[That makes him pause, and he stews on it for a moment- not because he doesn't know the answer, but because he doesn't know how to express it.]

I... I think so, yeah. It's new, and a little scary because I don't know what I'm doing, I don't want to mess it up. But I'm really happy to be with him. I wanna do whatever I can to make him happy, too. And I really like him...