You are secure, they are avoidant
You can handle the distance, which is exactly why this pairing lasts longer than it sometimes should. The risk is not conflict. The risk is that you are comfortable enough to stop noticing how little you are actually being told.
Comfortable close, comfortable apart, and able to say which one they need today.
Steady alone, and keeps one door half shut without ever deciding to.
What actually happens
They manage closeness by rationing it, mostly without deciding to. Because you do not chase, nothing ever forces the ration to change. Years can pass in a relationship that is pleasant, functional, and about four inches shallower than you would have chosen.
What this one needs
Ask for specific things rather than for more closeness in general. General requests feel like pressure to them and get met with agreement and no change. One named thing at a time is something they can actually do, and each one that goes well makes the next one cheaper.
Something you can send
One thing I'd like: tell me when something goes wrong at work on the day it happens, not a week later.
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