Claire
I don't want to be without you either, Claire. I don't know how to be without you. But I don't want to ruin this, I don't want to be the reason that you're being held back, that your life isn't as good as it could be. I can't live with that. Knowing that you could be happy, that things might be okay, if I had never tried to take you away from everyone.
I don't want to do this. I don't want you to take you away from anyone, even for myself. If you need time, space, anything, I would give it to you. I would disappear for you, if it made things better.