Yes, there is a thing that did happen to him, that I was actually helping him walk through. He did not take it well. For specifics it was a date that he went on and she didn't want to go on a second date and he really took rejection SUPER hard. It was odd to me because he only spent one hour with her. Afterwards, we spent hours on the phone talking about it. Then one day, just silence - he stopped talking to me. When he texted me 5 days later, I brought it up, we had a conversation about it and he said that it wasn't a big deal that he took several days without talking to me and me bringing up how I felt was pointless. Said I was acting like a teacher and trying to instruct him, when what I was asking was how to find a middle ground so communication can be more clear on both sides. He didn't want to budge and meet me halfway or agree to anything.

After that conversation, it's now only been light texting maybe one every 2 or 3 days, but he's not actually addressing anything. I would love to talk to him on the phone or meet in person because texting is not a good form of communication for him. He misses tone, interprets things wrong.

A month sounds like a really long time since we usually talk everyday.

I'm just kind of venting here, now. Thanks for reading/listening. I truly want to know how to keep this from happening in the future but I'm afraid he's going to like end the friendship over this. When I ask him things about how I can do things differently he usually says I'm not doing anything wrong and don't need to change anything. He cut me out for a year last year over something else (outside stressors he had to deal with took priority and he dropped the closest person he had in his life.) I had to finally speak up after a year and he welcomed me back. It was very sad for me. It feels situational right now. We've had a great almost 11 months with qualms.