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Oh, I totally get what you mean. I'm being all compartmentalized about it myself at the moment, so I apologize. I probably wasn't explaining my thoughts very clearly/fully. On one hand, I can view Booth's words/behavior to Hannah as douchey ("How much time do you need?"--all coldhearted & shit--when she'd already told him before that she wasn't the marrying kind. Like I said in my post, it was emotionally manipulative to propose in the first place, considering that, and I'll add here that it was even more crappy to just flip-flop emotionally on her immediately afterward); however, I also understand on another level where it all came from & it becomes--for me--akin to looking at a kid who's broken a lamp & saying to him, "It wasn't okay that you broke that lamp. I'm not mad at you for it, but you do need to fix it & learn from this." I can both rationalize it & empathize with it. I do think the writers were trying to explain it with subtle things like "I'm not a drunk" when Brennan asked him if he "was drunk." That answer alluded to his father, you know?

I really do hope Booth's past & his murky issues get explored more with the sniper arc. I can't imagine they won't. It seems inevitable.