alternate explanations...

okay all you wise folks out there in the blogosphere, i'm looking for some possible alternate explanations other than the one that initially came to mind for me and the party in question...

here's the situation.

i have this friend, lets call her jill. she's sort of seeing this guy, lets call him jack.

she met jack on nerve and they really hit it off.

the one weird thing is that jack never gave jill his phone number, all the contact came through email and through him calling her. but, to be fair, jill had never actually asked jack for his phone number.

well, tonight she did. as he was leaving she said something to the effect of "you know, i still don't have your phone number, i should grab that from you"

he said something to the effect of "yeah, um, i can't let you in on that yet, but i'll tell you all about it soon"

then he hugged her and left.

then she called me and said "i hate boys, well, sometimes i like the, but sometimes i hate them" and told me the whole story.

now, the first thing that popped into my head, and her head, and john's head was "married". maybe not married in the sense of an actual wedding, but married in the sense of living with a partner.

but we're curious, jill and i, what other explanations may be possible.

i suggested that perhaps he lived with his parents and was embarrassed. she said she was pretty sure he didn't because he recently went to visit them.

john proposed the idea that he was perhaps in the middle of a messy divorce and didn't want to get jill in the middle of it. this one is vaguely plausible, but still very odd that he wouldn't just be forthright with that kind of information

i suggested the idea of him not actually having a phone and only ever called her from work. but then we agreed that would be a pretty silly thing to hid.

i don't know, perhaps he's just completely daft and thinks this would be a good way to build some intrigue into a burgeoning relationship.

what do you think? can you think of any other explanations?

one things for certain, jack better tell jill what the heck that oblique little comment meant or jack and jill won't be going up that hill together again for a while...