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Comment author: magfrump 04 May 2012 11:07:44AM 1 point [-]

For what it's worth I've heard "I am an inconsistent communicator" a few times and it actually is kind of nice as an invitation to try to talk more often.

Some of these cases seem like they could be helped by phrasing or framing, for example, "I haven't heard from you in a while, what've you been up to?" feels different to me (less confrontational, for example) than "why aren't you replying to me?"