oh yes, linkedIn chases up rejections!!! it doesn't get the message!
For the best to change your route for now because at least it removes the stress of maybe seeing him and then if you do, assessing how it's perceived. Your patch I know but he will mvoe on eventually and you'll get your route back.
ocelot yesterday my mother was recycling some story about a woman we've all known for 30+ years who was not rude imo but assertive to my mother. It wasn't personal, it was just an unapologetic 'no' to a request my mother made to her.
My mother and father never acknowledge what I say to them. And for 30+ years I've been listening to my Mum bring out the same stories and I sympathised every time. So yesterday I said to her ''she wasn't rude to you, she was entitled to say no. She was assertive maintaining her boundaries''. I know my mother is just thinking ''what the 5uck has got in to her? But it's so unfair.
And the week before my Dad was mentioning an exchange he'd had with somebody and he'd felt that the man was capitalising on the fact that he had my Dad over a barrel (that was open to interpretation) but at the time, I'd given my Dad the benefit of the doubt and sympathised. If he ever recycles that story again I'm going to give it to him both barrrels that he is being ''paranoid'' and ''too sensitive'' because if they can't do me the courtesy of acknowledging the very real hurts they've put on me (and our relatives, and their defending the relatives who hurt me and calling me paranoid and sensitive etc) then fucking damned if I am going to sympathise over and over and over and over again while they recycle their poor me stories about people who mean nothing to us, not even family!!!!! the people whose comments left me smarting and feeling judged were aunts, uncles, themselves.................
and time for a cup of tea now.