i get that. i'm a gemini moon so i keep trying to make emotions make sense, like, always trying to explain and justify emotions (my own as well as others). so if someone says 'they have zero deep attachments here' i will believe them. i won't think they mean anything other than what they said. but i'll struggle to understand how that is so. people can't always explain the truth of what they are feeling. they might not be able to explain their reasons. but if someone said that they don't have deep attachments WITHOUT meaning it, if what they really mean is that they have changed and want a different life now, i'll assume they meant what they said.

and will feel more upset if i find out that their true reasons would have hurt me less the whole time.
so i guess i think that, if he does feel attached but wants to let go of his attachments here, he could say so. (with the caveat that we don't know what he actually said, but this is what we are told he said)