Please don’t say things like “just be honest”. I don’t think other people are entitled to personal information about your life if you don’t want to share it. Im in a new relationship. I told him something came up that I needed to handle. I don’t think he’ll pry and honestly I’m not going to offer anything unsolicited but I’m just asking for possible suggestions. Just something that would explain why I couldn’t/ wouldn’t communicate for a week that sounds theoretically plausible… Could be anything from “I had an unexpected death in the family” to “a flying saucer cut off my 5G network”…. I don’t know; just something other than “I was too depressed to get out of bed and brush my teeth. Communicating with another human being was out of the question.”