Aries
Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.
Eckhart Tolle
The relationship that has changed without either of you saying so is operating on two levels now, and you are the one tracking both. There is the conversation you are still having, which sounds like all the old conversations, and there is the conversation underneath it, where the real decisions are being made. You can feel yourself measuring your words differently, choosing what to share and what to keep, and you know they are doing the same thing from their side of this new distance. The exhausting part is not the change itself but the performance of acting like nothing has shifted when everything has.