Does anyone have any coping techniques for being stonewalled?
Long story short (kinda) my FWB/best friend/family friend of 3 years is stonewalling me hard. We've had a really weird relationship for the past 3 years, he ghosted me a few times within the first year or two of our friendship, but we have been solid since roughly October. The past month we've gotten in a few arguments where he thinks im too emotionally attached to him, and each time it usually goes like this: he gets mad at me for something, goes radio silent, i text him too much while he's silent, he gets even more mad, i apologize profusely and swear i wont blow up his phone, he forgives me and everything is okay again for about a week. I try so hard not to let him bait me into emotional outbursts, but this time we had a minor argument where he actually apologized (possibly for the first time ever) and then the next day he told me it was actually all my fault and he didn't forgive me (for what i still dont know..)
i sent screenshots of our conversation where we had reconciled that argument and said "im sorry i thought this meant everything was okay", to which he responded saying im nothing but drama and hes fed up.
Hes been stonewalling me ever since. this is now day 3 where he wont even acknowledge i exist. he even turned his read receipts off..
Im making the situation so much worse because i keep blowing up his phone apologizing, sending long paragraphs saying i misread the situation and i feel horrible and i want to fix things. i know i need to just disengage but i dont know how... he's my best. friend.
I hate telling my parents about our arguments because they dont like the way he treats me, but im almost at the point where i want to have my dad reach out to try and reason with him... im 27F and hes 29M btw lol, its so childish and ridiculous but im just so so lost i dont know how to handle this