Someone from my past
This guy I used to know as a teenager got arrested 3 years ago for a DUI but he really hurt someone and got a long sentence. I ran into his mother at church a few months back and handed her one of my business cards. Well her son has been writing me letters from jail, I never wrote him back because I used to get into alot of trouble with him. He has written about 6 times and I don't respond.
Today he called I picked up the phone and he wanted to chat so I talked to him for a good 20 minutes he told me he is straiting his life out and would like to see me at church this weekend. He isn't hanging around druggies or drunks anymore and I think he wants to hang out with me.
I don't mean to be a B**ch, I am sure he has changed or has every intention to but I want to leave my past in the past. I don't want someone right out of jail around my kids and he still has that "I"ve been locked up attitude" sometimes jail just makes you worse. His mother really want's us to be friends again, she thinks I am a good influence on him since I have changed so much.
How do I tell him I am not intrested in having a friendship? We do go to the same church, he is a nice boy, but I am just not ready to take on anyone wtih major problems in my lfe right now. That sounds mean and shallow but I really can't be strong fot anyone but myself.
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