Private to Mr Scott-Wilde
My name is Andy. Oh, Adrian? Is that
Maybe he thinks he doesn't deserve you because he really doesn't. Maybe you're just happy in a life where you're being rescued by someone but he isn't the best person there for you. Maybe if you were with someone who was worth it, you wouldn't be in any danger to be rescued from. And maybe he doesn't think little about himself - maybe he's evaluated who he is and has come to a reasonable, rational and actual realisation of who he is and he can see that it just doesn't match with who you are.
I don't think it's fair to hold him in a regard that he'll never be able to meet. He'll always feel that he has to keep battling to meet your expectations but he knows that he'll never be able to do that because he knows the truth of who he is and in the end the exhaustion will just kill him, plus reinforcing the fact that he isn't good enough for you, which he knew before anyway.
Maybe he really doesn't deserve you. Maybe he really isn't good enough for you and you're selling yourself short because you're stuck trying to make him believe he's something he's not and not looking for the person who is good enough for you. And if what he wants is for you to be happy, then maybe not giving him that is hurting him more than helping. Maybe seeing you with him and knowing that you could do better is like some kind of private torture that he can't tell you about because you won't believe that he isn't as good as you think he is.
I don't know.
I don't know who he is and even if I did I wouldn't gossip. Don't worry about that.