Oh. Yes, all right, he understands what this is now. He relaxes a little.
"If I must be perfectly honest, there was a span of time where I was being courted and I had no idea," Watson admits, with a small and rueful laugh. "Apparently what counted for very obvious signals to him were not to me. I am generally fairly good at picking these things up, you know. Sometimes..."
He lets out a thoughtful sigh.
"Sometimes there need to be conversations about things you thought were universal, and are not. There is much in the way of compromise. That's true for all relationships, certainly, but you do find yourself having to be flexible in unexpected ways."
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"If I must be perfectly honest, there was a span of time where I was being courted and I had no idea," Watson admits, with a small and rueful laugh. "Apparently what counted for very obvious signals to him were not to me. I am generally fairly good at picking these things up, you know. Sometimes..."
He lets out a thoughtful sigh.
"Sometimes there need to be conversations about things you thought were universal, and are not. There is much in the way of compromise. That's true for all relationships, certainly, but you do find yourself having to be flexible in unexpected ways."