• Be me
  • 27
  • still a virgin
  • never even kissed a girl
  • start flirting with sister of one of my friends in mmo I'm playing
  • she is 18
  • 'should be good practice'
  • tells me she doesn't think she can be serious with someone who isn't religious, but doesn't want to lose me cause she doesn't have many friends
  • say sure no problem
  • stop talking to her
  • see her online 2 months later
  • we start talking again
  • a month later she tells me when we're on the phone that she's in love with me
  • ask her to be my girlfriend
  • good times and phone sex for 2 months
  • her brothers in the game find out about us
  • tell her dad
  • dad is a preacher
  • she gets distant
  • says I probly need to come meet her and visit her family if things are going to get better
  • make plans to go meet her
  • she's still distant
  • won't be intimate
  • say it's not fair for her to distance herself from me until i break up with her, tell her she needs to do it if that's what she wants
  • calls me next day
  • tells me it's not a good time in her life
  • I say I'm sorry to hear that
  • she texts me a few days later saying she thinks she made a mistake
  • both agree it's better if we're going to try again in the future if we're actually able to see each other in person
  • I tell her it's okay if she still talks to me
  • she joined my raid group when we got together, things would be awkward if we didn't talk
  • it's been a week
  • sometimes she texts me and we talk for a while. sometimes I text her and we talk for a while
  • starting to feel like a cuck
  • don't want to burn bridges or ruin raid group
  • also don't want to be the guy that keeps texting her hoping for something in the future while some dude comes along and starts nailing her

I'm really looking for a diplomatic way to handle this situation. I realize now it was a bad idea for her to join my raid group since now I have to be around her in voice chat 3 or 4 times a week. I want her to want me. I want her to miss me. I don't want to seem bitter. I don't want to keep talking to her if there isn't anything between us, but if I just straight up say that to her she will become grossly offended and leave the raid group. Looking for a good reason to be too busy to talk to her but not too busy to still raid with her. One that doesn't make me look like a dick if we try things again later on and she asks why I was ignoring her. She asked the first time, but that was more believable that I was just busy. We hadn't developed any sort of real relationship. Fat chance things will work out later, but better not to burn that bridge.