Context - says she was Italian in her bio but doesn't speak it so I chose to open with what's written below but no answer so I followed about 5 days later to this response. Seems like the "scared off" is probably referring to the jokingly introducing her to my nonna (which was a joke) as this maybe portrayed some sort "looking for committment" from my part even though I'm not. I tried essentially sidestepping it by jokingly assuming she was on about finding Italian hard and in turn scary to learn. What I was going to do is just let this match be i.e. if she responds she responds if not nothing kind of thing, but I'd like to know other peoples opinions on both what to do and whether I didn't imply it enough that I was joking and came on too strong.