If I told you, and you reciprocated, where does that leave us? I don't think that I can just wing this. I need to know the boundaries, for want of a better word. I want to know what is possibly possible, and what is not. I want to know what you think, what you feel.

I chickened out of the conversation that you tried to initiate today. We need to have these other discussions first. Are you ready for that? You must have known what a question like that would bring up for me. If not, then you should have known. We haven't talked about us for some time now, and a lot if good work has been happening between and because of us, but now the shift back to our relationship is here, and I need you to come with me.