[ That's an instinct she can understand, all too well. When problems are this big and this deep, it's easy to imagine all the ways someone else would be affected by revealing them and decide not to reveal them. It would be too much, they wouldn't know how to handle it, it would hurt them to know. There are infinite amount of reasons to not seek out help, and only a few very important ones to ask for it.
She's just going to have to hope a great deal that it doesn't backfire on her like that at all, because she's gambling a great deal on this - it's her happiness she considers at stake should his brain decide that she's caused problems and therefore she's part of the problem. She doesn't really know what she'd do, but she has to try. She has to. There isn't any other choice, here, because this is the sort of thing that takes it's time building but eventually crushes you under it's weight. It has to be fixed somehow.
She moves backwards a little bit, still watching him, her movements steady and measured as she starts to walk towards the stairs. She knows the spaces of the workshop inside and out by now, it's not hard at all to walk it backwards and watching him. ]
if you're going to purr i'm just going to keep petting you
She's just going to have to hope a great deal that it doesn't backfire on her like that at all, because she's gambling a great deal on this - it's her happiness she considers at stake should his brain decide that she's caused problems and therefore she's part of the problem. She doesn't really know what she'd do, but she has to try. She has to. There isn't any other choice, here, because this is the sort of thing that takes it's time building but eventually crushes you under it's weight. It has to be fixed somehow.
She moves backwards a little bit, still watching him, her movements steady and measured as she starts to walk towards the stairs. She knows the spaces of the workshop inside and out by now, it's not hard at all to walk it backwards and watching him. ]