boxofdelights

So sorry about your paint trouble. Or color trouble. I've been on the receiving end of that myself, but usually due to my own error, since I was the painter; shell pink, when applied over a whole room, turns out to be Pepto Bismol pink.

Hmm...I don't think I noticed that you didn't reply to my comments, but now that you mention it, I guess you don't, very often.

The effect it has is not to make me any of the above (offended, disappointed, hurt), but now that you mention it, I don't quite feel that we are having a conversation. A friend of mine who works with very young children who have communication difficulties uses the Floorplay phrase, "closing the circle of communication;" you speak, I reply, then if you reply to my reply, I know that you heard me. Otherwise, it's as if my words went off into space.

Again, I don't feel in any way upset by that, but if you did reply to me, I'd feel that we were engaged in an active endeavor together, and I'd feel closer to you.

I know that you are pretty far out there on the introvert scale, so it takes energy out of you to communicate with people. Do you feel that you must reply before you've finished your refractory period? I don't mind hearing back from people weeks later, really; but it does make me feel real to them.