I… okay. Okay… here we go. I can do this.
Here we see.. Okay. Here we see a male and a female attempting to end a phone conversation of the cliched “so in love neither one of them wants to be the first to hang up” variety. This kind of conversation can only happen between a female and a severely emasculated male (the Author), since in his mind he should be mimicking the female’s actions in order to please her. Essentially, he becomes a female and causes a deadlock of emotional neediness.
In addition, you will notice that the female character in this comic strip is the one to escalate the argument, with the male simply matching her aggression level in turn. This aggression, mixed with the emotional neediness from before and a lack of confidence, leads to the two people “breaking up” but continuing to stay on the phone with each other. This kind of breakup could only happen between two people with the emotional maturity of 14 year olds.
