I'm a straight girl and my closest friend is a gay guy, we're both in our 20s. He is outgoing, extroverted, spontaneous, risk-tasking. I am introverted, planned, and cautious. I enjoy being friends with him partially because he is so different from me, I appreciate, and know he does too, that we balance each other out. The problem is that he can be very inconsiderate. We will go somewhere where I know no one and am not familiar with the environment and he will leave me alone with no way out. He doesn't understand why this upsets me because if he was in the same situation he wouldn't care. He skipped my birthday. I have talked to him multiple times about how unacceptable I find the way he treats me. He tells me he doesn't know how to empathize or care and it's not specific to me. I don't understand this because sometimes it really seems as if he is empathizing. When he saw a card my dad had sent me to apologize he cried because he knew how important it was to me (he never cries).
2006-11-05
05:13:42
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Elise
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