You have an acquaintance you've hung out with a few times. Each time the vibes have been really nice. It seems they're going through a tough time.
How many times do you think you *should* reach out without a response from them? The reachings-out can be arbitrarily far apart.
Exact same premise as above except they agree to requests to hang out and seem like they have a genuinely good time, thank you afterwards, etc.
But they never initiate text convos or hangouts, and often leave you on read. They mention depression. What *should* you do?
short answer time:
if you voted "meta-talk", how would you bring it up?
"are you getting something positive out of me reaching out regularly *or* is it nice having the option to be able to reply?" sounds really petty if the tone is read incorrectly, but it's the question i want answered as the reacher-out
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