[ He can't say "no." Outside of being patently untrue, it won't serve her in the long term to be fed a lie. It'll just make her think there's something wrong with her for not being able to cope as easily as she thinks she should.
It's not something he likes to admit to people, though. There's a serious vulnerability in not only acknowledging that you need help, but subsequently asking for it after the fact. Nate doesn't have to take the advice he gives, even if he knows he ought to do so. ]
i'm going to try to word this in a way that accurately reflects the experience, but i'm not super good at this so just keep that in mind
most of the time it's okay? you're doing other things, you get distracted, you have friends or places to visit or you forget because it kind of becomes normal, like background noise
but you're always sort of going to be reconciling lost time. which i know is a weird way to describe time you've actually experienced, but because it's not equivalent sometimes it doesn't feel real.
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It's not something he likes to admit to people, though. There's a serious vulnerability in not only acknowledging that you need help, but subsequently asking for it after the fact. Nate doesn't have to take the advice he gives, even if he knows he ought to do so. ]
i'm going to try to word this in a way that accurately reflects the experience, but i'm not super good at this so just keep that in mind
most of the time it's okay? you're doing other things, you get distracted, you have friends or places to visit
or you forget because it kind of becomes normal, like background noise
but you're always sort of going to be reconciling lost time. which i know is a weird way to describe time you've actually experienced, but because it's not equivalent sometimes it doesn't feel real.
do you have something to go back to?