H did call about 8:30 Saturday night...we chatted for a few minutes. He called again on Sunday afternoon. He called about 10:00 Sunday night, on his way home from a friend's house. He was complaining that his back hurt from shoveling. He called me again when he got home. He wanted me to go to our house to rub his back. I didn't tell him no, but i didn't go. He called me Monday afternoon. He said that i had been very short with him on Sunday night and wasn't very sympathetic to his back pain. He said he felt like i had dismissed him and it brought back bad memories. He asked me if i was mad at him...i said no. I told him that i hadn't meant to be dismissive with him. He called me last night about 11:00. He said "you didn't call me back." I asked him when he called and he said had called me at 9:00...told him i didn't know that. He said that i was being weird with him...that sunday night i had been dismissive and then didn't return his call last night. I apologized and told him i would have called him back. That was about it.
So, WTF? I mean, really, what does he want from me? I guess this could be me going dim or detaching or dropping the rope. And he immediately reacts to it. Very interesting. Its hard to do, though, b/c my nature is to try to make things better. Oh, he also brought up yesterday afternoon how he had sent me an email last week that i never responded to. I told him i hadn't gotten an email from him and asked him when he sent it. He said he couldn't remember. I told him if it was on Friday, i didn't get it b/c i left work early.
Anyway, i just thought this behavior was very interesting. I am getting a reaction out of him, so maybe this whole DBing thing is working!
