Some things are too important for a text. If it would hurt to read, say it face to face.

Written words lose everything that made them survivable: your face, your tone, the pause where you would have softened it. The reader supplies all of that themselves, usually with the harshest available reading, and then rereads it four more times. Hard things need the parts a message cannot carry. Choosing the easier channel is usually about protecting yourself from the discomfort.

If you have something difficult to say this week, say it in person or on a call. Send a message asking to talk rather than the thing itself. If distance makes that impossible, at least use your voice.