Talk

as in

"I need to talk to you."

Variations: "There is something I have to say to you ... Something I want to know ... Can we get five minutes of quiet later to have a chat?"

Not so much confusing as terrifying. She wants you to put life on hold, push all
distractions aside, and give her your complete attention. Why? So she can tell you what a fine lad you are? Thank you for all the wonderful things you have done for her recently? Renew her vows of devotion and fidelity to you?

Not likely. No, there is a crisis of some kind, and you’re at the heart of it. Something you have done. Or not done. Not told her she is beautiful for a few days? Not brought home a bouquet or two? Not offered to take her on a round the world cruise in the near future?

The interesting thing is that she feels she has to make an appointment to tell you. She does this ingenuously, of course. Apparently not wanting to interrupt your busy day.

Unfortunately the forewarning has set your nerves jangling, distracting your mind every few minutes as you struggle desperately to guess what the hell she is going on about, in order to prepare some kind of defence, and your day becomes a shambles so that by the time you do sit down for the talk you are a wreck.

No matter: you won’t be called upon to do much once the meeting starts. When she says she want to “talk to you”, she means “at you”, not “with you”. All you will have to do is listen ... and, no doubt, plead guilty.