Trust downloads slowly and only on a stable connection. Keep cutting out and it restarts from zero.

Consistency is what carries this. Confidence in you accumulates while contact stays steady, and long unexplained gaps do not merely pause the process, they undo a good part of it, since absence removes the evidence the other person was gathering. None of that is punishment. It is simply how trust gets built, out of repetition rather than intensity.

If you have gone quiet on someone who mattered, come back small and regular instead of with one enormous gesture. A short message every week does more than a long one every season. Let the reconnection be dull and steady.