If it is MLC, then I chance her cake eating; I get hurt (if I have expectations, which I don't at this point); and she keeps hiding in the tunnel.
If it isn't MLC and is just a WAW, then I have missed a crucial point of showing compassion and a chance to say that I have truely done all I think I could do for her.
TM, I don't see a difference here really...MLC or not, "showing compassion and a chance to say that I have truely done all I think I could do for her." ... guarantees that YOU have taken the higher road...
Just my opinion, YMMV...
T^2
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm