[he'd be better off telling that story to Drax is Rocket's first thought. he has it on record that he is not incredibly sympathetic to people who've lost their families on account of not ever having any to begin with (save Groot, but it was too little, too late for that realization).

not that he can't try, he supposes. nothing will ever be as bad as what he said to Drax, and that was only because the d'ast idiot nearly got them all murdered. ]

I dunno, man. Some guys can think that way forever 'til it's all they can think about. [And well, it says a lot that he didn't even know this about Rip beforehand. or suspected.] You're a lot less intense about it than the last guy I met who had his wife and kid killed by a psychopath.