Selfish sounds like a bad word because that's what we were hit with as kids when we did not want to share...or what you were taught through religion......
In this case...how about "self preservation"? is she selfish for protecting herself until he can prove himself?
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“A person is also mentally weak by the quantity of time he spends to sneak peek into others lives to devalue and degrade the quality of his own life.” Anuj Somany
“Psychotherapy works by going deep into the brain and its neurons and changing their structure by turning on the right genes. The talking cure works by "talking to neurons," and that an effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a "microsurgeon of the mind" who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks.” Norman Doidge
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