It wasn't so much that they had missed Ian's problems as that Ian had put considerable work into covering up and denying them. But now that was over. He didn't pull away from Wanda and leaned into her touch a bit.
"It's OK. I get it. I understand that some things have to change." He didn't really believe yet that he could get better - the examples he'd seen were too bad - but he had no choice but to try.
"I missed Carl too. It will be good to come home and get back to school." He worried about how much school he'd missed.