Thank you, Anita, that is very wise advice. Yes, I guess I didn’t realize how much the situation with his friend upset and affected him until his message yesterday. It did make me view the entire thing a little differently and regret making it so much about myself, though I wish he just would have told me he was upset and couldn’t talk 4 days ago. That level of distraction/disconnect seems to indicate that he is completely compartmentalizing me out of his life. Maybe that’s purely situational, but it seems like it could easily become a recurrent thing. I would like to know it’s some kind of priority for him to at least respond to me, and right now it feels more like an inconvenience. I do want to see us as friends, because I do care about him and want to help him.