[ He can't really help her out there - he's got no idea how to fix this, as is evidenced partially by his decision to simply not even try. Part of that decision is also due to sheer avoidance and emotional immaturity. But he doesn't think she made it any worse. Made it a little more evident, perhaps. But while she brought things closer to the surface, sure, she allowed him to actually vent some of them out. It doesn't look like it yet, but it's good, even if marginally so.
They have a slightly different opinion on asking for things, maybe. Or he just didn't think about it beforehand. Or he doesn't even consider that asking for help when it seems to a normal person to be the most necessary option is a possibility at all. He asks for smaller things, things he's sure he can get. Bigger things? He's learned to just trust himself for those, and while he knows intellectually that she's likely not to ever say no, his instincts are a totally different matter. His expression goes a little shuttered, filing things back behind where they belong again, albeit imperfectly so. ] I don't– I mean. I ask - I don't know what to say to that.
that sounds dangerous for us both
They have a slightly different opinion on asking for things, maybe. Or he just didn't think about it beforehand. Or he doesn't even consider that asking for help when it seems to a normal person to be the most necessary option is a possibility at all. He asks for smaller things, things he's sure he can get. Bigger things? He's learned to just trust himself for those, and while he knows intellectually that she's likely not to ever say no, his instincts are a totally different matter. His expression goes a little shuttered, filing things back behind where they belong again, albeit imperfectly so. ] I don't– I mean. I ask - I don't know what to say to that.