It doesn't look like a fight.
No raised voices. No slammed doors. No one storms out. Nothing gets thrown.
She starts telling you something real — something with rough edges — and your brain does what it's been doing your entire life. It pattern-matches. Finds a similar file. Opens it. Starts composing a response before she's finished her sentence.
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You're not ignoring her. You're doing the opposite. You're so engaged that your whole system mobilized to help.
And the thing you don't notice — the thing most men never notice — is that the room just shifted.
