I am so confused...it sounds to me from the story not that she complimented someone who then starting acting like a psycho. It sounds like she complimented som

I am so confused...it sounds to me from the story not that she complimented someone who then starting acting like a psycho. It sounds like she complimented someone, things grew from there, they had an actual physical affair, and then he started acting like a psycho. Why is the compliment even remotely relevant to this chain of events? Do we imagine that if he made the first move he wouldn’t have turned out to be a psycho later? Or that psychos never make the first move? Maybe I just misread the story.