"You seem to forget that this is the longest relationship I've ever had too." Not that she was trying to downgrade his fear, or his lack of experience with long term relationships, but if he thought she was any sort of expert, it was far from the truth. Neither one of them spoke of past relationships. The only one before him, that she would have counted, was Allan. And he knew about Allan. "Though it's a fear, and I get that fears are hard to conquer. I'm ridiculously afraid of spiders." And she was fairly sure that there wasn't much she could do about it.
"Yeah, I'll make a more conscious effort to say 'thank you' when someone pays me a complement instead of disagreeing with them. I mean it's not so hard. Really. I know I'm pretty, and I have my beautiful moments. But I'm never going to be one of those girls that flip her hair back over her shoulder and say 'I know'." Could it really be all that bad that she grinned like a goof when he called her gorgeous?
"I may have to bite the bullet and talk to Anna about the different birth control, now that she's not preggers anymore she can't be contagious." That wasn't really the reason she kept from going to Anna about it. It was the whole humiliation factor, the whole knowing your OBGYN. Not that it could be helped here.