If that’s your motivation why did you ask to elaborate? If someone choses words to not go into detail, asking them to provide more detail is generally a reliable way to make things more awkward for them.
Well, he successfully got someone other than the OP (me) to answer, thus deflecting any potential embarrassment or recrimination off of himself. I, meanwhile, don’t actually care if I somehow made things awkward for the OP, so we’ve engaged in a mutually beneficial arbitrage of social liabilities!
The request for elaboration concerned how the experience described related to the LCS hierarchy described in the post, which was (and remains) very unclear to me.
“Active Personal Life” = sex. Unless I’ve wildly misunderstood the OP.
Thanks! I thought it might be, but was unsure, and didn’t want to make an awkward situation for the OP in case it was something very different...
If that’s your motivation why did you ask to elaborate? If someone choses words to not go into detail, asking them to provide more detail is generally a reliable way to make things more awkward for them.
Well, he successfully got someone other than the OP (me) to answer, thus deflecting any potential embarrassment or recrimination off of himself. I, meanwhile, don’t actually care if I somehow made things awkward for the OP, so we’ve engaged in a mutually beneficial arbitrage of social liabilities!
The request for elaboration concerned how the experience described related to the LCS hierarchy described in the post, which was (and remains) very unclear to me.