Then it’s obviously bothering you.
With that in mind I took the time to write the person involved in the last post directly, and explain how our last conversation had played out. What he’d said, what I heard, and how that both annoyed me and made me question unspoken limits.
I left him with a series of questions hopefully designed to clarify whether or not there were some unspoken rules I was breaking. Now to see if he responds.
Like so much of life, this too is a test. There are a lot of ‘correct’ responses. Only one or two of those include anything that makes me happy. The only really wrong response.. is no response at all.
How he responds (if he does) matters quite a bit to me. There’s a chance we’ll be actively working together in the future. If we are going to have issues, I’d rather know now, so that I can start preparing other options.