Impulses

He doesn’t want her to respond, if he’s being honest. But if he’s being more honest, he does want her to want to respond. He wants her to feel the impulse to respond, but he doesn’t want to deal with the consequences of her response. If she doesn’t feel the impulse to respond, maybe that could say something bad about him, and it doesn’t say anything about her. If she feels the impulse and she does respond, then that could say something good about him, and maybe something bad about her. But if she feels the impulse to respond, but resists herself and does not respond, then that could say something good about her, and something good about him too.

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