Dear Prudence,
In September, I started dating “Johnny,” who is 30 and works in the same industry as me. We really hit it off; most nights, we stayed up talking for hours. Yet by October, he needed space because he didn’t feel “ready to settle down.”
A week later, he returned with a new lease on life, and by November, he asked me to be his girlfriend. I even met his family around Christmas. But in January, he broke things off, again, by saying he wasn’t ready for a serious relationship. (My friends saw him on Hinge a week later.) I feel hurt, but I am also happy I can focus on finding someone more mature. We haven’t spoken since. But on Valentine’s Day, he began liking all my social media posts, undoubtedly for attention. I refuse to engage. I think of blocking him online, but then I might run into him on the job. What’s an elegant solution here?
—Avoid Me Please