OGDA, Can I be one to continue to support your patient distancing at this point? Accepting her position that a friendship is the only feasible R is crucial AND please keep in mind what that means behavior-wise --that is so very important!
If I could encourage you to still not worry about "discussing the R", I would. (I might have read that wrong, but it sounded earlier that you wanted to talk R? Sorry if I read that wrong!)
Take care OGDA,
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