Dear MC,
Maybe part of this is because you said you'd rather be elsewhere on this holiday but that you chose to "be responsible" and come into work (even though the office was technically closed). I know it was in the context of talking about some stuff with our daughter, but there's still something to thinking that you'd rather be, say, at a cookout instead of talking to us at that moment. Like...that doesn't trigger abandonment fears at all, nope!
--LT