Women in their caves - how long

It is normally that a man goes into his cave and not being communicative till he had his time/space to process before he comes out again all happy, in the meantime the woman is the one who wish to talk things over.

I'm in a reversed situation at the moment, and this has been going on for little over 6 weeks, I'm getting very anxious as to where things are going. She asked for time/space to think about things, she mentioned that she's been dealing with things in her head and that she felt depressed lately and not being communicative.

We still text each other although i initiate most of the texting, only on rare occasions that she initiate. And in our reduced communication she keeps a distance, no endearment such as 'honey' or 'darling'. Canceled x number of dates and wouldn't answer my phone or call me. But up till last week she still mentioned that she hope i can wait for another week, she mentioned that if i had enough she wouldn't blame me. I text her told her i would wait however long she needed. Yet this week no progress, and i didn't ask to see her like i did in previous weeks.

In one other thread 1passionatefem had mentioned she has been on the other side of the situation, which lead me to this current question for all of you here.

Have you been in such situation (from both female/male end), when a female goes into this 'thinking mode' how long is 'normal' for her to come out of her cave?

hate to say it bud ~ it doens't look good.

the one thing I've observed is that females are pretty obvious about their intentions towards you. If they want you to be a part of their life ~ they'll make sure you are even if it means them doing the legwork. If they dont' want you to be a part of their life, they're not too subtle about that either and seems everything they do is an effort to block you from being a part of their life. You, unfortunately, seem to be in the latter.

Another tip I received a long time ago is the difference between how males and females handle breaking up. Males tend to jump the gun too fast and break up too soon ~ then try to scramble back and salvage. Women tend to take a long time before they decide it's time to break up ~ so when they finally start to do something about it (ask for space, not return calls), it usually means it's a done deal.

This may not be true across everybody, but since hearing that, it's definitely been consistent with what I've observed.

Richey