I don’t see it that way, at all. AFWAW’s efforts are half hearted; he really is not into it. He is not following all the advice to say this and that at just the right times not because he is making mistakes out of desperation, it is because he does not care.
I didn't say they were mistakes out of desperation.
I just said they're mistakes, or -- not "spot on."
It really doesn't matter what his motivation is behind his DBing mistakes -- what matters is that he keeps making them, over, and over, and over, and over again, and HE seems to be held back by her. Every time he starts to detach, move on, and get happier, she pulls her John string, and he's miserable again.
