kids and how we've both settled down and become respectable (we were both pretty debauched when we knew each other back in the day - not in a fucked-up way or anything; we just used to have fun). Sorry that's a bit me-me-me and maybe I'm reading too much into it.