The (attempt at) emotional comfort is just weird to me. The relationship I want with them is "I give you money, you do what you promised." Simple! So if I'm cal

The (attempt at) emotional comfort is just weird to me. The relationship I want with them is "I give you money, you do what you promised." Simple! So if I'm calling them, most likely the conversation is gonna boil down to, "Hey it appears you're not succeeding at doing what you promised" or "Hey can you do this other optional thing you promised?" or more rarely "Hey for some reason I can't seem to successfully give you money." Reading your story it actually seems like it'd be hard not to feel patronized. Which I hadn't considered before. Usually it slips by me, masked behind my basic assumption of good intentions, and my tendency to just ignore anything scripted. Like at the onset of "Wow yikes ouch too bad I'm sorry that happened for you" my brain says --- 2017-09-03-122634 -- irrelevant data stream -- waiting ---