[It's tempting to ask for more, because she's genuinely curious, but she also doesn't want to dig up more unpleasantness if she can avoid it. This city will do enough of that on its own.

Normally, she'd be a little more inclined to tell him where he could shove that advice. But she's feeling uncharacteristically charitable today... and she doesn't really have anyone else here she can talk to about this kind of thing, so she's trying to be a little careful. Which honestly isn't as difficult as she might've thought it would be since he apparently gives really solid advice.]

In this case, "complicated" means... I've been friends with someone for a while, and I kind of wish I didn't like him as much as I did, because the odds of him feeling the same way are probably close to zero. And I don't want to screw up an almost perfect friendship.

[That's certainly... some type of logic.]