UPDATE....i called her last night after much hesitation because we had communicated by email and i didn't want something as impersonal as email to be the medium we used, even if we had no future. We talked for 10 minutes and it was cordial. She was friendly. Afterward, i wasn't all to excited to have called her. I really didn't want to roll that ball again. Today, she emailed me and told me that she doesn't want any relationship, casual or serious. She then wrote
"...I have to wonder whether if I told you I had gained 50lbs since we last saw each other in the grocery store, you would still be interested in seeing me or talking. That is something I find unacceptable and personally offensive. I'm looking better and better these days, and intend to continue on that route and am attracting more male attention based on my appearance than I know what to do with, but I really want to be on my own for now anyway".
I was prepared just to write back and say that we were both on the same page (as far as not going any further) and then just wishing her well, as i am not going any further with this woman. But part of me wants to argue a man's perspective that i select or am attracted to women who take care of themselves and stay fit and that i didn't reject her as a person. But as a sex partner, she wasn't acceptable in the state she was in when i stopped seeing her. Our relationship was agreed to be casual and sexual. A fling, not an LTR. So the whole thing was based on sexual attraction. I'm pretty sure i should not even go there and leave my reply short and crisp and end communication. What do you think? Should us men ever try to get through to women that they have to stay fit if they want us to accept them as sex partners? Again, i didn't reject her as a person. I simply ended the relationship because she was not physically acceptable. This woman does not want to accept reality. She wants to have her cake and eat it to. Just as us men have to accept the "harsh reality" that women are attracted to confident men, i think women need to accept the "harsh reality" that we men are always and ever will be attracted to physically fit and attractive women WHERE SEX IS CONCERNED...