In a strange situation .. in need of some advice

Hello! I am so ashamed of myself to have gotten myself into this situation that i have no where else to turn to. So i'm looking for some advice. Long story short is that I've been activley involved in with my church and had a good priest-parishoner relationship with the priest at the church. I just started recently opening up more about my own story and background to him and trusted him enough to go to my first face to face reconciliation with him it was all fine- I went on a retreat and he was the one running it the weekend. We had a bible signing and he asked me to bring my bible to him a seperate time because he wished to put extra thought into mine. So I brought it to him about a week after the retreat. He wrote up the entire back of it with nothing but kindness and good will. But me being the awkward person that I am felt it was necessary to write him back a letter. A letter I shouldve never given to him. I wrote with good will but after putting some thought into it the letter probably sounded mushy and overly appreciative to the point where I feel like he got the wrong impression and has started to avoid me. It probably didn't help much that after the fact I realized I had written the letter on paper from a notepad in which I had previously was in perfume a few weeks back ago due to it falling from a top shelf of my desk and scented the paper that I used to write the letter. ( i had spent a long time blow drying it off and instead of throwing it away i saved to use so I wouldn't waste paper) While writing this letter and even up until I gave it to him I didn't give it a second thought whatsoever. And now I don't know what to do since he's avoiding me. I am kicking myself so much for allowing all of this to happen and debating to either let this whole thing die down and not say anything or actually confronting him about it and apologizing to him for making him feel so uncomfortable around me. I really never intended to make him feel awkward around me or to get the wrong impression. I was beginning to get closer to him and now I cant help but feel bad for ruining a good friendship and feel things wont ever be the same. Should I let it die down or confront him? ** UPDATE after a week since this incident** I haven't gone to him YET because i truly wanted to see if I was actually being avoided or if it was in my head. A couple of days after this post he texted me asking me i how i was out of the blue and had a simple reply and ended the conversation quickly. He explained that he had been busy and all. But im going to be honest - i failed to mention in my story that there was some flirting going on before this letter. Now I personally am not trying to do anything with mal intentions which i also have stated earlier . I simply wish to keep this an appropriate relationship. But last night at a retreat reunion it's obvious that he is keeping his distance and not being as flirty as he was a while back ago but last night he came up next to me during a quiet time where I wasn't around too many and he put his arm around me , leaned in and whispered, "Thank you for making my heart very joyful." Got up then walked away from me. I am so confused as to what is happening in this situation and I do feel that i may need to have the conversation with him to clear things up.... any thoughts about this whole thing? I honestly feel so confused! Sorry if i was vague in some parts. but thanks for the responses !Please I am asking for true sincere answers here and nothing silly. I honestly had no one else to turn to and this is one hell of a unique situation but somehow I manage to always get myself in deep with these types of things.

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