Fuck 'em. Communication is a two-way street, and if they're only ever willing to communicate on their own terms, then they're not sctually interested in communicating.
I know that often, the people being discussed in these sorts of conversations are people we feel we cannot avoid, e.g, parents, bosses, partners, etc., but these people can be excised from our lives. We can move away from home when old enough, we can find new jobs, and we can find new partners. It's work, and it's not easy, but there are good people out there who will genuinely want to try, and you can find them.
You gotta dedide that part of your struggles today, though, are that others actually are demanding more of you than you are of them, and that they're deciding they don't care enough to do their part in bridging the gap.
That hurts in its own right, but it's a different kind of hurt. It's a fuck them kind of hurt.
