Am I being too persistent with meeting up with my friend?

[Anonymous]

So a long lost friend and I have been chatting for some time and a few weeks ago, I brought up the idea of meeting up for the first time in years, she said that would be awesome. She’s got kids and said she needs to plan but told me to let her know what works for me. So I threw a couple dates out and they didn’t work. So last week I asked about meeting up this weekend, she told me she had come down with a Illness and fighting and possibly could meet up. So I text her today and she said today was the first time she started feeling better. I told her I was going to be near by this weekend and was looking to see if that would work. Hadn’t heard back yet, so I was thinking about sitting on it until Friday (assuming that she just got busy, saw the text and forgot to get back) and telling her that I got things I got to do until a certain time but was free the rest of the day and could meet up, if not, just tell her what days I’m off and leave it up to her, is this too much?

[SamA_nold]

No, I don’t think you are being too persistent yet, but if she finds an excuse not to meet up after Friday, I would back down until she says something herself.

[awkward_author]

Nope. There’s nothing wrong with trying to schedule a hang out session with your friend.

[Asker]

I just hope she doesn’t see me as trying to look for anything more than just hanging out. There’s always this notion that if it’s just a guy and a girl together that it’s perceived to be more than that. I just hadn’t seen her in a decade and would be cool to see her. See where I’m coming from?

[awkward_author]

That’s understandable. Just make your intentions clear to her, and you should be fine.

[Asker]

I think we had that clear with each other, at one point or another in our texts we called each other friend.

[awkward_author]

That’s good.