Growing apart is inevitable. He can't deny or refute that, not when it's the truth. Nor people being ripped away, he can understand that as well.

He remains quiet as they keep walking, allowing the words to turn over in his mind, being examined at every point he can manage. To find some reason to reject it with proper reason. He's used people, he's known people who've done that as well. He's been with people who have done as such....

"You aren't going to drop this until I concede, are you?"