It's been my experience that you could stop the sentence there. The reason behind it is unknowable a lot of times. Even to them it seems. That, and they don't remember it later in many cases.
Good job keeping to the boundaries and clarifying. You're right, precedence is a pain
AJ
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter" MLK Put the glass down... "Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."