If you are not pushing, then stop the mind reading like:
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but when we get into these convo's he is always reaching to hear this stuff... like he needs reassurances.
Just go in with no agenda, with YOUR WANTS put aside (and those questions up there are all about YOU). If you actually let him lead, you will know what to say, or not say. When in doubt, STFU, or acknowledge/validate. Maybe say "I would like to think about that, what you said" to keep yourself from charging forward and out of your own way.
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm
