Thanks for the replies. I'll try not to think that it's my fault, but it is hard to. So often when I get to know someone I'm writing to, the issue of how people always stop writing to me comes up. They always say something like, "That won't happen with me". Well these days that means nothing to me at all because I know it's just meaningless words. Maybe they mean it at the time, but that means nothing at all later when they get sick of me.
I wish people would at least have the decency to explain to me why they do it. If I've done something wrong, they can yell at me or whatever, but don't just disappear without a word. Someone from these forums has done it recently and I haven't heard from her for well over a week, when it used to usually be a daily letter. I know a week isn't long, but when it used to be daily, it is a pretty good sign that they've given up. That is what it's always meant with people in the past when they haven't written for that long. Part of me worries about this person in case something bad happened to them - But the bigger part of me hates that I'm so concerned, because experience tells me that it's a lot more likely they've simple had enough of me. She was one of the many who's more than once claimed she wouldn't stop writing, because I'm such a nice guy, blah blah blah. Yea, so nice that they don't want to know me.
I accept that people sometimes have their reasons, although they should always write to explain them unless they're physically unable to. If they simply forgot or something, then they weren't particularly good friends in the first place. I don't tend to just write to people as penpals, but I try getting to know them well, we share stuff, maybe speak to a few on the phone sometimes. These people I write to are the only people I know other than family, so the only friends I have. So if they can just forget me, that's a bit depressing.
Anyway thanks for listening to me moaning.
