There comes a point when endless attempts to explain yourself cease to be communication and become exhaustion.

If you were very clear, what is important to you, and your intentions, repeating the same truth in ten different ways will not help. Especially where there is no desire to hear you.

• Not every silence means you were unclear.

• Not every distance means that you failed to explain your position.

Sometimes people understand you perfectly - they just chose not to respond the way you would have liked.

This is where self-esteem comes into play:

• You can speak honestly without asking for approval.

• You can be understood without begging to be understood.

• It is possible to feel deeply without proving every time why your feelings are important. This is wisdom: to understand when it is time to speak, and to be wise is to stop in time when all is said.

Your area of responsibility is clarity. Their response is their choice.