Hi All,
This is the first time I write on a forum and I am a bit nervous. I walked the last part of the Camino Frances in September and spent most of the time with a fellow pilgrim from the other side of the world. By the end of it we felt as if something romantic had developed between us, however we were unsure whether this was mostly due to how emotional the Camino had made us. To me, he was most importantly a friend and someone I was counting to be in touch with once we would be back to our routine. I really treated him like a close friend and I hope I proved to be the same to him as the things we talked about were extremely personal. He was then going on to do more travelling and because of that during our first online interactions I thought I would not start huge conversations and did not tell him how hard it was for me to be back to my "old life". It has now been over a month he has literally disappeared online. It looks like his family is ok, so I am thinking he purposely wanted to cut bridges. He had a very difficult year before doing the Camino and I wonder if he then felt he needed to get rid of whatever reminded him of it, including me because we talked a lot about it his misfortunes. I feel really stupid, confused. I don't make friends easily and at the moment I feel so disposable. I would love to do the Camino again in the future, but I couldn't bear to go through something like that again.
I was wondering if something similar has happened to you too.
Thanks a lot,
U
This is the first time I write on a forum and I am a bit nervous. I walked the last part of the Camino Frances in September and spent most of the time with a fellow pilgrim from the other side of the world. By the end of it we felt as if something romantic had developed between us, however we were unsure whether this was mostly due to how emotional the Camino had made us. To me, he was most importantly a friend and someone I was counting to be in touch with once we would be back to our routine. I really treated him like a close friend and I hope I proved to be the same to him as the things we talked about were extremely personal. He was then going on to do more travelling and because of that during our first online interactions I thought I would not start huge conversations and did not tell him how hard it was for me to be back to my "old life". It has now been over a month he has literally disappeared online. It looks like his family is ok, so I am thinking he purposely wanted to cut bridges. He had a very difficult year before doing the Camino and I wonder if he then felt he needed to get rid of whatever reminded him of it, including me because we talked a lot about it his misfortunes. I feel really stupid, confused. I don't make friends easily and at the moment I feel so disposable. I would love to do the Camino again in the future, but I couldn't bear to go through something like that again.
I was wondering if something similar has happened to you too.
Thanks a lot,
U