[ me tagging this thread back and laughing about it. scien looks thoughtful about that though. they really both have guilt-ridden soup-brained blondes, even though their relationships with their respective blonde are very different

but it's not that foreign to him ]

... when there is something or someone you cherish, it is easy to want to take responsibility for them. Where any instance in which they are harmed, even if it has nothing to do with you, feels like a failure.

It is the price of caring.

You can walk through his logic with him, point out the fallacies... but the most obvious evidence against his failure is the fact that you are still next to him.