"I'm not a kid and you can' swaddle me up and protect me. If we are partners at all, we have to be partners all the way. accept me that way... or this can't work."
He slid off he bed and walked to a window, staring outward, his eys turning bleak.
"I love you, but I wont be coddled and I wont be told to stay inside and don't fight. I'm sorry Sarah. But no."