I'm torn.
To voice my feelings. My fears. Or. Remain silent.
He doesn't need it, in all honesty, to defend himself to the one person he shouldn't have to. To dig all that back up again in the face of my insecurities and lacking confidence.
It changes nothing, in the end.
How do you hold up against something like that? Something he's going to second-guess until the end of days. Something he can't quite let go of... despite himself, I suppose.
How do you hold yourself up against something that hovers on the edge of 'what if'?
How do you hold yourself up, and believe you'll come out the one he wants?
How will you ever be able to know, without any shadow of doubt, that you are IT?
Things to ponder....