Hi bailey26,

Eight years is nothing to sneeze at, so I would cut him some slack.

You can either quit him cold turkey (lose his number, etc.) or you can keep him in the far periphery of your life. Perhaps wait for him to contact you. If, after contacting him for a third time he in the future doesn’t contact you (to see how YOU are doing, not as a response to your text), drop the rope.

I saw an ad for a dating app whose very title says it all. “Plenty of Fish”.

Good Luck out there!

Inky