Dear lukamoe:

It is my understanding that you don’t have an established friendship with the person you want  to reach out to, that it is someone fairly new in your life and that the  only way for you to contact him or her is through text, am I correct?

If I am, then what I would  do is send a text like this: How are you? I feel lonely, wish I had someone  to talk to who will actually listen to me. Do you know what  I mean?

That’s it. It doesn’t reveal too much about you, so less fear about you sharing information that will be misused, making fun of you (a concern you mentioned). And if he feels the same  way, that no one really listens to him, your message  will click with him and he  will respond.

Of course, there is the realistic chance that he  will not respond at all, or that he will take a long time before responding, or that his response will say nothing that will communicate to  you that he noticed at all that you wrote that you feel lonely and not listened to, and you have to be prepared for  these possibilities.

anita