Nobody can read your mind. If you want something, you’re going to have to say it out loud.

Waiting to be understood without saying anything is a slow way to end up disappointed. The other person is inside their own day, working from what you actually said, and your silence looks like contentment or indifference rather than a hint. Hoping is not communicating, even when what you want feels completely obvious from where you are standing.

Say the plain version of one thing this week. I want to be invited, I need help with this, I would like to come. It feels exposed for about a second and then it is just a sentence somebody can answer.