For Ms. catherineyronwode
Thank you very much for your reply.
I believe I need to explain a few things, so my earlier post would be taken in the right context.
You see, I'm from a different culture, where it's the men who are seen as the pursuers. It's not "normal" for women to ask men out. I will explain re: the "alleged" rain check, below.
One time, he was very sick, and asked me to accompany him to have a snack and buy some stuff, and I was trying to persuade him to stay home, for his own sake. He ended up going alone, instead, and I felt really bad I didn't accompany him.
So I took him up on that, but as I had mentioned, he cancelled. I say "alleged" rain check, because his excuse was so flimsy,
that I felt he was just sugar coating it. He changed his mind. He never brought it up again, even though we had talked about other things.
He doesn't want to see me.
I don't know if I said or did something, aside from what I've mentioned, or if someone poisoned his mind against me. I can't know for sure. I can't trust our common friends, especially the women, who also seem to fancy him. I will check out the "Break Up" section you mentioned, thank you...although I don't know specifically who might be interfering, or whom he might be seeing. I hope I'll find the answers there. Thank you very much for the info.
It's not that I'm "faint of heart," it's just that I need to work within the structure of our culture, and to what he
is accustomed. He enjoys my sense of humor, and we have many common interests, but he hasn't indicated that he wants to see me again. He's quite old fashioned, and set in his ways. If I try to ask him out, I know he would say no, and I would be humiliated.
I can't go to places where I know he goes. A woman I knew who was smitten with him tried this, and he didn't bite. He even changed his schedule, and where he goes, just to avoid her.
He is headstrong when he wants something, conversely, also when he *doesn't* want something.
I'm really determined. I really like him, and no one else. He is the one I want.
This is why I was hoping to find some way to make him like me again, like in the beginning, and hopefully have him
be the one to take initiative, to want to see me again.
I hope this clearer picture would be helpful. Please tell me if this changes the approach you suggested I take.
Thanks again for your time.