Humans have emotions and don’t think rationally by default. Most people do not like to feel inadequate, though how they respond to that feeling varies a great deal. Most people in a relationship also don’t like to feel they were rejected sexually over some perceived inadequacy.
So when a mate gives them a 20-page lecture on their failures to hold their attraction and concludes by rejecting them as a sex partner, it’s probably not vanishingly far from the null hypothesis that the person is going to get upset...
Humans have emotions and don’t think rationally by default. Most people do not like to feel inadequate, though how they respond to that feeling varies a great deal. Most people in a relationship also don’t like to feel they were rejected sexually over some perceived inadequacy.
So when a mate gives them a 20-page lecture on their failures to hold their attraction and concludes by rejecting them as a sex partner, it’s probably not vanishingly far from the null hypothesis that the person is going to get upset...