What is with that boyfriend?

In her latest email, she apologized for not replying in time – that means that she really feels she should. This is a good sign.

I will return tomorrow from my own travel, but she will be on her travel, without email for over a week. How should our little sensitive relation seedling survive without communication? I send her my mobile number, maybe we can chat by SMS. I have never used that, am curious how that would work out.

Today I had no email access the whole day, only in the evening. When I returned to the hotel, I got her mails – she states specifically that she enjoys this email exchange. Now that is something, after one week! We had sent a total of 37 emails in the past few days – not so bad for such a short relationship. But now that I can read her emails, she will not be able to read my replies anymore ... since she will already be at home, preparing for her travel. She had sent me her mobile number, so I sent her an SMS. But no reply comes back from her ...

One thing in her last email bothered me: she mentioned again her boyfriend – and how she told him about something I said, and how he would not agree. Now that is annoying. I thought we had an email relationship developing here, so what does this boyfriend have to do here? I sense very much that she likes me. But I do not understand why she brings up that boyfriend all the time. Does she want to test me? To provoke me into something? Or does she want to show me the limits?

Maybe she is just immature, a happy young girl, not aware about what a relationship means. Maybe she is looking for an older mature friend, with some wisdom to enlighten her life. Suddenly I am in the role of the old wise guy… this is a really horrible thought.