This desire for an email response seems unique to my T. I really can’t think of another person in my life who’d have this effect on me. Also, it’s not that I want a response every time or even most of the time. I think I’d like him to use his judgement about when a response might be useful or helpful in some way. I realize that would be complicated and making the decision to not respond at all simplifies things.

In any case, I’m not asking him to respond. I’m actively trying to stop the emailing. I can stop most of the time, but not all of the time. The solution I’ve come up with is for him to agree not to read what I send. Knowing that he’ll read what I send seems to unleash some entitled, crazy-ish, high maintenance version of myself at random times and I’d like to stop that behavior. I’m typically much more in control, so I don’t like this and am frustrated by it. I’m aware that it’s not appropriate.