You've explained yourself a thousand times. Why you were upset. What you meant. Why that thing he did wasn't okay. Why you need what you need. Why your feelings make sense. And it never lands. The conversation circles back. He finds the one thing you said that he can use against you and the original issue disappears. You end up defending your tone, your word choice, your memory of events and somehow you're the problem again. Here's what I want you to hear: the explaining is n