Your relationship to this colleague must feel like ufinished business and you appear to want it to end smoothly. I agree with posters upthread who have advised you to simply close the door on the relationship. To use a cliche it "is what it is".
Isnt it odd how some men who begin by being "flirty" and get no response eventually turn cold and hostile. They somehow lack the maturity to accept that although you are not interested in them as a date that doesnt mean you have something against them.
When I was a mature student at uni I had a man from an ethnic minority who kept encountering me and asking me out. I always refused, explaining that I did not know him socially and it was not my custom to pick up men in the street. Gradually he became more and more hostile. He accused me of not wanting to go out with him because he was Asian. I was totally involved in my studies and would not have gone out with him had he been white British.
Good Morning Friday 12th June 2026



