I think she's upset, what to do.

Bottom-line, I think I inadvertantly hurt and upset a girl I like. We have been talking for several months. We're in the same line of work and met while working, although we don't actually work together (we work at different offices). We've gone out a few times and texted frequently enough. Anyway, in mid-October I got into a car accident and had a few other personal issues come up. I wasn't able to text her for about 3 weeks or until early to mid-November. Then I texted her 2-3 times over about 2 weeks, but never received a reply. One of the texts explained where I had been. I decided it's too hard to explain things well over text so I decided to send her an email to apologize again and ask if she would be interested in dating more formally. It wasn't a long love letter or anything like that, just an "I like you, would you be willing to give dating a try" type of letter. She never replied. I tried texting a couple more times these last 2 weeks and still no response.

Finally, this weekend I tried to contact her via Facebook. I hadn't tried that before because we had never communicated via FB and I didn't want to overstep by trying to contact her by means we had never used. The next day she finally answered and sent me a short text saying she got my email, knew it deserved a longer response, but didn't think we were on the same page. Very short and simple. Here's the thing, she texted me from a new number, as in she got a new phone number. Now, before anyone brings it up, I don't think she got a new number because of me. If she didn't want to talk to me she could have easily blocked my number and I doubt she would have texted me using her new number if she didn't want me to have it. Not to mention, we've always gotten along and never had any problemss, so changing her number because of me seems a bit extreme.

I haven't been able to talk to her and get the full story, but I'm guessing she might have lost or broken her old phone. I replied to her text and briefly explained why I hadn't contacted her in a while. She responded by saying 'this is [name]' as if she didn't understand my response. In other words, it seemed like it was the first time she heard about my accident and why I hadn't contacted her. That may mean she got a new number some time ago and never recevied any of the messages I sent her. If that's the case then from her point of view, in the last 2 months the only attempt at contact I made was the one email about 2.5 weeks ago. We had always texted at least once or twice per week, usually more, so that would have been an extremely long time for us to go without contact. Clearly she would have realized that since she had a new number I wouldn't have known what it was.

The last time we talked over 2 months ago everything was fine and her last few texts were friendly. The only thing I can think of is that maybe she was upset that I didn't contact her those few weeks while I was dealing with things. Then she lost or broke her phone, got a new number, and didn't hear from me until now. She obviously still had my number handy because she texted me, but maybe she didn't let me know she had a new number sooner because she was upset that I hadn't talked to her those first few weeks. And in the meantime, maybe she was upset that I didn't try to get in touch with her some other way until this weekend. It just doesn't add up to me, or maybe I'm just being too thick to see it. My sense is that she is upset, but I'm not sure what to do. I didn't do anything intentionally wrong. What do you think she is thinking? Is she not interested or just upset? What should I do? If it matters, she is a single mom and she is Hispanic (I don't know if she has that latin temper or not).