You lose nothing by reaching out. So you may gain, you may gain nothing, but you lose nothing. He may have learned from the experience.
Good point. I've gotten over the "fine, see if I care, I'm not talking to you ever again either" phase.
When did this break-up happen? If it's recently I would let him know that he isn't "dead" for you. And that if he ever wants to talk about this, or anything else, then you're always ready to listen.
Apart from that, what else can you do? Give him plenty of space, but always leave the door open.
It was back in June or early July. We have not spoken since, not even a single text.
He once had a friend who slapped him in the face at a party. He swore up and down he would never talk to that guy again, but a few months later the guy started texted him and they are best buds again. So there is hope that he'd respond to me, though at the time he seemed dead set on not talking to me ever again and has followed through.
I think I will text him and see if he answers or ignores it.
Argh, my wife is still close to his ex-girlfriend so that complicates things a bit.
No offense Hobbs, but your forum personality seems to come out in your real life one too (short fuse, emotional head of steam-building et al). Sorry, can we have a few more details like: what did your dousch-friend do?
At least I'm genuine.
It's a long laundry list and I'm over most of it. Argh I was going to post some of it but it's a moot point.
I texted him and said "Hello, how are you? Do you want to start the friendship over?"
Reply: "hahaha no! I thought I made it clear to you the last time that you were dead to me."
So that's that then. Oh well, I am oddly relieved I tried even with the negative response. It was bugging me to think whether or not it was really a dead friendship and now I have my answer. Odd though a guy can slap him in the face at a party and he can get over that but a few private texts are beyond the pale! It's kind of funny actually, I made him face himself with what I said and apparently that's too much.
Thanks for the advice guys.
Edit: On reflection, he's still pretty mad over it. Why else throw in the hahahaha! part? Children will be children I guess.