Thank you! I do totally see your point and appreciate the input. If my N responds to that one liner I will just ignore him. I am still glad I sent that email though because it has cleared me in two ways: 1. I did not ignore my colleagues request for another colleagues info and 2. I did not have to explain to the colleague why I don't have the N's contact info or why we are not talking as it would have been questioned. The N can tell him what he wants to and can decide if he wants this colleague to have his info. I want to keep things professional on my end and could care less what the N says about our time together. The professional circle I work in knows and respects me and truthfully the N has not historically launched a smear campaign against me so he will likely keep it clean too. So I guess I have compartmentalized this into a professional breaking of contact versus a personal breaking of contact and in that way I feel like professionally I handled something well. I soooo appreciate your input and that is why I posted. I was more panicked about it right after I sent the email and now in time I see that I was just handling a professional matter.