I could surely count that as a slip of my tongue. But since I already care for her enough that she’s already getting the same treatment as my girls, it’s just a phrase that I was holding off on saying.
It’s fairly obvious just by looking at how I was treating her ever since the day I asked her to let me take care of her. Just that, I was trying to be considerate of her fear of men. As it was a trauma still deeply lodged in her mind, I had to be very careful concerning it. I even got to experience how it was for her. She’s close to breaking down in cold sweat. If I didn’t do what I did back then, we wouldn’t reach this point in our relationship.
True, telling me her past and the origin of her fear meant she started trusting me. Furthermore, I could say that she already warmed up to me, we
