Dear Christine,
I felt compelled to respond to the letter written by a 45-year-old man in your column last week, where he openly confessed his love for a young woman who works at a Government office in The City.
Christine, this man is something else. Is he sick or what? How can he be waiting around watching a woman every day and not have the guts to even say hello? Good gracious! Is he going to allow the lust he has (it really cannot be love) to continue to fester in his loins? Doesn’t he sound like some psycho to you?
What is this foolishness about wanting to make her his under any condition and not being able to sleep peacefully at night when he does not see her on evenings. So, what happens on Saturdays and Sundays when she is not at work? Does he suffer from insomnia on those nights? I thought his letter was distasteful. If I were that young woman, I would change the road I take to get to work.
If I am accustomed entering the building from the back I would enter the building from the front or vice versa. He would have to suffer from permanent insomnia. This is ridiculous! The next thing you know is that he’ll probably follow her home one day. Tell him what he feels is not love, it is a really sick obsession and lust beyond measure.
If he is really a man, he would do the “manly thing” and ask a question. If she is already taken, then he should let her go and look for gold somewhere else.
In other words, leave her alone. I’d feel creepy and very concerned if a man expressed the thoughts and feelings he had for me via this column, the way he did. I wouldn’t be happy at all.
Keep up the good work, Christine
– Deborah
Dear Deborah,
Thanks for your response. Since the young man is obviously a reader of this column, I’m sure he’ll see the concerns you have shared.
Some online readers have expressed similar views. Who knows? Maybe he’ll garner the strength to approach her face to face.
– CHRISTINE
