Michael doesn't want to think about a poor sad-sack pathetic version of himself who might be back home. Genuinely, that's just depressing in the most awful of ways, so he stays mum on that, focusing on Caleb's issues and not what it would mean for some poor Michael Guerin.

"So, then, if it felt good, then why not do it some more?" he says, since that feels like the reasonable next step out of all of this.