I’m not sure why Sara. Like I said, we shared friends and used to all go out for dinner, etc. and get on like a house on fire. Suddenly, I became the target and used to have acidic comments directed at me. When I told him this was upsetting me, he used to mock me and carry on. It happened twice and I decided I wasn’t going to put up with his bad manners and so cut him out completely. I got told by our mutual friends that he probably still liked me but felt bitter at being ‘dumped’ (it really wasn’t that- we only talked on the phone 3 times before I called it a day!) and didn’t know how else to handle his feelings. Like I said, it was only when I bumped into him recently that I got that same, lovely feeling towards him as before- nice, gentle guy, etc. He told me life had changed a lot for him and that he’d had therapy to deal with some of the issues from his past, etc. I’m assuming those nasty comments were made during the stage he was making some other changes to his life, etc.