When I emotionally shut down on someone,
It’s never this dramatic moment where Gandalf jumps out of the phone in front of that person and proclaims, “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!”..Although, when I think about it.. that would be kind of awesome if it worked out that way.
Nevertheless, I turn myself back on associate mode. For myself, I dial it back. Yeah i’ll ask how your day is, and regular chit-chat situations, but its going in one ear and out the other. My heads not in it and my heart already decided to retreat back to the batcave.
Slowly but surely the relationship between me and that person dwindles away. Maybe not over the next few days, but once the weeks start rolling in you can already consider me a stranger. I become a faded memory to them and they become a bridge I watched burn.
