My Stepdaughter really senses confusion in what her mother is saying so it is interesting to me what she said to SD.
Heres the things I have to say about this.
On the MLC board we say CONFUSION = MLC
and
believe none of what they say and 1/2 of what they do.
So why are we trying to interpret something that she is saying? Yes it is interesting but more than likely it is what she FEELS right this minute. She is not firing on all cylinders and she may be cycling too. There are no guarantees that she will come back and the standard advice is to live "as if" she is not. Rick1963 is correct, stop obsessing about her, she is not in your control right now. Maybe she will follow the script, I hope she does, but maybe you wont.
Nothing we can DO right now that will speed this up but by not detaching we can slow it down.
