E,
Just a trigger. Your response was perhaps a bit snarky of a boundary setting, but still, you did set one. Perhaps next time you could be more clear. “Hi. I don’t like your texts anymore, I’m moving on.” Or whatever else comes to mind… the Buddhist “do no harm” comes to my heart in such circumstances. Perhaps the snarky tone caused some suffering? Aggression is great at generating self doubt in a loving heart.
Just keep breathing, it will pass. 🙂 You don’t sound anything like square one to me, maybe square six or seven.
With warmth,
Matt