I'm with you on the "annoyed" bit but you lost me at the "like her much more for it" part.

She's a writer, for fuck's sake. The term she's looking for is responsibility. "The state or fact of having a duty to deal with something." Mortgage. holes in wall. Goldfish. Appointments. The term she uses is "Commitment." "Dedication; application." You can be dedicated to following The Dead. You can apply yourself to becoming a champion Starcraft player.

This is as sophisticated as a game of "marry fuck kill." Speaking as a guy who had friends released into his custody by the police at 18, who put up his own Christmas tree at the age of 8 because my parents were too distracted to bother, "Mr Marry" doesn't get as much play as either Mr. Fuck or Mr. Murder until the ladies start feeling responsible, too.

So really, what we have is 500 words of profundity that boil down to 1 Corinthians 13:11:

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.