Dear Lin:

I hope that your anxiety lessens and that you will soon be closer to the “bubbly, confident, independent and social Lin” than to the anxious Lin.

You mentioned “his recent lack of affection” and his depression (“He suffers from depression”): depressed people, when feeling depressed, are not affectionate. So yes, it may be the reason why he is less affectionate with you.

Also, your anxious behavior affects him, making him feel more anxious himself, and the result: he feels less affection. (Can you feel very anxious and affectionate at the same time?)

It was very nice of him.. a loving act, to have made dinner for you, the laundry and all that when you were at work, wasn’t it?

anita