OK, I will meet him tonight, there was too much prevarication from both of us not to stick with it. The activity will take the pressure off.
I will listen and I will validate and if he says he wants to D I will say that's not what I want but he's an adult and makes his own decisions. And if he presses it I will say I'm not willing to make any sort of big decisions until the end of my project in December. I'm certainly not doing any of his dirty work when I'm going to be up to my eyeballs in work.

Talking of which, I really need to get on with some!