I don't blame you. I know that I have asked H myself. Especially since he has already been on a "date" of sorts. I wouldn't be able to handle it later if I found out he had an A. There are all these hurt feelings now, I would just rather get it out of the way now along with all this other crummy stuff. That is just me though. I know H has lied to me a few times since this has started about 10 weeks ago and I have asked that he not lie to me anymore no matter what or how much it may hurt me. (Sorry for the mini-hijack )
I agree, there seems to be a lot of positives here. I know he seems like he needs a lot of validation and reassurance. Men are just like that. My H is like that too. It is so hard to know what to say to them when they say things like this. Seems like they want validation or us to make over them and then we do and pull away from us. And they say we (women) are confusing!
I hope you have a great weekend and if there is a "dog trick" going on, it goes well.