There's an awful retort here that would take this into a full blown argument - something along the lines of you never wanted to stop caring about Carolina - but that's not what either of them needs, and Wash swallows it back down. He has better control than that.

So he takes another long pull of his beer and goes for the heart of the matter instead. "I don't want to stop caring - I just don't want to be in love. There's a difference."