I'm learning a very good life skill - waiting for my strong emotions to subside before I respond. His text to me this afternoon was quite inconsiderate. It brought up all the anger I have felt with how unfair this divorce is going and how much of the burden is falling on me. Any response I would have drafted in the moment, I would have regretted. It would have been filled with anger and been unproductive. So I set my phone down. I walked away from it. I did something else. I made a phone call to my mom. I figured out how to use the printer in the co-working space of my apartment complex. And only then did I respond with a very brief, calm response.
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