... do I owe her any explanation about my lack of interest in spending more time with her?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a new acquaintance with whom I share a couple of interests and group activities. She seems quite lonely. It’s clear she would like to be closer friends, and she reaches out multiple times a week to get together for events that I usually decline.
I already limit my contact with her to the few events we both regularly attend, but do I owe her any explanation about my lack of interest in spending more time with her? Is there any way to point out the aspects of her behavior I find off-putting? Or is simply “ghosting” her overtures for more togetherness a strong enough signal?But seeing someone occasionally and declining to do so constantly is not ghosting.
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