I need help dealing with an online stalker. (long)

A therapist, Drastic? I hardly think that’s required on my end, and is more than a little melodramatic. Attempting to project some kind of emotional attachment to this woman on my part is entirely off-base. I have made reasonable efforts to stop contact - did you miss the part about my adding more than five profiles to my ignore list?

For a variety of personal reasons, I’m not able to change my telephone number, and would prefer to remain at the same account. As I stated before in the thread, the account was re-instated to keep in touch with an IRL friend who will soon be out of the country. I have been trying to give her as little power as possible by not allowing her to affect my life enough to change the phone number, set up a new contact list, etc. It’s true that I haven’t changed any information that is a hassle, because I will not live my life according to her neuroses.

I don’t mean to seem harsh either, and I haven’t done everything possible I will admit, but I’m trying to get out of the situation with a minimum of feelings hurt. I’m going to take the rest of your advice, though, and I’ll make sure to keep everyone posted :slight_smile:

Bricker, I’m male, why?

I was wondering the same thing as Bricker, since you said you had a boyfriend. Assuming I read your post correctly, does she know that you are homosexual? Just curious.

No, Australian popular culture doesn’t have any archetypes like that.

I’m guessing there’s just a fatal attraction to ellipses and your unique spelling style .

You’re allowed to flat-out REFUSE mail. Just write “Refused” on it and stick it in a mailbox. It gets returned to the sender, and I’d guess that it sends a stronger message than “Moved away”. For an extra-impersonal touch, hie yourself down to your local OfficeStore™ and buy a “Refused” rubber stamp.

Good luck. Remember that you are not responsible for other peoples’ happiness.

–Nightsky

Call me crazy, (hah! That was irony!) but it seems to me that Cruktar needs to spell a lot of thinks out to May, perhaps through an email address that he sets up strickly for that purpose, and that he never checks again. Something along the lines of “I’m sorry you feel that I owe you something, but A.) I’m gay [I assume] B.) I don’t owe you anything, and it’s a shame you think I do. I hope you get help, because your attachment to me is not healthy or normal. Please don’t attempt to contact me again, I will be returning all snail mail, and not opening any email. I will also block all attempted ICQ contacts. I will consider any further contact by you as harrassment. I’m sorry it had to come to this, and I do hope you are able to fix yourself.” Seems to me that he never was completely blunt, and after sending this email, he will have communicated what he needed to, and will have made it very clear that he doesn’t want to hear from May again. If he just ignores everything, she may assume that he’s really NOT getting her mail, which might make her even more persistant.

You don’t owe her anything, man. But it would be nice to give her some closure.