i need to decipher this!!!

[inaya42]

friends,

 

i need help deciphering this email exchange. after 4 month of no contact i wrote to my ex to apologize for my final nasty email, some general bad behavior in the relationship (emotional tantrums, verbal attacks, act.) and to wish him well. he wrote back -- he was the dumper. LDR -- he couldn't do it, was mistreating me, missing me was unbearable, career was failing yada yada yada.

 

anyway, i'd just really love to get a sense of what this email sounds like to you and if i should continue contact with him (as he asks) or leave this as closure. thanks!!!

 

dear ***** (the initial email from me)

> i'm sorry for my last email. it was mean and unnecessary. i am also really sorry for not being there for you in the specific ways and moments that you may have needed. even though i may not have always shown it, i have tremendous respect for you: your intelligence, your strength, your sensitivity.

>

> there is no need to respond. please just know that i am wishing you every success, every joy, the coming-true of every dream.

 

always,

********

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Dear *****, (his response a few days later)

 

thank you so much for your email. I'm so happy to hear from you. I already thought I lost you as a friend for good. That was a lot of pain on top of the break up pain. Don't worry about your last email. I think I deserved it. I ****ed up. I'm very sorry that I was such a bad boyfriend at the end.

 

What you are saying means a lot to me. And I hope you know that the same holds in the other direction. I always thought and felt in the highest terms of you in all respect of your beautiful being. And I deeply sorry if my behavior didn't always show that.

 

I hope that you are doing well. I'm not sure whether you would want that. But I would be very happy if we could be in touch again.

 

Yours forever,

*****

[Mack05]

stop posting the same thread in numerous forums. The mods will move it into one thread anyway. Ok you didn't like the answers you got. It doesn't matter how many times you post the thread you will still get the same answers.

[inaya42]

thanks. i am new to this forum, and i actually posted here first. but was wondering if i had the right place -- whether or not i actually have a second chance that is...