@Cassandra I’m happy to receive responses, but I was primarily venting.
I’m traversing down a knife edge where I don’t know for any given interaction with my SO whether I will fall off the edge or not (i.e. meet their expectations of the interaction or not).
I could tell that the simple practical issue text exchange was going to lead to them requesting a call, which it did.
I could tell that call would morph into one about other issues where they would expect emotional support, which it did…