He doesn't really mind the change of subject, though he is a little curious if there's a reason for it, more than what he just said.

"Sometimes your friends might know more about something than you do," he suggests. "And they might think that you'll be happier in the end, if you do something you don't want to do right now."

As long as they were a good friend, anyway. And as long as they didn't do that kind of thing all the time. At some point they'd stop being a friend and start being a parent...