(((((mishka))))) This is it... perfect wording. She is sure (subconsciously, at least) that she is going to be rejected. So, she is heading it off at the pass. Never mind that everything that I have done or said (other than this, and even this was not meant as she chose to hear it) says the opposite.
I apologized for hurting her, not for what I said. I have come around to thinking more that she chose to hurt herself, but I am sorry it hurt.
I am backing off. She can decide to take a chance, or not. I am not waiting, but I am not not waiting, either.
