The vets have said that a lot of times, D-talk = "I need space".
For whatever reason...whether feeling the closeness coming back within themselves, or the LBS is pursuing, or they are processing their guilt and have the "run" reflex, etc.
We just don't know for sure, though we can speculate, whatever good that does.
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