My 44th Year

gravel fondo, steel is real, black mountain cycles...The Keepers, Everything Sucks, The End of the F***ing World, 13 Reasons Why, Shameless...Reading Terminal Market, Beiler’s Bakery, Macy’s with mom, Believe...La Colombe, pure black, High Brew, burr mill grinder, Mexico Dark...Christmas Day, Coco, Classic Asia...Super X, hulk smash...Brute Force Training, functional strength, sandbags, basement gym...crock pot chicken, cookie butter, couscous, carrot noodles, broccoli slaw, avocados guacamole...bang trim...focus groups...amazon rewards...power seller...baby hippo, broken teeth, vet bills...no vacation...Hale, Zealand, Cabot, Waumbek...blueberry Clif Bar, Epic turkey almond cranberry...Backpacker Radio, Ear Hustle, Heaven’s Gate, Up and Vanished...Hancock Campground...sandwich range traverse, Passaconaway, Whiteface, The Sleepers, Middle Tripyramid, North Tripyramid...rock slides...ice bath cooler...Glen Boulder, Isolation...peanut butter, raisins, pancakes...Moosilauke...bag full of scrambled eggs...Duke, puppy sitting, peeing in the pool...Hazelnator, nail bed infection, more vet bills...staycation...Wildwood, Mack's Pizza, Ed’s Funcade, Sea Shell Ice Cream...my second year without you...on my own terms...The Notch Hostel...Dunkin Donuts, americano, Lincoln Woods...Owl’s Head, crocs, water crossings, wet feet...a fucking pile of rocks in the woods...road walk, Carrigain, fire tower, forty eight finished...Wild Foods, power shrooms, cocotropic, fish oil...AT PCT CDT...thru hikes, day dreams, ultra light..Big Agnes, ULA, Voormi, Point Six, Patagonia, Enlightened Equipment, Nemo...#bulkinglikeaboss #sendit #theplantyogi #lftoddsht #trainaccordingly #nh48

It should go without saying…

I have been friends with this guy for about seven years. He’s a nice guy and I enjoy hanging out with him. We have a lot of similar interests, including women, yet for some reason he continues to make inappropriate comments.

There was a stretch of several months last year when we weren’t in touch, but we recently started hanging out again. It didn’t take long for his comments to resume. I am on the receiving end of text messages like...wanna make out...let’s go to the movies and hold hands...want to come over and cuddle. There is only so much of it that I can take BUT the fact of the matter is that I shouldn’t have to take it at all. He shouldn’t be doing it, period. It makes me feel uncomfortable.

In the past I would simply ask him to stop. This last time all I did was delete his contact information. I finally realized that it isn’t my responsibility.