Met a guy online on Reddit who was helping me with some family issues, he said he understood me. He took time out of his day to help me through the issues. I felt that he understood me very well. We re-connected recently but I ended up blocking him because I was overly sensitive. He told me that I was being unprofessional because I didn’t respond to my boss at work for 2 days while recovering at home from COVID. I was severely sick with COVID at the time, had fever, chest pain, sore throat, shortness of breath, and I was being bombarded with requests to work from many workplaces as a health professional due to the staff shortages in the pandemic. My boss at work isn’t exactly genuinely good to me (to say the least, there were a lot of workplace related issues that my boss didn’t deal with, it was very stressful working there, and the workplace had a high staff turnover rate). Anyway I felt that my online friend was very hurtful by accusing me of being unprofessional without considering everything else that was going on in my life. I had hoped that he would be understanding and tell me that it is okay to take a short break from the massive amounts of emails and phone calls to recover fully from COVID. I blocked him, and in return he blocked me. I tried reaching out to him to talk today, and to apologise, by calling him, but as soon as he heard my voice and heard my name, he hung up on me straight away. I’m feeling quite upset about this. What should I do? Thanks in advance.
TL;DR: Tried to make amends and apologise to a friend, he hung up on me. What should I do.
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You leave it alone.
You set the example for what you consider to be acceptable behavior when you blocked him first. Now, you have to deal with the consequences of your impulsive behavior.
Do not reach out to him. If he chooses to reach out to you, you can decide whether or not to respond.
In the future, I hope you now know that it is less painful and hurtful to simply communicate the need for space, than it is to impulsively block someone.