It is normal for him to be like that. He hasn't fully processed what was different for them apart from the glaringly obvious, but it speaks to the fact that shacking up is far more like every other time he's had sex than it is different.

All things considered, that's the way he'd prefer it.

"So uh ..." He feels clumsy around her in so many ways. That roguish charm, normally seamless, he has to work at around Carol. "You don't have to head out somewhere soon, right?"