Dear Dee:

You are welcome and thank you for your kind words (and smiley faces)!

Your English is excellent indeed, in my view, for anyone, not just  for a busy young  mother. You write well and you think well, I guess the  two  go together.

“This Sketchy Guy” (in the  title of your thread) is  just not qualified to have a  meeting-of-the-minds-and-hearts  with you. He is just not there. It  is not easy  to create  such a  meeting  between  two people on an ongoing  basis (beyond a one or a few times that feel just  right, maybe), but there are people with whom it is  possible.

I think that you tried your best to have such a meeting  with him and he failed to meet you there, not halfway, not even quarter  way. Better not meet him by being..  A Sketchy Girl. Better indeed look elsewhere  for love and partnership.

anita