Hi Princess Clare, Please forgive my intrusion. I can hear the pains from wounds past. I regret that your emotions have been messed with by some insensitive person. We all face these crises in our life. This comes from dealing with fallen "man", mankind living in a condition of sin. In this condition we live in an I/me centered world. When we accept Christ this frees us to put others first. I know this is deep and that I really don't know you all that well. However, because of my relationship with Christ I am able to love you and care about you. Now, in my humble opinion I have made the following observations of you through this chat group. You are a beautiful (as opposed to drop dead gorgeous and sexy and you are most probably that too), kind and caring person. I know you have been hurt by someone whom you allowed to get close to you. This is painful and takes time to recover from. This is the voice of experience speaking now. I had a relationship with a woman, with two children from a prior marriage, that ended badly. In a nutshell she was stringing me along and using me financially. I was truly in love with her. Even worse as we had grow to know one another, the kids and I had also grown to love one another. I was completely trashed. I went to work and functioned mechanically. After some time, I was sitting around at home one day and thought about my situation and decided that I had to open up again. We cannot truly love without exposing our inner self to tremendous hurt. However, the choice is a life without love. This is unthinkable. So, if someone stops talking to you don't worry over it. If they are worth worrying over, they will not walk away without talking to you and explaining the problem and giving you a chance to change. These types of people can make the transition from lover to friend gracefully. I will go so far as to say that I pity this person who was so insensitive and uncaring as to hurt you the way they did. They have closed a relationship in such a way as to miss out on having a loving caring person in their life. Clare I know you are this type of person from observing the messages on here. I believe we all need as many loving and caring friends in our life as we can have. I believe these friends are angels of God sent to minister to us each in their own unique way. We all also need a relationship with Jesus as Lord and Savior; he loved us enough to die for us. He wants to be there to comfort us in our times of trouble and has promised to do that if we but accept him. As I said in an earlier email, we need to look for good friends to share time and experiences with and then if we discover we are in love great. So often if we go looking for love we compromise our ideals to be acceptable to someone we want to share romance with. When we do this quite often we set ourselves up to get hurt. If we move into a romance with someone who is already a best friend, then when the times are difficult, they are less difficult because we are sharing them with our best friend. In His Love and Service, David L. Bailey baileydavidl62@xxxxxxxxx Clare Said: Hi Jamie it's good to hear from you again at last. You had me very worried there for a moment haha. You see I'm a very sensitive soul. If people stop talking to me and go very quiet on me I assume it's either because I have upset them, they don't like me or I have done something wrong. I have had my emotions messed with quite a lot and am even more sensitive where men are concerned I really lack confidence so lots of talking is really my lifeline. Oh dear I'm getting a bit deep now but that's how I feel when people go quiet after being in touch with me such a lot. Well as Carol said my nose has been pushed out now a little bit. I'm so happy for you and Sarah though. Oh I didn't get your text by the way. Anyway I find I can say lots more in email so much better and of course cheaper as with my mobile I'm on pay as you go so can work out more expensive. Oh well I'm sure you and Sarah won't mind having your wedding in jail. As long as you have each other it doesn't matter where you are and I don't mind being bridesmaid in jail either hahahaha. I know I won't be able to dress up but I will still feel good because of the occasion. Yes my chocolate fix still going strong. Love Clare xxxx