Hi. I am wanting to retreat from everyone including my wife {we live separately although regard ourselves as married, its not separation, just the way we mange to be together - she is neurotypical}. This is my default response to making a social communication mistake. Yesterday I made a major one. a couple of weeks ago my wife passed on information she had received in confidence about a church member who has been diagnosed with cancer. A couple of days ago I emailed the Team Vicar asking after this church member. I forwarded his response {a normal email in response to an enquiry about someone's health} to my wife. In WhatsApp messages she told me how wrong that was of me {it was a confidence}, that it would probably make a problem for the person who had told her, that she was very angry with me, that she would not pass on any confidences to me again. I sent very apologetic responses, but felt absolutely awful last night. I did my usual default in such times of wrapping up warm and going to sleep.
This morning, I feel as if I have alienated my support! I don't know how to initiate contact with her again - it would be much easier not to. I don't want to interact with anyone I know. We are supposed to be helping with a church function tomorrow and I just do not want to go as all those concerned will be there
Without my support person to turn to, I just do not know how to handle this?
