And since Hartley has his main character here use his real first name, this also indicates that it is the person and not the circumstances that lead to a conclusion. What happens to his gay character seems right for that character. What happens to all of the characters here, seems right. It shows an evolution of Hartley's thinking that in the first episode, the unsure lover chases the girl, in the second, the unsure lover is hurt and left on his own, and in the finale, he himself, the one who has placed this ultimatum upon the unsure lover, remains to return to the girl. He realize the ultimatum he has placed upon his character is too harsh.
More time is needed.
It is not wrong for her to be unsure. It is wrong for him to push her to be sure before she is ready. Hartley seems to have found the answer to his plot's original riddle. He, and his story, have evolved and grown. Pretty remarkable stuff.