After 3-4 months, how to prepare for the inevitable?

Finally, I'm back to dating again. I matched with a woman on an app, and over the last three months we've been seeing each other once or twice a week. We talked every day or every couple of days, and recently things started to feel very relationship-like, although we never became intimate. For context we are both almost 30.

The problem is that she's dealing with a couple of big things. She might have to leave the country if she doesn't find a full time job by the end of July or mid-August, and she also told me she has chronic depression.

The last time we saw each other was about 10 days ago. I helped her move from one apartment to another, and afterward she invited me to dinner and we also went for a walk. When I got home, I asked if she'd made it back safely, like I always do. She replied, and the next day I asked how she was settling into the new apartment. She took a day to respond, which didn't seem unusual because she sometimes gets overwhelmed with work and life in general.

We exchanged a few messages, and then she took three days to reply to my last one. I responded the message and also saying, "How are you holding up? We haven't talked much these past few days." That was last Sunday. Since then, she's gone completely silent. Yesterday afternoon, after four days without hearing from her, I sent one more message sharing something personal and asking if there had been any updates with her job search. Still nothing.

I just have a really bad gut feeling. On top of that, I deal with anxiety every day, so my mind keeps going over everything, wondering where things might have gone wrong or if I missed something.

I've been trying hard not to double-text for reassurance or come across as clingy because I know she's always been a chaotic texter. When we first started seeing each other, she'd sometimes take days to reply. But once we started dating more seriously, that changed, and we were talking almost every day. That's why this silence feels different.

I’m just having trouble self soothing after a few days of ghosting. Based on stuff she’s said, I get the feeling she’s avoidant and welp, I suspect the hurt is coming.

So how do you sit with the inevitable? I really thought I gotten lucky and found a woman guy who I vibed with, and now it’s frustrating to go back to the endless dating loop again.

I might send one final message in a few days, asking directly why she's been some distant recently and if something changed or if something is wrong we can talk about it, because communication is key and this uncertanity is killing me.

Thanks y'all

Posted Jul 11, 2026, 1:40 PM UTC

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