Val did the best she could with her intelligence so far outstripping her emotional development. Sometimes it got weird.

The sociological information distracted her from the matter at hand. She didn't really want to have to walk Shockwave through setting up a date with Optimus, anyway. "Most of our formalized relationships are in some way an extension of our reproductive biology. Given how intuitively easy I find it to understand your behavior, I'm not entirely surprised you have similar structures, but I'm not sure why they evolved without any drive for preserving and propagating your genetic information."