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    dreamer72
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    Clearly I need some advice. I’ll try and keep it short.

    10 years ago I met a guy and we spent the most wonderful two weeks together. Unfortunately I was right in the middle of a move and we decided that a long distance relationship just wasn’t feasible since we only knew each other for a couple of weeks.

    Throughout the first few years we would contact each other, but one or the other was in a relationship. It has been six years since I last heard from him. Out the blue, five weeks ago he sent an e-mail to me letting me know that he had a new e-mail address. I was very excited to hear from him. I wrote back and we exchanged a few e-mails before I called him (he gave me his number).

    Anyway, we talked on the phone and he informed me that he moved in with someone about the same time he contacted me. He said they were “dating” and that they had dated before but he ended it since he didn’t think it was the “right” person. I tried to figure out how serious it was and it seemed like they just moved in together because it was the thing to do.

    I do have feelings for him and probably always will. I am not in love since I do not know what kind of person he is anymore. But I have always wanted to reconnect with him and see if he would be interested in getting to know each other again.

    So the advice I need is:
    Should I tell him how I feel or just let it go? I don’t want to cause any problems for the person he is with now. But, why would a person that I dated a long time ago and haven’t heard from in six years decide to contact me about the same time he was moving in with someone? Does that show interest in me on his part?

    How should I handle this? Thank you so much.

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    AskApril Masini
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    Good questions!

    First of all, let’s put some perspective on this. A guy you dated for two weeks, ten years ago, stays in touch with you off and on. He’s recently contacted you and told you he’s living with someone.

    He’s probably contacting you because he’s interested in you, but after ten years of mostly no contact, or mostly contact as a friend and/or a fantasy girlfriend — someone he thinks will save him when no one else is right for him — he’s just checking in to say hello again, and to make sure you’re still there, not because he’s going to do anything about it — just because that’s what the two of you do: check in with each other periodically.

    Now that you’re available, he isn’t, so don’t tell him how you feel — he’s not available, and if you think he’s really moved in with someone because it’s the thing to do, consider that you might one day be on the receiving end of that moving truck, moving in with him because he thinks it’s the thing to do — not because he’s committed to you in any really meaningful way.

    I know you’re looking for a new relationship, but my advice is to knock on doors that are open — not the doors where guys are already living with someone. Make things easy on yourself. 😀 You might get a lot of good advice from reading Think & Date Like A Man, [url]https://www.askapril.com/relationship-dating-advice/think-and-date-like-a-man.html[/url], the book I wrote for women who want to find, get and keep Mr. Right!

    Let me know how things go, and please follow me @AskAprilcom on Twitter and on Facebook at this link: [url][/url].

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