You send a text. No reply. By the next check, you’re wondering whether they’re upset with you. Nothing new has happened in the conversation, but something has happened in your experience of it.
Tag: self trust
The Boundary Comes After the Resentment
Years ago, a partner asked me a one-sentence question, and I answered with six reasons. Resentment is the signal we notice. The over-explaining, the dread, and the quietly absorbed costs arrive long before it.
