posted May 26, 2012 11:41 PM
I agree with others here who say, just do what makes you happy. You don't owe this person anything. Real friendship has a natural momentum to it. That being said, I think frequency of contact means different things to different people at different times.
Lately, I talk to strangers here more often than some of my close friends. Saturn is transiting my third house, and from what I've read, that helps explain why I am just really interested in learning astrology right now, and getting to know others who share this interest. It's not that I like the people here better than my longtime friends.
When I DO talk to my friends, I feel that I prove my sincerity and am worthwhile company, so they forgive my sporadic contact. And I'm grateful they grant me this leeway.
At other times in my life I have not wanted to deal with someone else's sporadic contact and have stopped talking to them altogether if I felt the circumstances made the hiatus too uncomfortable.
In other words, where I had bad communication with a person combined with extra issues, I would let the friendship dissolve.
But once a relationship has reached what I call its fluency stage, where the other person and I have strong communication and mutual trust, I will overlook all kinds of things that would otherwise be hurtful: unanswered phone calls, broken promises ("I'll call you tomorrow") not being told significant news,etc. Because I am happy in the confidence I have, that it will eventually be explained or amended.