Who Are You When Someone Needs You Most

You can be in the room and still be gone. If you’ve ever defaulted to “solutions” while someone needed comfort, or sent the classic “let me know if you need anything” and then disappeared, we’re naming the pattern for what it is: emotional absence. We walk through what emotional unavailability looks like in real relationships and friendships, from dodging vulnerability to minimizing feelings to the intellectual pivot where logic replaces empathy. I share why this disconnect often feels “reas...