• I've been ruder.
• You've been nicer.
• She tells me you regress, then progress, and regress. It's a cycle.
• You talk soft to me.
• I don't understand the issue.
• Actually I do, but I wish I was wrong. It's something I've cared about my whole life, and to know you care about it too makes it worse.

I don't know what the point of this list was. I'm just trying to get some thoughts out.