She has my email so it wasn't an emergency.
What I did was simply called The Takeaway (see Corey Wayne). When she changes the terms, you withdraw the offer.
I'm damned if I do, damned if I don't here. Either I'm Captain Save a Ho, or I'm heartless toward a poor innocent girl who needed me.
Withdrawing the offer is one thing, going AWOL on someone you profess to care about, and who professes to love you deeply, that is hurtful to her, and damaging to your relationship. At some point, if there is real value, you need to see the value in your relationship and treat her like you wold expect her to treat you. If she shut her phone off for 3 days you would feel disrespected, unless she was a plate, which you have said she is not a plate.
I have this thing called a life. My boss told the entire team that very day "Neil, we need you to carry us for the next two weeks". That's about a million dollars in payroll. She can't be changing plans around. My purpose comes first. She's a child sticking her finger in the outlet.
She deserves to know that. "Hey babe, work commitments are calling hard. I'm going to need to focus so I'll be unreachable for a few days"
That's just my opinion. If, after 9 months, you went AWOL on me for 3 days it would devastate me emotionally. I would feel abandoned and start to believe that all of this love, hope and commitment I had put into you was fool hearty because you clearly dont care deeply for me.
Take my words for whatever you think they are worth. I'm just letting you know how I would feel if she were me.
And the idea she met someone else and fell in love that week because I had a job to do is pretty sad. Please. Love doesn't die of starvation, but often indigestion.
this, I agree, is baffling. If we take it for exactly what it is, this tells me that she is absolutely too immature for you, and that she does not know what real love, deep love, is.
If we decide to take this in the context of a game she was playing, that she was trying to pull frame on you, performing a push/pull on you, she has real issues communicating when she is hurt. But you led her into this push/pull frame. You defined the relationship in terms of push/pull. You set this dynamic up. My only comment on this is that, once you feel as if you have them, once her IL reaches 4, and appears to be heading towards a 5, consider stopping the push/pull, or
dramatically reducing the intensity of it.