This is not something a healthy person with a time machine does.
That's a good point. He doesn't deal well with with losing people, to the extent that he represses his feelings and actually ends up hurting them more by avoiding them. (Like abandoning Jack and Sarah Jane, basically because he didn't want to have to deal with it.)
I love that about him. It makes perfect sense that he would be like that, given how long he's lived and that he knows he's going to lose everyone eventually. The only way he can function is to keep moving forward and focusing on the next shiny thing, because the weight of the past would probably destroy him if he let it all hit him at once.
And, yeah, his not connecting with Martha is definitely because he opened up to Rose and got his heart broken. Of course he's cautious after a big emotional trauma like that.
And then he starts to connect with Astrid and she dies because of him, so of course he's back to pushing people away again, for their own good because he can't stand the thought that someone he cares about would suffer because of him. (That's why I can forgive the two times he sends Rose away, in "The Parting of the Ways" and "Doomsday," because he's not doing it because he wants her to have a Normal Life; he's doing it because he can't deal with causing her pain/death.)
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That's a good point. He doesn't deal well with with losing people, to the extent that he represses his feelings and actually ends up hurting them more by avoiding them. (Like abandoning Jack and Sarah Jane, basically because he didn't want to have to deal with it.)
I love that about him. It makes perfect sense that he would be like that, given how long he's lived and that he knows he's going to lose everyone eventually. The only way he can function is to keep moving forward and focusing on the next shiny thing, because the weight of the past would probably destroy him if he let it all hit him at once.
And, yeah, his not connecting with Martha is definitely because he opened up to Rose and got his heart broken. Of course he's cautious after a big emotional trauma like that.
And then he starts to connect with Astrid and she dies because of him, so of course he's back to pushing people away again, for their own good because he can't stand the thought that someone he cares about would suffer because of him. (That's why I can forgive the two times he sends Rose away, in "The Parting of the Ways" and "Doomsday," because he's not doing it because he wants her to have a Normal Life; he's doing it because he can't deal with causing her pain/death.)