[Storyteller.]

The more I think about it, the more dissatisfied and unsettled I am by your response. Reacting like that has made me feel guilty for responding and reluctant to continue engaging, especially given how hard it was for me to connect in the first place. If you want to encourage a behaviour, never make someone feel bad for displaying it. That's so counter-productive, because if I hadn't managed to finally respond you wouldn't have lashed out, and now I have to deal with the aftermath of that as well as all of the emotions and issues that kept me from reaching out to begin with. What were you expecting would happen here? That I'd apologise for my grief, my depression, my feelings? I won't do that, and now I have to take a step back because this is more than I can safely deal with right now.