Wow...really? I hear this and I think we are friends, and we always were (and for 3 years before we got together). What I am interested in, is there anything I can do to make it "safe" for him to cross that threshold of just friends to being brave enough to speak honestly to me? At the moment, we go for lunch, we went to a museum, we shared a 4 hour car journey home and back.. we are comfortable enough around each other whilst both playing a role, and all this stuff goes unsaid. I guess it just might be that way for a while? I am patient but I worry that he is stuck and very very afraid to speak up at all. Does the LBS just have to wait for the WAS to get to the point of being brave enough to actually say something real, honest, revealing?