PATTERN
Keeping a tally of the soons
What it is
You have started counting how many times Danny has said soon, and you do not like that you know the number.
How it affects your life
It shows up after the conversations about timing, the ones that happen in the car. His answer is sincere and specific to him, a job finishing, a quarter that lands, a margin underneath you. What has changed is on your side. You have stopped receiving the answer as an answer and started logging it.
Evidence
4 quotes
“She asked whether I thought he knew I was counting. I said no.”
Reinforced later
Read the entry →“Told her the soon thing. All of it, including the counting, which I have not said to anyone and had not entirely admitted to myself until I heard it out loud in a restaurant.”
Reinforced later
Read the entry →“keeping a tally is what you do when you have stopped treating somebody's answer as an answer and started treating it as data”
First mention
Read the entry →“The problem is that I have started counting. I know how many times he has said soon since the spring, and I do not like that I know.”
First mention
Read the entry →
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