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no_hypocrisy

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3. My experience is to go along with their misapprehensions.
Fri Nov 29, 2019, 12:45 PM
Nov 2019

It accomplishes two things in most cases:

1. It reassures them, and

2. They move on to something else to think about.

In your case, you could placate her by answering she *may* go home *soon*.


OTOH, your bluff could be blown if she wants a definite date. (My grandfather used to bug me about when was I going to get married. I answered "When I graduate law school." Well, I graduated and he was ready with "When are you going to get married?"

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