Let Day N be the breakup day.
I don’t see the analysis changing. For all N, not fretting over it is the dominating strategy, and he’ll move on and get over it.
You’re forgetting that his actions can themselves affect the value of N. (On the other hand, I agree with your conclusions.)
I didn’t phrase it in the best way, but I wasn’t forgetting that behavior can affect the value of N. That was one of the points.
Fretting makes either situation worse. Dominated strategy. Do not do.
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Let Day N be the breakup day.
I don’t see the analysis changing. For all N, not fretting over it is the dominating strategy, and he’ll move on and get over it.
You’re forgetting that his actions can themselves affect the value of N. (On the other hand, I agree with your conclusions.)
I didn’t phrase it in the best way, but I wasn’t forgetting that behavior can affect the value of N. That was one of the points.