"You don't even need to have done anything it's just...being in an adult relationship is not a strong point of mine." It wasn't that she'd pushed him, because this time she hadn't, not really. Maybe he'd pushed himself, actually. But he'd thought it would help. And in a way, it had. It wasn't as though he'd given her back the ring and run away, was it? So it wasn't all bad.
"Yeah, I can do that," he replied when she said not to wait until it got this bad. "But if I'm going to do that you have to make a deal, and try and start accepting what the general population is telling you, and not be so hard on yourself. Think you can give that a shot?" He gave what she said a moment of thought. "So we'll try something different then. There's no rule saying you have to get the shot."