Break, my 2 cents...he may have been trying to give you a compliment and could not communicate it properly. Read this as him saying, "I think you are OK around me so why would you need these meds." It may also scare him to think that something may be wrong with you.
I may have completely missed it, but it seems like he has a hard time communicating his real meaning.
He does have a hard time communicating...with a lot of people apparently.
Thanks for your thoughts, but I don't think it was a compliment. BUT, I do think it does scare him if anything could be wrong with me. I think it scares him in the sense that I am supposed to be the rock. And since he's sick now, he feels even more that way.
He struggles SO MUCH with empathy. Yet I know he's not devoid. I once hurt my back pretty severely and there wasn't anything he wouldn't do for me. He was SO awesome during that period. I was stunned really, because he was so unavailable when I was sick or needed him in the past. But you know, he's had back problems. So when he "gets it" then somehow he can find it in him to be caring.
That was a good story to remember. I have to find a way for him to "get it." Somehow relating it to him. DAM guy.
