"I did." He just didn't know that the help that he was getting would turn out like this. But he should have. There were going to be extremes every now and then. Just like this. And he had to take them.
"It doesn't piss me off," he told her. "It just makes me feel awkward. The flirting thing." He didn't want to deal with any women right now. Not like that. At her final statement, he frowned and looked at her quite seriously. "You think that showing me your problems it'll make mine seem less terrible?" He shook his head. "It doesn't work that way."