After phone coaching session #2

[T1000]

I wonder the same thing. It just takes one reach out from me for it to either feel like she is pulling away or she does actually pull away and it feels like it's a step backwards.
Your damned if you do and damned if you don't. Right now I have set a contact of once per week to ask how the kids are. If she is responsive I try and create a chat out of it. If she isn't I bail.

Over the last 5 days or so I have been quite short with her when she contacted me. She even mentioned it. Because she has mentioned it I'm going to be a bit warmer and see how that plays out.