"Well--two conflicting feelings at once, I suppose. I mean--Dar. I love you. You're--you're it for me. You're the beginning and the end for me. Yeah? You've loved me more and better than anybody I've been with and you make me so happy--"

He sighs. "I'm so scared," he says slowly, "that if we get married, everything will change. And not for the better."

He swallows hard again.