Punishment.
Displease her, for instance by mentioning any of several taboo topics, the phone goes dead, your calls go unreturned for some length of time, unpredictable, until she decides the punishment is adequate, and once again all is well.
Deja vu: now, as it was twentyfive years ago.
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