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Danny: Are you ignoring me or something? Are you mad at me? I don’t know what you could be fucking mad about, but it’s fucked up that you’re not responding. I never ignore your messages when you need something.

Danny: We’re going to have words when I get home. WHAT ARE YOU DOING? Are you with someone right now?

Danny: It’s now been 15 minutes since I sent that first text. Do you know where my head is going right now, thinking of all the reasons you can’t take two fucking seconds to answer a fucking text message?

Danny: 20 minutes now Mina…

Danny: ANSWER YOUR GODDAMN PHONE! I JUST CALLED YOU AND IT WENT TO VOICEMAIL!!

Mina: I’m sorry Danny. I accidentally left my phone in the other room and didn’t hear it. I was in the shower. I’m sorry I didn’t hear my phone.

Danny: YOU MADE ME FUCKING WORRY LIKE THAT BECAUSE YOU WERE TAKING YOUR SWEET ASS TIME IN THE SHOWER? What the FUCK Mina??

Mina: I’m so sorry Danny. I really didn’t mean to miss your texts.

Danny: This is fucking with my goddamn head! All I wanted was to find out what the hell we’re doing for dinner. Now the rest of my afternoon is ruined because you couldn’t be courteous enough to keep the fucking phone I BOUGHT FOR YOU with you in case of emergencies.

Mina: Danny, I’m sorry. Please, I love you… Please don’t be angry with me. It was an honest mistake. This isn’t something to be angry about.

Danny: You’re trying to minimize how I feel about something by gaslighting me. Making ME feel bad because YOU fucked up.

Mina: You’re right, I’m sorry. I’ll keep my phone with me. I promise.

Danny: I love you, you know that, right? It’s not a crime to want to be able to talk to my wife.

Mina: I love you too.

EXAMPLES #23-29

EXAMPLE #30

Danny: I’m sorry baby

Danny: Mina - please, I’m sorry. It was a really bad fucking night. I shouldn’t have taken it out on you.

Danny: Baby, you know that’s not me. I would NEVER hurt you like that. I just got so mad that Troy was talking about how funny you were, making jokes at the dinner when it was supposed to be about me getting a promotion. It’s not your fault, I know that. I just felt hurt that the one time something was supposed to be about me, I felt unsupported by you when you were supposed to be my person there. As MY support, not rubbing elbows with people like Troy.

Danny: Please Mina, tell me where you’re at.

Danny: I shouldn’t have left you like I did. I just thought that some space would help you calm down. Give us a minute to really think about what happened and what we both could have done better last night.

Mina: I’ll be home soon. I had to go to the walk-in.

Danny: Why’d you have to go to the walk-in?

Mina: Danny, I was really hurt. I just needed to make sure I was ok.

Danny: What’d they say? You know I didn’t mean it, right? I talked to my parents about it and they both agree that we both just overreacted a bit. My dad said that you should have stayed by my side and supported me, but I told him that wasn’t fair to say about you. I just want you to know that I defended you to him.

Mina: I’ll be home soon, I promise. I’m sorry that I did the wrong thing. He was talking to me and like I told you last night, I wasn’t trying to make jokes or be funny. I was just answering his questions.

Danny: Please don’t start this argument again. I said I was sorry. We need to just move past this. We both know what we did wrong, so we just won’t do it again.

Mina: I wasn’t trying to argue.

Danny: *sigh* Please just stop… What did you tell them at the clinic? I know I freaked out, but I really don’t think that anything was bad enough that you had to go in there. Did you go just to make me feel even worse than I already did? To make a point? I’m fucking SORRY.

EXAMPLES #31-33

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