WAW still is telling friends that I am trying to convince her to stay, which I haven't for weeks. Is this part of her trying to continue to get people on her team to buy in?
That's an easy one! Who effin' cares?
Maybe she's trying to say it out loud often enough that SHE starts believing it. Who fuurrrrrrr-eeeeking cares?
You're on a mission, Double-O 9. You're a spy, man! You got secret stuff to do. Let the WAWskies worry about why they're doing what they're doing. If they're anything like the Russkies, even THEY don't know!
It's all above your paygrade. Your mission is to sniff out THE secret -- Who You Are.
Leave that other stuff to the boffins with the 300-lb brains back at Headquarters. You and me? We're just foot soldiers in the Secret World. Now polish up your tradecraft and get stuck back in!