“I want to talk about this.”
“I don’t.”
“I want to work through this.”
“I don’t.”
“I want to communicate to you how I’m feeling.”
“I’m not interested.”
“So how do you feel?”
“I don’t want to talk about this.”
“But how do you feel?”
“I feel irritated. Frustrated. Tired.”
“So you don’t want to talk about this?”
“No.”
“But can we talk about this?”
“No.”
“So we can’t talk about this?”
“No.”
“Okay. I love you.”