….I’m sure that anyone who has ever swum in the dating pool knows about the dreaded blow off. It’s when a guy communicates his loss of interest in a you by abruptly ceasing all communication and contact.
I recently experienced the blow off with a guy that I had been seeing for a couple months. We’ll call him Justice. Justice is a guy that hit me up on a4a several months ago. He’s 35, 5’10, about 200 pounds, has a muscular build and smooth dark skin. He’s what you might call hot chocolate. We had exchanged several messages on a4a and one day he sent me his number. I called him and we had a great conversation, which stretched on for hours. It was clear that we were really digging each other, and before you knew it, we were talking and texting daily. Dealing with him was very refreshing because he was attentive and always reciprocated, which is a huge deal to me.
Although he lived about 40 minutes across town, we started hanging out regularly. Sex eventually entered the equation, and it was mind-blowingly good because there was the physical connection, but also a mental and emotional connection. Things were going great with Justice and I even started to get nervous (but very excited) because it was looking like this situation was heading towards a relationship…..then, came the blow off.
The shift was pretty dramatic. He went from texting me randomly and constantly to not communicating with me at all. If I texted him, he would respond hours later, or not at all. If I called him, he wouldn’t respond, or would respond the next day with a text. One day, we agreed to meet up at his place to watch a movie and when I texted him to see what was up, he responded that he wouldn’t be home until late at night because he was called in to work overtime. However, he promised me that he we would be able to hang out the next week once he got off the overtime list. Next week came and went and I didn’t hear from him. Almost 2 weeks later, I still haven’t heard from him. I’ve thought about calling him to get to the bottom of things, but I believe that it will likely be the same story: there will be a delay, followed by an excuse, followed by a promise, followed by more silence. I’m going to hit him up one more time just to remove any doubt that I’ve been blown off, but I’m considering the whole thing with Justice dunzo.
I’m cool with it, though I was initially disappointed and perplexed at what caused him to blow me off like that. He seemed to be really into me, so maybe he got scared about where things were heading. Maybe someone more appealing to him came into the picture. Maybe I did or said something that turned him all the way off. I’ll likely never know, and I’ve realized that I can’t waste energy trying to ascertain the motives that drove his behavior. The bottom line is that he suddenly went cut off contact and communication, which is a clear enough message for me. Now it’s possible that he sustained a devastating injury or a serious death in the family which caused him to not call. I guess nothing soothes debilitating injuries or unbearable grief like logging into a4a regularly
I enjoyed it for what it was and I think the whole thing helped me reaffirm my expectations for what I want out of dating and relationships. A little birdie told me that Justice is apparently a highly sought after dude who is notorious for dropping dudes after sexing them on the first night. My ego can’t help but be stroked by the fact that I was able to keep his attention for as long as I did. At any rate, upwards and onwards.























