The 'benefits' part of the *packaged* friendship should feel more limited than it does. Taking me out to expensive places needs to be punished for the beliefs this behavior creates. And if I can make her not enjoy her time with me, even better.
> It's best that she accepts things. How they are and will be. That there is not some long future waiting with me. Just a short while of fun before everything… expires. <
"Some structures of obligation rarely require verbal contracts to be spelled out to the letter. In fact, sometimes things are left out intentionally, despite all parties being aware of what is expected. What sort of dues are owed."
She seemed more intrigued than offended - and honestly that was not the response I'd anticipated. Not to essentially telling her, after everything she has claimed to me since we met… that I yet do not trust that she will refrain from seeking more and more forms of repayment.
