Yeah, hard to say. Spending more time with family is a also thing people legitimately do. But especially the bit about "If I'm honest with myself, I don't think

Yeah, hard to say. Spending more time with family is a also thing people legitimately do. But especially the bit about "If I'm honest with myself, I don't think I've allowed myself time to grieve either yet," puts it back in the "glib excuse-making" category for me, in that the diagnosis happened sometime in the last year, and he's made his dad's illness about his grieving, not caring for his dad.