Admittedly, yes, he's being incredibly dumb, and that's putting it lightly. It could be argued that most of his life decisions could be classified as 'dumb'. Military life didn't quite make for the ability to rationalize emotional difficulties in healthy ways, after all. This is all fairly new, difficult, and exhausting, if he was being honest. Really, he'd rather be under live fire any day than have to sort through the demons in his head (thankfully unrelated to the demons in the holo display).

There's a quiet noise of amusement at the thought, and a very minute squeeze back. "Never claimed to be smart."

And then there's another flip of her hair with his free hand, and surprisingly no tension when she rests against him. Hugging is still something he's not quite there with, yet, but this is alright.