[ He's...independent, right? He tries to push back just a little bit. To clear some ground for being...his own man. Perhaps.
You can - lay out my options as you see them. There. That reserves a little bit of space for him to assert something else. Or - plausibility. If he wants to make it clear that he could have come up with one of his own. ]
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You can - lay out my options as you see them. There. That reserves a little bit of space for him to assert something else. Or - plausibility. If he wants to make it clear that he could have come up with one of his own. ]