I think they are always trying to reel us back in. In some part of their mind we are still 'there' parked, like a piece of gum!
When we act independently and (gasp) get a life it throws them. If they are wrong abut anything there is always the risk they have been wrong about everything, and most of the people in MLC have to be right about everything.
I wonder if he is expecting brownie points for this?
You are doing amazingly, having crawled out from under the wreckage (takes awhile)