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I really hate letting anybody down for anything. I'm a classic people pleaser and it kills me to hurt someone's feelings, or even saying no.

 

That said, I need to find a easy as possible way to turn people down. I'm not really wanting to date anyone right now, and I have a couple of people that I know are interested, and one that I think might be. The first person I have met once, and things just didn't click. Like at all, not to mention this was a couple years ago that I met him, but he's been contacting me every couple of months asking if I want to get dinner or a movie. 2nd guy, I went to HS with, and he found my facebook page, sent me a request, which is fine, then sent me a mesg, which is fine, then sent me another mesg, with his phone number, saying I should call him to go out sometime, then poked me on facebook, then the next day hit my yahoo IM account. I'm like please, enough already! I have been avoiding, the 2nd guy, and told guy 1 that i"ve been really really busy.

 

3rd guy, I'm not certain about, but it's made me a little uncomfortable. He's prob around my age, and started going to the gym I go to. I've noticed him only in the last week, and the only reason I have noticed him and that I've caught him looking at me. ( I sopose I could be imagining this, but I have a gut feeling I'm not ) well, today, I'm seriously the only person in there, and I"m on the eleptical, he grabs the one right next to me. Out of all the others.....I start to feel extremely anxious, and just started straight ahead at the tv while praying "please don't initiate talking" I ended my eliptical 5 min early cause I was feeling just kind of weird about it all. Not many more people came in during this time, and so I left earlier than I normally would.

 

Yes, I realize I'm strange. And maybe I'm imagining the whole thing, but I have TONS of self conscious feelings about myself, and not the best self esteem. Not to say I don't ever want to not date, but I'm trying to work on myself first. And these three, I'm just not interested.

 

If you've gotten this far with reading. Thank You. Any advice would be awesome, as I feel terrible already, but also don't want to do something I really don't want to do, and string someone around all because I don't know how to tell them no thank you.

Edited by ABrokenWing
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If it is someone really random who wouldn't know your friends or who is not a Facebook friend, you can always go with "I have a boyfriend."

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