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Is there any way I can fix this?

Asked by Lonelyheart807 (2927points) April 21st, 2022

I have really stuck my foot in it this time. So I’ve been talking to this guy on Instagram who’s from Ukraine. The language barrier has been somewhat of a struggle, but Google translate helps a lot and you’d be amazed what you can communicate with pictures and emojis.
Now, I realize I’m going to come off as the world’s biggest fool when I tell you the next part, but here goes. I know this guy is happily married and I realize this will probably bring on a lot of doubting comments. But tonight we were talking about books we like to read, when all of a sudden he sent me a picture, nothing inappropriate, just of himself, and it had some text, which I used Google lens and translate to figure out.
The phrase was, what are you wearing, girl?
So, I figured it was either a horrible mistake on the point of Google translate, except I don’t think it was, or maybe he was talking to his wife and sent the message to me by mistake.
Okay, cue the laughter at my naivete, but I don’t care, I still think he didn’t mean to send it.
Somewhat confused, and sort of laughing about the situation, I responded back with what I figured was a safe remark, and also put a laughing emoji after my message so that he would understand I was just joking around. What I basically said was that it was 11:00 at night here, so I was just basically slumming it in some fleece pants and a t-shirt. Not exactly what I would call a sexy outfit, but who knows what standards are in Ukraine? I don’t even think he saw my comment because usually Instagram will indicate if the person has seen it, but shortly after that he went offline, even though he’s typically on this time of day, and he hasn’t been back on since. I messaged him, apologizing for any misunderstanding and trying to explain that I had just been joking with him since I figured it had been a mistake. Now, typically, even if he’s offline, if I send him a message he’s fairly quick to respond, but this time, nothing. And now I’m absolutely mortified, and also really sad because I was just enjoying chatting with him about what’s going on over there and movies and books we like, Etc. Have I just totally blown this now?

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