There is a "punishing" indifference with one showing displeasure, versus going "dim" or "dark", where you still maintain cordialness, as if they were a store clerk or something, polite, but not seeking further engagement and showing positivity. Interested in what you mean in your sitch.
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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
