Regarding anxiety vs anger vs hurt response, why pick just one? Indeed, our son's expectations are sometimes pretty unidirectional. (Mental health stuff, depend

Regarding anxiety vs anger vs hurt response, why pick just one? Indeed, our son's expectations are sometimes pretty unidirectional. (Mental health stuff, depends how he's doing at the time.) With some effort though, this gradual training of expectations seems to help. Similarly perhaps, I came across a suggestion recently for scheduling email as a matter of course. I tend to respond immediately (if not too intrusive), or make a note to come back to something I mean to respond to, but this idea was that perhaps some time lag as a regular thing makes sense. If I recall correctly, the recipient is not only fine with the delay, but actually considers your response as more worthwhile, because you likely put some time into it. Perception vs reality? If perception is what matters more, that might be a reasonable approach.