that conversation sounds like as a friend of mine says, "being in a round room trying to find the corner"
I can tell you must be frustrated. You're my bud not him. He may be playing the ignorant card on purpose however as a guy I will tell you that sometimes we just don't get it.
I can now relfect back to points in my relationship with my wife where I know she was trying to tell me something and I just didn't get it. Takes a lot of reflection and time to pick up on things that she thought were crystal clear. I believe the phrase she used was, "you shold have known what I meant".
So anyway, just wanted to share some with you to better understand the more limited intelects like myself LOL!
As a matter of fact I am still struggling with the one line the wife shot me about being "in love with me". I wonder if she was testing me and I failed to respond the way she hoped. My gut says it was a wisper in the wind like MsM said. Since the next day she went to talking about the seperation agreement. But I still have my curiosity.
Doesn't it stink though. When you first start dating it is so easy and you just fall right into place. But break up and all of a sudden it's like pulling teeth to get back to some desiralble point. Really helps to understand why so many people just call it quits and move on.
Hope all is going well and in line with what you would like!