[ He says that as if he's surprised someone would apologize to him, and that he's surprised at all is telling. Perhaps it's happened so scarcely to him in the past, or perhaps the standard of his life is that when someone hurts him, no one does apologize, or that he believes that carrying such pain is normal. Maybe it's both, or maybe it's possible there's far more to it. She can't very well unravel every reason for why he might be so accepting of being hurt; what she knows is that he seems to accept this as normal for what family is.
She hadn't had a family until coming here, and even she knows that isn't how it's supposed to be. What she's seen, here and now, is more damage done than that would have been done by loss itself. A healthy idea of a relationship is... includes being feeling comfortable, loved, accepted... and safe in another's presence. ]
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She hadn't had a family until coming here, and even she knows that isn't how it's supposed to be. What she's seen, here and now, is more damage done than that would have been done by loss itself. A healthy idea of a relationship is... includes being feeling comfortable, loved, accepted... and safe in another's presence. ]
...Is that so novel?