Dear Diana,

Illustration/ Satish Acharya

I met a guy online way back in 2003 and fell madly in love with him but things didn't work out and we broke it off and have been on and off till 2005. During this period,u00a0 I met another guy online who's three years younger than I am and is from a lower social strata.

I am not in the least bit attracted to him. I only felt sorry for him and was kind to him; he misunderstood that, and became convinced that I love him and don't show it. I tried telling him time and time again that I am not in the least bit interested in him and that I don't want him in my life.

I don't talk to him now and don't answer any of his messages and will not answer them and will not chat with him ever again because I am certain that he was involved in the break-up of my previous relationship with the person I loved.

I want him to know that I don't want him as a friend or anything else for that matter. I want him out of my life. Also, he keeps threatening to will kill himself if I leave him I think theres something seriously wrong with his head. I want him to leave me alone.

Rasha

Dear Rasha,

If the problem only persists online, what's stopping you from blocking this guy from wherever you have added him as a friend? Useu00a0 your email services optimally so as to filter out any mails that come from the guy.

Moreover, send a warning mail to him saying that if he tries to contact you again or sends any more messages to you, that you will inform the cops.

If nothing else, maybe that will put some sense into his head. Any guy who threatens to top himself for a girl who doesn't even care a bit about him, is either too silly or too delusional and ought to just be forgotten. So do just that, forget about him.

She's gone incommunicado... again

Dear Diana,

I am 18 years old and now work with a big company. In my school days, there was a girl I liked a lot. She left the school two years ago She didn't tell me a thing nor did she give me her number.

A year later, we met online on Orkut and made up again. Everything was going fine and we got physical also many times. She hasn't been responding to my mails for the past 10 days now.

Neither does she call back and I don't know why. Last time, she said she wanted to have sex with me but I ignored her. The problem began then.