Did I backslide? I didn't start the R convo.... it graduated into one when he was expressing his stress & the toll caring for his mom was having on him. This is when I spoke & said "I thought we had prepared our lives to do this stuff together"...
Yes, you did (backslide). This ^^^ is where you intentionally redirected the conversation into yet-another, 2,547th R talk with him.
It takes two to have a convo, MM -- stop making excuses. Own it, and resolve to do better next time.
