Hmmmm...to a degree I think you are right. Over the past year, we've both been on the emotional rollercoaster from hell, and I think we'd both like a period of downtime where thing just coast along.

It is confusing me though. He made such a big deal about us making progress because we WERE communicating about our R and our feelings. He said his biggest fear was that we would stop doing that and go back to not communicating.

But I have tried several times recently to initiate conversations that he stopped short. Last night, when he called from work, I straight-out asked him why he wasn't talking to me anymore. He said that it was because we haven't spent that much time together and that we'd been doing a lot of family things when we do. I said, that we had the same old schedule we'd always had, but that we'd had plenty of alone time where we could have talked and I had tried to get him to open up a couple of times but he seemed like he was shutting down any meaningful conversation.

This morning was weird. He came home from work and watched a bit of TV until I woke up. He didn't acknowledge me and didn't return my "good morning", wouldn't even look me in the eye.

I don't know if he's pouting about something or going back to being secretive about something and feeling guilty about it or WHAT. If I ask what's up (so I don't go around mind-reading, guessing, and making assumptions) I get some non-answer from him.

This is very frustrating!