So I was with my ex for 6 years from the age of 18 to 24, when he suddenly, completely out of the blue, broke up with me. There were promises of him wanting to be friends after we have a period of no contact. Of course I never heard from him again...until recently, 4 years on. He sent me an email asking how I was and said that he found my birth certificate amongst his stuff and wanted to post it to me. He also said he found a shopping list I wrote which made him laugh because it took me like 5 attempts to spell the word 'sausages' (I can now proudly say that I can spell that word...I don't even need spell checker!).

I reply saying something along the lines of:

I was wondering where that went, please send it to (my address). Don't worry about the shopping list, I've bought sausages now (that was supposed to be some lame joke, as in I wrote that like 8 years ago, I've remembered to buy them without the list). Thank you.

Anyway, I did not receive a reply to this email and I did not receive my birth certificate. I figure maybe he was busy so I leave it a couple of months but still nothing. So then I send him another email saying: could you please send my birth certificate, thanks. Again, no reply and no birth certificate.

Why would he tell me he's got my birth certificate and then not send it? I feel that whilst I don't want to engage in particularly friendly conversation (and I'm not sure he could reasonably expect me to after breaking up with me without any reason and then not talking to me for 4 years) I was reasonably polite. Is it worth contacting him again? Did I say something wrong? I'm not sure I understand. I know I can get another one printed so it's not a major deal, but I would like the original one really. Plus I feel a bit uncomfortable knowing that he has it and now won't give it back for some unknown reason.
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Ex gets in contact after 4 years to tell me he has my birth certificate and would like to post it to me, but then
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So I was with my ex for 6 years from the age of 18 to 24, when he suddenly, completely out of the blue, broke up with me. There were promises of him wanting to be friends after we have a period of no contact. Of course I never heard from him again...until recently, 4 years on. He sent me an email asking how I was and said that he found my birth certificate amongst his stuff and wanted to post it to me. He also said he found a shopping list I wrote which made him laugh because it took me like 5 attempts to spell the word 'sausages' (I can now proudly say that I can spell that word...I don't even need spell checker!).

I reply saying something along the lines of:

I was wondering where that went, please send it to (my address). Don't worry about the shopping list, I've bought sausages now (that was supposed to be some lame joke, as in I wrote that like 8 years ago, I've remembered to buy them without the list). Thank you.

Anyway, I did not receive a reply to this email and I did not receive my birth certificate. I figure maybe he was busy so I leave it a couple of months but still nothing. So then I send him another email saying: could you please send my birth certificate, thanks. Again, no reply and no birth certificate.

Why would he tell me he's got my birth certificate and then not send it? I feel that whilst I don't want to engage in particularly friendly conversation (and I'm not sure he could reasonably expect me to after breaking up with me without any reason and then not talking to me for 4 years) I was reasonably polite. Is it worth contacting him again? Did I say something wrong? I'm not sure I understand. I know I can get another one printed so it's not a major deal, but I would like the original one really. Plus I feel a bit uncomfortable knowing that he has it and now won't give it back for some unknown reason.
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Ex 'finds' my birth certificate and wants to post it to me, won't give it back, are we just not friends? Should I contact him
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