I dated this guy for about 1.5 years, from 2005-2006. We didn't end on awesome terms, but we started talking again after my mom died in December 2006. But ever since I've been with DH, I have tried to kind of back away from any informal communication. He was a freelance writer for us at my last job, and after I left there, there wasn't really any reason to communicate anymore.

He doesn't really reach out to try anything. From what I know, he's in a serious long-term relationship, and he's not that kind of person anyway, to stir stuff up. But when we were together, he always prided himself on the fact that he was really good friends with all his ex-girlfriends -- and their husbands/bfs, too. So I don't know if that's what's going on here or what, but every once in a while he'll text me, and I'm just like, *eyeroll*

Sometimes, it's a weird text: two Christmases ago, he texted me to tell me that Hot Topic had a big sale and he figured I liked "that kind of crap." (Which I really don't.) Sometimes, it's a question that he could ask any number of people but chooses to ask me instead, like, "who was your mortgage broker." Sometimes, it's a question for Google, like, "What was that movie with Scarlett Johanssen and Bill Murray when they're in Japan?" And so I answer, and then he starts with, "So how is everything going anyway?"

And I just don't want to have a conversation. Once, I ignored him and he sent me a text asking if I was mad at him, if he had done anything wrong *eyeroll*. The thing is, 1. I am not the biggest fan of him anyway, he's a fine person but I find him to be very annoying and one of those "I always have something clever and cutting to say on Facebook" type of people, 2. There's no reason for a friendship, and 3. Not that DH would care tremendously, but given 1 and 2, I don't feel like it's important enough to add that dynamic to things.

So do I keep ignoring him? Tell him to stop (and how and what to say about that??)? Blah, I hate social awkwardness like this.