DEAR EMILY,

I am a 44-year-old happily married woman. I am into handicrafts. In a recent trade exhibit, a former suitor showed up in my booth.

He now heads a mining company and he proposed that the families of his workers in the mining site would supply me raw materials for my products to give them supplementary income.

Last month, he brought the workers? wives to meet with me. Later, he invited me to lunch and, despite my protestations, he charmed me into lunch.

We reminisced about old times and how he could have proposed marriage to me, were he not so below me financially. At dessert, he confided that business was just an excuse to see and talk to me.

After several meetings, I realized I still have feelings for him. Should I go through with the deal he proposed?

CEL

What you?re asking is, is it advisable to go through with the business proposal and reconnect with him?

Whaddaya think? He obviously seems to have a grand design on you. Can you withstand the romantic tension, and not rock your ?happy? marriage?

What exactly is his status? Married? Separated? Separating? With children?

Reunions and serendipitous occurrences are always terribly exciting, especially reconnecting with old beaus. You wake up with a song in your head. While there are wonderful close friendships forged after marriage, are you certain you are ?happily married? enough to be just friends with him?

If you don?t have emotional issues, you could have just put him in your directory. But reaching out to me only means there are many scenarios playing in your head.

Think hard, think deep. You?ve declared yourself a happily married woman. Are you suddenly unhappy now?

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