That makes Carmy's expression go all sympathetic-understanding even as it tongue-ties him, never knowing what to say about all of that stuff with Tiff. He has no experience with divorce - the six weeks with Claire was his longest relationship. Loving someone and leaving them anyway. A fucking kid. Richie Bad News shit stresses him out, because Richie is an idiot asshole who has made a lot of bad choices, and one of those bad choices is fucking Carmy, and Carmy is too grateful for that to really wanna dig into any of the others.

"Okay," he says, exhaling. "Then don't be." He's always had a little too much belief in Richie, especially after Mikey died. Something about how realizing what a hero-worship pedestal he had his big brother on, and in accepting that he was just a fucked-up, flawed guy, accepting that Richie in turn is the same, not just the charismatic rogue Carmy's been crushing on for years.