Well, we had our last play session for the summer today--so as I hoped, it'll just be gone now. No need for any messiness, and it can just look like "growing apart due to physical distance," rather than my deciding I didn't want to play.
I don't mean to be intrusive Vector, but can you give an example of how he's stuck his foot into your game group? Like, something specific?
Using the DM as a replacement goldfish (friend-wise) and then proceeding to hang out with all the group members but me.
The one time he asked me to come over for anything, he ganged up on me in Munchkin with the DM (... I still won. It was a 3p game) and spent a large amount of time having an excluding conversation, thus establishing myself as a member of the out group.
The basic result is that he's reformed the group in a new image, and now I'm out of it. As my mother says, it's kind of like we divorced and he got the puppy >_>
Jeez, Vector. Here's a bit of advice from myself:
You date only those people who make you feel good. Keep it simple.
Duly noted, and trust me--lesson learned. I thought people just
were this way, and I was just going to need to put up with it. Hopefully, I'll be able to find friends in college. Maybe I'll even be able to find a good person to date before I turn 50 ._.;;
Vector simply stated that she would be easily overpowered, and I gave a legitimate offer to overcome that problem. I'd be willing to extend that offer to anyone, even if I thought that they had more experience fighting than I.
Thank you for the offer, but I'm fine (and don't have the money to travel to Michigan, anyway). "I can't beat people up" was mostly an excuse to cover for "I really don't like getting in fights."
I'm actually okay at fighting, weak and tiny as I am, but it's so unpleasant that I do whatever I can to avoid it.