Master Manipulator?
Dear Bitter Single Guy: I wrote to you about a month ago about the boy that I broke up with because I thought he was emotionally unavailable. Well come to find out that he told a friend about how much he missed me and that he really messed up. So a week ago, we saw the other and yes, we did the sex-with-the-ex thing.
But when I tried to talk to him about getting back together, he had an excuse for everything and a reasons why we shouldn’t (police academy, living farther away, graveyards blah blah…) Why would he say that if he didn’t want to get back together? Did I just get played? ~I’ve Been Manipulated~
Dear IBM: Yes, you’ve been played. Or more specifically, your Distraught Dude is opportunistic enough that when the offer of some nookie presented itself, he jumped on it (metaphorically speaking) without thought to what it meant for your former relationship.
It’s good that Distraught Dude is realizing that he messed up and good also that he’s telling his friends about it. But until he tells you, it doesn’t really count as anything. By the way, the BSG really hopes that you write back and tell all of us a little more about graveyards as an impediment to getting back together (unless it’s creepy, of course). ~BSG~

