Okay. About 10 minutes after I posted this, he texted (he was just getting home) and the exchange felt totally normal. I'd rather talk on the phone or Skype (it's just easier for me to see and hear the person I'm speaking with), but I don't need that tonight. The guy has been going since early this morning and has said he's tired...save it for another day.

Things are fine. This is why I come on here and post rather than fire off a needy, demanding text, because preserving my friendship with this person is more important to me than the momentary need of getting my paranoid insecurities pacified--yeah, I want to feel secure, but I have that by now from this person. Time to use some skills and work my way out of feeling like a little ball of wahhh.

(Thanks for letting me be a little ball of wahhhhh on here.)