Please read the Introduction first!

When I have been putting myself into situations that I *really* don‘t want to be in, and I end up having to stay in such a situation longer than I originally thought, I start running out of emotional steam. This particular series of events has been almost 2 weeks. A meaningless event triggered a sudden release of ALL my steam; doing unpleasant things because they are very important to her, my concerns and needs being ignored or unheard, her not acknowledging or understanding the emotional stress doing such things puts on me, etc. When all the remaining emotional steam gets suddenly released, I get almost a wall of protection:

“Nobody gets in, and nobody gets out”.

My communications have no affect. It can go on for days.

I have no idea what this is, how I can predict it, nor what I can do about it. It hurts her when I get like this, especially since I can’t even explain it to her. It doesn’t happen very often, but when it does… life, truly, sucks.

I welcome comments & suggestions, but please no flames; just trying to put this into text is tough enough, right now.