And keywords or search terms you can supply as a way into learning more, would be much appreciated.
Please tell me there is actually such a theory and that this is not an AI comment.
Funny that the GPT detector is giving 75-99 percent AI probability for that comment.
This is exactly the kind of problem ChatGPT is good at solving. Just ask it and you will get theories. I asked and it gave a list, I think he talked about
uncertainty reduction theory since the other things ChatGPT listed didn't make sense in this context.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_reduction_theory
Edit: Not sure if that response is really correct, but at least it is a tractable way to try to approach this. ChatGPT let you fuzzy match words or theories much better than Google, and then you have things you can Google.
But one thing I learned from it is that if you can identify specific people who get you, generally speaking, you should then see if you can mold newly-discovered communication problems around this already-functional communications relationship.