Advice

Oh my goodness. You guys are so great!

So here’s the deal. I’ve tried to talk to Alex (the guy) today and he hasn’t responded to me. It worries me a bit because we haven’t stopped talking since my birthday, which was over 20 days ago. I think talking to a person who is a good distance away for a consistency like that must be worth something.  Why hasn’t he talked to me? And should I be worried at all? Maybe it’s nothing… but then I’m just so worried! I mean the guy is 16 and I’m 18. Anyone else believe like this shouldn’t be happening? His parents were alright with it until they heard mine weren’t too sold on me dating at all this year. I think I’m just going to end it.

I know you all are pushing for me to do this because it could be great for me and I feel the same way, but lately I just can’t help but feel something isn’t right. And it’s not just me wigging out, it’s a tremendous foreboding feeling. Like when I felt a darkness looming over me and my family the year my great-grandmother passed away. It’s strong. Should I trust my gut and let it go? But how can I if he isn’t talking to me?

I told my brother my fears of this relationship. My best friend (who just recently broke up with my brother) told me that perhaps he had something to do with why Alex wasn’t talking to me. It wouldn’t surprise me because he did the same thing with Michael. But at the same time, I feel like he should have learned by now that if someone likes me and I return the feeling, the both of us are going to do what we want. (sounds rude but it isn’t when you know my brother and how he can be sometimes)

You may say, well just call Alex, Aly! Duh! But…what if his mother answers and she’s read the messages? She’s already gotten an odd impression of me because she saw me touching his thigh at a youth event with our church (for crying out loud the kid was tickling me and I felt the need to return the torture! But everyone looks when a girl touches a guy, no one seems to think that he might have started it! I am however, the older one and I guess therefore should know better…but either way you look at it, I’m still a teenager ruled at least partially -if not more- by hormones)

Good news, I just called him. Straight to voice mail.