Phil: Val?
Val: Hey there. You had us all pretty worried.
Val: How do you feel?
Phil: Like I've been run over by a truck.
Val: Um...you WERE run over by a truck.
Phil: Well no wonder.
Actually, for some, a reserved but intense “hey there” is totally emotive and appropriate. Phil may be the sort to feel smothered by more obvious things, like tears and what-not. He is a police officer. She is a woman in love with a police officer. I know that people in OTHER intense occupations (and those who fall for them) tend to get burned out if they run emotive, so to speak. Too many opportunities to get those “freak out” synapses going. So those who stick it out in the career, and often their loved ones, learn to damp them down, just to survive. Doesn’t mean they care any less, just that they are some of only a few who can do what they are doing. (Mom was an ER tech for 15 years. Watching the change in her was educational.) Hope I’m making some sense here.:-/
Actually, for some, a reserved but intense “hey there” is totally emotive and appropriate. Phil may be the sort to feel smothered by more obvious things, like tears and what-not. He is a police officer. She is a woman in love with a police officer. I know that people in OTHER intense occupations (and those who fall for them) tend to get burned out if they run emotive, so to speak. Too many opportunities to get those “freak out” synapses going. So those who stick it out in the career, and often their loved ones, learn to damp them down, just to survive. Doesn’t mean they care any less, just that they are some of only a few who can do what they are doing. (Mom was an ER tech for 15 years. Watching the change in her was educational.) Hope I’m making some sense here.:-/