Brad

I haven’t written in a really long time!  Wow.  So I met a guy named Brad.  My co-worker hooked us up.  We’ve been out once, and since then it’s been all e-mail.  I can’t figure out if this guy wants to see me again or not.  He always replies to e-mails, but each time I’ve suggested getting together again, he’s given me a non-reply. 

Finally, I had written him off and didn’t reply to his last e-mail.  After about another week, I get another "what’s new?" e-mail from him.  He just tells me what he did all week and that’s about it.  So I replied with the same.  I’m tired of this.  I guess I’m going to just come out and ask him if he’s interested in seeing me again, and if so why hasn’t he made that more obvious.  He had said in the first e-mail that he had no expectations, and I appreciate that, but I’m not looking for a pen pal. 

The woman that introduced me to him says he’s shy and he hasn’t been in a relationship in a long time, so maybe he needs me to take the lead.  And I’m fine with doing that, but I’m trying to be aware of my own baggage here.  I discovered that Brad is a church boy like myself.  Wait, it gets better.  He’s even in the same denomination as I am!  Do you know how impossible it is to find an attractive, smart, stable, gay Episcopalian in Michigan?  I was beginning to think I was the only one.  So I can’t let myself build up too much hope, hence, my desire to make sure he’s interested in some sort of relationship before I let myself go down that path. 

Brad, if you’re reading this, give me a clue already!