“It just feels like you can’t be alone! Like you always need me to be doing something with you, or you just freak out. It’s like I can never have just a minute of space to myself to even think.”

“But it doesn’t matter how much ‘space’ I give you or whether I ask you to do things when you say it’s better for you - you just never want to spend time with me! You’d rather just watch TV or stare at your phone.”

I jump in to pause the back-and-forth between this (hypothetical) couple…